The creator of the influential early '80s roguelike Moria has died.
, and first released it as Moria Beta 1.0. The title and setting are inspired by Tolkien's Mines of Moria: The goal is to travel to the bottom of Moria and defeat the Balrog who lives there.
The Umoria site notes that some information about the early days of Moria is"contradictory," including when he stopped working on it. The book, which includes an interview with Koeneke, says his final release was version 4.5 in 1986. But the source code for version 4.8 includes a bug fix bearing the initials"RAK"—Robert Alan Koeneke.
"I have since received thousands of letters from all over the world from players telling about their exploits, and from administrators cursing the day I was born," Koeneke wrote in his 1996 post."I received mail from behind the iron curtain talking about the game on VAX's . I used to have a map with pins for every letter I received, but I gave up on that!
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