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How many here got introduced to Terry Pratchett's Discworld thanks to Nethack (and possibly other roguelikes)?

The lack of responses alluding to Nethack/Roguelikes on this thread on r/discworld got me to post this. I posted my story there in any case.

I remember first seeing the Tourist class in Nethack. All its extended quotes, too. The way Death talks, the Shopkeepers being described as their own race etc.

References to Discworld got so ubiquitous to me that I may be subconsciously even forgetting them when I see them in other games. I know in vanilla Angband, sometimes the general storekeeper's name is Rincewind the Chicken.

There might be so many others that I don't recall at the moment. So if you know any at the top of your head, do list them here too!

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u/joeljpa — 11 days ago
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Favorite Games from roguetemple’s Fortnight 2!

roguetemple’s Fortnight 2 had a lot fewer entries then last year, but there were still some good ones submitted. Because there were a lot less of them to go through I was able to quickly knock them out ‘before’ the voting was completed on itch.io. You can see all the videos for these games in my Win 10 - DFuxa Reviews & Plays 2WRL 2026 playlist. You can also see my unofficial judging within My google sheet here.

Only two games really caught my eye from the batch:

Dungeon Juice - This is my top pick for ‘best overall’ entry. Dungeon Juice wasn’t necessarily doing anything too phenomenal, but it was just really polished, and continues to be worked on by PTrefall. It is perhaps a little bit generic, being a derivative game of Brogue, but it is well done.

#&% MATURE CONTENT WARNING %&#

Latex Drones from Sigma 12 - So it might come as a surprise, but this is actually what I consider to be the ‘most innovative’ entry. If you can tolerate the NSFW aspects of it, there are a lot of ideas that could be played with here. I might wait for an update on this one though, the jam version lags bad.

Note that as always, there are other titles to enjoy.

u/DFuxaPlays — 11 days ago