Show HN: A roguelike game that runs inside Notepad++

This is great. Old school game dev where youd built the whole engine optimized for the game rather than using an over generalized mess like unity or unreal

Re: Show HN: A roguelike game that runs inside Notepad++

#6

Post by h1fra » Thu, Sep 04, 2025, 8:42 AM UTC

Programming might be a roguelike game, you fail many times at a task, starting from scratch again and again, until you master the field

Re: Show HN: A roguelike game that runs inside Notepad++

#7

Post by shreyaha » Thu, Sep 04, 2025, 9:34 AM UTC

wow really a feel-good game

Re: Show HN: A roguelike game that runs inside Notepad++

#8

Post by camdroidw » Thu, Sep 04, 2025, 9:37 AM UTC

I know engineers don't like marketing but guys please please put screenshots before anything

Edit: okay I see them now but I quit the page once and I'm sure I'm not alone.

Re: Show HN: A roguelike game that runs inside Notepad++

#9

Post by lock1 » Thu, Sep 04, 2025, 10:20 AM UTC

h1fra wrote: post #6

Programming might be a roguelike game, you fail many times at a task, starting from scratch again and again, until you master the field

Real life might be a (hardcore) roguelike game too! ... except you can't restart on failure or reroll your starter kit

Re: Show HN: A roguelike game that runs inside Notepad++

#10

Post by t222ic » Thu, Sep 04, 2025, 10:35 AM UTC

colordrops wrote: post #3

This is crazy in a good way

it actually … is?