Why is Pixel Dungeon so underground? To me, it seems basically like a turn-based souls game. I am playing this game for 2 years now (The OG Pixel Dungeon) and i still find new content, like its infinite.

  • RBG@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Pixel Dungeon is a rogue-like, those existed way before Dark Souls. There are even text-based games running in a Unix terminal, I think Nethack is one of the oldest, if not the oldest itself.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Nethack can’t be the oldest, because it was derived from hack.

      I don’t know whether hack or rogue was first, though.

      kagis

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack_(video_game)

      Hack is a 1984 roguelike video game that introduced shops as gameplay elements and expanded available monsters, items, and spells. It later became the basis for NetHack.

      Looks like rogue was first.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_(video_game)

      Rogue (also known as Rogue: Exploring the Dungeons of Doom) is a dungeon crawling video game by Michael Toy and Glenn Wichman with later contributions by Ken Arnold. Rogue was originally developed around 1980 for Unix-based minicomputer systems as a freely distributed executable.