Friday, April 23, 2004
ROG-O-MATIC
Rogue is one of the all-time great computer roleplaying games. Every game's dungeons are randomly generated. All the items are scrambled on each play & discovering their uses is an essential portion of the game. And tremendous, unforgiving difficulty.
Rog-O-Matic is a program, unfortunately highly customized to a very specific hardware setup, that will play Rogue automatically. The ancestor of such things as the Angband Borg, Rog-O-Matic is notable because it's known to win occasionally, some feat because Rogue is one of the hardest computer games of all time, much harder than things like Nethack (which is unforgiving to new players but gets much easier once you learn the tricks).
Rogue is one of the all-time great computer roleplaying games. Every game's dungeons are randomly generated. All the items are scrambled on each play & discovering their uses is an essential portion of the game. And tremendous, unforgiving difficulty.
Rog-O-Matic is a program, unfortunately highly customized to a very specific hardware setup, that will play Rogue automatically. The ancestor of such things as the Angband Borg, Rog-O-Matic is notable because it's known to win occasionally, some feat because Rogue is one of the hardest computer games of all time, much harder than things like Nethack (which is unforgiving to new players but gets much easier once you learn the tricks).
