These are according to a writings of J. R. R. Tolkien, in which Angband was the fortress of Morgoth. A adventurer is presented by owning Century levels of the title dungeon, in which he or even she tries to amass plenty power & devices to at last kill Morgoth. a fresh level is at random generated from each one period a streaming video player changes levels, which gives Angband neat replay value: there are no 2 games is the equivalent.

The veritable genealogy of within lx (about the 12 of which are then active) variants of Angb& survive, from each one typically greatly differing in purpose and depth of changes. A better known variants come EyAngband, Hengband, OAngband, ToME, Steamband, and ZAngband.

A Usenet group [http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&group=rec.games.roguelike.angband rec.games.roguelike.angband] is a place to discuss all the aspects of the game. An IRC channel, #angband, exists on the WorldIRC network (irc.worldirc.org).

A source code to Angband is available for modification & redistribution, but not strictly free software or open source because it is licensed under "non commercial use" terms, when was its ascendent Moria. Nonetheless, there exists an effort on-going to re-license Angband under a GNU GPL. 1 benefit of this would exist as allowing for it to exist as bundled sustaining "commercial" Linux distributions.

When Cutler & Astrand, a late chief developers of Angband involved Charles Swiger, Ben Harrison & Robert Rühlmann. Harrison was a upholder responsible the "Great Code Cleanup", modularizing, extending, & greatly improving a readability of the Angband source code, which lead to the large total of variants of Angband presently available, besides when a like heavy total of ports to different platforms. Rather more maintainers, he one of these days moved around to more interests, passing a title to Robert Rühlmann in 2000.

Originally Angband was written totally within C. Starting in the Triplet.Cypher series, very much of the code has been moved to Lua, an embedded scripting language that simplifies development and makes modification into variants simpler. When of September 2005, a todays version of Angband is Tierce.Zero.Captain hicks. These are available for everthing major operating systems, including Unix (curses and X11), DOS, Windows, Macintosh, Amiga, and numbers of others.

Gameplay of Vanilla Angband, as a original is today typically known as, is virtually all typically in comparison NetHack, though in reality a games come virtually polar opposites. Angband adopts the extra good tone than NetHack, requires far hanker to win for possibly a better players, & a focus of the game is other in combat manoeuvre, inventory management & chance minimalisation than NetHackish puzzle resolution & favorite shell. This has been a source of weak-light-hearted conflicts between them communities.

Angband terms
Artefact: The favorite item by having predetermined actual cost that just can't exist as destroyed, & of which just a single case is. Another time identified, it is never generated once again. *Band: Generic title for any Angband variant. Borg: An machine-driven Angband streaming video player. Ego item: The standard item using favorite abilities, which change based on data from its ego nature and severity. eg. Easy Leather Boots of Speed. RNG: Random Total Generator/God. Due to the importance of random results within Angband, a stake RNG is typically referred to anthropomorphically. Unique: The monster of which sole a single time lives. When flushed it is never generated over again. Consistently locating & killing a children may be crucial to triumph in a game, since the hardest pack uniques might as if by magic summon more uniques & thereby overpower the streaming video player. Vanilla: A unmodified version of Angband. Vault: The favorite room which is non random, however is produced from either the project. Typically filled by owning mighty foes & treasure. Wizard: The debug/cheat mode.