Steamband

Steamband is a critically acclaimed variant in the Angband series of ASCII based, so-called Roguelike computer games. These are all dungeon crawl games with an emphasis on replayability; they collectively have a cult following amongst retro-gamers.

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Steamband is set in a neo-Victorian steampunk universe and draws heavily from the literature and lore of the time. References to said literature can be found throughout the game and in fact, a separate shop in the main town has been deemed the library, serving as a repository for books found in the dungeon. Finding these books is an important mini-game in itself.

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Steamband is maintained by Courtney Campbell.

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Angband: : See Angband (game) for the computer game....

ASCII: ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange), generally pronounced , (ASK-ee) is a character set and a character encoding based on the Roman alphabet as used in modern English (see English alphabet). ASCII codes represent text in computers, in other communications equipment, and in con...

Roguelike: A roguelike is a computer game that borrows some of the elements of another computer game, 1980's Rogue. A roguelike is a superficially two-dimensional dungeon crawling computer game, usually with simple text or ASCII "graphics" and many with "tiles" which replace the rather limited character set w...