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#ANGBAND COMIC CODE#

Penance ( ) is a new Angband webcomic, but drawn in a more traditional style.

It was drawn in the style of the game's text interface.

The Angband Comic ( ) has been defunct since 2002.

( ) (or oook) contains the Angband ladder, detailed spoilers, and other resources.

It features development information, a variant list.

Thangorodrim ( ) is the primary Angband site.

Vault: A special room which is not random, but is produced from a plan.

Vanilla: The unmodified version of Angband.

Systematically finding and killing them can be important to victory in the game, since the hardest few uniques can magically summon other uniques and thereby overpower the player. Once killed they are never generated again.

Unique: A monster of which only one instance exists.

Due to the importance of random effects in Angband, the game RNG is often referred to anthropomorphically.

Ego item: A standard item with special abilities, which vary according to its ego type.

*Band: Generic name for any Angband variant.

Once identified, they are never generated again.

Artifact: A special item with preset statistics that cannot be destroyed, and of which only one instance exists.

This has been the source of mild conflicts between the two communities. Angband adopts a more serious tone than NetHack, takes far longer to win for even the best players, and the focus of the game is more on combat tactics, inventory management and risk minimalisation than NetHackish puzzle solving and special casing. Gameplay of Vanilla Angband, as the original is now often called, is most often compared to NetHack, though in reality the games are almost polar opposites. Like other maintainers, he eventually moved on to other interests, passing the title to Robert Rühlmann in 2000.

#ANGBAND COMIC CODE#

Harrison was the maintainer responsible for the "Great Code Cleanup", modularizing, extending, and greatly improving the readability of the Angband source code, which lead to the large number of variants of Angband currently available, as well as the rather large number of ports to different platforms. One advantage of this would be allowing it to be bundled with "commercial" Linux distributions.Īfter Cutler and Astrand, the later principal developers of Angband included Charles Swiger, Ben Harrison and Robert Rühlmann. However, there is an effort ongoing to re-license Angband under the GNU GPL.

#ANGBAND COMIC SOFTWARE#

An IRC channel, #angband, exists on the WorldIRC network ( ).Īngband is open source but not strictly free software because it is licensed under "non commercial use" terms, as was its ancestor Moria. The Usenet group ( ) is a place to discuss all the aspects of the game. The best known variants are EyAngband, Hengband, OAngband, ToME, and ZAngband. A new level is randomly generated each time the player changes levels, which gives Angband great replay value: no two games will be the same.Ī veritable family tree of around sixty (around a dozen of which are active) variants of Angband exist, each often greatly differing in purpose and depth of changes. The adventurer is presented with 100 levels of the title dungeon, in which he or she seeks to amass enough power and equipment to ultimately defeat Morgoth. Tolkien, in which Angband was the fortress of Morgoth. The first version was created by Alex Cutler and Andy Astrand at the University of Warwick in 1990. Angband is a dungeon-crawling roguelike computer game derived from Umoria (the C for Unix port of a game called Moria).