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Encyclopedia > List of Angband variants

The computer game Angband is notable for having many variants based on its codebase. What follows is a list of variants, with brief descriptions following some of those without articles. Angband screenshot Angband is a dungeon-crawling roguelike computer game derived from Umoria (the C for Unix port of a game called Moria). ...

  • AlexAngband
  • Anime Angband, a.k.a. Animeband, an anime themed variant
  • BAngband, an early Angband variant
  • Cat and the hack Angband, an early Angband variant
  • Cthulu Angband, a.k.a. CthAngband, a ZAngband-based variant drawing on H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos; later developed by a different maintainer under the name of sCthAngband
  • Cyberpunk Angband, a.k.a. CyAngband, a cyberpunk themed variant
  • Discworld Angband, a.k.a. Discband, a ZAngband based variant based on Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels
  • DvEband
  • Dragon Angband, a.k.a. DrAngband, a variant notable for many new player races, many of which play fundamentally differently from a typical Angband character
  • Easyband
  • EyAngband
  • FAngband, an early variant
  • FFVIIband, a variant featuring a Final Fantasy VII theme
  • Gileba Angband, a.k.a. GilAngband
  • Goingband
  • GSNband and GSN2band, a variant developed by Gwidon S. Naskrent
  • Gumband, a variant based on the ZAngband 2.1.1c codebase, replacing most of the content from Roger Zelazny's Amber books with content based on Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion stories.
  • GW-Angband, a variant whose major features were later included into Vanilla Angband
  • Hell Angband, a.k.a. Hellband, based on Dante's Inferno
  • Hengband
  • IronMan Angband
  • Jurriaan's Angband, a.k.a. Angband/64, a.k.a. JAngband/64
  • KAmband, a variant based on KAngband with many new features
  • KAngband, a variant featuring a completely redeveloped town level
  • LAngband, a variant built from the ground up in Common Lisp rather than the C programming language used by most variants
  • MJband
  • Multiplayer Angband, a.k.a. MAngband, a multiplayer, realtime Angband variant
  • Multiclass Angband, a.k.a. Multiband
  • NewAngband, a variant based on PernAngband
  • Non-Tolkienian Angband, a.k.a. NTAngband, a variant based on PernAngband
  • NPPAngband, a.k.a. No Pet Peeves Angband, a variant that attempts to, in the author's words, "take the most popular ideas from the many variants, as well as many of the popular patches, and bring them into the "vanilla" Angband environment, and rebalance the game to account for these changes into something more challenging than Angband v3.0.3"
  • Opinion Angband, a.k.a. OAngband
  • PernAngband, a variant inspired by Anne McCaffrey's Pern books; later became ToME after a removal of all Pern-based elements due to a request by McCaffrey's lawyers
  • Possessor Angband, a.k.a. PosBand, a variant that focuses on including a new class and a set of new (monster-based) races
  • Programmable Angband, a.k.a. PAngband, a variant that merged the Python scripting language; most variants currently use Lua instead
  • Psionic Angband, a.k.a. PsiAngband, a variant mainly notable for creating one new class, the Psionicist
  • Psionic ZAngband, a.k.a. PziAngband, a variant that blended ZAngband and PsiAngband's Psionicist
  • Quest Angband, a.k.a. QAngband
  • Randomband, a variant that attempts to randomize as much of the game as possible
  • Realistic Angband, a.k.a. RAngband, an attempt to add some "realism" into the game
  • SBFband
  • sCthAngband: see CthAngband
  • Skill Angband, a.k.a. SAngband, a variant that aims to be skill based rather then class and level based.
  • Silly Angband, a.k.a. Sillyband, a variant that aimed to be as silly as possible.
  • Steamband, a steampunk- and pulp-themed variant.
  • Team Angband, a.k.a. TAngband
  • Troubles (or Tales) of Middle Earth, a.k.a. ToME, the Pern-less successor to PernAngband
  • TomeNET, a multiplayer mixture of MAngband and some ToME features
  • Unnamed Angband, a.k.a. UnAngband
  • Xband
  • ZAngband
  • Zceband
  • Prfnoff's Angband and ZAngband variants
  • Utumno
  • AngbandTk, OAngbandTk, KAngbandTk, and ZAngbandTk, graphically enhanced versions of Vanilla Angband, OAngband, KAngband, and ZAngband, respectively.
Animeband is a variant of the computer game Angband. ... H. P. Lovecraft Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890–March 15, 1937) was an American author of fantasy and horror fiction, noted for giving horror stories a science fiction framework. ... The Great Old One. ... Cyberpunk (a portmanteau of cybernetics and punk) is a genre of science fiction which focuses on computers or information technology, usually coupled with some degree of breakdown in social order. ... The Discworld is the setting for all of Terry Pratchetts Discworld series of novels. ... Terence David John Pratchett OBE (known to some fans as Pterry, following the convention he used in his book Pyramids where characters were given names such as Ptraci and Pteppic) is an English fantasy author (born April 28, 1948, in Beaconsfield, Bucks), best known for his Discworld series. ... The Discworld is a series of over 30 novels by Terry Pratchett set on the Discworld. ... Final Fantasy VII is a computer role-playing game released by Square Co. ... Roger Joseph Zelazny (May 13, 1937 - June 14, 1995) was a United States writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels. ... The Chronicles of Amber is a popular fantasy series by Roger Zelazny. ... Michael John Moorcock (born December 18, 1939) is a prolific British writer of both science fiction and science fantasy. ... The Eternal Champion is a fictional creation of the author Michael Moorcock and is a recurrent feature in many of his novels. ... // Life Early history and family Dante was born in 1265 and he tells us he was born under the sign of Gemini, placing his birthday in June. ... Dante shown holding a copy of The Divine Comedy, next to the entrance to Hell, the seven terraces of Mount Purgatory and the city of Florence, in Michelinos fresco. ... Lisp is a reflective, functional programming language family with a long history. ... The C Programming Language, Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, the original edition that served for many years as an informal specification of the language The C programming language is a standardized imperative computer programming language developed in the early 1970s by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie for use on the... J. R. R. Tolkien in 1916, wearing his British Army uniform in a photograph from the middle years of WW1. ... Anne Inez McCaffrey (born April 1, 1926) is an American science fiction author best known for her Dragonriders of Pern series. ... Pern is a fictional planet in the universe created by science fiction writer Anne McCaffrey for her Dragonriders of Pern series of novels. ... ToME is a roguelike computer game created in 1998 by someone who identifies himself only as DarkGod. ... Python is an interpreted, interactive programming language created by Guido van Rossum in 1990. ... The Lua (pronouced LOO-ah, or in IPA) programming language is a lightweight, reflective, imperative and procedural language, designed as a scripting language with extensible semantics as a primary goal. ... Steampunk is a subgenre of speculative fiction, usually set in an anachronistic Victorian or quasi-Victorian alternate history setting. ... Pulp can refer to: Soft shapeless substances in general. ... ToME is a roguelike computer game created in 1998 by someone who identifies himself only as DarkGod. ... ZAngband is a freeware role-playing computer game. ...

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List of Angband variants - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (482 words)
The computer game Angband is notable for having many variants based on its codebase.
SAngband, a variant that aims to be skill based rather than class and level based.
Sillyband, a variant that aimed to be as silly as possible.
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