DND

DND is a Video game written for the computing system PLATO by Gary Whisenhunt and Ray Wood at the university of Illinois of the south to the the United States in 1974. Dirk Pellett of the university of Iowa and Flint Pellett of the university of Illinois improved the play in a substancielle way between 1976 and 1985.

Presentation

In DND , the player was first of all to create a character and to then venture in the multiple levels of the oubliettes of Whisenwood in the search of treasures and of the “Sphere”. The undergrounds were populated various monsters and treasures. The Sphere was kept in a room with the treasure in the depths of the oubliettes. A gilded dragon and various monsters protected it. If the player succeeded in overcoming the treasure, to recover the Sphere and to go back to surface, its character withdrew himself at the Champs Elysées and its name was announced from now on to all those which played play.

Later, other undergrounds were added, like “the caves” or “fall it”, with various creatures protecting various treasures (like the “reaper” keeping “the fountain”) and the player was to acquire the Sphere and Graal to gain.

Impact

DND is the first play of exploration of underground ( Dungeon crawl in English) ever written, which makes of it a precursor of the kind known thereafter under the denomination of Rogue-like .

DND is also the first video game to have a history with a beginning, a medium and a outcome.

DND comprised several innovations which since became of the standards in all Roleplay on computer. It used a complex system of combat where various weapons inflicted various damage with various monsters, obliging the player to learn how which weapon to use at the good moment. One also found téléporteurs there to pass from a level to another. DND was also the first data-processing roleplay to provide stores where the player could buy magic objects: Aumakua' S Alchemy sold potions and Korona' S Armory of the objects.

Moreover, DND was the first to be presented of the “boss” of end, of the special monsters having of the capacities largely higher than all those met in the remainder of the play and which were to be embanked to finish the adventure.

DND proved extremely popular on PLATO and continued to be played well after the abandonment of this system. Even with rudimentary graphics, he was still played until the middle of the years 1980.

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