Top Document: Roguelike Games Info and FTP Sites (FAQ) Previous Document: 0.) News flashes Next Document: 2.) List of major roguelike games See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge A long time ago, on a computer system far, far, away, there was rogue. Players wandered a dungeon, hacking and slashing at monsters, gaining treasures, becoming more powerful, and living their D&D nightmares. Rogue was a good game; people still play it. It was even distributed with many copies of Unix. But rogue is a relatively simple and limited game compared to most of the descendants it has spawned... Although the common features of rogue and its many descendants are 'obvious' to many people, they are difficult to describe in simple terms. Generally, the games mentioned below are single-user, fantasy role-playing computer games, generally set in a dungeon, run with a simple character-graphic interface. In all of the games, the player controls a single character, who roams around getting more powerful, in order to fulfill a difficult quest. Sword-and-sorcery rule the day. Logistically, they're all free games; executables, and generally sources, are available by FTP. The similarities end there, though. More information can be found in the 6 UseNet newsgroups dedicated to rogue and its descendants - rec.games.roguelike.nethack, rec.games.roguelike.moria, rec.games.roguelike.rogue, rec.games.roguelike.angband, rec.games.roguelike.misc, and rec.games.roguelike.announce (alt.games.omega belongs in this list, but is a poorly propagated group, which many readers cannot access.) Below are listed basic information about all roguelike games known to me, in alphabetical order. I've listed the main ftp site(s) for each game; however, it's polite to use mirror sites, if closer to you, especially if you're not in the same continent. User Contributions:Top Document: Roguelike Games Info and FTP Sites (FAQ) Previous Document: 0.) News flashes Next Document: 2.) List of major roguelike games Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: rgra@bronze.lcs.mit.edu
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