Press Release
Embargoed until: 2008/04/01
From: Dungeons of Doom
The NetHack Development Team, in keeping with its decades-old policy
of not announcing schedules, announces the upcoming
Web Integration Release
addressing the trend of moving applications from the desktop to the web
and thus continuing our tradition of folding the latest, greatest, and
unproven technological trends and buzzwords into NetHack.
We are pleased to announce the new nethack: protocol, allowing us
to embed NetHack directly into your favorite browser.
Initial availability will be as a plug-in for Mozilla Firefox. Check
addons.mozilla.org for availability.
No more confusing command lines! Just use easy to remember URLs such as these:
- nethack:///new
- Start a new game.
- nethack:///new?pettype=cat
- Start a new game with a cat for a pet.
- nethack:///restore?player=HeroName
- Restore an in-progress game.
- nethack:///scores
- Check the high score list.
- nethack:///config
- Enter the configuration editor! No more .nethackrc files.
- nethack:///config?pettype=cat
- Directly change the configuration.
- nethack:///docs/index.html
- Access online documentation.
No more cluttering up your hard drive with abandoned games. By saving games as cookies, the browser will simply expire any game not played recently. (Note:
don't clear your browser cache if there are games in progress.)
And don't worry about leaving your game at home or work - just migrate it
with our new Gmail integration feature!
And of course we have real time chat with other players through our r.g.r.n.
chat system.
Here's a sample of what you will see:
Additional features of the Web Integration Release:
- High score sharing via WebDAV or RSS.
- Integrated graphical @ editor, for that custom avatar you've always wanted.
- New pet type: biot.
- Recover from crashes automatically with Firefox's restore previous session
option.
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Remember, the NetHack Development Team never discusses future releases, so
please don't ask! Yes, we're working on it - that's all we'll say.
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