rogue
[Unix] A Dungeons-and-Dragons-like game using
character graphics, written under BSD Unix and subsequently
ported to other Unix systems. The original BSD "curses(3)"
screen-handling package was hacked together by Ken Arnold to
support "rogue(6)" and has since become one of Unix's most
important and heavily used application libraries. Nethack,
Omega, Larn, and an entire subgenre of computer dungeon games
all took off from the inspiration provided by "rogue(6)". See
also {nethack}.
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