Mastodawn

#ZMAngband #traditionalroguelikes #roguelikedev
Latest release, III.17 Is up and ready for the grabbing!
With less bugs and more of the good stuff :) Monsters, demoniacal jewelry, one more Ego brand, more items for the Inventory...
Yeah! Go get your copy! Link in my bio :)

J.A. Machete Feb 22

#ZMAngband #roguelikedev #traditionalroguelikes busy weeknd has been. To the hardcoded remapping of the eating corpses action into the recently freed '*' keypress, (since targeting got finally narrowed into either choosing the closest enemy available or enter an octo direction) then I remapped '+' to the new locking doors action. Thats correct, two brand new added actions: eating the fresh corpses ur foes leave and locking the doors. (Different from jamming them w/ a spike/sharp object)

J.A. Machete Feb 21

#ZMAngband #roguelikedev #traditionalroguelikes devs gotta dev (even small humble variant ones like me) sooo.....
Now you can fight back starvation by eating fresh corpses. Boy, this was a lonnng dreamed feature that I wanted to code in the variant since my journey began! Woohoo :D
comes with sutile differences for every race, obv, and that makes it even better xD not for the faint of the heart maybe, but for fainting stomaches!

Jake in the desert Feb 20

Rogue on Steam does this thing where it can make everything 3D, and everything (monsters, scenery, all of it) is made from the letters and numbers. It's wild, and I'm hooked. 😂 Totally amazing to play on a Steam Deck.

#Rogue #roguelike #roguelikes #TraditionalRoguelikes #Steam #SteamDeck #SteamGames

J.A. Machete Feb 15

#ZMAngband #traditionalroguelikes my brave Skaven Rogue fell. He defeated legendary enemies like the #Forvalaka from #BlackCompany 's lore among others. Finally took 2 orcs and an ogre priests of Chaos to make him bite the dust. One of the best runs I ever had in my variant or any *band at all. And it was #yasd bc I was too proud to get out of there.

J.A. Machete Feb 15

#ZMAngband #roguelikedev #traditionalroguelikes Small update released with some necessary bug fixes that could not wait.
II-15 is up for grabs. A bigger update is a-brewing but this one needed to be available bc some folks were have weird bugs crashing their runs. Targeting gets simpler /bugless.
- Link in bio.

Show thread

J.A. Machete Feb 13

Currently CL27! :O with two artifact swords that purr while cutting down my foes. On DL29, for the first time ever having such a run this awesome. Had a couple hard encounters with Uniques, but I'm going strong.
#ZMAngband #traditionalroguelikes

Jake in the desert Nov 8

I hope traditional roguelike fans who follow me here have been following the progress I've boosted here and there about @josemachete79's ZAngband variant 'ZMAngband' he's been working on based on the original red box D&D rules.

Go to https://jose-machete.itch.io/zmangband07me and grab a copy to try out yourself - it's a blast!

#roguelikes #TraditionalRoguelikes #ZAngband #Angband #ProcGen #ZMAngband #itch #ItchGames #roguelike

ZMAngband 0.7 Machete Edition by Jose Machete

Youngest bastard son of the mythical Angband variant ZAngband.

itch.io

J.A. Machete Oct 10

#traditionalroguelikes #roguelike #ZMAngband (#Angband variant)
It has been uploaded to my humble itchio;
https://jose-machete.itch.io/zmangband07me
This is a very special update, for my baby project is flying on its own wings now. Updated the code's version and also obv. the variant's name too. Packed with monsters, features, collectable items, enhanced dungeon RNG and more stuff!
Download it for free and stop by to drop a "Hi" to me :] Hope you, traditional, pure, rawly authentic roguelike folks, like it :]

ZMAngband 0.7 Machete Edition by Jose Machete

Youngest bastard son of the mythical Angband variant ZAngband.

itch.io

Jake in the desert Sep 22, 2025

The other day @Susan_calvin asked about great traditional ASCII roguelikes other than ZAngband (https://archive.org/details/Zangband), and I came up with this brief list with links.

Dungeon Crawl
https://dosgames.com/game/dungeon-crawl

Larn
https://larn.org

Nethack
https://www.nethack.org/v367/downloads.html

original Rogue
https://dosgames.com/game/rogue
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1443430/Rogue

PRogue
https://dosgames.com/game/progue

DCSS
http://crawl.akrasiac.org:8080/#lobby

Collection of roguelikes on itch
https://itch.io/c/2296577/roguelikes

(EDITED - thanks to @cynical13 for reminding me I omitted Nethack!)

#roguelike #roguelikes #rogue #ItchGames #DOS #DOSGames #DOSGaming #ASCII #TraditionalRoguelikes

Zangband : Zangband Group : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Zangband is a freeware roguelike computer roleplaying game, based on Angband. You get options to make your character as in so many other RPGs - but if you look...

Internet Archive