Everything about Dnd Computer Game totally explained
dnd is a
computer role-playing game written in the
TUTOR programming language for the
PLATO system by Gary Whisenhunt and Ray Wood at
Southern Illinois University in
1974 and
1975. Dirk Pellett of
Iowa State University and Flint Pellett of
University of Illinois made substantial enhancements to the game from
1976 to
1985.
The name
dnd is derived from the abbreviation "DND" (D&D) for the original
role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, which was first published in 1974.
Origins
dnd was probably the third
dungeon crawl game written for PLATO. The first such game, known as
pedit5, was deleted just a few months after it was created. The second game,
m199h, was created in a lesson unit (for example, space on a fixed drive) reserved for foreign language instruction. It was similarly deleted as soon as the illicit program was discovered.
dnd was the first PLATO lesson space created for the express purpose of being a dungeon game.
The Game
In
dnd, a player would create a character and then venture into the multi-level Whisenwood Dungeon in search of treasure and the famous 'orb'. The dungeon was populated by an assortment of monsters and treasures.
The game implemented many of the basic concepts of
Dungeons & Dragons.
Teleporters moved characters between dungeon levels (especially the Excelsior Transporter, which first appeared in
dnd on PLATO).
High level monsters, including a Golden Dragon that guards the Orb, are found at the end of each dungeon. Leaving the dungeon allows one to recuperate and regain spells and return later.
Version history
Subsequent revisions of the game added more dungeons, such as The Caverns and The Tomb, with different creatures guarding different treasures (such as the
Grim Reaper guarding The Fountain), and the player had to obtain both The Orb and The Grail to win. Also, many different types of miscellaneous treasures were added over the years, with their icons added to the game's original graphical display.
Later PLATO games, such as
avatar,
oubliette,
baradur,
moria,
dndworld,
bnd, and
sorcery, were heavily influenced by
dnd (and each other) while adding innovative features of their own, from 1976 to 1979.
The game proved enormously popular on PLATO and continues to be played to this day on the NovaNET system and Cyber1. Other dungeon games mentioned in this article can be played on the Cyber1 system (a restoration of a mid-1980s vintage PLATO system).
DnD version 5.4 and DnD 8 are both available on the Cyber1 system as of May 23, 2008, 6PM PST. The games have been restored from tape and brought up to current TUTOR language standards by Dirk Pellett. From the Cyber1 'Author Mode' page, enter 'dnd' (no quotes) and press the DATA key (the DATA key is F9 or CTL-d).
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