We are about 2 weeks from 2011 ARRP! You can still jump into it!

Further info at roguebasin

And so it was that 99 brave challengers entered the 2011 seven day roguelike challenge!

Of those, 46 returned alive, claiming to have a finished and playable game… Now it is your turn to judge!

The Newcomers (First 7DRL Challenge)

• Ulf Åström: Puzzle Challenge (source)
• Benhem: 3D/2D dungeon crawl – (shh to: sevendrl@benhem.xen.prgmr.com with password:7drl)
• Joshua Day: Rook
• Filip Dreger: Pac the Rogue
• Furi-wuff: 7DRLCC
• Friedrich Hanisch & Jana Reinhardt: Pitman Krumb
• IBOL: Destiny Of Heroes
• Jplur: Gridfolk
• LordBistian: unnamed
• Dave Moore: Stygia
• Nicolas Makela: Alfarogue
• Andy Moraczewski: MonsterEnthrallerRL
• Nikolaos: Devil *MIGHT* Laugh
• psy_wombats: Deep Realm Heroes
• quickfingers: SRL
• Ralph: PM:theRL
• Justin Reardon: Storming the Ship
• Jacob Sadow-Reinshagen: dungeonRL
• Joshua Sigona: Free-Like
• Radek Soldek: Alamut
• Paweł Ślusarczyk: Piraten
• Tyler: Happy Ever After
• Anaël Verrier: Anauroch
• Ralph Versteegen & Nigel McBride: Geiger A.D. ’42 (Windows) (source)
• Wesley Werner: Wordrogue
• wiglud: Mad Mage
• Pat Wilson: Defender of the Deep

Experienced (2 7DRL Challenges)

• aave: A Little Anxious When It’s Dark
• Adam Gatt: God of Change
• Joseph Bradshwe: Rogue – The Cardlike
• Darren Grey: Broken Bottle
• Edwin DeNicholas: Regicide!
• Fobbah: Magicko
• Heroic Fisticuffs: GnomeSquad
• hmp: Dwarftown
• kaw: Light7DRL (Linux) (Windows)
• Trystan Spangler: Twelve Hours
• Oohara Yuuma: kusemono

Gentlemen (3-4 Challenges)

• Eben Howard: EmoSquid
• Legend of Angband: JSRL
• Nathaniel Inman: Kepler-10b
• Numeron: The Man in the Mirror
• Konstantin Stupnik: Monster Slayer Show

Singing, happy drunks (5+ Challenges)

• Corremn: Inversion of Control
• Jeff Lait: Vicious Orcs
• Slash: Elite International Detective

The challenge has started! Many entrants declared start date and game title. Announcement thread is over seventy posts by now but there is still time to proclaim participation until end of March 6th. A success thread for victorious challengers is already created.

Visit http://7drl.org/ weblog to read how development struggle goes or to learn that other authors are also desperately tracking down a bad pointer reference on the 167th hour.

The 2011 7DRL Challenge, March 5 to 13

The time has almost come! Gather all your strengths and build a roguelike, be it your first one or your next one.

A good roguelike is an expression of pure gameplay: as a developer you can turn your ideas into games for the people to enjoy, without the constraints of 3d modeling or expensive graphics creation.

Developing a roguelike also allows you to portrait a theme within the limitations of abstract or simple gfx output, but having imagination as a tool to recreate infinite environments and stories

Summon your indie gamedev friends, be they roguedevs or not for this, the annual roguelike development party!

Links of interest:

• Roguebasin page

The results are in! going against all laws, conventions and best-practices of roguelike development, DarkGod rose and took the grand-prize for himself and the community around ToME-4. Congratulations!

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, Dwarf Fortress and DoomRL continue holding strong into the hearts of the roguelikers.

Thanks to Mr. Doull @ ASCIIDreams for keeping the tradition.

There were 167 entries and 1675 votes. This is the top ten for 2010, congratulations all!

Check this article for the full ranking

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