Thursday 8 November 2007

Homebrew roguelikes on the Nintendo DS

@ play - John Harris' column on rogulikes has been a little quiet recently. To make up for it, he's just put up a guide to getting three different roguelikes running on the Nintendo DS - Powder, Nethack and Crawl. As a proud DS owner, I'd like to have an Angband variant to add that list. I suspect FAAngband will be the first to successfully make the jump, given the amount of effort Nick McConnell has put into designing a stylus-based user interface. Nick, any chance of a DS port?

[Edit] The sad story of the last Angband DS port is here for those curious.

2 comments:

Nick said...

Well, a DS port is certainly on my list - it's the length of the list that's the problem. There's also the question of how to best use the screens - top screen for map and bottom for control, or bottom for map and control, and top for extra info (inventory, etc)?

Orillian said...

Nick: I'll be keeping an eye out for any Angband DS port you make. Angband has been my all time favorite roguelike, and to finally see it on the DS would be sweet.

O.