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AppledogHu

Rogueima 1.0 Release

Hi guys. You may remember many moons ago I released NetWhack. Here's the roguebasin entry for the 1997 release and the 2019 re-release: https://roguebasin.com/index.php/Netwhack

I was very proud of my work then, and posted about it https://www.reddit.com/r/roguelikedev/comments/70xym1/netwhack_a_java_roguelike/ -- those were the days. Today I am here to tell him I have finally completed the goal I sent out to complete almost 30 years ago: NetWhack has been "finished". What that means is, it is 1 click to play from anywhere on the internet.

What I did is I wrote a virtual computer that runs in WASM and then I rewrote netwhack in the assembly language for that machine. In doing so I solved the blocking input problem that I encountered with LWJGL and JavaScript permanently.

Play it now: https://www.appledog.ca/wiki/doku.php?id=sd:rogueima

I wanted to take a moment and dedicate this release to roguebasin, which has been a reliable and dependable home base for my game for all these years. And thank you to the members of this community who inspired me to get this far. I will stand by to take any suggestions or comments about my game! Thanks everyone again and have a nice weekend.

Posted Sep 12, 2026, 8:37 AM UTC

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