Guess That Game!
Okay, I feel like having a little bit of fun.

I stumbled across an old game in my library that I think was at least somewhat obscure. Well, anything over 3 years old that hasn't spawned a couple of sequels is obscure in the videogames world, I guess. But here goes. First person to correctly identify this game AND the name of the developer in the comments section gets a free license for Void War. (If you already have one, you can give the license to a friend, and the two of you can go at it multiplayer).

Here's the screenshot:

Hints:
It's an RPG for the PC. Not that this would have been hard to figure out. I don't THINK it came out on any other platforms, but I could be wrong.

Remember - you need to identify the game AND it's developer. And you also need to spell the developer's name correctly...

Who's got it?

UPDATE: Congrats to Martin Richard for figuring it out: DUNGEON HACK, by Dreamforge Intertainment. The game was initially released in 1993.

You were close on the Eye of the Beholder / Lands of Lore guesses. As I understand it, this was created as something of a "Last Gasp" for the EoB game engine. The developers decided to borrow a bit from the Hack / Rogue genre of games and make it a randomly generated dungeon every time. This provided "nearly infinite replayability" with a couple billion possible dungeon / monster layouts. In practice, after you'd played it through three or four times with a couple of different character classes, you'd played through all the interesting bits.

What was also cool was that you received a "seed" number for your dungeon. If you shared your seed with friends (and vice versa), you could explore the same dungeon. I never heard of anyone actually DOING this, but I suppose it happened.

The game used the 2nd edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons rules. Since it was a solo adventure, this could be a little tricky - playing a 1st level magic-user wandering through a dungeon level filled with hobgoblins tended to be a challenge. And the monsters would wander through the dungeon on their own (though, as far as I recall, they'd never go up or down levels).

Anyway, I thought this was a fun little blast from the past.

Labels: retro

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