Miller's Quest!

Miller's Quest! is a unique role-playing simulator game that could be described as a "fire-and-forget role-playing game." Unlike traditional RPGs, there is no player interaction. However, the game's emphasis is on the simulation of role-playing. Surprisingly, Miller's Quest! is still a lot of fun to play. With none of the effort required by MMORPGs, players can enjoy watching their character grow in strength and power without worrying about mindless treadmilling. There's no need to bother with tedious details like attacking monsters; the game takes care of everything for you.

The game was largely inspired by Progress Quest, its direct ancestor. Written in Ruby programming language, it also drew inspiration from Dwemthy's Array. However, MQ is not entirely progress-driven. In fact, all monsters in the game have actual stats, and there's actual fighting based on probability. Since dying in a continually running game is pretty boring, the player automatically gets revived and healed.

MQ owes a lot of its continued existence to Ruby Development Tools, the Ruby environment for the Eclipse Platform. The latest release has fixed the combat system, making it work more accurately. Additionally, a previously confusing display message has been fixed. New features include optional support for curses/terminfo to display combat more comprehensively and better lookingly by coloring the output--but this currently requires tput(1) from ncurses. Players of Progress Quest should feel right at home with Miller's Quest! but will appreciate the added depth and nuance of MQ's combat system.