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	"

Links (cheats and spoilers)

Rogue: The Dungeons of Doom walkthrough - solution (unverified)
Rogue - The Dungeons Of Doom FAQ - Cheatbook (unverified)