platform world of aden: thunderscape
A role - playing video game ( commonly referred to as role - playing game or RPG , and in the past was also known as computer role - playing game or CRPG ) is a video game genre where the player controls the actions of a character ( and / or several party members ) immersed in some well - defined world . Many role - playing video games have origins in pen - and - paper role - playing games ( Including " Dungeons & Dragons ") and use much of the same , settings and game mechanics . Other major similarities with pen - and - paper games include developed story - telling and narrative elements , player character development , complexity , as well as replayability and immersion . The electronic medium removes the necessity for a gamemaster and increases combat resolution speed . RPGs have evolved from simple text - based console - window games into visually rich 3D experiences . Since the 1980s , Role - playing is the most commercially viable video game genre in Japan , and has more market share of any other genre in the japanese gaming industry , although in the 2010s first - person shooters and western ___MASK69___ and Android games were becoming rapidly and increasingly popular in that country . ___MASK64___ , short for " disk operating system ", is an acronym used to describe the family of several very similar command - line computer operating systems for x86 - based computers : primarily MS - ___MASK64___ and PC ___MASK64___ , but also DR - ___MASK64___ , FreeDOS , ROM - ___MASK64___ , and PTS - ___MASK64___ . None of these systems were officially named " ___MASK64___ ", and indeed " ___MASK64___ " is a general term for disk operating system . A player character or playable character ( ___MASK34___ ) is a fictional character in a role - playing or video game whose actions are directly controlled by a player of the game rather than the rules of the game . The characters that are not controlled by a player are called non - player characters ( NPCs ). The actions of non - player characters are typically handled by the game itself in video games , or according to rules followed by a gamemaster refereeing tabletop role - playing games . The player character functions as a fictional , alternate body for the player controlling it . World of Aden : Thunderscape is a swords & sorcery role - playing video game for ___MASK64___ . It had a sequel called Entomorph . The game is based on the world described in the fantasy trilogy World of Aden : Thunderscape . The player controls a party with up to six members with skills , spells and equipment . Strategic Simulations Inc . was the developer of World of Aden : Thunderscape , while Mindscape , Inc . was the publisher . It was released in early 1995 ; the sequel , Entomorph , was also released that year . The property was acquired by Kyoudai Games in 2013 ; the company plans to release a new pen and paper Role - Playing Game for the property . The world of the Thunder Age has a distinctly steampunk feel . The world has recently and drastically changed from medieval swords - and - sorcery to a mixed renaissance and Industrial Revolution tech level . Flintlocks and muskets are the best weapons an adventurer can hope for , but there are extremely expensive , very powerful machine guns called `` storm cannons . '' The world has also recently fallen under the effects of the `` Darkfall '' , an event causing thousands of demons or `` nocturnals '' to enter the world , along with Corrupted , those who have made a deal with the forces of the Darkfall for power - and usually a curse of some sort . DR - ___MASK64___ ( DR ___MASK64___ , without hyphen up to and including version 6 . 0 ) is an operating system of the ___MASK64___ family , written for IBM PC - compatible personal computers . It was originally developed by Gary Kildall ' s Digital Research and derived from Concurrent PC ___MASK64___ 6 . 0 , which was an advanced successor of CP / M - 86 . As ownership changed , various later versions were produced with names including Novell ___MASK64___ and Caldera OpenDOS . A ___MASK91___ ( abbreviated ___MASK64___ ) is a computer operating system that can use a disk storage device , such as a floppy disk , hard disk drive , or optical disc . A ___MASK91___ must provide a file system for organizing , reading , and writing files on the storage disk . Strictly speaking , this definition does not apply to current generations operating systems , such as versions of ___MASK47___ in use , while this definition is actually only used for older generations of operating systems . MS - ___MASK64___ (; acronym for " Microsoft Disk Operating System ") is a discontinued operating system for x86 - based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft . It was the most commonly used member of the ___MASK64___ family of operating systems , and was the main operating system for IBM PC compatible personal computers during the 1980s and the early 1990s , when it was gradually superseded by operating systems offering a graphical user interface ( GUI ), in various generations of the graphical ___MASK47___ operating system by Microsoft Corporation . ___MASK38___ is a family of backward compatible instruction set architectures based on the Intel 8086 CPU and its Intel 8088 variant . The 8086 was introduced in 1978 as a fully 16 - bit extension of Intel ' s 8 - bit based 8080 microprocessor , with memory segmentation as a solution for addressing more memory than can be covered by a plain 16 - bit address . The term " ___MASK38___ " came into being because the names of several successors to Intel ' s 8086 processor end in " 86 ", including the 80186 , 80286 , 80386 and 80486 processors . PTS - ___MASK64___ is a disk operating system , a ___MASK64___ clone , developed in Russia by PhysTechSoft . FreeDOS ( formerly Free - ___MASK64___ and PD - ___MASK64___ ) is a free operating system for IBM PC compatible computers . It intends to provide a complete ___MASK64___ - compatible environment for running legacy software and supporting embedded systems .