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- omega(6) GAMES AND DEMOS omega(6)
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- NAME
- omega - a hack-style game with quests.
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- SYNOPSIS
- omega [save file]
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- DESCRIPTION
- omega is a complex rogue-style game of dungeon exploration.
- Unlike other such games, there are a number of ways to
- "win", depending on various actions taken during play. The
- ways you can get your name on the hiscore board include
- becoming the highest ranked head of a guild, sect, college,
- etc., as well as gaining the most points figured from pos-
- sessions and experience. The game (via the oracle) may
- impose some structure on your exploration, but you need not
- follow all of the oracle's advice. There *is* a "total
- winner" status, by the way.
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- If the save file is not specified, omega gives the player
- the choice of generating a random character, or playing
- themselves, doing a short quiz to determine an approximation
- of their abilities. If the save file is given, omega will
- restore that save file, and if successful, the save file is
- deleted. Note that some installations of omega compress the
- save file, using either compress(1) or gzip(1) - if this is
- the case, and you have a save file that is uncompressed
- (such files are generated by omega if it receives a signal
- during play, for example), you can compress it (with
- compress(1) or gzip(1)) and remove the .Z or .gz extension.
- Alternatively, you may simply run with the uncompressed save
- file - this will not affect the game in any way, but takes
- more disk space between games.
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- omega offers a richness of playing detail that goes beyond a
- simple game like rogue. However, the majority of gameplay is
- very similar to rogue, hack, ultrarogue, larn, and other
- such games. The player is represented by the highlighted "@"
- symbol, objects and terrain features are represented by
- non-alphabetic symbols, monsters are represented by the
- various upper and lower case letters, and other humans are
- represented by a non-highlighted "@".
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- omega currently consists of a countryside in which are sited
- a city, various villages, several dungeons, and some "spe-
- cial" sites, such as the temples of the various priesthoods.
- The game starts in the city of Rampart, where all the guilds
- have headquarters. As a dungeon is explored, all generated
- levels are saved in memory. However, only one dungeon is
- "remembered" at a time, so if you enter two dungeons, the
- first will be forgotten (it will be regenerated should you
- wish to enter it again). However, if a dungeon is "com-
- pleted", this fact will be remembered, basically meaning
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- that the unique monster at the bottom will not be regen-
- erated if you've killed it already.
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- SEE ALSO
- compress(1), gzip(1), nethack(6)
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- AUTHOR
- Laurence Brothers
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