Also known as “Rogue: Exploring the Dungeons of Doom” ,this game inspired the genre as a whole. A dungeon crawler with strong elements from the table-top game D’n’D (Dungeons & Dragons) as well as two famous text-based games, namely “Star Trek” (1971) and “The Colossal Cave Adventure” (1976).
Star Trek, Mike Mayfield, 1972
The Colossal Cave Adventure, Willie Crowther, 1976
Rogue mainly consists of 26 dungeon levels all of which are procedurally generated from the layout all the way to the items. On the other hand, in terms of movement, the player can be controlled through various ways, namely Arrow Keys, The Numpad by deactivating num-lock and through the letters H, J, K, L for vertical/horizontal movement and Y, U, B, N for diagonal movement
If this wasn’t enough then it must be considered that other letters can assist the player in performing certain actions in-game. For example “W” is for Wear while “w” is for wield.
The game was created using the Curses Programming Library mainly for the graphics interface through the use of ASCII characters (ASCII Drawing).
Lastly the game was ported to some known systems at the time such as Amiga, Commodore 64, DOS, Macintosh, Atari 8-bit and Unix.
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