Ascii Dreams

You may remember an article I wrote, No Aliens Allowed , where I complained about the state of near future non-apocalyptic video games. I me...

Björn Ritzl has put together a list of the 7DRL successes and failures here . I've played only one so far (Ido Yehieli, Tom Whetnall and...

This will change how you think about programming (especially the game design example). Gabriel Florit has written an open source version . ...

To everyone participating in the 7DRL this year. Google Plus page , Facebook page Facebook event , Twitter #7DRL2012 , 7drl.org community b...

If you are not at GDC, the best coverage I've seen this year is by David Sirlin. Day 0 , day 1 , day 2 .

I had the opportunity to sit down earlier today with Dan Kline, game developer and frequent commenter on this blog, and have a great chat ab...

Below is a collection of links for the roguelikes and roguelike-likes in the latest poll on the basis it is likely you won't have heard ...

I'm surprised there's not more games that explore the fertile boundaries between roguelikes (which are almost always tactical) and t...

And your next project is not a roguelike, please leave a comment here.

This opinion piece on the Zelda series elegantly summarises why I don't think a 'procedural Zelda' will ever be interesting.

If you're at all interested in game design, you should listen to David Ploog (former lead designer of Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup) get int...

You might note that my to do list is progressing very slowly - at least the public face of that list (Unangband development, blogging) has v...

This paper at AI Game Dev has immediate and natural application to roguelikes, and uses a number of techniques I've not seen discussed ...

We want to drop a ton of items, but to really pull off a sense of excitement when finding a great item, there needs to be non-optimal items,...

Sil attempts to move the game closer to the source material.

The latest developer to jump on the 'I want to be popular and make a lot of money developing a roguelike' bandwagon is one Notch .

I may have started something.

This stuff is gold for procedural generation.

IndieGames.com has released their list of top ten independent games for the year . Dungeons of Dredmor is in 6th place. The Binding of Isaac...

For those of you undecided about which roguelike to vote for, you may want to see Adam Smith's recommendations over at Rock Paper Shotgu...