New: roguelikecelAll contenthive-129948hive-196917krsteemzzanhive-183959hive-180932hive-166405uncommonlabhive-185836photographyhive-183397hive-150122hive-144064bitcoinlifehive-188619hive-101145hive-124908krsuccesshive-139150hive-103599hive-184714hive-106183hive-165987TrendingNewHotLikersmarkgritter (59)in roguelikecel • 6 years agoFinal Roguelike Celebration Post: Videos, Lightning Talks, AfterpartyRoguelike Celebration is a great small conference about roguelike games, featuring talks by game designers, fans, and others. Videos All of the previous years' talks are available on YouTube;…markgritter (59)in roguelikecel • 6 years agoRoguelike Celebration: Max Kreminski on "Gardening as a Mode of Play"Do games have to exist solely for the benefit of the player? Max Kreminski is a researcher in "computational creativity", games, and related topics. Their game Epitaph is an "idle game about…markgritter (59)in roguelikecel • 6 years agoRoguelike Celebration: Leif Bloomquist and Colin LiottaA multi-player roguelike on the Commodore 64 Leif Bloomquist ( @schemafactor on Twitter) demonstrated using the Commodore 64 as a client for a multi-player, real-time roguelike dungeon…markgritter (59)in roguelikecel • 6 years agoRoguelike Celebration: ChogueChogue is a chess/rogue hybrid developed by researchers at Concordia University in Montreal. You can play it online here: Only one of the researchers, Jonathan Lessard, was able to attend.…markgritter (59)in roguelikecel • 6 years agoRoguelike Celebration: Desktop Dungeon and ADOM architecturesDanny Day -- Dynamic Event-Listener in Desktop Dungeons Danny Day is a developer on Desktop Dungeons, a "roguelite". They went through a long open access period while tuning the game, and made a…markgritter (59)in roguelikecel • 6 years agoRoguelike Celebration: Tarn Adams and Bryan WalkerRoguelike Celebration 2018 continues with day 2. The livestream can be found at though as I write this we're on lunch break. Tarn Adams: Procedural Stories and Roguelikification Tarn is one…markgritter (59)in roguelikecel • 6 years agoRoguelike Celebration: Nethack Source, Fun and GamesAlexei Pepers on Nethack Alexei gave a talk in a previous year about making roguelikes more accessible to the blind. This year she talked about things she had found in the Nethack code while…markgritter (59)in roguelikecel • 6 years agoRoguelike Celebration: Jim Shepard and Jongwoo KimThese two talks focused on storytelling, but in two very different ways. Jim Shepard: Storytelling, World Building, and You Jim's talks are both funny and informative. Today he was speaking…markgritter (59)in roguelikecel • 6 years agoRoguelike Celebration: Bob Nystrom on ArchitectureBob Nystrom (not the hockey player) wrote the book "Game Programming Patterns" . His web site is His talk at Roguelike celbration was about programming patterns: why the popular ECS pattern…markgritter (59)in roguelikecel • 6 years agoNearly-liveblogging Roguelike Celebration: Santiago Zapata and Andrew AversonSantiago Zapata on Roguelike history Santiago's talk on influences and development of roguelikes was interesting; I always like the histoical approach he takes. Dungeons and Dragons is obviously…markgritter (59)in roguelikecel • 6 years agoLiveblog: Josh Ge on building roguelikesJosh Ge is the creator of Cogmind and moderator of the roguelike-dev subreddit. His talk is advice, not a tutorial. What language? Well, any language works but he recommends Python to get…markgritter (59)in roguelikecel • 6 years agoArrived at Roguelike Celebration 2018Octocat and this year's T-shirt. Github has generously hosted us again this year. There's a demon in the breakfast area: Unfortunately it appears that rotating the images on my phone…
