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From: hugo@cae.wisc.ANTISPAM.edu (Kevin Hugo)
Subject: Re: NH variant question:
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 01:43:20 -0600


The family tree of rogue(-like) games looks like this:

Rogue
    :
    :
Hack
    |
    |
PC Hack
    |
    |
NetHack 1
Mike Stephenson
    |
    |
NetHack 2
Dev Team
    |
    |
NetHack 3.0
Dev Team
    |\__________________________________
    |                                   \
    |                               NetHack++
    |                         Tom Proudfoot & ?Yuval?
    |                                   |
    |                               NetHack--
    |                               (rename)
NetHack 3.1                             |
Dev Team                                |
    |\______________                    |
    |               \                   |
    |           NetHack Plus            |
    |           Stephen White           |
    |                \_________________ |
    |                                  \|
    |                                 Slash
    |                             Tom Proudfoot
NetHack 3.2                             |
Dev Team                                |
    |\_________________________________ |
    |               \                  \|
    |           Wizard Patch        Slash 4.1.2
    |      Larry Stewart-Zerba      Enrico Horn
    |       & Warwick Allison           |
    |                \_________________ |
    |                                  \|
    |                                Slash'em
                                  Warren Cheung
    ?                              & Kevin Hugo