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Re:Text-only video game shows how genre can be beautiful, in... by leeoniya on Thursday January 22, 2015 @02:29PM (#8931176)
was expecting an article about ADOM :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Domains_of_Mystery

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Re:Text-only video game shows how genre can be beautiful, in... by guard-of-terra on Thursday January 22, 2015 @02:47PM (#8931284)
And I was expecting an article about Dungeon Crawl. Blows everything else out of the water for many years now.

Also playable by ssh.

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Re:Text-only video game shows how genre can be beautiful, in... by elwin on Thursday January 22, 2015 @07:34PM (#8932723)
DCSS is a remarkable open source project. The game's design is focused and coherent, avoiding "feature creep". Yet the devs are open to community suggestions and stay on good terms with the players. I can't think of any other project that so well harnesses the creativity of random internet people.
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Re:Text-only video game shows how genre can be beautiful, in... by erikb on Thursday January 22, 2015 @02:58PM (#8931358)
it's an ASCII rogue-like, not a text-only game. You could say it's a character only game. ;)
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