Angband

Angband is a freely downloadable, cross-platform and open source ncurses-based, text-mode dungeon exploration game inspired by the amazing books written by J.R.R. Tolkien. The game can be played on any GNU/Linux terminal/console environment.

A CLI real-time strategy (RTS) game

In this real-time strategy game, the players will be able to explore a pretty deep dungeon, equip themselves with some of the best armor and weapons that they can find, kill lots of monsters, and, in the end, face Morgoth, the dark enemy.

As its developers describe it, Angband is a very addictive game that has a long history. Being developed since 1980, the game was first called Moria, written in the VMS Pascal programming language, and later ported to the C programming language and called UMoria.

Getting started with Angband

From the moment you start compiling Angband, you will notice that it’s a pretty colorful program. The compilation goes like this: you first download the source package from either the game’s official website or from Softoware, save the archive on your Home directory, and unpack it.

Then, open a Terminal app, navigate to the location where you have extracted the archive file (e.g. cd /home/softoware/angband-3.5.1), run the ‘./configure && make’ command to configure and compile the game. Install it system wide with the ‘sudo make install’ command.

The game runs on its own text-mode window

The most interesting part of the Angband game is that while you will need a terminal emulator application to start it, the game runs on its own text-mode window. Press any key to start the game. At first, you will have to set up your character, then you can start playing the game.

Angband is compatible with any distribution of GNU/Linux, as well as with the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. At the moment, it is compatible with computers supporting either of the 32 or 64-bit CPU architectures.

What is new in this release:

• Allow stores to be given items for recharging in no_selling (thanks PowerWrym)
• Fix crash bug with non-ASCII characters in monster + object lists (#1811)
• Fix a bug introduced with monster lights that makes monsters stupider
• Display level feelings in the status bar (thanks LuthienCeleste)
• Fix player history log turncount bug (#1815)
• Fix bugs where mimics could sometimes be hasted without being woken up (#1821)
• Fix the curses port ascii walls option & wall lighting bug (#1813)
• Fix bug where pressing 'e' with no equipment would bring up inventory (#1824)
• Update help files and improve some in-game explanatory text.
• Remove occasional double object feelings
• Fix bug where down stairs could occur on quest levels without killing the boss (#1802)
• Fix some memory leaks (thanks noz)
• Fix bug where identifying items in the quiver would say they were on the ground (#1820)
• Fix bug where randarts could get the remove curse activation
• Fix bug where artifacts sometimes weren't located
• Fix bug where sometimes identifying objects would produce strange effects when selecting later objects
• Fix bug where hitting monsters with missile weapons at maximum range would damage them twice (thanks shadowsun)
• Fix Windows 8 compilation & Windows DLL issue
• Fix build problems with HTML and PDF manual generation (#1810, #1831)
• Fix some unit tests

What is new in version 3.5.1:

• Allow stores to be given items for recharging in no_selling (thanks PowerWrym)
• Fix crash bug with non-ASCII characters in monster + object lists (#1811)
• Fix a bug introduced with monster lights that makes monsters stupider
• Display level feelings in the status bar (thanks LuthienCeleste)
• Fix player history log turncount bug (#1815)
• Fix bugs where mimics could sometimes be hasted without being woken up (#1821)
• Fix the curses port ascii walls option & wall lighting bug (#1813)
• Fix bug where pressing 'e' with no equipment would bring up inventory (#1824)
• Update help files and improve some in-game explanatory text.
• Remove occasional double object feelings
• Fix bug where down stairs could occur on quest levels without killing the boss (#1802)
• Fix some memory leaks (thanks noz)
• Fix bug where identifying items in the quiver would say they were on the ground (#1820)
• Fix bug where randarts could get the remove curse activation
• Fix bug where artifacts sometimes weren't located
• Fix bug where sometimes identifying objects would produce strange effects when selecting later objects
• Fix bug where hitting monsters with missile weapons at maximum range would damage them twice (thanks shadowsun)
• Fix Windows 8 compilation & Windows DLL issue
• Fix build problems with HTML and PDF manual generation (#1810, #1831)
• Fix some unit tests

What is new in version 3.2.0:

• A significant reworking of the item list, an altered identification system (you can use items to find out what they do), and a much more usable UI.

What is new in version 3.1.0 Beta:

• This release has a much easier to use interface, and the game's item list has been revisited to make it more fun to play.

Requirements:

• SDL_image
• SDL_mixer
• SDL_ttf
• Ncurses