PolarhomeWiki: Rogue

Rogue is the namesake of the procedurally-generated dungeon crawling game genre. Later examples of the genre include [[Angband?]] and NetHack?. The original game was programmed around 1980 by Michael Toy, Glenn Wichman, and Ken Arnold for the Unix system at UC Santa Cruz.

Polarhome hosts

NetBSD

Game basics

Map symbols

`@`	Player	`#`	Passage	`!`	Potion	`^`	Trap
`-\|`	Walls	`*`	Gold	`?`	Scroll, paper	`%`	Staircase
`+`	Door	`)`	Weapon	`=`	Ring	`:`	Food
`.`	Floor	`]`	Armor	`/`	Staff, wand	`A-Z`	Monsters

Status line

Level Current level in dungeon
Gold Current amount of gold
Hp Current/max. health points
Str Current/max. strength
Arm Current armor level (higher => greater protection)
Exp Player level/experience points

Commands

Movement

y		k		u
	\	`\|`	/
h	--	@	--	l
	/	`\|`	\
n		j		m

k,u,l,m,j,n,h,y	Move one space	N/NE/E/SE/S/SW/W/NW
K,U,L,M,J,N,H,Y	Move to nearest wall	"
^K,^U,^L,^M,^J,^N,^H,^Y	Move to nearest object	"
>,<	Climb down/up staircase

Move over an object to pick up; move over a monster to attack.

Prefix commands

td	Throw object in direction d
fd	Fight to death monster in direction d
md	Move without picking up object in direction d
zd	Zap staff/wand in direction d (must specify direction even if effect is non-directional)
^d	Identify trap in direction d

Using objects

e	Eat food
q	Quaff potion
r	Read scroll
w	Wield weapon (To use bow and arrow, wield bow then throw arrow)
T,W	Take off/Wear armor
P,R	Put on/Remove ring

Inventory

i	List inventory
I	Identify inventory object
d	Drop object
,	Pick up object

Other

?	Help
/	Identify map object
s	Search for traps, secret doors
.	Rest
S	Save
Q	Quit

Rogue

Polarhome hosts

Game basics

Map symbols

Status line

Commands

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