SporkHack

SporkHack
Beta Project
Developer	Derek S. Ray
Theme	Fantasy
Influences	NetHack
Released	Jul 2007
Updated	May 2, 2010 (0.6.3)
Licensing	OpenContent License NetHack GPL
P. Language	C
Platforms	Linux, Mac, Windows
Interface	ASCII
Game Length	8+ hours
Official site of SporkHack

SporkHack is a NetHack variant going down a different road to that which Slash'EM is. The latter adds a lot of toys but also quite a few additional ways to unbalance and even break the game. Spork tries to avoid this pitfall while enhancing gameplay.

Some new features include:

• Some intrinsics are no longer binary and can range from 0% to 100%.
• Major alignment changes.
• Some new items. (wand of wind, small sack)
• Interface improvements.
• Spell tweaking.
• Higher-level monsters are much meaner.
• Vastly improved Gehennom (plus no more mysterious force!)

Be warned that SporkHack is undergoing rapid development and new versions can break save-file compatibility. This is almost guaranteed to not happen more often than every Sunday.

08/2009: Starting in early 2009, SporkHack no longer is maintaining its prior rapid development pace; the developer has had his time pulled away by Pesky Real Life(tm). The Sunday limitation on savefile breakage will still hold true for any changes which _are_ made, but the game can be considered significantly more stable.

See also

A Japanese version of SporkHack is also under development.