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A '''roguelike''' computer game is one that resembles ''Rogue''. See [[Gameinfo:Roguelike]].
 
A '''roguelike''' computer game is one that resembles ''Rogue''. See [[Gameinfo:Roguelike]].
  
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The original ''Rogue'' game featured a thief who entered the dungeon to steal the [[Amulet of Yendor]]. A free clone called ''[[Hack]]'' retained the Amulet, but introduced multiple [[role]]s ([[class]]es). The six roles in ''Hack'' are [[Tourist]], [[Speleologist]], [[Fighter]], [[Knight]], [[Cave-man]], and [[Wizard]].
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The original ''[[Rogue (game)]]'' game featured a thief who entered the dungeon to steal the [[Amulet of Yendor]]. A free clone called ''[[Hack]]'' retained the Amulet, but introduced some features including a pet [[dog]] and multiple [[role]]s ([[class]]es). The six roles in ''Hack'' are [[Tourist]], [[Speleologist]], [[Fighter]], [[Knight]], [[Cave-man]], and [[Wizard]].
  
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The game ''[[NetHack]]'' has added several features to ''Hack'', including both the [[Rogue]] class and the roguelike level. Somewhere in each dungeon, below the [[Oracle]] but above [[Medusa]], is a [[special level]] that emulates ''Rogue''. Actually, all of ''NetHack'' is roguelike, but this one level is more like ''Rogue'' than the others.
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The game ''[[NetHack]]'' has added several features to ''Hack'', including both the '''[[Rogue]]''' class and the '''[[Rogue level]]'''.
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Here is a list of traits from the older ''Hack'' and ''Rogue'' games that you can also find in ''NetHack''.
 
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# All monsters are uppercase letters. (NetHack achieves this by not spawning any lowercase-letter monsters at this special levels. It is still possible to bring lowercase-letter monsters like pets from other levels to this level.)
 
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# [[Door]]s, represented by '''<tt>+</tt>''', act like open [[doorway]]s, meaning that you can not walk diagonally through them. There is no way to close or destroy these doors.
 
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# There are no [[DECgraphics]] or [[color]]. Rogue and Hack lacked those features. NetHack, at least when playing the [[tty]] port, disables those [[option]]s during the special level.
 
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# Stairs are percent signs '''<tt>%</tt>'''. (Hack uses '''<tt>&lt;</tt>''' and '''<tt>&gt;</tt>''', like NetHack normally does.) In Rogue, there was always one stairway: [[down]] if you had not found the [[Amulet]], or [[up]] if you found it. Hack and NetHack introduced an innovation where old levels were saved to disk, allowing you to freely travel up and down. Thus, the roguelike level of NetHack contains two percent signs.
 
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# [[Food]] is colons '''<tt>:</tt>'''. (Hack uses '''<tt>%</tt>''', but NetHack uses '''<tt>:</tt>''' for food and corpses at the roguelike special level. Thus, NetHack players might sometimes confuse food and corpses at this level with [[newt]]s or other [[lizard]]-like [[monsters]].)
 
  
 
== List of [[roguelike]] games ==
 
== List of [[roguelike]] games ==
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**Ultra Larn
 
**Ultra Larn
 
* Omega
 
* Omega
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* ADOM : Ancient Domains Of Mystery
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* [[ADOM]] : Ancient Domains Of Mystery
 
* IVAN : Iter Vehemens ad Necem
 
* IVAN : Iter Vehemens ad Necem
 
* Mysterious Dungeon - A long-running series of commercial roguelikes.
 
* Mysterious Dungeon - A long-running series of commercial roguelikes.

Revision as of 02:39, 12 October 2006

A roguelike computer game is one that resembles Rogue. See Gameinfo:Roguelike.

The original Rogue (game) game featured a thief who entered the dungeon to steal the Amulet of Yendor. A free clone called Hack retained the Amulet, but introduced some features including a pet dog and multiple roles (classes). The six roles in Hack are Tourist, Speleologist, Fighter, Knight, Cave-man, and Wizard.

The game NetHack has added several features to Hack, including both the Rogue class and the Rogue level.

List of roguelike games

  • Rogue (game)
  • Moria
    • umoria
    • Angband
      • ZAngband
      • ToME : Troubles/Tales of Middle Earth
      • MAngband
  • Linley's Dungeon Crawl
  • NetHack
    • SLASH'EM - Super Lotsa Added Stuff Hack w/ Extended Magic
    • JNetHack - Japanese derivative of NetHack. The older version (based on NetHack 3.2.2) by Issei Numata is here. In addition, a beta version of JSLASH'EM is also available now.
    • Nethack en Español - NetHack translated into Spanish.
  • The Caves of Larn
    • Ultra Larn
  • Omega
  • ADOM : Ancient Domains Of Mystery
  • IVAN : Iter Vehemens ad Necem
  • Mysterious Dungeon - A long-running series of commercial roguelikes.

Terms related 'Roguelike'

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