Note some non-influences.

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> also details like just what _can_ you do in the dark...?
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== Earlier non-influences ==
There is record of one earlier dungeon-crawling game called "dnd",
written in 1974-75 on the PLATO system at University of Illinois
<<DND>>. This was in some ways similar to later roguelike games but
not to Adventure. The designers of later roguelikes frequently site
Adventure as an explanation, but not dnd; like PLATO itself, dnd seems
not to have become known outside of its home university until
rediscovered by computer historians many years after Adventure
shipped.
There was also Hunt The Wumpus <<WUMPUS>>, written by Gregory Yob in
1972. Though the wumpus was later included as a monster in the Nethack
roguelike game, there is no evidence that Yob's original (circulated
in BASIC among microcomputer enthusiasts) was known to the ARPANET- and
minicomputer-centered culture Crowther and Woods were part of until well
after Adventure was written.
== Nomenclature ==
This project is called "Open Adventure" because it's not at all clear
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- [[[DA]]] http://www.filfre.net/sitemap/
- [[[SN]]] http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/1/2/000009/000009.html
- [[[DND]]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnd_(video_game)
- [[[WUMPUS]]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunt_the_Wumpus