ADOM Beta 3 (Make that 4, now) for Macintosh!
This is major! Possibly the best game of all time, Adom, has gone b3 for OS X. It’s been available for Windows and Linux (closed source—I don’t wanna hear it.) for a while, and there’s been a beta for OS X—but this one is a lot more polished than b2. Used to be, you had to launch it just like an UNIX app, from the Terminal—for this rev the utter gentleman who’s porting it, Jochen Terstiege, has hacked up a neat little application package: just toss it in your Applications directory and launch it like any other app.
If you don’t actually know what ADOM is, well, that’s a bit of an involved story. It’s a roguelike. You play a little at-sign (like, ‘@’), running around an overhead map made up entirely of other ASCII characters, killing monsters, picking up loot, and leveling up. Like any roguelike, the interface is arcane, but boy howdy, is it worth the learning curve. If you feel like you’ve got too much free time these days, hie thee thither, pronto, matey.
