From 720146740b72ec26712d61a88a8384ecdfe29a2a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2017 08:00:58 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Note some non-influences. --- history.adoc | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) diff --git a/history.adoc b/history.adoc index 30afeba..743ed61 100644 --- a/history.adoc +++ b/history.adoc @@ -108,6 +108,24 @@ and 2.5: > also details like just what _can_ you do in the dark...? ............................................................................ +== Earlier non-influences == + +There is record of one earlier dungeon-crawling game called "dnd", +written in 1974-75 on the PLATO system at University of Illinois +<>. This was in some ways similar to later roguelike games but +not to Adventure. The designers of later roguelikes frequently site +Adventure as an explanation, but not dnd; like PLATO itself, dnd seems +not to have become known outside of its home university until +rediscovered by computer historians many years after Adventure +shipped. + +There was also Hunt The Wumpus <>, written by Gregory Yob in +1972. Though the wumpus was later included as a monster in the Nethack +roguelike game, there is no evidence that Yob's original (circulated +in BASIC among microcomputer enthusiasts) was known to the ARPANET- and +minicomputer-centered culture Crowther and Woods were part of until well +after Adventure was written. + == Nomenclature == This project is called "Open Adventure" because it's not at all clear @@ -155,3 +173,7 @@ which is then linked to the advent binary. - [[[DA]]] http://www.filfre.net/sitemap/ - [[[SN]]] http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/1/2/000009/000009.html + +- [[[DND]]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnd_(video_game) + +- [[[WUMPUS]]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunt_the_Wumpus -- 2.31.1