Dungeon (video game)
Early role-playing game with pioneering line-of-sight graphics.
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Dungeon is one of the earliest role-playing video games, created by Don Daglow while he was a student at Claremont University Center (later renamed Claremont Graduate University). Written in either 1975 or 1976, it was an unlicensed adaptation of the tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, running on PDP-10 mainframe computers manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation. The game is notable for being among the first to employ line-of-sight graphics displays, using top-down dungeon maps that showed only the portions of the playfield the party had seen.
Background
Dungeon was written by Don Daglow, then a student at Claremont University Center, in either 1975 or 1976. It was an unlicensed implementation of the new tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, describing the movements of a multi-player party through a monster-inhabited dungeon. Players chose actions in combat and where to move each character, making the game very slow by modern standards. Characters earned experience points and gained skills as their level grew, reflecting most basic tenets of D&D.
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