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Falcon's Eye

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Peltonen had planned to add more customization options, allowing users to add their own graphics. As some users reported difficulty in compiling and installing
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isometric perspective graphical representation. The objects and enemies in the game are no longer represented by minimalistic
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gameplay. Peltonen says that this was to ensure that future versions remain compatible with future releases of
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over earlier Nethack variants is a massive improved graphical representation: it switched from a
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award. A 2008 review of Vulture's Eye on gamesetwatch.com called the graphics "well done".
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This article is about the Nethack variant. For the kingdom-building BBS door game, see
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and is under continued development (as of February 2017). While still being
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has not progressed, with the game based on a now out-of-date version of
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The level of inactivity between 2001 and 2005 prompted Clive Crous to
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are used for the graphics and sound in order to make the base code as
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Since the release of version 1.9.3 in 2001, development of
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Commercial video games with freely available source code
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Free-to-play variant of the roguelike video game NetHack
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for $ 2.99. In October 2013 the game was put into the
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by John Harris on gamesetwatch.com (August 28, 2008)
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Index

Falcon's Eye (BBS door)

Original author(s)
Developer(s)
Stable release
Preview release
Operating system
Cross-platform
Type
Single-player
multiplayer
roguelike
License
NetHack General Public License
falconseye.sourceforge.net

roguelike
video game
NetHack
isometric graphics
mouse control
Linux Journal
free games
development
continued
text-based
80x25
terminal
3D
ASCII characters

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