Dungeons and desktops : the history of computer role-playing games (2024)

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Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Chris Avellone’s Preface
Authors’ Preface
Chapter 1:
Introduction to Computer Role-Playing Games
CRPGs AS A GENRE OF VIDEO GAMES
CRPGs AS A GENRE OF ROLE-PLAYING GAMES
EDUCATIONAL BENEFITS OF CRPGs
THE EVOLUTION AND TAXONOMY OF CRPGs
Chapter 2:
Origins
BASEBALL SIMULATION GAMES
TABLETOP WARGAMES
J.R.R. TOLKIEN AND FANTASY ROLE-PLAYING
COLOSSAL CAVE ADVENTURE
NOTES
Chapter 3:
The Dark Age
PLATO AND THE MAINFRAME ERA
ROGUES IN THE COMPUTER LABS
WALLOWING IN THE MUD
THE END OF THE DARK AGE
NOTES
Chapter 4:
The Bronze Age
THE FIRST CRPGs FOR PERSONAL COMPUTERS
The Wizard’s Castle and Eamon
Edu-Ware’s Space and Empire
The Tarturian
Odyssey: The Compleat Apventure
Dunjonquest: The Birth of Apshai
THE END OF THE BRONZE AGE
NOTES
Chapter 5:
The Silver Age
THE BIRTH OF ULTIMA
The Revenge of the Enchantress
Ultima III: Exodus
WIZARDRY: THE PROVING GROUNDS
Fighting for Your Right to Party
The Knight of Diamonds and Legacy of Llylgamyn
The Return of Werdna: Turning the Tables
OTHER HIGHLIGHTS OF THE SILVER AGE
Telengard and DND
Sword of Fargoal
Dungeons of Daggorath
Tunnels of Doom
Ali Baba and the Forty Players
Omnitrend’s Universe
SUMMING UP THE SILVER AGE
NOTES
Chapter 6:
The Birth of the Golden Age
TRANSITION TO THE GOLDEN AGE
MAINFRAME GAMES REVISITED
THE DAWN OF THE GOLDEN AGE
Down and Out in Skara Brae
The Destiny Knight
The Thief of Fate
The Bard’s Tale Construction Set
The Infant Phantasies of Strategic Simulations, Inc.: Any Questrons?
The Dougherty Brothers: Questron and Legacy of the Ancients
The Phantasies of Winston Douglas Wood
The Wizard’s Crown
The Shard of Spring and Demon’s Winter
Rings of Zilfin
ORIGIN AND ULTIMA: THE GREAT ENLIGHTENMENT
Ultima Trilogy
Ultima Meets Death Race: Autoduel
The Magic Candle
The Keys to Maramon
The Four and Forty
Magic Candle III
Bloodstone
MIGHT AND MAGIC: A BRAVE NEW WORLD
Starflight and the Space Sim CRPG
Trade Routes of the Cloud Nebula
THE END OF THE EARLY GOLDEN AGE
NOTES
Chapter 7:
SSI’s Golden Age
UNFORGETTABLE REALMS: SSI’S GOLD BOX GAMES
Pool of Radiance and the Forgotten Realms Series
Curse of the Azure Bonds
Secret of the Silver Blades
Pools of Darkness
Champions of Krynn and the Dragonlance Series
Death Knights of Krynn
The Dark Queen of Krynn
The Savage Frontier
Treasures of the Savage Frontier
Buck Rogers
Neverwinter Nights: The Gold Box MMORPG
Concluding Thoughts on the Gold Box Games
SSI’s Action CRPGs: Heroes of the Lance and Hillsfar
Heroes of the Lance
Shadow Sorcerer
The Summoning
Darkspyre
Dusk of the Gods
Veil of Darkness
Hillsfar
Unlimited Adventures: The Gold Box Construction Set
NOTES
Chapter 8:
Origin’s Golden Age
THE ULTIMA SERIES
The False Prophet
The Black Gate
Serpent Isle
Worlds of Ultima
Times of Lore
Bad Blood
Knights of Legend
Concluding Thoughts on Origin’s Golden Age
NOTES
Chapter 9:
Sir-Tech, New World Computing, and Sierra
GOLDEN-AGE WIZARDRY
Bane of the Cosmic Forge
Crusaders of the Dark Savant
NEW WORLD COMPUTING IN THE GOLDEN AGE
Gates to Another World
Isles of Terra
World of Xeen
Tunnels & Trolls
Planet’s Edge
INTERPLAY IN THE GOLDEN AGE: WASTELAND AND THE LORD OF THE RINGS
Wasteland
Dragon Wars
Neuromancer
The Lord of the Rings
The Two Towers
SIERRA AND THE GLORIOUS REVOLUTION
Hero’s Quest
Trial by Fire
Wages of War
Shadows of Darkness
Dragon Fire
IN THE NEXT CHAPTER
NOTE
Chapter 10:
Early Japanese Role-Playing Games
NINTENDO AND THE RISE OF JRPGs
The Legend of Zelda
The Adventure of Link
A Link to the Past
The Dragon Warrior Series
Dragon Warrior II
Dragon Warrior III
Dragon Warrior IV
The Perennial Final Fantasy
Final Fantasy II
Final Fantasy III
Secret of Mana
Chrono Trigger
Super Mario RPG
Sega’s JRPG: Phantasy Star
Phantasy Star II
Generations of Doom
The End of the Millennium
Concluding Thoughts on Golden Age JRPGs
Chapter 11:
Dungeon Master and the Rise of Real-Time 3D
REAL-TIME 3D GAMES
Dungeon Master
Chaos Strikes Back
The Legend of Skullkeep
Eye of the Beholder
The Legend of Darkmoon
Assault on Myth Drannor
Dungeon Hack
Crystals of Arborea and the Ishar Trilogy
Ishar: Legend of the Fortress
Messengers of Doom
The Seven Gates of Infinity
Realms of Arkania
Lands of Lore
Anvil of Dawn
Stonekeep
Other Dungeon Master–Inspired Games
Captive
Liberation
Hired Guns
Modern Grid-Based Dungeon Crawlers
NOTES
Chapter 12:
Other Games of the Golden Age
OTHER POPULAR GAMES
Battletech: The Crescent Hawk’s Inception
B.A.T.
Beyond Zork
Star Saga
MegaTraveller
Quest for the Ancients
Space 1889 and Twilight 2000
Whale’s Voyage
Darklands: A Historical CRPG
The Four Crystals of Trazere
Legend of the Red Dragon and BBS Door Games
SUMMING UP THE GOLDEN AGE
NOTE
Chapter 13:
The Epic Fails
SSI’s UTTERLY FORGETTABLE REALMS
Spelljammer
Prophecy of the Shadow
Dark Sun: Shattered Lands
Ravenloft: Strahd’s Possession
Al-Qadim: The Genie’s Curse
Menzoberranzan
World of Aden
AD&D GETS DUMBER AND DUMBERER
Descent to Undermountain
ORIGIN AND THE DEMISE OF ULTIMA
Ultima VIII: P

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Alternative title

Dungeons and Desktops: The History of Computer Role-Playing Games 2e

Alternative author

Barton, Matt, Stacks, Shane

Alternative author

Shane Stacks; Matt Barton

Alternative author

Matt Barton, Shane Stacks

Alternative publisher

CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group

Alternative edition

Second edition, Boca Raton, FL, 2019

Alternative edition

Second edition, Boca Raton, 2018

Alternative edition

2, 2019

Alternative description

Computer Role-playing Games (crpgs) Are A Special Genre Of Computer Games That Bring The Tabletop Role-playing Experience Of Games Such As Dungeons & Dragons To The Computer Screen. This New Edition Includes Two New Chapters: The Modern Age, And A Chapter On Indies And Mobile Crpgs. The New Modern Age Chapter Will Cover, Among Other Topics, Kickstarter/fig Crowdfunded Projects Such As Torment: Tides Of Numenera And Pillars Of Eternity. It'll Also Bring The Book Up To Date With Major Games Such As Dragon Age, Witcher, Skyrim. Expanded Info In First Chapter About Educational Potential Of Crpgs. Color Figures Will Be Introduced For The First Time-- An Introduction To Computer Role-playing Games -- Origins -- The Dark Age -- The Bronze Age -- The Silver Age -- The Birth Of The Golden Age -- Ssi's Golden Age -- Origin's Golden Age -- The Golden Age Of Sir-tech, New World Computing, And Sierra -- Early Japanese Role-playing Games -- Dungeon Master And The Rise Of Real-time 3d -- Other Games Of The Golden Age -- The Epic Fails -- The Platinum Age -- Diablo And The Rise Of Action Rpgs -- Fallout And Baldur's Gate -- Other Treasures Of The Platinum Age -- The Birth Of The Modern Age -- Modern Jrpgs -- The Rise Of The Mmorpg -- The Late Modern Age -- The Renaissance, Kickstarted -- The Road Ever Ventures Forth -- Surprise Encounter -- Appendix I : The Crpg Bestiary Of The Extraordinary And The Obscure. Matt Barton, Shane Stacks. An A K Peters Book. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

Alternative description

Computer role-playing games (CRPGs) are a genre of computer games that move "Dungeons & Dragons" and similar role-playing games from the tabletop to the desktop, but they're much more than the sum of their parts. For the first time in full color, the 2nd edition of "Dungeons and Desktops" includes new chapters on indie games such as "Undertale" and "Age of Decadence", as well as a whole new era: The Kickstarter Renaissance, which covers "Torment: Tides of Numenera", "Pillars of Eternity", and other crowdfunded projects. It brings the book up to date with major AAA-games such as "Dragon Age", "Witcher", and "Skyrim". It also goes more in-depth on the educational potential of CRPGs and features a Bestiary of obscure, unique, or just plain fun CRPGs you may not have heard of before. -- From publisher's description

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"Computer role-playing games (CRPGs) are a special genre of computer games that bring the tabletop role-playing experience of games such as Dungeons & Dragons to the computer screen. This new edition includes two new chapters: The Modern Age, and a chapter on Indies and Mobile CRPGs. The new modern age chapter will cover, among other topics, Kickstarter/FIG crowdfunded projects such as Torment: Tides of Numenera and Pillars of Eternity. It'll also bring the book up to date with major games such as Dragon Age, Witcher, Skyrim. Expanded info in first chapter about educational potential of CRPGs. Color figures will be introduced for the first time"-- Provided by publisher

Alternative description

Computer role-playing games (CRPGs) are a special genre of computer games that bring the tabletop role-playing experience of games such as Dungeons & Dragons to the computer screen. Thisnew edition inlcudes two new chapters: The Modern Age, and a chapter on Indies and Mobile CRPGs.

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