Pertinent
I realize I’ve been absent for a few weeks, but for one thing there hasn’t been a whole lot of gaming to speak of and for another many of my endeavours have prevented me from writing about what games I have gotten in. I’m not making promises about any sort of triumphant return here, but if I find a moment to compose a new Edition I surely will.
In the meantime I felt I would be remiss if I didn’t mention a most excellent find I have run across: A re-coded version of this site’s namesake, Tunnels of Doom Reboot. It’s written in Java so it cheerfully runs without any modification on Windows and Mac (and I presume any X11 environment with the appropriate Java libraries installed). I haven’t had more than maybe 30 minutes to play with it but I can say that it captures the spirit of the original game nicely and has some cool updates as well. I had a handful of minor issues with it, for one on my fairly newish MacBook Pro it suffers from some input lag. ToD is a turn-based game so that’s not too terrible but it is a little annoying. Also the lack of any obvious in-game tooltips or control descriptions means you kind of have to play—at least at first—with the included PDF manual open.
Enjoy!