Sunday, 20 January 2008

The kiwi bird hits you -more-

I've previously mentioned a Finnish roguelike connection and wondered on the origins of it. But there is also a strong connection between roguelikes and New Zealand, which predates the obvious Lord of the Rings link. There's this discussion of a surf beach in the North Island, and how it relates to a randomly generated Angband artifact. There's the dreaded kiwi bird in POWDER. The maintainers of two separate variants are from NZ (Myself and Antoine).

Then there's Caverns of Underkeep (warning: link crashes Firefox 3 Beta 2), which is a Java-based roguelike I discovered via the Indie Games weblog. Joshua Smyth runs his own development blog but is also in Auckland Game Works, which is how I figured out the New Zealand connection.
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3 comments:

  1. Joshua Smyth20 January 2008 at 13:48

    Hello, Joshua here..

    Thanks for mentioning my game on your blog. It's still under development. Hopefully it'll all be done in a couple weeks :)

    Pity about firefox beta 3.0 I'll see if there is anything I can do.

    In the meantime I'll let you know when the game gets to beta :)

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  2. Andrew Doull21 January 2008 at 21:08

    If it helps, I'm running 32bit Vista Service Pack 1 RC.

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  3. Barrett22 January 2008 at 17:39

    is there any way to implement a save system?

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