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A roguelike is a member of the role-playing video game genre that borrows its name and gameplay elements from the 1980 computer game Rogue. An electronic role-playing game is a broad genre of video games. A computer role-playing game ( CRPG) is a broad Video game genre originally developed for personal computers and other home computers The Computer role-playing game (CRPG genre began in the mid-1970s inspired by Role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons. This is a comprehensive Index of commercial Computer role-playing games (CRPGs sorted chronologically A console role-playing game is a video game genre that has its origin rooted in Video game consoles and includes game mechanics and frequently settings derived See Lists of video An action role-playing game or action RPG is a common name for a type of computer or video game which is closely linked to the Console role-playing game genre A massively multiplayer online role-playing game ( MMORPG) is a genre of Computer role-playing games (CRPGs in which a large number of players interact with The history of massively multiplayer online games spans over thirty years and hundreds of Massively multiplayer online games (MMOG titles This is a selected list of massively multiplayer online games which are free to play in some form without ever requiring a subscription or other payment For online games in other genres see List of MMOGs. MMORPGs ( Massively multiplayer online role-playing games are Massively This article contains an almost full table comparison of current Massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs Due to cultural differences between game developers historically different inspirations and origins distinct target audiences and hardware with dissimilar capabilities two main trends or "families" A computer role-playing game ( CRPG) is a broad Video game genre originally developed for personal computers and other home computers See also [[Game classification]] Video games are categorized into Genres based on their Gameplay interaction Events Notable releases Mattel releases the Intellivision Video game console. A personal computer Game (also known as a computer game or simply PC game) is a Video game played on a Personal computer, rather Rogue popularized the Dungeon crawling computer game dating back from 1980. Superficially, a roguelike is a two-dimensional dungeon crawl with a high degree of randomness and an emphasis on statistical character development. 2D computer graphics is the Computer -based generation of Digital images mdashmostly from two-dimensional models (such as 2D geometric models text and digital A dungeon crawl is a type of role-playing adventure in which heroes navigate a Labyrinthine environment battling various monsters and looting any treasure they may Randomness is a lack of order Purpose, cause, or predictability A statistic (or stat) in Role-playing games is a piece of Data which represents a particular aspect of a Fictional character. Though traditionally featuring a text user interface, many such games utilize graphic tiles to overcome character set limitations. TUI short for Text User Interface or Textual User Interface (and sometimes Terminal User Interface) is a Retronym that was coined sometime A tile-based game is a Game that uses Tiles as one of the fundamental elements of play [1]
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History
Some features of Rogue existed in earlier games, notably: Adventure (1975), Dungeon (1975), and several written for the PLATO system, such as the multi-user games dnd (1975) and Moria (1975). Colossal Cave Adventure (also known as ADVENT, Colossal Cave, or Adventure) (Crowther 1976 Crowther PLATO was the first (circa 1960 on ILLIAC I) generalized Computer assisted instruction system dnd is a Computer role-playing game. The name dnd is derived from the abbreviation "DND" (D&D from the original Role-playing game This article is about the game written for the PLATO computer system for other uses see Moria. Both dnd and Moria utilized limited graphics. Moria offered a primitive first-person, three-dimensional view,[2] while dnd presented a top-down map view similar to Rogue. A first-person shooter ( FPS) is an action Video game from the Shooter game The initial development of Maze War 3D computer graphics (in contrast to 2D computer graphics) are graphics that use a three-dimensional representation of geometric data that is stored in the computer
Most of these earlier games scripted scenarios in advance that varied little from one play session to the next. In Rogue and Moria, the dungeon is randomly regenerated when the player begins, creating a new challenge each time. This is about European castles For other uses see Dungeon (disambiguation A dungeon is a place where Prisoners are kept A random dungeon is a dungeon in a Role-playing video game which is generated by the computer using an Algorithm, such that the dungeon is laid out differently Replay value or replayability is a term usually found in combination with Video games but it may be also used to describe other kinds of games movies,
One possible taxonomy divides roguelikes into four main branches:
- Direct Rogue sequels that retain the single-screen (but unpreserved) levels of the original Rogue. Taxonomy is the practice and science of classification The word comes from the Greek, taxis (meaning 'order' 'arrangement' and, nomos Examples include UltraRogue, Advanced Rogue, Super Rogue, and XRogue.
- Hacklikes, where levels persist after being left. Notable examples include NetHack, Slash'EM, and Linley's Dungeon Crawl. NetHack is a single-player Roguelike computer game originally released in 1987. Slash'EM ( Super Lotsa Added Stuff Hack - Extended Magic) is a variant of the Roguelike game NetHack that offers extra Linley's Dungeon Crawl (or just Dungeon Crawl or Crawl) is a Roguelike computer game originally programmed
- *Bands, based on the game Moria, where levels are larger than a single screen, and are regenerated after being left. Moria is a Roguelike computer game based heavily on J R R Tolkien 's novel The Lord of the Rings. Contemporary examples are Angband and its variants. Angband is a dungeon-crawling Roguelike computer game derived from Umoria.
- Overworld games, where more than one dungeon exists. Examples include Omega (dungeons regenerated upon exit), ADOM (all dungeons but one preserved when left), later versions of ZAngband, ToME, and Castle of the Winds. Ancient Domains of Mystery, or ADOM, is a Roguelike game by Thomas Biskup first released in 1994. Angband is a dungeon-crawling Roguelike computer game derived from Umoria. ToME, or Tales (or Troubles of Middle Earth, is a Roguelike computer game created in 1998 as an ''Angband'' variant Castle of the Winds ( CotW) is a tile-based Roguelike Computer game for Windows 3
Other attributes distinguish branches; for example, starvation is a major threat in Hacklikes, while in other branches starvation may be rare.
Gameplay
These games present a plan view. Traditionally, an "@" sign represents the player character. A player character or playable character (PC is a Fictional character in a Video game or Role playing game who is controlled or controllable Letters of the alphabet represent other characters (usually opposing monsters). An alphabet is a standardized set of letters basic written symbols each of which roughly represents a Phoneme, a Spoken language, either A non-player character, often shortened to NPC, is a character that is controlled by the Gamemaster in Role-playing games or one that is not A monster is any of a large number of Legendary creatures which usually appear in Mythology, Legend, or Horror fiction. Rogue itself only made use of capital letters, but present-day roguelikes vary capitalization to supply additional visual cues. A dog, for example, may be represented by the letter "d", and a dragon by a "D". The dog ( Canis lupus familiaris) is a domesticated Subspecies of the gray wolf, a Mammal of the Canidae family of the order European dragons are Legendary creatures in Folklore and Mythology among the overlapping cultures of Europe. Coloration may signal further distinction between creatures. For example, a Red Dragon might be represented by a red "D" and a Blue Dragon by a blue "D", each of differing abilities significant to player strategy. Additional dungeon features are represented by other ASCII (or ANSI) symbols. American Standard Code for Information Interchange ( ASCII) ANSI escape codes are used to control text formatting and other output options on Text terminals In this context ANSI refers to the ANSI X3 A traditional sampling follows.
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Graphical adaptations are available for most early roguelikes, and it is not uncommon for new development projects to adopt a graphical user interface.
Players issue game commands with at most a few keystrokes, rather than with simple sentences interpreted by a parser or by means of a pointing device such as a mouse. In Computer science and Linguistics, parsing, or more formally syntactic analysis, is the process of analyzing a sequence of tokens to A pointing device is an Input interface (specifically a Human interface device) that allows a user to input spatial (ie continuous and multi-dimensional data In Computing, a mouse (plural mice, mouse devices, or mouses) For example, in NetHack one would press "r" to read a scroll, "d" to drop an item, and "q" to quaff (drink) a potion. NetHack is a single-player Roguelike computer game originally released in 1987. A scroll is a roll of Papyrus, Parchment, or Paper which has been written drawn or painted upon for the purpose of transmitting information or using as
Features
- Roguelike games randomly generate dungeon levels; though they may include static levels as well. Generated layouts typically incorporate rooms connected by corridors, some of which may be preset to a degree (e. g. , monster lairs or treasuries). Open areas or natural features, like rivers, may also occur.
- The identity of magical items varies across games. Some Role-playing games or game systems can include a set of rules that are used to portray magic in the Paranormal sense Newly discovered objects only offer a vague physical description, with purposes and capabilities left unstated. For example, a "bubbly" potion might heal wounds one game, then poison the player character in the next. Items are often subject to alteration, acquiring specific traits, such as a curse, or direct player modification.
- The combat system is turn-based instead of real-time. The ComBat was an Aluminium Cricket bat and the subject of an incident that occurred at the WACA cricket ground in Perth in December 1979. A turn-based strategy ( TBS) game is a Strategy game (usually some type of wargame, especially a strategic-level wargame that is A real-time strategy ( RTS) Video game is a strategic game that is distinctly not turn-based. Gameplay is usually step-based, where player-performed actions take a variable measure of in-game time to complete. Game processes (e. g. , monster movement and interaction, progressive effects such as poisoning or starvation) advance based on the passage of time dictated by these actions.
- Most are single-player games. On multi-user systems, scoreboards are often shared between players. Multi-user is a term that defines an Operating system or Application software that allows concurrent access by multiple users of a Computer. The high score of a Video game, Arcade game, or Computer game is usually the highest logged point value Some roguelikes allow traces of former player characters to appear in later game sessions in form of ghosts or grave markings. A ghost is said to be the apparition of a Deceased person frequently similar in appearance to that person and usually encountered in places she or he frequented A headstone, tombstone or gravestone is a marker normally carved from stone, placed over or next to the site of a Burial Multi-player derivatives such as TomeNET, MAngband, and Crossfire do exist and are playable online. ToME, or Tales (or Troubles of Middle Earth, is a Roguelike computer game created in 1998 as an ''Angband'' variant Crossfire is a free and open source Cross platform Multiplayer online Computer role-playing game.
- Roguelikes traditionally implement permanent death ("permadeath"). In Computer role-playing games (CRPGs permanent death (sometimes permadeath or PD) is a situation in which Player characters (PCs die permanently Once a character dies, the player must begin a new game. A "save game" feature will only provide suspension of gameplay and not a limitlessly recoverable state; the stored session is deleted upon resumption or character death. Players can circumvent this by manipulating stored game data ("save scumming"), an act that may be considered cheating.
Notable examples
- See also: List of roguelikes
Modern roguelikes
- Ancient Domains of Mystery, also called ADOM
- Angband and its several variants
- Linley's Dungeon Crawl, also called Dungeon Crawl or Crawl
- NetHack, a descendant of Hack
- Tales of Middle Earth, also called ToME
- Dwarf Fortress, a Base Building Roguelike. Ancient Domains of Mystery, or ADOM, is a Roguelike game by Thomas Biskup first released in 1994. Angband is a dungeon-crawling Roguelike computer game derived from Umoria. Linley's Dungeon Crawl (or just Dungeon Crawl or Crawl) is a Roguelike computer game originally programmed NetHack is a single-player Roguelike computer game originally released in 1987. Not to be confused with the.hack video game and anime franchise ToME, or Tales (or Troubles of Middle Earth, is a Roguelike computer game created in 1998 as an ''Angband'' variant Slaves to Armok II Dwarf Fortress is a computer game by Bay 12 Games for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X set in a High fantasy universe
- Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, also called "PMD"
- Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer
Classic roguelikes
Popularity
Many online communities dedicate themselves to roguelike games, most notably the rec. Mystery Dungeon Shiren the Wanderer (不思議のダンジョン２ 風来のシレン Fushigi no Dungeon 2 Fūrai no Shiren) is a graphical Roguelike Rogue popularized the Dungeon crawling computer game dating back from 1980. Moria is a Roguelike computer game based heavily on J R R Tolkien 's novel The Lord of the Rings. Not to be confused with the.hack video game and anime franchise Larn is a Roguelike Computer game authored by Noah Morgan in 1986 for the UNIX Operating system. A virtual community, e-community or online community is a group of people that primarily interact via communication media such as Newsletters games. roguelike Usenet hierarchy. Usenet, a Portmanteau of "user" and "network" is a world-wide distributed Internet discussion system
Legacy
The graphical action role-playing game Diablo bears a premise similar to that of Rogue: players slash their way through increasingly difficult monsters and attain treasure while traversing deeper into randomly-generated dungeons to complete quests. An action role-playing game or action RPG is a common name for a type of computer or video game which is closely linked to the Console role-playing game genre Diablo is a Dark fantasy -themed Action role-playing game developed by Blizzard North and released by Blizzard Entertainment Hack and slash or hack and slay can refer to either a subgenre of Action game, or a type of Gameplay. As such, some refer to Diablo as a roguelike despite wide differences in actual gameplay.
Amulet of Yendor
In several computer games, the Amulet of Yendor is the object the player needs to retrieve in order to win. It first appeared in Rogue and its sequels, UltraRogue and Advanced Rogue. Hack and NetHack later featured the Amulet, but with the added condition that it be brought to the Astral Plane and sacrificed. This article is about a plane of existence In the context of Unicode, Astral characters consist of planes above the Basic Multilingual Plane. Sacrifice (from a Middle English verb meaning "to make sacred" from Old French, from Latin sacrificium: sacr, "sacred" The Amulet is also featured as a useless "prank" item in the MMORPG, Kingdom of Loathing. A massively multiplayer online role-playing game ( MMORPG) is a genre of Computer role-playing games (CRPGs in which a large number of players interact with Kingdom of Loathing ( KoL) is a Humorous browser-based, multiplayer Role playing game, designed and operated by Asymmetric
The origin of the name Yendor is explained in the words of Michael Toy, an author of Rogue:
The idea was that the dungeon had been constructed by a wizard, and that the quest was to retrieve his lost amulet. In a weak attempt at humor, the all-mighty wizard who creates the dungeon is given the name 'Rodney' spelled backwards. Rodney was selected at random, in an instant, as a very unlikely name for a powerful wizard. Through the brilliant (or so it seemed when I was 19), technique of reversing the letters of his name, this secret joke was now 'hidden' in a very reasonable 'fantasy sounding' name of Yendor.
See also
References
- ^ Damjan Jovanovic (2005-01-13). In computer gaming, a MUD ( Multi-User Dungeon, Domain or Dimension) is a multi-player computer game that combines elements of Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 532 - Nika riots in Constantinople. 888 - Odo Count of Paris becomes King of the Franks Roguelike Development FAQ. Retrieved on 2006-11-29. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1777 - San Jose California, is founded as el Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe
- ^ Fun with PLATO
Sources
- Roguelike Roundup at Kuro5hin
- Introduction to Roguelike Games
- The Essential 50: Rogue at 1UP.com details the history of Rogue and its impact on later games
External links
- Roguelikes at the Open Directory Project
- RogueBasin, a wiki devoted to roguelikes
- Guide to Roguelike Games
- rec.games.roguelike Usenet hierarchy at Google Groups
- Temple of the Roguelike, an online roguelikes community
- Dungeondweller covers the development of roguelikes
Dictionary
roguelike
-noun
- (computer game genre) A genre of computer games characterized by turn-based movement, overhead-view, text-based or primitive tilebased graphics, and randomized dungeons.
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