Editing Rogue (video game) (section)

==Automated play==
Because the input and output of the original game is over a terminal interface, it is relatively easy in Unix to redirect input and output to another program. One such program, [[Rog-O-Matic]], was developed in 1981 to play and win the game, by four graduate students in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh: [[Andrew Appel]], Leonard Harney, Guy Jacobson and [[Michael Loren Mauldin]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://science-fiction.fch.ir/rogue/doc/An_expert_system_outperforms_mere_mortals_as_it_conquers_the_feared_Dungeons_of_Doom.html |title=An expert system outperforms mere mortals as it conquers the feared Dungeons of Doom |access-date=2014-03-12 |author=A. K. Dewdney |work="Scientific American", volume 252, issue 2, February 1985, pp. 18–21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140315043642/http://science-fiction.fch.ir/rogue/doc/An_expert_system_outperforms_mere_mortals_as_it_conquers_the_feared_Dungeons_of_Doom.html |archive-date=2014-03-15}}</ref>

{{cquote|In a test during a three-week period in 1983, Rog-O-Matic had a higher median score than any of the 15 top Rogue players at the Carnegie-Mellon University and, at the University of Texas at Austin, found the Amulet of Yendor in a passageway on the 26th level, continued on to the surface and emerged into the light of day.}}

Ken Arnold said that he liked to make "sure that every subsequent version of ''Rogue'' had a new feature in it that broke Rogue-O-Matic".<ref name="gamasutra history">{{cite web|url=https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/the-history-of-rogue-have-you-you-deadly-zs|title= The History of Rogue: Have @ You, You Deadly Zs}}</ref> Nevertheless, it remains a noted study in [[expert system]] design and led to the development of other game-playing programs, typically called "bots". Some of these bots target other roguelikes, in particular ''[[Angband (video game)|Angband]]''.<ref name="angborg">{{cite web |url=http://www.thangorodrim.net/borg.html |title=Angband Borg |access-date=2007-12-23 |work=Thangorodrim – The Angband Page |archive-date=2012-02-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120223094530/http://www.thangorodrim.net/borg.html |url-status=dead}}</ref>