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11 <h1 align=center><b>A Guide to the Dungeons of Doom</b></h1>
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13 <h2 align=center><i>Michael C. Toy<br>
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14 Kenneth C. R. C. Arnold</i></h2>
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16 <h3 align=center>Computer Systems Research
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17 Group<br>
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18 Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer
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19 Science<br>
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20 University of California<br>
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21 Berkeley, California 94720</h3>
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24 <h2 align=center><i>ABSTRACT</i></h2>
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26 <blockquote>
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27 <blockquote>
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28 <p align="justify"><b><i><font size="2">Rogue</font></i></b><font size="2"> is a visual CRT based fantasy game which runs under the
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29 UNIX† timesharing system. This paper describes how
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30 to play rogue, and gives a few hints for those who might otherwise get
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31 lost in the Dungeons of Doom. </font></p>
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32 </blockquote>
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33 </blockquote>
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35 <h2 align="justify"><b>1. Introduction</b></h2>
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37 <p align="justify">You have just finished your years as a
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38 student at the local fighter&rsquo;s guild. After much
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39 practice and sweat you have finally completed your training
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40 and are ready to embark upon a perilous adventure. As a test
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41 of your skills, the local guildmasters have sent you into
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42 the Dungeons of Doom. Your task is to return with the Amulet
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43 of Yendor. Your reward for the completion of this task will
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44 be a full membership in the local guild. In addition, you
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45 are allowed to keep all the loot you bring back from the
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46 dungeons.</p>
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48 <p align="justify">In preparation for your journey, you are
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49 given an enchanted mace, a bow, and a quiver of arrows taken
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50 from a dragon&rsquo;s hoard in the far off Dark Mountains.
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51 You are also outfitted with elf-crafted armor and given
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52 enough food to reach the dungeons. You say goodbye to family
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53 and friends for what may be the last time and head up the
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54 road.</p>
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56 <p align="justify">You set out on your way to the dungeons and
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57 after several days of uneventful travel, you see the
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58 ancient ruins that mark the entrance to the Dungeons of
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59 Doom. It is late at night, so you make camp at the entrance
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60 and spend the night sleeping under the open skies. In the
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61 morning you gather your weapons, put on your armor, eat what
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62 is almost your last food, and enter the
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63 dungeons.</p>
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65 <h2 align="justify"><b>2. What is going on here?</b></h2>
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66 <p align="justify">You have just begun a game of rogue. Your
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67 goal is to grab as much treasure as you can, find the Amulet
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68 of Yendor, and get out of the Dungeons of Doom alive. On the
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69 screen, a map of where you have been and what you have seen
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70 on the current dungeon level is kept. As you explore more of
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71 the level, it appears on the screen in front of
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72 you.</p>
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73 <p align="justify">Rogue differs from most computer fantasy
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74 games in that it is screen oriented. Commands are all one or
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75 two keystrokes<sup>1 </sup>and the
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76 results of your commands are displayed graphically on the
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77 screen rather than being explained in words<sup>2</sup>.</p>
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78 <p align="justify">Another major difference between rogue and other computer fantasy games is that once you have solved
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79 all the puzzles in a standard fantasy game, it has lost most
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80 of its excitement and it ceases to be fun. Rogue, on the
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81 other hand, generates a new dungeon every time you play it
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82 and even the author finds it an entertaining and exciting
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83 game.</p>
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85 <h2 align="justify"><b>3. What do all those things on the screen mean?</b></h2>
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86 <p align="justify">In order to understand what is going on in
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87 rogue you have to first get some grasp of what rogue is
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88 doing with the screen. The rogue screen is intended to
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89 replace the &ldquo;You can see ...&rdquo; descriptions of
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90 standard fantasy games. Figure 1 is a sample of what a
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91 rogue screen might look like.</p>
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93 <div align="center">
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95 <table><tr><td>
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96 <pre>
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97 ____________________________________________________________
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