Comments on: Ascii Dreams Roguelike of the Year 2008 Winners!

By: Corremn

Corremn — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:50:36 +0000

Mage Guild will be there next year. Came in 13th or something. Likewise SewerJacks should of been at least first :p
I think this list represents a good list for the year. I have played everything but Elona so off to download it I go.
P.s Is there a new developer of DoomRL ;-)
P.p.s Who ever voted for Rogue Mercenaries out of all those games?

By: Vanguard

Vanguard — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:16:00 +0000

I think Mage Guild got robbed.

By: Erathoniel

Erathoniel — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:18:30 +0000

I’ve tried copy-pasting the password. I’ll try again. Just worked.

By: Slash

Slash — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:34:44 +0000

Yeah, I get a LOT of spam comments daily :P

I hava approved your post, thanks for the links!

Also, why won’t pixal let you in? it is working here… forgot your password?

By: erathoniel

erathoniel — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:11:20 +0000

I just played DoomRL a little yesterday. I mainly play the challenges (Who needs a full fledged armory when you can run around with a pistol or a chainsaw?), and I cheat a lot. But I still have fun. It’s a pretty fun game. Should’ve beaten Dungeon Crawl. Yeah, I’m biased. I’ve never been good at Dungeon Crawl. Either way, I’ve tried to put up a list of links probably three times, and it’s failed to submit comment. Spam filter?

@Slash: Pixal doesn’t seem to want to let me on.

By: Erathoniel

Erathoniel — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:26:08 +0000

@Slash: Pixal isn’t letting me on, for some weird reason.

Here’s a list of links to the winners, in order. You’ll need to copy-paste them into the address bar.

http://crawl-ref.sourceforge.net/

http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/

http://www.incursion-roguelike.org/

http://www.doom.chaosforge.org

http://www.zincland.com/powder/index.php?pagename=about

http://roguelikefiction.com/

http://www.gearheadrpg.com/

http://homepage3.nifty.com/rfish/index_e.html

http://unangband.blogspot.com/

http://t-o-m-e.net/main.php?tome_current=0

By: Slash

Slash — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:09:23 +0000

Yeah, it’s been hard work, but it has been worth it!

By: Durandal

Durandal — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:57:44 +0000

DoomRL deserved it’s position up on the list, like majorly. And it’s only gonna get better. :)

By: Grillkick

Grillkick — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:39:58 +0000

Its all about Incursion bringing it home at 3rd place- while still in alpha! That game has ridiculous depth and the D20 implementation is just sick- I look forward to where it goes in the future.

By: Erathoniel

Erathoniel — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:39:10 +0000

I have no qualms calling all the games in the list roguelikes. Dwarf Fortress is just a Roguelike Manager, in so much as it runs many, many games of rogue with less violence (until you get the sick, twisted players’ minds factoring in), and the real time doesn’t really disqualify it. (Doryen, anyone?)

My only regrets are that I’m no good at Crawl.

Congrats on DoomRL’s success, Slash!

About Civilization done in ASCII, if it were, it still wouldn’t be a roguelike. It lacks some of the more important factors of roguelikes, such as individual characters, and insane detail. In DF, next release, there will be hair that can come off (Not the 40d# releases, though) with injuries, and grow back. DF plays like a roguelike, Civilization doesn’t.

Elona’s actually really, really, really deep. Seriously. It’s easy to lose yourself in the world. Or lose.

GearHead 2’s been really fun for quite a few versions, so I’m not surprised it got what it got (ok, so I thought it would get higher, but [tangent removed]).