Rest in Peace: Robert Alan Koeneke

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  • MITZE
    Swordsman
    • Jan 2017
    • 292

    Rest in Peace: Robert Alan Koeneke

    Robert Alan Koeneke, creator of Moria the roguelike, has passed away at the age of 64.

    EDIT: I don't know how tenable this is, but might I suggest the next comp be U/Moria, in his honor.
    Last edited by MITZE; July 22, 2022, 12:37. Reason: Made a suggestion.
    Everything you need to know about my roguelike playstyle:

    I took nearly two years to win with a single character in PosChengband.
  • Nick
    Vanilla maintainer
    • Apr 2007
    • 9633

    #2
    There's a ladder for NPPMoria...
    One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
    In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

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    • Susramanian
      Apprentice
      • Feb 2010
      • 58

      #3
      I think that I would have led a very different life had I not encountered Moria in 1990 or 1991.

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      • HugoVirtuoso
        Veteran
        • Jan 2012
        • 1237

        #4


        That's the obituary
        My best try at PosChengband 7.0.0's nightmare-mode on Angband.live:
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwAR0WOphUA

        If I'm offline I'm probably in the middle of maintaining Gentoo or something-Linux or other.

        As of February 18th, 2022, my YouTube username is MidgardVirtuoso

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        • tangar
          Veteran
          • Mar 2015
          • 1004

          #5
          Great man.. We all obliged to him.

          The letter about Moria from Koeneke: https://tangaria.com/history/#moria
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          • smbhax
            Swordsman
            • Oct 2021
            • 340

            #6
            It's a sad day. I love some of the things he wrote in that letter:

            Around 1983, two things happened that caused Moria to be born in its recognizable form. I was engaged to be married, and the only cure for THAT is to work so hard you can’t think about it...
            Moria 5.0 was a complete rewrite, and contained many neat enhancements, features, you name it. It had water, streams, lakes, pools, with water monsters. It had ‘mysterious orbs’ which could be carried like torches for light but also gave off magical aura’s (like protection from fire, or aggravate monster…). It had new weapons and treasures… I left it with the student assistants at OU to be finished, but I guess it soon died on the vine. As far as I know, that source was lost…
            My Angband videos

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            • Zikke
              Veteran
              • Jun 2008
              • 1069

              #7
              I was so sad to read this. Most of the modern RPG and ARPG landscape is shaped in some way by him.

              RIP <3
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