In this talk I will discuss the similarities between Ursula Le Guin's book The Tombs of Atuan (the second book in the Earthsea series) and traditional dungeon based roguelikes. The book takes place in an environment that is extremely similar to the dungeons of doom (including a hunger clock!).

I'll use pieces of the text to illustrate these similarities, and potentially do some digging into the source material of original rogue development to see if there is in fact a direct line of inspiration from the book to the original game.

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