Junethack
Junethack is a NetHack tournament. Started in 2011, it runs annually during June. It's also known as the NetHack Cross-Variant Summer Tournament.
It features virtual trophies for achievements and user and clan competitions.
Junethack users play on participating public servers. This allows persistent accounts and facilitates the inclusion of variants.
Many of the actively developed NetHack forks are eligible for the tournament.
The Junethack website is used to manage users' accounts and clans and also displaying scoreboards and statistics.
IRC channel
The #junethack IRC channel on irc.libera.chat is where all the developers and players hang out. Clans often have clan-specific channels for their members as well.
2012
The second tournament ran from 1 June to 30 June 2012.
Games:
Tournament announcement for 2012 in Google Groups
Archived copy of the Junethack 2012 website.
2011
The first tournament ran from 17 July to 14 August 2011.
Games:
- UnNetHack
- SporkHack
- AceHack
- NetHack 1.3d (as a "bonus" game having unique achievements)
- NetHack
Tournament announcement for 2011 in Google Groups
Archived copy of the Junethack 2011 website.
Technicalities
Users can register their accounts by adding the line #junethack username to the rcfiles of the server. More information is available on the tournament website, after signing up.
The tournament server records all played games by reading the xlogfiles of the participating public servers.
The Junethack server software is written in Ruby, with the Sinatra web framework and datamapper as the database interface. The source code is released under GPL 3 and is available from GitHub.
See also
- The official Junethack FAQ
- #junethack on the IRC chat network Libera.
- /dev/null/nethack tournament
External links
- official tournament website
- Source code of Junethack
- Roguelike Radio Episode 64: Player competitions which includes discussion about Junethack
