If you ever wanted to know how a *good* roguelike game looks like, but were too shy to ask, now you have a chance. You can watch other people play if you connect to the public server: crawl.akrasiac.org.
telnet crawl.akrasiac.org
But keep in mind there may be no one playing at the moment. You can still play the game yourself.
If you use windows and don't know how to telnet, download putty first.
http://the.earth.li/...t/x86/putty.exe
As you run it, make sure you have 'telnet' selected, and type crawl.akrasiac.org into 'host' field. Or whatever it's called.
A long time ago, I used to telnet by 'run a command' in Start menu. I have no idea which windows version it works, but I can't test now since I don't have windows anymore.
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The server is running Crawl Stone Soup 0.1.6 . It's a new version of crawl, not available in ubuntu/debian repositories. You'd have to compile it yourself.
It has numerous interface fixes, cleanups, built-in Travel Patch, some new monsters, balance tweaks, new vault designs, bugfixes, spells, skills, and a lot more !