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rogue
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n. A Dungeons-and-Dragons-like game using character graphics, written under
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BSD Unix and subsequently ported to other Unix systems. The original BSD
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curses (3) screen-handling package was hacked together by Ken Arnold
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primarily to support games, and the development of rogue (6) popularized its
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use; it has since become one of Unix's most important and heavily used
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application libraries. Nethack, Omega, Larn, Angband, and an entire subgenre
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of computer dungeon games (all known as roguelikes ) all took off from the
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inspiration provided by rogue (6) ; the popular Windows game Diablo, though
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graphics-intensive, has very similar play logic. See also nethack , moria ,
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Angband. 2.
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