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« on: May 28, 2012, 08:29:46 PM »
For me, the main attraction of Angband is its excellent customisable user interface. I haven't seen any roguelike (other than variants) come close, and many variants (even Sil) suffer from basing their interface on earlier forks (NPP) without incorporating changes from later versions. Angband avoids wasting player time by displaying up to 9 extra windows, in which the player can put (for example):
Information about whichever monster they most recently targetted
List of monsters the player is aware of (dangerous ones in red)
List of items the player is aware of on the map
Inventory/equipment
Long list of previous messages, meaning -more- prompts can be disabled.
All of this information the player gets from moving their eyes, rather than remembering some arcane keypress. To me, this is more important than being able to determine if an amulet is an amulet of teleport or not by dipping it in a potion of sleep.
And then there's the macro system, which lets you do things like "fire whatever's in the first quiver slot at the nearest monster" or "cast magic missile at the nearest monster" with one keypress.
I'm a newbie. The way you talk makes it seem like very good stuff, but I have no idea what this is. Could you clarify some more? I also want to ask you what rebindings do you usually do at the game?
Also, I've started to play angband instead of ADOM. I'm just taking a break from Nethack and relinquish myself from the idea of "I will only play another major roguelike after beating Nethack". I'm getting my ass kicked for nearly a year now, probably time to study another roguelike.
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