| Kroz | |
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| Developer(s) | Scott Miller |
| Publisher(s) | Apogee Software |
| Designer(s) | Scott Miller |
| Platform(s) | MS-DOS |
| Release | 1987 |
| Genre(s) | Roguelike |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Kroz is a series of Roguelike video games created by Scott Miller for IBM PC compatibles. The first episode in the series, Kingdom of Kroz, was released in 1987 as Apogee Software's first game. It was also published on Big Blue Disk #20. Kroz introduced the scheme of the first episode being free and charging money for additional episodes, a technique which defined the business model for Apogee and was adopted by other MS-DOS shareware publishers.[1]
The games were discontinued in 1999. In March 2009, the whole Kroz series was released as freeware by Apogee, and the source code was released as free software under the GPL-2.0-or-later license.[2]
- ^ Hague, James (8 February 1999). "Gimme Your Money: A Half-Baked History of Shareware". Loonygames. Archived from the original on 23 February 2020. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
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