 It also has the property that any dungeon that could be drawn in the editor will run correctly and efficiently, the designer does not have to worry about "correct" placement of the monsters or generators to ensure the map would.The gameplay design of "Thesis of Terror" was heavily influenced by "Dungeons & Dragons"; Palevich had never actually played "D&D", but he had read through the manuals and watched some of his dorm-mates play campaigns in the lounge of MIT's New House II dormitory.The new name "Dandy" is a play on the phonetic pronunciation of "D and D", which at the time was a generic term for dungeon adventure role-playing games.