Utumno was destroyed by the Valar, and Morgoth imprisoned in Valinor for three ages, but on his return to Middle-earth, he took Angband as the seat of his power and raised the towers of Thangorodrim above its gates.Īngband was besieged by the Noldor during the early part of the First Age, but the Siege of Angband was broken at the Dagor Bragollach. Angband was a mighty fortified citadel originally constructed by Morgoth (Melkor) in the earliest days of the world as an outlying fortress to his northern stronghold of Utumno. Tolkien in the stories about "Middle Earth". The original name "Angband" was created by J.R.R. There are even a few sound effects available for multimedia freaks -).
Some Angband players still use the old ASCII-based graphics. Your REAL life will be influenced by playing! Don't say I didn't warn you! Angband was originally text-based, but graphical versions are now available for almost every computer system. Other well-known games of this type are Nethack, Slash'Em, or ADOM. Starting the release of 3.5.0 on Christmas Day 2013, the game is maintained by Nick McConnell.Īngband is a member of a family of similar games called rogue-likes. Starting March 2006, the game was looked after by Julian Lighton, and since April 2007 by Andi Sidwell. The notable maintainers in the 90s were Charles Swiger and Ben Harrison.
The first version of Angband was created by Alex Cutler and Andy Astrand at the University of Warwick. Moria itself was created in 1985 and was inspired by Rogue (from the late 70s). It started in 1990 as an improved and "Tolkienized" variant of Moria. You explore a very deep dungeon, kill monsters, try to equip yourself with the best weapons and armor you can find, and finally face Morgoth - "The Dark Enemy".Īngband has a very long history. Angband is a freeware computer dungeon exploration game based ( loosely) on the books of J.R.R.
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