Ascii Dreams

A roguelike developer's diary.

Friday, 26 June 2015

High Frontier Interstellar design notes - part 3 (Inspiration)

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(Start with parts one and two ). I don't consider myself a game designer because there are two things I haven't done which are ce...
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Monday, 15 June 2015

High Frontier Interstellar design notes - part 2 (Motivation)

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(Start with part one ). There are several reasons for developing a 3rd edition of High Frontier Interstellar. The first one is simply mech...
Saturday, 13 June 2015

High Frontier Interstellar 3rd edition design notes - part 1 (Introduction)

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I have a bad habit of writing variants to games - as you may have noticed. Usually these amount to nothing (my Civilization board game varia...
Thursday, 11 June 2015

Powering up

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It has been a long time since I've posted here. That's not to say I haven't been busy: I'm active on Twitter , perhaps too a...
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Sunday, 13 July 2014

UnBrogue postmortem: part 2

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It has been over a year since my last UnBrogue post-mortem article , which just goes to show how much time I have spent developing this Brog...
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Monday, 7 July 2014

The Real Roguelike Renaissance

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There has been a mini-spate of 'explainer' articles aimed at easing the neophyte gamer into the world of roguelikes: both on Gamasut...
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Sunday, 16 February 2014

Review: High Frontier Colonization

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Are you willing to gamble an hour of time, sweat and frozen tears on the roll of a dice? That's the question High Frontier will ask of y...
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Thursday, 2 January 2014

10-100

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I'm not going to get the runner up details together for a little while, but Darren Grey made the intriguing suggestion that the roguelik...
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Wednesday, 1 January 2014

Winner of the Ascii Dreams Roguelike of the Year 2013: Noxico

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You probably haven't heard of Noxico. It is one of the sub genre of adult roguelikes, that I only was made aware of when I ran this poll...
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Tuesday, 31 December 2013

Page down key

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If you're on a PC, it's at the top right of your keyboard. If you're on OS/X, good luck... [Edit: My apologies for the lack o...
Monday, 30 December 2013

VIII VI VIII

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If you really liked 868-HACK but wished it had a bit more blood and sandals, Hoplite ( iOS , Android ) may be your thing... ( Touch Arcade...
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Tuesday, 17 December 2013

Request for Votes: Ascii Dreams Roguelike of the Year 2013

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290 roguelikes have qualified this year: this is only a slight increase of 7 roguelikes from last year and begs the question: 'Have we r...
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