Angband in an evening: twelve levels, two quest bosses, everything sped up.

• About the game
• Keyboard controls
• Saving your game
• Tips
• New player's guide
• Playing in the browser

About the game

Quickband is Angband cut down to a single evening. It is built on NPPAngband, but the dungeon ends at 600 feet (level 12) and there are only two quest monsters: Lurtz at 550 feet and Saruman at 600 feet. Kill Lurtz and a staircase down appears; kill Saruman and you have won.

• Everything is sped up: good items and artifacts turn up early, pseudo-identify and level feelings work fast, and you need less experience per level.
• Monsters are denser and nastier, so there is little time to grind. Characters cap at level 36.
• Levels are thrown away when you leave, as in Angband, but the game has measures against stair-scumming, and characters who linger at high level get "prods" to move on.

Keyboard controls

Essential keys

Saving your game

• Saving is automatic. Every save goes straight into this browser's storage (IndexedDB). The game saves on every level change, every two minutes while it waits for your next command, and whenever you switch to another tab or window.
• Ctrl+S saves and keeps playing. Ctrl+X saves and quits; reload the page (or press Play again) to continue.
• Reloading or closing the tab loses at most the last couple of minutes. The browser asks before you leave a running game.
• Each browser keeps one character. File ▾ → New game deletes it and starts over.
• Export save downloads your savefile; Import save loads one. Use them to keep a backup or to move a character to another browser or computer.
• Your window layout, zoom levels and window titles are stored with the savegame, in the same browser storage, and survive a new character.
• Private/incognito windows and "clear site data" delete the stored game. Export first if the character matters.

Tips

• Dexterity matters more than usual: high Dex also gives you extra speed.
• Charisma counts too: with low Cha, enchanting items is unreliable, and low Int, Wis or Cha each produce warning messages.
• Constitution bonuses take a while to kick in, so don't count on new hit points right after a Con boost.
• Great and good items are common, so check the floor and the shops often. Pseudo-identify works fast.
• Stair-scumming doesn't pay here, and the game nudges characters who linger at high level to move on. Characters cap at level 36.
• Inscribe your healing potion with @q1 ({) so q 1 always drinks it.
• Look at monsters with l: the Recall window shows what you know about them.
• The Guild is closed and some store services are gone. Word of Recall is a Temple service, not a scroll.

New player's guide

Your first steps

1. Pick a race and class. Warrior, Ranger or Paladin are forgiving first choices. Point-based stats are recommended.
2. In town, buy Flasks of Oil (thrown with v), Potions of Cure Light Wounds, and a Scroll or two of Phase Door. Word of Recall is a Temple service here, not a scroll.
3. Wield a torch (w) if you are not carrying a light yet, then press >: you walk to the town's staircase and go down.

Finding your way

• H auto-explores: it walks to the nearest unexplored spot and opens doors on the way. It stops when a monster comes into view and never picks locks.
• < and > take the stairs you are standing on, or walk you to the nearest staircase you have already seen and take it.
• ] lists the items you can see; the Monsters and Items windows on the right show the same thing all the time.

Staying alive

• With only 12 levels, depth rises fast. If a level feels wrong (Ctrl+F repeats the feeling), just leave by the nearest stairs.
• Keep an escape ready: Phase Door for short hops, and the stairs for a full reset.
• Lurtz and Saruman both summon help. Arrive rested and with healing potions.

Playing in the browser

• Windows: the map fills the big window; Inventory, Visible monsters and Visible items are on the right; Messages and Recall along the bottom.
• Resize windows by dragging the gaps between them. The windows always fill the screen and never overlap; the game redraws them at their new size. Reset windows puts everything back.
• Zoom: A− / A+ on the Map title bar (shown on hover) change the size of the map tiles. Hover over a small window's title to show its A− / A+ buttons, which change its text size.
• Rename a window by clicking its title, typing a new name and pressing Enter (Esc cancels, an empty name restores the default).
• Keys: arrow keys, the numeric keypad or 1–9 move you; Shift + direction runs. You can also click on the map to walk there.
• Browsers keep a few shortcuts for themselves (Ctrl+W, Ctrl+T, Ctrl+N, and Cmd shortcuts on a Mac), so those never reach the game.
• If the game ever crashes, a message appears at the top; reload the page to continue from your last save.

About this version

• Based on Quickband 2.0.6.
• Original source: untouched import, commit 7ff30f1 (taken from NickMcConnell/AngbandPlus; the exact upstream commit was not recorded)
• Our changes (port, auto-explore, command menu, web build): memmaker/quickband