“In the 1980s a new game genre was created. It featured a
single-player dungeon adventure using character graphics. The game
was called Rogue. Roguelike games continue to be a large
development area of the open-source game community.“
“Angband is the current reigning king of roguelike games.
Derived from Moria, Angband has numerous enhancements. You start as
first level adventure. By exploring dungeon levels, your character
increases in power until he can finally defeat Morgoth, Lord of
Darkness….”
“Ben Harrison’s code cleanup has resulted in an explosion of
variants. The game and variants are available for nearly any
platform. The design is very clean and extensively documented. No
single column in Open Game Source can do justice to refinement that
has gone into Angband. Before adding new features, I suggest any
hackers take a look at the variants and the multitude of web sites
devoted to the game.”