Dungeon Keeper - Influence

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:

    “Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies’ resources, and minimized their own.”
    —Titus Livius (Livy)

    “Temperament is the natural, inborn style of behavior of each individual. It’s the how of behavior, not the why.... The question is not, “Why does he behave a certain way if he doesn’t get a cookie?” but rather, “When he doesn’t get a cookie, how does he express his displeasure...?” The environment—and your behavior as a parent—can influence temperament and interplay with it, but it is not the cause of temperamental characteristics.”
    —Stanley Turecki (20th century)

    “Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed or even merely ignored or inadequately observed, no one would feel safe about anything, whether his own possessions, the inheritance he expects from his father, or the bequests he makes to his children.”
    —Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)