Amiga roguelikes?

[ChaosLord]

zangband

[ChaosLord]

there's a lot of fuss about what does or does not make a game rogue-like. The elements I think are most important are

Random dungeon
Single character
Permanent death (at least as an option)
Turn based


Thats pretty vague of course

Using this definition then Total Chaos AGA is a roguelike.

Random Dungeon = Dungeon Wars Mode + Exploration Mode.

Single Character = 1 player game and edit spell probabilities so that all creatures have a probability of 0.  That way u cannot summon creatures to your defense.

Permanent Death = Yes
Turn Based = Yes

Should I add a RogueLike GUI option to easily and instantly disable all Summon Creature spells?

Total Chaos will be dam hard without any creature casting.  Luckily you can easily turn the other difficulty factors down to match.

Playing Total Chaos in Roguelike mode will take quite a looooong time having to trudge thru the whole dungeon with only 1 chara.

[ChaosLord]

@Linde

Well, what other properties are important then?

I have never played any of the games listed in this thread (except Total Chaos).  But I have seen screenshots and I have had ppl tell me their experiences of playing "roguelike" games.

I used to play Sword of Fargoal on C64 back in the days of yore.  Does that count as a roguelike game?  If not then why not?