Next time, we’ll learn how one of the most popular of all the slick commercial games of the late 1990s grew out of this odd little corner of hackerdom…
I wonder what game he's talking about. Have to circle back sometime or subscribe to their RSS feed.
It was more like a polished graphical off-shot of Angband. But I wouldn't call it a "version of it" anymore than I'd call Battlefield a version of Doom (or any platformer a version of Super Mario), they are simply games in the same (or similar) genre.
I wonder what game he's talking about. Have to circle back sometime or subscribe to their RSS feed.