[ale] A History of Roque (was Re: OT: Music Composition == Information Architecture Design)

[JK]

JK wrote:

> [*] Nethack http://nethack.org: an ASCII-art dungeon-crawl adventure game
> that's been developed continuously since 1987 (1980 if you count its
> direct ancestors, Rogue and Hack).  They basically got the UI done in the
> first week of development, so all the work since then has been to enhance
> gameplay and plot.  It will suck you in, chew you up, and leave you wanting
> more.


And by sheer coincidence there's this today on /.

http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/06/0159212

-- JK

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