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Encyclopedia > ToME (computer game)
Tales of Middle Earth
Developer(s) DarkGod, many others
Latest version 2.3.4
Release date(s) December 14, 2005
Genre(s) Roguelike game
Mode(s) Single player / multiplayer (TomeNET)
Platform(s) Cross-platform
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ToME, or Tales (or Troubles) of Middle Earth, is a free roguelike computer game created in 1998 by someone who identifies himself only as DarkGod. ToME is an Angband variant, originally based on the ZAngband 2.2.9a source code, which now differs greatly from it. ToME was also used as a base for many derivative games known as modules. Popular modules include Bone to be Wild, E-Team, FuryMod, Theme, Dragonball T, Gerband and Annals of Ea. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 540 pixelsFull resolution (1023 × 691 pixel, file size: 18 KB, MIME type: image/png) From http://www. ... A video game developer is a software developer (a business or an individual) that creates video games. ... December 14 is the 348th day of the year (349th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Video games are generally categorized into genres. ... A roguelike is a computer game that borrows some of the elements of the 1980s computer game Rogue. ... 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. ... A cross-platform (or platform independent) programming language, software application or hardware device works on more than one system platform (e. ... This article is about free software as defined by the sociopolitical free software movement; for information on software distributed without charge, see freeware. ... A roguelike is a computer game that borrows some of the elements of the 1980s computer game Rogue. ... A computer game is a game composed of a computer-controlled virtual universe that players interact with in order to achieve a defined goal or set of goals. ... Angband is a dungeon-crawling roguelike computer game derived from Umoria (the C for Unix port of a game called Moria). ... ZAngband is a freeware role-playing computer game. ...


The game was originally known as PernAngband, and was essentially a crossover that placed characters from Anne McCaffrey's fictional world of Pern into J.R.R. Tolkien's fictional world of Arda. A fictional crossover occurs when two or more otherwise separated fictional characters, stories, settings, universes, or media meet and interact with each other. ... 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. ... J. R. R. Tolkien in 1916. ... In the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, Arda is the name given to the Earth in a period of fictional prehistory, wherein the places mentioned in The Lord of the Rings and related material once existed. ...


By the time of version 5.x.x, PernAngband had attracted a substantial online community. However, it came under legal threat from Anne McCaffrey and from Ubisoft, a company that had created several licensed Pern-related games. At this time most elements of Pern were already removed from the game, so DarkGod removed the last Pern elements and changed the name of the game to ToME. Ubisoft Entertainment (formerly Ubi Soft) is a computer and video game publisher and developer with headquarters in Montreuil, France. ...


The game is set in J.R.R. Tolkien's Arda, although other influences include H. P. Lovecraft and Roger Zelazny's Amber universe. These are inherited from Cthangband and ZAngband, respectively. Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author of fantasy, horror and science fiction. ... Roger Joseph Zelazny (May 13, 1937 – June 14, 1995) was an American writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels. ... The fictional realm of Amber is the setting for the Amber fantasy novels by Roger Zelazny (and for the Amber diceless role_playing game they inspired). ...


The player creates a character from an extended list of races and classes, ranging from DĂșnadan warriors to Elven magi. The player then explores the world of middle-earth, destroying monsters, finding items, and gaining power, with the ultimate goal to destroy Morgoth, Lord of Darkness. In J. R. R. Tolkiens fictional universe of Middle-earth, the Dúnedain (singular: Dúnadan) were the Men who descended from the Númenóreans who survived the fall of their island kingdom and came to Eriador in Middle-earth led by Elendil and his sons. ... A small forest elf (älva) rescuing an egg, from Solägget (1932), by Elsa Beskow An elf is a mythical creature of Germanic mythology and Germanic paganism which still survives in northern European folklore. ... Morgoth Bauglir (originally known as Melkor) is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium. ...


There is also a multiplayer version of ToME, which is called TomeNET.


ToME is under active development. The game is freely distributed, along with its source code, under a license that allows sharing and modification of the game but not commercial use. Bugs should be reported on ToME's own wiki. Currently in alpha release is ToME 3, which will include greater support for the Lua programming language and drastically change the internal handling of objects and flags. Source code (commonly just source or code) is any series of statements written in some human-readable computer programming language. ... The Lua (pronounced 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. ...


Important features of ToME which are not in Angband include: Angband is a dungeon-crawling roguelike computer game derived from Umoria (the C for Unix port of a game called Moria). ...

  • Skill points based character progression
  • Special levels/quests
  • Multiple dungeons and towns with a large wilderness
  • New schools of magic-based spell system
  • More races, subraces and classes
  • Leveling artifacts and monsters
  • New monsters and items
  • Support for modules (partial variants based entirely on scripts)

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  Results from FactBites:
 
ToME - Gameinfo - a Wikia wiki (532 words)
ToME is a very long game that requires you to explore multiple dungeons before you can become strong enough to reach Morgoth's stronghold, the fortress called Angband, and attempt the final battle.
ToME is so complex that you might want to try vanilla Angband or another Angband variant first.
ToME 2.3.3 marks the Alchemist as "experimental"; there seem to be some gameplay problems with that class.
Game Over Online Magazine - Siege of Avalon (1363 words)
As the game opens, you find yourself as a new recruit in the castle of Avalon, where the humans are making their final stand against the Sha'ahoul.
Usually, if a role-playing game has much of a plot at all, it has you seeking out enemies and essentially laying siege to them, so the role reversal here is a nice change of pace.
Now, if you're going to emulate a couple games, then Diablo and Baldur's Gate are good choices, and Digital Tome was able to take the simple, action-oriented parts of Diablo and combine them with the depth and storytelling of Baldur's Gate.
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