In short, the God Concept means that a god-like player should be able to play through and finish any game, on the first try, without dying. Thus, it was this game in the mid-80's that taught me a valuable principle in game design, one that I call The God Concept. Finishing a game was a fluke, even for exceptional skilled players. So, while I loved the Rogue's gameplay, I hated the luck-based nature of it. The designer must have thought that failure was part of the fun, and retrying over and over again made that rare success so much more sweet. Rogue created a random set of levels each time you played that simply had too many booby traps and out-of-whack difficult situations.
You might be the best Rogue player on the planet, and yet getting through all 26 of the game's dungeon levels was still a matter of luck, with a fail-to-success ratio something around 20-to-1.
While Kingdom of Kroz and its six follow-up episodes owe a lot to Rogue's design, there's one thing important thing I didn't copy: You can finish Kroz based entirely on skill. I have a special fondness for this game as it inspired my first real success, Kingdom of Kroz, the game that officially launched Apogee from a profitable hobby into a full-time business in 1990. Anyone who's played this game will have a tough time arguing against the pure addictiveness of this colorful little ASCII-graphics game, originally released by long gone Epyx (best know for another of my all-time favorites, Jumpman, plus several Olympic sports games).
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During lunch two weeks ago with a couple of local developers from GraphSim, we started talking about the greatness of older games - inevitable with 30-something gamers! - and the mid-1980's game Rogue came up as an example as one of the greatest PC games from a pure gameplay standpoint.
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