Kingdom of Kroz
Developer(s)	Scott Miller
Publisher(s)	Apogee Software
Designer(s)	Scott Miller
Release date(s)	1987
Genre(s)	Maze
Mode(s)	Single player
Platform(s)	MS-DOS
Input	Keyboard

Kingdom of Kroz is a video game created by Scott Miller in 1987 as Apogee Software's first game. It was also published on Big Blue Disk #20. The object of the game is to survive numerous levels of attacking monsters. Kingdom of Kroz game screenshot This is a screenshot of a copyrighted website, video game graphic, computer program graphic, television broadcast, or film. ... A video game developer is a software developer (a business or an individual) that creates computer or video games. ... Scott Miller is a game programmer, producer, and level designer who is probably most famous for founding Apogee Software in 1987 and co-founding Gathering of Developers in 1998. ... Video game publishers are companies that publish video games that they have either developed internally or have had developed by a video game developer. ... Corporate logo of Apogee Software Apogee Software, Ltd. ... A game designer is a person who designs games. ... Scott Miller is a game programmer, producer, and level designer who is probably most famous for founding Apogee Software in 1987 and co-founding Gathering of Developers in 1998. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This is a listing of computer and video game genres with brief descriptions and examples from each genre. ... Public hedge maze in the English Garden at Schönbusch Park, Aschaffenburg, Germany A small maze. ... In computer games and video games, single-player refers to the variant of a particular game where input from only one player is expected throughout the course of the gaming session. ... For the list, see list of computer and video games. ... Microsofts disk operating system, MS-DOS, was Microsofts implementation of DOS, which was the first popular operating system for the IBM PC, and until recently, was widely used on the PC compatible platform. ... A computer keyboard is a peripheral modeled after the typewriter keyboard. ... For the list, see list of computer and video games. ... Scott Miller is a game programmer, producer, and level designer who is probably most famous for founding Apogee Software in 1987 and co-founding Gathering of Developers in 1998. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Corporate logo of Apogee Software Apogee Software, Ltd. ... Cover to Big Blue Disk issue #3 (1986) Big Blue Disk (ISSN 0893-2212) was a monthly disk magazine that was put out by Softdisk Publishing starting in 1986, getting its name from the nickname for IBM, Big Blue. It carried various games and applications for DOS as well as... In computer and video games, a level (sometimes called a stage, course, episode, round, world, map, wave, board, phase, or landscape) is a separate area in a games virtual world, in modern games typically representing a specific location such as a building or a city. ... Monster is a term for any number of legendary creatures that frequently appear in mythology, legend, and horror fiction. ...

The game was implemented entirely in the text mode of the PC, using various characters in the computer's character set, as well as different colors, to present a "graphical" environment, which could be called ANSI art. One of the first PCs from IBM - the IBM PC model 5150. ... Color is an important part of the visual arts. ... A screenshot of TheDraw editing an ANSI art picture of a shuttle; the purple text blinks ANSI art is a computer artform that was widely used at one time on BBSes. ...

The player character has gems; each time a monster touches him, he loses a gem and the monster dies. The character's main defense consists of whips, which can be used to kill monsters and destroy certain walls; however, each whip can only be used once. Some levels are generated randomly; these tend to be rather chaotic, and essentially consist of a mad dash through waves of attacking enemies to pick up valuable objects and/or escape to the stairway. A major part of the game is careful conservation of gems and whips; sometimes it is better to allow an enemy to take a gem rather than use valuable whips that will be needed to break down walls blocking the exit. A player character or playable character (PC for short) is a fictional character in a game, that is controlled by the player. ... GEM is an acronym for: Genetically Engineered Microorganism Global Electric Microcars Graphical Environment Manager — a windowing system created by Digital Research, Inc. ... It has been suggested that Buggy whip be merged into this article or section. ...

Etymology

Miller, fond of including backwards words in his games, came up with the name by spelling Zork backwards. An anagram (Greek ana- = back or again, and graphein = to write) is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce other words, using all the original letters exactly once. ... Zork universe Zork games Zork Anthology Zork trilogy Zork I   Zork II   Zork III Beyond Zork   Zork Zero   Planetfall Enchanter trilogy Enchanter   Sorcerer   Spellbreaker Other games Wishbringer   Return to Zork Zork: Nemesis   Zork Grand Inquisitor Zork: The Undiscovered Underground Topics in Zork Encyclopedia Frobozzica Characters   Kings   Creatures Timeline   Magic   Calendar...