Ascii Dreams

Since Spore save games seems to be driving traffic to this blog, you may find the following code useful to help you back up your existing Sp...

It sounds like the study of Roguelikes is getting academic. Jeff Lait announced on the newsgroup rec.games.roguelike.development: This defi...

(You'll probably want to read parts one , two , three , four , five , six , seven , eight , nine and ten before starting this). So wit...

I was a little surprised by the result - thanks to the 39 of you who voted. Suggestions for Spore: The Roguelike are welcome... Cell / Tide...

I think it is fair to say that those of us disappointed in Spore were expecting the procedural equivalent of this . I guess a fully user cus...

My apologies if this blog has been a little bit quiet as of late. I'm in the process of refactoring a large amount of code: in fact, I...

Temple of the Roguelike has put up an interview with Jeff Lait , author of POWDER and several well thought out 7 Day Roguelikes. My favouri...

(You'll probably want to read parts one , two , three , four , five , six , seven , eight and nine before starting this). Angband and ...

(You'll probably want to read parts one , two , three , four , five , six , seven and eight before starting this). If we are limited i...

(You might want to read parts one and two before starting this). Save file bitching aside, the Civilisation phase plays like a complete g...

Hi Mr Wright, I'm a frustrated game designer. What particularly frustrates me is the single save slot in Spore. I can understand why you...

There is an excellent nostalgia piece over at Gamasutra called Designer Derivations looking at the early years of game design. That is, gam...