Larn

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Larn was first released in 1986 by Noah Morgan.

Features

Larn was the first roguelike game to feature multiple dungeons with a sort of surface world (in this case, a town) to connect them. The town, which never changed from one game to the next, featured shops to exchange items, schools to improve skills, and a bank to store valuables. The dungeon had branch offices of the town's bank. Larn also featured a time-limited quest.

Ularn

Ularn — or "Ultra-Larn" — is a descendant of Larn. Created by Phil Cordier in 1992, it added new features, like character classes.

Platforms and versions

Developpement of Larn is discontinued, though access to the source code is available and can therefore be compiled. Last version for Larn is v12.2 for source code, last uptaded July 27, 1986, and v12.3 for MSDOS executable.

Last version of Ularn, v1.6, released in 2004, is avalaible for Windows and Amiga; source code is also available for other systems to compile. v1.5 is known to compile under various Unix systems.

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