Diversionary Tactics

A friend of mine just asked me if I knew about any silly or inappropriate technology that I could ramble on about for 5 minutes. The context for this can be found here.

This reminded me of a very silly idea I had a while ago, an idea which I dubbed 'NPR Nethack'. The name comes from the the NPR Quake project, and I thought that instead of Nethack using boring standard characters to display the game, it should be brought bang up to date to take advantage of the latest 3D graphics hardware.

Of course, the game would still be displayed using ASCII characters, but with ASCII characters lovingly rendered in 3D, using all the special effects I had the time or inclination to program.

Anyway, Yoz has given me some sort of incentive to give it a try, so I'll be having a go over the next couple of days.

The excitement.