Hello all...
Wanna give a break to cyberdaemon chainsawing? Want to know the game that adds THAT RL into DoomRL??? This is your chance to do so, and earn fame and fortune! (Ok... may be not fortune :P)
A competition that goes back to the roots of the genre, back to the very same moment when the adventurer stood in the entrance of the dungeons of doom, seeking fame and fortune for his guild of Rogues. Yes gentlemen (and gentlegirls), I am talking about the game that started it all. Rogue.
Rogue was a game made in 1980, but don't be fooled... this doesn't means it is a simple, easy or uninteresting game. One may be led to think that all these years of enhancements made on further games would opaque the features of Rogue, well, this is not true.
Rogue's pushforward nature and the cruelty of the enemies makes up for a lot of fun and challenge, prepare for a lot of keyboard bashing and screen cursing, as your adventurer's armor melt again to rust monsters' breath, Vampires suck your HP away and wraiths level you down (yes, permanently).
After all, as you know, this is the game that spawned the genre.
Details about the competition at The Roguelike Temple Forums (
http://www.roguetemple.com/forums/ )