Mines of Moria (An Adventurer's Touch)

Not personally pleased by the GPL compliance. The free UMoria online is, IMO, better.

Mines of Moira: a striped down re-make with monster spawn cranked to 11, because why interact with stuff when you can kill waves of monsters! Let me begin by saying this is Moira is one of my favorite games., I started playing as a kid on floppy disks, and I still play once in a while today. This is a re-make of that game and unfortunately is extremely broken. Many features are removed from this game and that's sad considering the game had all the innovations of 1985 floppy disk. However the games real problem is the monster spawn. I'm not sure why the game design became lets spawn a monster every few rooms. The game was not designed to work this way, and it makes doing things other then fighting or playing classes that need to rest often like mages, nearly impossible to play. The removal of a lot of actions and game play just turns the game into constant grind of monster spawn and fight. You no longer have time to search for secret doors, or tunnel for treasure, and haggling for lower prices at stores, closing a door to keep from getting overrun by monsters, bashing/pushing monsters, throwing things, and a lot of other things are just removed. Some parts of the game are just diff…

Wow, this brings back memories :-)

Reliving one of the earliest games of my youth, this re-make is lovingly crafter to bring back the years and years of gaming on an old Digital PC, And yes, back then I managed to defeat the Balrog!! Today, I still remember 'some' of the controls... looking forward to pouring many houes back into this one.

Mothers will shush their children and tell them not to look as they pass by, the occasional kindly priest or do gooder will sometimes throw a few coins my way and mutter prayers to themselves wondering how one could have fallen so far, while groups of teenagers and young men will jeer and mock, throwing old tin cans and bits of rock at my head. But I shall sit serenely in my state of old school RPG nirvana, my body covered in muck and spit, but my mind drifting outside of the cares of this world, pondering the time that my party was nearly wiped and I fought off a group of enemies with just my priest, or the time when I spent minutes killing a wolf with lots of hit points, or the time when I repeatedly contemplated a giant battle to save all the Serviles because I couldn't bear to see a single of the cute little buggers get caught in the crossfire, or that bloody boss fight. In short, while physically present, I shall have passed on from this world, lost in a realm a bit higher than the real, forever and wholly beyond the fray.....or at least until the developer releases another game, anyway. Developer is very helpful and replied to my questions promptly with some informatve ans…

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