The depth and complexity of the systems in NetHack are difficult to explain, but that diversity and difficulty make the game a perfect candidate for a competition, according to Grefenstette. "You have ...

Classic open source dungeon-crawler NetHack has been around since the mid-80s, and it looks like it, thanks to its low quality graphics. In fact, you can even opt to play NetHack using ASCII art ...

Hi. I've recently started playing Nethack again. So I'm (human-valk) in the bottom of the mines and I've just stepped off of the stairs when I get magically transformed into a freaking gargoyle b/c of ...

People have been designing bots to play NetHack for many years that rely not on neural networks but decision trees as complex as the game itself. The team at Facebook Research hopes to engender a new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You may not be familiar with NetHack, but it's one of the most influential games of all time. You're an adventurer in a fantasy ...