Meaning of roguelike | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative letter-case form of roguelike.
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2. Any of a genre of computer role playing games loosely characterized by various characteristics such as randomised environment generation, permadeath, turn-based movement, text-based or primitive tile-based graphics, and hack-and-slash gameplay.

Examples

“If you haven’t played a ‘roguelike’ before, it’s basically what happens when you take a twitchy hack-and-slash game like Diablo and make it boring, confusing, and frustrating.”

“I've been thinking about building a Roguelike recently, and a point came to mind; namely, I've played Daggerfall; I liked the concept, but the system was buggy and holeish. So, how would one go about designing a "clean" classless CRPG? Especially a Roguelike, where YASDs are common, and backing up your saves is techinally cheating.”

“I have been playing Roguelikes for a little while and have found them pretty fun.”

“2. Are there any features in an MMORPG that should (or could) be implemented in Roguelikes? and of course: 3. Are there any features from Roguelikes that would work well in an MMORPG?”

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