Exploration & Combat in NetHack

M.Sc. Thesis by Jonathan Campbell

You can download the PDF copy of my thesis here (5.3MB).

My thesis is also available online from the McGill library. It might take a bit longer to download since a special type of PDF was required.

A lesser man might have wavered that day in the hospital corridor, a weaker man might have compromised on such excellent subtitute [names] as Drum Major, Minor Major, Sergeant Major, or C Sharp Major, but Major Major's father had waited fourteen years for just such an opportunity, and he was not a person to waste it. Major Major's father had a good joke about opportunity. "Opportunity only knocks once in this world," he would say. Major Major's father repeated this good joke at every opportunity.

Catch-22