Teletype/DND1

Template:Infobox DND1 is a game available to play inside of Template:SotA by using the Teletype. This text-based game was originally created by Richard Garriott, and ported by Richard Flemming for Lord British's Royal Challenge.

Gameplay

Character Creation

Under Construction

Story

Under Construction

Development

DND1 was a free-time project of Richard Garriott, inspired by Dungeons & Dragons. He wrote it in 1977 while in high school. It was coded using BASIC, and most of it was written on punched tapes fed into the school's PDP-11 computer, using a teletype as the output to print the game screen as it changed.

Two years later, Garriott successor to this game (DND28) was ported to an Apple II computer as D&D28b, adding dungeons in 3D from a first person perspective, and became his first commercial game, Akalabeth.

In April of 2014, Portalarium ran a contest for community developers to port DND1, offering prizes for the best Web and Unity version. The winners were announced in Update 78. The Teletype was added to the Add-On Store during Release 22, and was first playable in Release 23.

The game features only black and white graphics and no sound.

Versions and Ports

• The version available in Template:SotA is itself a port of Richard Garriott's original code, written for the PDP 11 in 1977.
• The Winner of Best Native Web Version for Lord British's Royal Challenge was created by Mundi King.

Video

Here is a video of Richard Flemming’s winning entry: