Ascii Dreams

I find myself in the position of trying to consolidate some code, ending up with a function declared as follows: int process_spell_target(in...

This is a pre-release of 0.6.3. It should be stable, and just requires extensive playing to sanity check all the changes and find weird edge...

I find myself agreeing with Eskil Steenburg's advice on how to learn to program: I almost never use linked lists (I think there is one ...

This is the 500th blog post on Ascii Dreams - an achievement I've been waiting to reach for a little while now. I hope you'll excuse...

For those of you obsessed with A* pathfinding, you'll appreciate the cold water poured on the idea this thread on rec.games.roguelike.de...

...of the Interceptor. If you're also developing an X-Com roguelike in secret, it's time to confess and share your hidden desires wi...

On TIG Source .

Too many game developers fall into the trap of making warriors re-skinned wizards: that is, the warrior class ends up have a list of special...

I always enjoy the coverage of the Game Developers Conference every year - I have made a promise to myself that I will attend next year - bu...

Outstanding to do list for 0.6.3: 1. Test and finish region code for trap implementations. 2. Runic tattoos. 3. Create fake objects for shap...

According to Ohloh, Unangband is more valuable than Valgrind - by about $2 million.

As a part of a discussion on resurrecting the Tcl + TK port of Angband, darke mentioned briefly that he's ported Unangband to the Ogre e...