Fan labor

This is a list of productive creative activities engaged in by fans. These activities can include creation of written works, visual or computer-assisted art, music, or applied arts and costuming.

Webcomics

• Dudley's dungeon
• Souljazz' Nethack Humour - short humorous nethack related webcomics
• Rob and Figaro - longer form comic

Fan fiction

• V'rgo's NetHack Stories - includes "The Ascension of the Ordinary Valkyrie" and "The Pacifist"
• NetHack stories on fanfiction.net
• ais523's expansion of NetHack's introduction
• dtsund wrote some intentionally bad NetHack/Sonic crossover fan fiction as part of his Let's Play (and later, this opera script)
• "Demogorgon's Patch", a horror story by GreyKnight
• "Vanishing in a Puff of Logic: The Tediously Charmed Life of RegretMeNo(t) the Elven Wizard", an entire book(!) by Studio Dongo
• "The Astral Plane"
• "The Origins of the Maze of Menace"
• "Just because it says READ ME doesn't mean you should", a short story from the Oracle's point of view.

Drawn art

• NetHack haiku
• Nethackery - a psychological NetHack map
• NetHack map - a handdrawn NetHack map
• NetHack map - another handdrawn NetHack map
• Tourist - a rendition of a tourist
• Valkyrie - a rendition of a valkyriet

Music

• "NetHack" - a song by Rob Balder dot com that parodies the Butthole Surfers' "Pepper".
  • The song is hosted on this website, where an MP3 can be downloaded for free - be sure to carefully read the Creative Commons license terms before distributing this file.
• "Yet Another Stupid Decade - NetHack Turns 20" is an updated version of the above song, created to commemorate 20 years since NetHack 1.3d was released to Usenet. The commemorative version of the song is released under a similar Creative Commons license and can be streamed free of charge at the Funny Music Project, and has been played on two separate occasions on the syndicated Doctor Demento Show.
  • The song can be listened to on thefump.com (via Internet Archive) and has an accompanying video.
• The Archeologist Song

Videos

• Nethack | Staffel 1 - a series of German Let's Play YouTube videos by Café Milchkaffeebohne
• German Let's Play NetHack and UnNetHack YouTube videos by Irrenhaus3
• German Let's Play Slash'EM and Slash'EM Extended by Aaaaaimbot

Miscellaneous

• NetHack Café: randomly-generated menus. I'll have the chickatrice nuggets and an uncursed water flavoured milkshake, please!

See also

• Best of RGRN
• The #nethack quote db captures the best chatter on IRC.