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Ultima II: The Revenge of the Enchantress is the second installment in the Ultima Series.

What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized.

How did Rogue’s generation work?

The blank page can be hard - this generator will give you some ideas for puzzles.

Dungeon generator for Dungeons and Dragons: Treasure of Tarmin (1982).

Hack is a 1982 Rogue-inspired game that Nethack is ultimately based on.

Making a game with cyberpunk elements?

An easy to use tool for hand-authoring procedural generators.

Players like to get more powerful.

Hack’s (1982) dungeon map generator.

Wizardry II: The Knight of Diamonds was released in 1982, less than a year after the release of its predecessor Wizardry.

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Cloudy Mountain has the player explore an overworld map and delve into dungeons to find and reunite two halves of a crown; the ultimate goal of the game.

Krozair is a lost PLATO game from 1980 written by Seth J.

In 1980, Mark Johnson created Dry Gulch, a PLATO multiplayer RPG set in the Wild West.

As an adventurous, gamer you may find yourself curious to try the earliest CRPGs from the 70s.

Character classes are archetypes that modify attributes, abilities, and role of a game character.

The Big Bang for computer roleplaying games occurs in 1974 with the release of the Dungeons and Dragons tabletop role-playing game.

RPGs are a strange conceit, a party of adventurers, usually in a fantastical but semi-medieval setting working together to fight monsters and get loot.

Citizen Sleeper is a sci-fi, story-based game released in 2022 by developer Jump Over The Age.

Ultima is an influential RPG with a central quest, overworld map and first person dungeon crawling.

Rogue aka Rogue: Exploring the Dungeons of Doom was developed first by Michael Toy and Glenn Wichman at the Santa Cruz University of California in 1980 and later Ken Arnold also joined Michael Toy to continue developing the game at the Univerity of Berkel…

Dungeon of Death was written by Gordon Walton and released on the Commodore PET in 1979.

Balrog Sampler is an 1979 RPG for the TRS-80, originally published under the title “Dungeon”.

Dungeon was released in December 1979, as part of the 15th edition of a magazine called CURSOR for the Commodore PET.

Super Dungeon is an early computer roleplaying game for the Apple II written by Rodney Nelsen.

Temple of Apshai was originally programmed by Jim Connelley in 1979 using a D&D inspired roleplaying system called Dunjonquest designed by Jon Freeman.

Avatar is a multiplayer RPG for the PLATO system, a kind proto-internet developed at the University of Illinois.

Devil’s Dungeon is a code listing written by Dr Charles William Engel.

DND is a game that was originally developed for the PDP-11 by Daniel Lawrence in 1976.

Beneath Apple Manor is the first commercial, mass market CRPG.

Swords and Sorcery is a game based on an earlier Star Trek game written for the PLATO platform in 1978.

Baradur is another “lost” PLATO dungeon crawler.

Don Daglow writes that he developed a game called Dungeon for the PDP-10 in 1975.

m199h is one of very earliest CRPGs on the PLATO system.

Dungeon Campaign is a top-down dungeon crawler written for the Apple II by Robert Clardy in 1987.

Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord is an influential first person, grid-based dungeon crawler released for the Apple II in 1981.

Orthanc is the black tower that the wizard Saruman controls in Lord of the Rings and part of the name Orthanc Labyrinth; an early RPG for the PLATO system.

Akalabeth is one of the earliest Apple II computer roleplaying games.

Futurewar represents a change of pace from the PLATO games of the era, it’s a sci-fi entry instead of the default D&D inspired fantasy setting.

Oubliette is a multiplayer first-person RPG for the PLATO system.

Moria is the first, first person perspective RPG and the first multiplayer RPG.

The Game of Dungeons, or “dnd” as it’s more commonly called, was developed by Gary Whisenhunt and Ray Wood while they were college students at Southern Illinois University.

In the 1960s at The University of Illinois was PLATO; an operating system and proto-internet all rolled into one.

Koen Witters is the developer of RPG Playground, a tool that lets you create and share RPGs - no programming required.

Conversation is a large part of most RPGs.

Constraints encourage creativity.

I’ve seen the numbers; they tell a clear story and it doesn’t have a happy ending.

JRPGs communicate with the player via textboxes.

Writing dialog for games should be easy.

It’s no secret I’m interested in how games model conversation.