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An indie role-playing game is a role-playing game published by individuals or small press publishers, in contrast to games published by large corporations. [1] [2] [3] Indie tabletop role-playing game designers participate in various game distribution networks, development communities, and gaming conventions, both in person and online.
This is a list of individuals who have designed one or more role-playing games, including live-action role-playing games but excluding role-playing video games (see List of video game industry people and its children for video game creators). Artists are listed separately on the annotated List of role-playing game artists.
Information regarding date of release, developer, publisher, operating system, subgenre and notability is provided where available. The table can be sorted by clicking on the small boxes next to the column headings. This list does not include MUDs or MMORPGs. It does include roguelikes, action RPGs and tactical RPGs
Adventure-RPG: Adventure-RPG construction system. [8] US 1980 (NA) Fracas: Quality (Stuart Smith) Computersmiths: Fantasy: APPII: US 1980 (NA) Rogue: Michael Toy, et al. Various: Fantasy: UNIX: Roguelike: This was the beginning of roguelike computer games. For further developments see Chronology of roguelike video games. US 1980 (NA ...
The Old School Renaissance, Old School Revival, [1] or OSR is a play style movement in tabletop role-playing games which draws inspiration from the earliest days of tabletop RPGs in the 1970s, especially Dungeons & Dragons. [2]
Action RPG Japan 2022 (WW) Citizen Sleeper: Jump Over the Age Fellow Traveller: Sci-fi MAC, NX, WIN, XOne, XSX/S Original Narrative RPG UK 2022 (WW) Elden Ring: FromSoftware Bandai Namco Entertainment Dark fantasy WIN, PS4, PS5, XOne, XSX/S Original Action RPG Japan 2022 (WW) Expeditions: Rome: Logic Artists THQ Nordic Historical WIN Original
Role-playing games began to influence other media. The first role-playing video games arose from early mainframe computer imitations of RPGs, with Akalabeth and Rogue both published in 1980; the genre inherited many of the settings and game mechanics of RPGs as well as the name, and went on to have its own varied history.
In his 1990 book The Complete Guide to Role-Playing Games, game critic Rick Swan gave the game a top rating of 4 out of 4, calling it "a masterpiece, easily the best horror RPG ever published and possibly the best RPG, period ... breathtaking in scope and as richly textured as a fine novel. All role-players owe it to themselves to experience ...