It was finished there in C programming language and published in 1987 for the Atari ST first. Doug Bell and Andy Jaros (Artwork) began development in their development studio PVC Dragon, before they joined in 1983 FTL Games. Originally, Dungeon Master was started with the name Crystal Dragon coded in Pascal, and targeted the Apple II platform. But there is also an alternative ending if the player finds the firestaff and then leaves the dungeon without destroying Lord Chaos. If the player finds the firestaff and uses it to defeat Lord Chaos, this will be the real ending of the game. The player is Theron, the apprentice of the Grey Lord, that goes into the dungeon with the task to resurrect four champions, and guide them through the dungeon, to find the firestaff and defeat Lord Chaos. With the firestaff, Librasulus can take physical form again and defeat Lord Chaos. Many champions have been sent into the dungeon with the quest to recover Librasulus (the Grey Lord) firestaff. The frozen champions are based upon a variety of fantasy archetypes to allow diversity within the player's party. While many previous games such as Alternate Reality: The Dungeon, The Bard's Tale, Ultima, and Wizardry offered Dungeons & Dragons-style role-playing, Dungeon Master established several new standards for role-playing video games and first-person video games in general, such as the paper doll interface.Īs Theron, the player cannot progress past the first section of the game until they have selected up to four champions from a small dungeon containing 24 mirrors, each containing a frozen champion. For example, a fireball spell was created by mixing the fire symbol with the wing symbol. It also introduced some novel control methods including the spell casting system, which involved learning sequences of runes which represented the form and function of a spell's effect. Other features of Dungeon Master included allowing players to directly manipulate objects and the environment by clicking the mouse in the enlarged first-person view.
Dungeon Master was, however, responsible for popularizing these elements. Dungeons of Daggorath for the TRS-80 Color Computer first employed them in 1982. Dungeon Master was not the first game to introduce these features. Abstract Dungeons and Dragons style experience points and levels were eschewed in favor of a system where the characters' skills were improved directly via using them. Other factors in immersion were the use of sound effects to indicate when a creature was nearby, and (primitive) dynamic lighting. In contrast to the traditional turn-based approach that was, in 1987, most common, Dungeon Master added real-time combat elements (akin to Active Time Battle). Dungeon Master gameplay screenshot on SNES
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