README
Quick start for players
Just say D:\> run.bat or $ run.sh in Kalyp directory.
The keybindings are very Nethack-like. You can use cursor keys or
'hjkl', 'nbyu' for moving. Quitting the game is done under extended
commands ('#quit'). You can get a list of keybindings with '?'.
Roguelike
For more information, visit for example The Roguelike Games Home page at
http://www.win.tue.nl/~kroisos/roguelike.html. Kalyp is inspired by
several known roguelikes including ADOM, Angband, Omega and most of all
Nethack.
Y.A.R.N.S. is a very good and active Roguelike news service,
which gives you information about both the major Roguelike games
and development news on a daily basis. Check it out at
http://yarns.felis7.civ.pl/. Kalyp releases are also announced on Y.A.R.N.S.
For roguelike development information, see
http://www.roguelikedevelopment.org/ and
USENET newsgroups rec.games.roguelike.development and other r.g.r groups.
License
Kalyp is licensed under Open Software License version 1.1.
Kalyp uses some third party Open Source libraries for various tasks:
BeanShell
http://www.beanshell.org/
BeanShell is an embeddable Java source interpreter with scripting
language features. It is used as the scripting engine for Kalyp.
Java Curses Library (JCurses)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/javacurses
The Java Curses Library (JCurses) is a Java library, that makes it
possible to write text terminal based application using Java
programming language. Kalyp uses it for the user interface.
JUnit
http://www.junit.org/
The definite Java unit testing framework.
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