Imagine my delight to discover Capybara Games has produced “Below”, the 21st century version of the text based dungeon games like Rogue, Larn, Hack and Nethack I played at Uni in the 80s. I still play from time to time using an Ubuntu VM on my laptop, my current game’s level 7 looks like this:
I liked this game so much back in the day, I wrote a dungeon generator in 6502 machine code for the BBC Micro. Got stuck at that point as I had used up all the memory. In fact, I think I have some original Rogue or Larn source code on a reel of tape in the attic. Legend has it, Ken Arnold wrote Rogue to help debug his Unix curses package. The original paper is still available here.