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

Further info at roguebasin

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, 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

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

An so it was, that roguelike authors were faced again with the grueling challenge of making a complete roguelike within one hundred and sixty eight hours.

The time for 2009 7DRL Challenge is on!

A Seven Day Roguelike (7DRL) can be written at any time.  However, a general agreement was reached that it would be fun to schedule a specific week for a challenge.  This allows the various authors to know that others are also desperately tracking down a bad pointer reference on the 167th hour.

Now, we must choose a week.

[..]

As per tradition, three weeks have been selected.  January is right out, as that is not enough warning.  Same goes for first week of February.  The following two weeks can easily run into Valentines, and I don’t want any angry significant others tracking me down.

Thus, the available weeks are:

1) February 21st to March 1st
2) February 28th to March 8th
3) March 7th to March 15th

Now head to rgrd and vote! and remember… We are working, obviously, on the honour system.

So, here they go again, the hardcore conquerors of everything (even the kitchen sink) will meet again in a turn based, indirect interaction, world-wide, smash-out.

On Halloween, at midnight Pacific U.S. Time, /dev/null’s Tenth Annual NetHack Tournament opens.  As with past years, the Tournament is open to anyone who’d like to play.

This year is the Tournament’s 10th anniversary; it’s been suggested that this makes it the longest-running gaming tournament on the Internet, and we’ve been unable to find any older ones out there so that may very well be true.

Click friend and enter!