Dungeon Hacks: Expanded Edition

by David L Craddock, Milan Jaram (Illustrations)

In 1980, computers were instruments of science and mathematics, military secrets and academia. Stern administrators lorded over sterile university laboratories and stressed one point to the wide-eyed students privileged enough to set foot within Computers were not toys.Defying authority, hackers seized control of monolithic mainframes to create a new breed of computer the roguelike, cryptic and tough-as-nails adventures drawn from text-based symbols instead of state-of-the-art 3D graphics.Despite their visual simplicity, roguelike games captivate thousands of players around the world. Revised and updated, Dungeon Expanded Edition collects the original 2015 book, plus more interviews and stories about developers and games inspired by formative roguelike RPGs.Expanded Edition •New Introduction•3 Additional One-Week Diary of a Seven-Day Roguelike Challenge, Anything But The Making of Faster Than Light (with bonus content), and Red to The Making of Rogue Legacy•Transcript from the author's panel with Rogue co-creators Michael Toy, Glenn Wichman, and Ken Arnold at the 2016 Roguelike Celebration Conference•Photos, Interviews, Behind-the-Scenes Info, and More

Genres: Video Games, Nonfiction

633 pages, Paperback

Published March 30, 2019