Ascii Dreams

The Roguelike Radio team weren't able to get a roguelike developer to interview this week*. So they got a Rogue developer to interview i...

While we're on a science fiction theme, I've started playing Deus Ex: Human Revolution and, hmmm... Somewhere in me is a large, th...

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 ...

Thanks to all 59 of you who voted (wow! That's a lot of developers). The results were: Assert   18 (30%) Try/Throw/Catch   41 (69%...

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

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