Dark Designs

Dark Designs is a series of role-playing games originally created by John Carmack and published by Softdisk.

Setting
Apparently set in a shared universe with Catacomb, the games take place some time after the death of Grelminar. His skills in cross-planar magic live on in his magical staff, which is now being sought by a team of heroes in order to stop an extra-dimensional invasion.

First Trilogy

 * Dark Designs I: Grelminar's Staff (1990)
 * Dark Designs II: Closing the Gate (1990)
 * Dark Designs III: Retribution! (1991)

All originally developed for the Apple II, the first two titles were also ported to MS DOS.

Second Trilogy
Developed by Peter Rotitski, who also developed the sequels to Catacombs.


 * Dark Designs IV: Passage to Oblivion (1994)
 * Dark Designs V: Search for Salvation (1994)
 * Dark Designs VI: Restoration (1994)