Influence
Due to the popularity and cult status of the series, many reviews of video games that have similar elements mention Dungeon Keeper as both an influence for the designers and a standard for comparison. These include:
- 1999's Lego Rock Raiders
- 2001's Startopia
- 2004's Evil Genius
- 2006's Ghost Master and Dwarf Fortress
- 2007's Overlord and Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman!
- 2010's Dungeons
- 2011's Dungeon Overlord an Adobe Flash application via the social-networking website Facebook.
- The 2009 board game Dungeon Lords has been termed "a non-video game spiritual successor" to Dungeon Keeper.
- 2009's (Full version 2011) Minecraft an independent sandbox-building video game that was developed by Markus Persson, who was partially inspired by Dungeon Keeper.
- War For The Overworld is a project held by its creators Subterranean Games as "a spiritual successor to the franchise in every sense". Its planned 2013 release is pending Kickstarter funding.
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Famous quotes containing the word influence:
“They tell us that women can bring better things to pass by indirect influence. Try to persuade any man that he will have more weight, more influence, if he gives up his vote, allies himself with no party and relies on influence to achieve his ends! By all means let us use to the utmost whatever influence we have, but in all justice do not ask us to be content with this.”
—Mrs. William C. Gannett, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 5, ch. 8, by Ida Husted Harper (1922)
“You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)
“Nature has taken more care than the fondest parent for the education and refinement of her children. Consider the silent influence which flowers exert, no less upon the ditcher in the meadow than the lady in the bower. When I walk in the woods, I am reminded that a wise purveyor has been there before me; my most delicate experience is typified there.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)