Ascii Dreams

You may want to start this series with part one , two , three , four , five , six or seven . I would argue the primary function of failure ...

Troy Goodfellow from Three Moves Ahead, discusses his comfort game... Dungeon Crawl .

I've always maintained that roguelikes have a huge amount of goodwill from the wider gaming community. Nethack was reviewed by Ste Curra...

It appears I cannot truly appreciate a game until I redesign it.

By way of a John Carmack blog post , I am reminded again of some pithy words by Joel Spolsky which people working on the pyAngband project ...

We've had to step over this guy to get out of the house the last couple of days. Unfortunately, that probably means he's sick or inj...

Just a quick comment about user interface design and game programming after reading various comments on Unangband UI , Dwarf Fortress vs. Mi...

I'm going to take advantage of a) the timezone difference in Australia, and b) the generosity of strangers to contribute very little to ...

You are encouraged to read parts one and two of this article series, and are strongly encouraged to read the original Designing a Magic Sy...

A theatre lobby, filled with speakers whispering the most innovative advertising campaign in movie release history: 'What is the Minecra...

You can now export your Dwarf Fortress maps to Minecraft...

I try to use the reviews at ASCII Dreams as writing experiments: from fiction writing , to New Games Journalism , to advocacy for games whic...