Tyrant Roguelike Game
This is a Roguelike game called Tyrant,
the original game is on Sourceforge and I have made no changes whatsoever.
See http://sourceforge.net/projects/tyrant/ for more details.
The source code is in a separate ZIP file tyrant-src-0.334.zip.
Unfortunately it seems that development has slowed down since 2006.
There is also a CVS repository
which may contain more recent versions.
How to Play the Game
You usually will need to click on the applet window before it accepts any
key input. After than, use keystrokes to drive the game. Arrows are reasonably
obvious and '?' gives a help screen. You probably also want to press F11 for
fullscreen.
Certificates and Java
Note that Java has a security model that generally will not allow applets
to save game progress or popup any application windows. This program is a
long game with many levels so save game progress is required, also it lets
you create and save your own maps. The certificate is an attempt to control
this security model (a bit similar to HTTPS certificate security) and the
original author's certificate is a out of date. If you run it anyhow then
the program gains the ability to load and save files from your local system.
To Download the Game and Play Offline
Download the JAR file tyrant-0.334.jar and you can double-click
on it from most systems or use "java -jar" to run the program.
Notes
Roguelike games have a long history, and the USENET discussion group
rec.games.roguelike
has been running for many years (with various sub-groups as well).
The genre of games was spawned by the game Rogue
which used only ASCII graphics to draw the map.
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