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

[Geoffrey]

JK wrote:
> 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

Saw it too.  Used to be addicted to rogue years ago.  You could save 
your game so, they would regularly take days to finish.  In all my years 
I have actually won the game once and attained the Amulet of Yendor.

> 
> -- JK
> 


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Until later, Geoffrey

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