Roguelike Links
Posted 6:36 PM

Roguelike games are a hobby for a large community of programmers that should probably be doing something better with their times.

After becoming re-addicted to gaming because of crawl stone soup, i found this online magazine about roguelikes that's nearly as infrequently updated as the games themselves, but still fun.

Anyway, I decided to try and write my own, but found the sourcecode for crawl to be unreadable (it's well known to be cryptic), and the various libraries to be either pre-alpha, or in "python" or "lua" or "free pascal" or other languages I have resisted learning.

The Doryen Library is the opposite. It's well developed, huge and was too intimidating for me.

So I wrote rll.pm, a roguelike library fo perl. It took me a couple days, and the failure of the curses library (i wrote my own ansi.pm) was annoying to say the least, but the two examples are finally working at a level where someone who wanted to make a roguelike in perl now could in fairly short order.

There's a single player "example" game and, and multiplayer-tick-based "netgame" that someone can "telnet" to. I put "telnet" in quotes since the program is rather telnet unaware and should probably be more sensitive to things like flow-control ... which I, as yet, know nothing about.
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Tell Congress No to More Theft
Posted 10:15 AM

The wealthy industrialists that outsource jobs, drive up our deficits and tax us to death must NOT be given trillions more of our hard-earned money.

Congress will, like zombies, write Paulson *another blank check*, stealing from the the poor to pay the rich unless we all start writing our congressmen and Senators.

Please send them an email, click HERE to tell your representatives that if they vote for the bailout.... they've LOST your vote.

And Obama will lose my 2012 vote too if he supports this madness. He may have *already* lost it by supporting Paulson's bill the first time around. But I'm waiting to see if he redeems himself by blocking further corrupt spending.

They want to take trillions of taxpayer dollars away from people and, instead of spending it on job creation (improving infrastructure, education, internet superhighway, new power plants, etc.), they are giving it to Citigroup - a majority SAUDI OWNED COMPANY.

They are taking your money and handing it to the Saudis. Why? Are they getting death threats? And, if so, maybe they should do something about it besides *paying them off*.
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