Moria
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How we estimateMoria is a dungeon crawl style role-playing video game first developed for the PLATO system around 1975, with copyright dates listed as 1978 and 1984. It was a pioneering game, allowing parties of up to ten players to travel as a group and message each other, dynamically generating dungeons (instead of pre-computing them), and featuring a wireframe first-person perspective display. One of its authors, Kevet Duncombe, claims not to have read the works of J. R. R. Tolkien or heard of Dungeons & Dragons at the time development started, but he was aware of the PLATO game, dnd.
Frequently asked questions
Is Moria dead or still active?
Moria is listed as released, but we don't have a recent player-count estimate that shows current activity, so we can't confirm whether it is still busy. We publish one as soon as there is enough fresh data.
When was Moria released?
Moria was released in March 1976 by Jim Battin and Kevet Duncombe.