The Newcomers (First 7DRL Challenge) [34]

• Aave
• Andy
• Andy M
• Austin Wilburn
• Barry
• Darren Grey
• Derrick Creamer
• Dto1138
• Flyingofx
• Fobbah
• Geoffrey White
• Heroic Fisticuffs
• Hmp
• Increpare
• Isnok
• James Pendergrast
• Jo
• Kkarios
• Magellan
• Michael Curran
• Millkka Kilkkila
• Mo Collector
• Nathaniel Inman
• Oohara Yuuma
• Pammpi
• Pol
• Purplearcanist
• Qwertyuiopas
• Sock Puppet
• Steev
• Timothy S. Murphy
• Tipa
• Trystan.s
• Win

Experienced (2 Challenges) [10]

• Bryan Strait
• Deej
• Ekolis
• Flend
• Ido
• Kaw
• Konstantin Stupnik
• Legend of Angband
• Sir Lewk
• Vlad Dumitru

Gentleman (3-4 Challenges) [5]

• Corremn
• Timofei Shatrov
• Buub0nik
• Numeron
• Sinoth

Singing, happy drunks (5+ Challenges)

• Jeff Lait
• Slash

With fifty completed 7DRLs this year, some people wonder how they will have time to play them all! Fortunately, that is simple…

Just play one a week for the next year.

For those less dedicated, a team of evaluators was assembled to give all the roguelikes a once-over. We graded the roguelikes under six categories using a simple three point scale. We ensured every roguelike was graded by at least two reviewers, and aimed for most to have three reviewers.

After a long week of playing, we present our results!

Check them out here, at Roguetemple’s 7DRL Shrine! http://www.roguetemple.com/7drl/2010/

The Honorable Members of the Committee

• @ Darren Grey
• @ Ido Yehieli
• @ Jeff Lait
• @ Jice
• @ Joseph Larson
• @ Kaw
• @ Michael Curran
• @ Slash

This list is not meant to be an authoritative ranking of the games. If you dive in, you will see different reviewers often disagreed on the rankings.

Instead, it is a way for you to help select which 7DRLs are likely to have things of interest to you.

Specific comments were also written by reviewers. Note that these are criticism for the developer to better improve the game – please do not be unduly offended if they are nitpicky or consist of “I got killed by a ferret on the first screen”.

The categories are, with description of what a 3 means:

• Completeness: Bug free, polished game with no features that feel like they are missing.
• Aesthetics: Good looking, excellent controls and UI.
• Fun: If you try any 7DRLs, try this one.
• Innovation: Brings something fundamentally new to roguelikes.
• Scope: Beyond what you think could have been done in seven days.
• Roguelike: 3 means Roguelike, 2 means Roguelike-like, 1 means Not Roguelike. Each reviewer used their own personal definition here.

Thanks to all the members of the committee for their great efforts, we hope you enjoy it!

The results are in, congratulations to all the challengers!

(All but the runaways, that’s it :P)

Challengers: 87
Success: 49
Failure: 18
Runaway: 20

See the full results here

The challenge is on with an outstanding number of 77 7DRL Challengers!

You can still announce yours!

Roguetemple presents you all of them, for your viewing pleasure! (All times are GMT-5)

• ‘Undisclosed’ by Fobbah on 03/08/10, 08:59:00
• ‘Pit of Hate’ by Walter Landry on 03/08/10, 02:30:00
• ‘Bane of the Living’ by Derrick Creamer on 03/07/10, 23:59:00
• ‘Troll Slayer ‘ by Corremn on 03/07/10, 23:16:00
• ‘Dungeonslayers RL ‘ by Kyle on 03/07/10, 23:12:00
• ‘Vapourtek Theatre ‘ by sinoth on 03/07/10, 23:01:00
• ‘AarrrRL! ‘ by Todd Page on 03/07/10, 22:39:00
• ‘Undisclosed’ by dto1138 on 03/07/10, 22:08:00
• ‘Undisclosed’ by Matt_S on 03/07/10, 22:03:00
• ‘Ron Paul Revolution’ by James Meickle on 03/07/10, 20:38:00
• ‘ChuRL’ by jonypawks on 03/07/10, 19:51:00
• ‘Robobot’ by Barry on 03/07/10, 19:32:00
• ‘Undisclosed’ by Allan on 03/07/10, 19:01:00
• ‘Muert: Racial Prison Riot (Rape) Mayhem’ by pol on 03/07/10, 18:16:00
• ‘Fury’ by David A on 03/07/10, 17:51:00
• ‘PrincessRL’ by flend on 03/07/10, 17:36:00
• ‘GUNFIST!’ by jorbrads on 03/07/10, 17:12:00
• ‘RULER’ by Slash on 03/07/10, 16:53:00
• ‘Rogues in the Ascii World of Open Street Map’ by Altefcat on 03/07/10, 15:28:00
• ‘Toby the Trapper’ by Darren Grey on 03/07/10, 15:05:00
• ‘Earl Spork’ by deej on 03/07/10, 14:51:00
• ‘Quest For 7 ‘ by Andy M on 03/07/10, 12:49:00
• ‘Undisclosed’ by kaw on 03/07/10, 12:00:00
• ‘CamelRL ‘ by Sherm Pendley on 03/07/10, 11:54:00
• ‘Smart Kobolds ‘ by Jeff Lait on 03/07/10, 09:27:00
• ‘The Legend of Kalamakkara’ by Miikka Kilkkilä on 03/07/10, 07:48:00
• ‘Lunar Shards ‘ by 10Print on 03/07/10, 07:47:00
• ‘Undisclosed’ by Nassi_setä on 03/07/10, 04:49:00
• ‘A Quest Too Far ‘ by Geoffrey White on 03/07/10, 03:47:00
• ‘Madness ‘ by hmp on 03/07/10, 03:08:00
• ‘A Lively Fisting ‘ by Jaldhar on 03/07/10, 02:21:00
• ‘The Rogue’s Quest ‘ by failrate on 03/06/10, 21:35:00
• ‘MazeBand ‘ by Legend of Angband on 03/06/10, 21:32:00
• ‘Spell and Spear ‘ by Austin Wilburn on 03/06/10, 19:43:00
• ‘¤ ‘ by Nik Coughlin on 03/06/10, 18:54:00
• ‘Undisclosed’ by purplearcanist on 03/06/10, 16:43:00
• ‘Chompy! ‘ by edenicholas on 03/06/10, 16:42:00
• ‘Windfall Serenade: Alpine Quest Dragooner ‘ by Devon on 03/06/10, 16:30:00
• ‘GartenRL’ by Required field cannot be left blank on 03/06/10, 16:28:00
• ‘Math: The Roguelike ‘ by kkairos on 03/06/10, 16:11:00
• ‘Jellies in a Jam ‘ by win on 03/06/10, 15:58:00
• ‘Einherjar ‘ by Fenrir on 03/06/10, 15:21:00
• ‘RunRight’ by trystan.s@comcast.net on 03/06/10, 14:14:00
• ‘RavenousRL ‘ by steev on 03/06/10, 13:55:00
• ‘Bidden ‘ by George Oliver on 03/06/10, 12:28:00
• ‘RogueBand Hero ‘ by flyingofx on 03/06/10, 11:58:00
• ‘Undisclosed’ by Timothy M on 03/06/10, 11:51:00
• ‘Defender of ASCII ‘ by Holyaxe on 03/06/10, 11:04:00
• ‘Laser Spigot ‘ by Andy on 03/06/10, 10:57:00
• ‘Project Purgatorio ‘ by Chris Wentzel on 03/06/10, 10:55:00
• ‘Undisclosed’ by Ryan Szrama on 03/06/10, 10:52:00
• ‘Undisclosed’ by Konstantin Stupnik on 03/06/10, 10:48:00
• ‘Smash Arena ‘ by Ed Kolis on 03/06/10, 10:19:00
• ‘World of Roguecraft ‘ by Tipa on 03/06/10, 10:19:00
• ‘Panicc ‘ by Grandi on 03/06/10, 09:43:00
• ‘Undisclosed’ by Qwertyuiopas on 03/06/10, 09:27:00
• ‘Undisclosed’ by Ilmuri on 03/06/10, 08:31:00
• ‘The Ultimate Ending of the Dead ‘ by Pekka on 03/06/10, 08:19:00
• ‘Simulacrum ‘ by Paranoid Death Fantasy on 03/06/10, 08:15:00
• ‘Backward children ‘ by Thomas Berglund on 03/06/10, 07:49:00
• ‘Shopdoom ‘ by pammpi on 03/06/10, 06:52:00
• ‘Hitmen For Destiny: the game ‘ by Timofei Shatrov on 03/06/10, 06:46:00
• ‘Constellation ‘ by Asceai on 03/06/10, 06:43:00
• ‘SpelunkeRL ‘ by Arwus Decker on 03/06/10, 06:38:00
• ‘Go!’ by Sock Puppet on 03/06/10, 06:35:00
• ‘Generic fantasy thingy ‘ by magellan on 03/06/10, 05:23:00
• ‘Divine battle is about to start! ‘ by aave on 03/06/10, 04:58:00
• ‘Old school roguelike ‘ by Vlad Dumitru on 03/06/10, 04:37:00
• ‘Underhall ‘ by elig on 03/06/10, 04:29:00
• ‘Undisclosed’ by jab on 03/06/10, 03:00:00
• ‘GenEric Zombie Roguelike ‘ by idontexist on 03/06/10, 02:39:00
• ‘Undisclosed’ by Oohara Yuuma on 03/06/10, 02:35:00
• ‘This’ by zarat on 03/06/10, 00:26:00
• ‘Project “Hitting Things with Sticks” ‘ by Movius C. Longhair on 03/06/10, 00:08:00
• ‘Undisclosed’ by Sir_Lewk on 03/06/10, 00:01:00
• ‘7SRL. ‘ by Ben on 03/05/10, 21:45:00
• ‘Domination Empires ‘ by Numeron on 03/05/10, 20:15:00

The 2010 7DRL Challenge starts next Saturday March 6!

Knights from all over the land are waving their standards into our kingdom… it’s time to play!

Within the week of March 6th to March 14th,

you are challenged to write a roguelike

in 168 hours!

This will be the 7th 7DRL roguelike challenge…. everybody get ready!!!

More information at Roguetemple’s 7DRL Shrine

…Notably MPRDB bears quite a lot similarites to Rogue. Dungeon is discovered in exactly same fashion. One square of visibility in corridors while whole rooms are revealed upon entering. Dungeoneering hero is described by only two main attributes: body and agility.

Read the full review.

• DungeonMinder, Epic! Monster Quest! Hyper!, Underbooks, Excitable Digger, Fortress of the Goblin King, Expedition, and some other 7DRLs got bugfixes versions
• CymonGames has reviewed all of the 7DRL challengers and has three polls set up to congratulate the best entries
• The 2009 7DRL Playing competition has started on rec.games.roguelike.misc

And so it was that 45 brave challengers entered the fifth seven day roguelike challenge!

Of those, 25 returned alive, claiming to have a finished and playable game… Now it is your turn to judge!

The Newcomers (First 7DRL Challenge)

• Adam Gatt: DungeonMinder
• deej: Excitable Digger
• destroysound: Whispers in the Void
• Deveah: Pink Ninja
• Ed Kolis: Decimation
• Elig: Backwards Gravity
• flend: DDRogue
• Florian Diebold: Fortress of the Goblin King
• guesst: The Favored
• Ido: Fruits of the Forest
• idontexist: True God
• jab: Persist
• Legend of Angband: dL1
• Mary Haas and James Madison: Nyctos
• Nils Fagerburg: Cypress Tree Manor
• Numeron: Domination
• purpleflayer: chickhack
• Rick Clark: Escape From Lab 42
• s.chiu: Fist of the Rogue Warrior
• Sir_Lewk: TetRLs
• Xecutor: SpiritsRL

Experienced (2 7DRL Challenges)

• buub0nik & sinoth: Epic! Monster Quest: Hyper
• Christopher Brandt: Underbooks

Gentleman (3+ 7DRL Challenges)

• Jeff Lait: Jacob’s Matrix
• Slash: Expedition

Check the games and give them feedback on the roguetemple forums!

For a groundbreaking number, 41 roguedevs have accepted the challenge! We’re all gonna have a lot of cool games to play next week  :)

• Fruits of the Forest by Ido Yehieli
• TetrisRL by Sir_Lewk
• GrimRL by Nik Coughlin
• Pink Ninja by Deveah
• AbstractRL by jimmy aberg
• Stones of Chaos: the True God by idontexist
• Fl@shpoint by edwardoka
• The Favored by guesst
• Nyctos by Mary Haas and James Madison
• When Zombies Attack!  by David A
• Murder in Moscow by Mike Judge
• Underbooks by Christopher Brandt
• Decimation by Ed
• The Lion King by Darren Grey
• Whispers in the Void by destroysound
• Unnamed attempt by Sherm Pendley
• Environmental Energies by Gamer_2k4
• Hydrosphere by HexDecimal
• Expedition by Slash
• Fist of the Rogue Warrior by s.chiu
• Unnamed attempt by Nils
• Robot Rebellion by Emile
• MultiRL by Nathan Stoddard
• Unnamed attempt by chr.m.charles
• Epic! Monster Quest: Hyper by buub0nik
• Planets of Elderlore by Altefact
• A Roguelike by h.j.l.jones
• Jacob’s Matrix by Jeff Lait
• Escape from Lab 42 by rdc
• Nidhoggr by Michal Bielinski
• Quarterlight by Phil O’Neill
• Fortress of the Goblin King by Florian Diebold
• DDRogue by flend
• Persist by jab
• dL1 by Legend of Angband
• Catacombs of the Soulthief by Derrick Creamer
• DungeonMinder by Adam Gatt
• Tales of Ezcyria by Stein
• SpiritsRL by Xecutor
• DukeRL by corremn
• chickhack by purpleflayer

Find full info and links at this roguetemple thread