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Ascii Dreams Roguelike of the Year 2011 winners!

Michał Bieliński — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:42:22 +0000

Voting for best roguelike games at Ascii Dreams has finished today. This time almost three thousand people have voted! Undisputed winner is:

Tales of Maj’Eyal

Following are the 20 first games (note we have two ties):

1. ToME 4 with 702 votes

2. Dungeons of Dredmor with 612 votes

3. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup with 486 votes

4. JADE with 431 votes

5. Desktop Dungeons with 391 votes

6. Dwarf Fortress with 373 votes

7. Brogue with 240 votes

8. The Binding of Isaac with 199 votes

9. DoomRL: Doom, the Roguelike with 178 votes

10. Cataclysm with 170 votes

11. Legends of Yore with 94 votes

12. X@COM with 90 votes

13. Caves of Qud with 87 votes

14. UnReal World with 79 votes

15. Angband with 68 votes

15. Cardinal Quest with 68 votes

17. POWDER with 66 votes

18. Infra Arcana with 62 votes

19. Prospector RL with 49 votes

19. Rogue Survivor with 49 votes

Request for votes: Ascii Dreams Roguelike of the Year 2011

Michał Bieliński — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:02:04 +0000

It is December again. With ever growing list of roguelike games to vote on Andrew Doull sure is going to break Blogger’s poll system someday. Until that happens venture to Ascii Dreams and choose your favorites.

So far every year the prize was won by unique roguelike. Is this going to be continued?

2010 Annual Roguelike Release Party: Results

Slash — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 21:47:37 +0000

It’s been more than a month, still, I present you the results of the first ever ARRP, directly from roguebasin! Short reviews will be made for each one in the following week,

Albion by OrangyTang
BOSS 2.4a by Michal Bielinski
Cataclysm by whales
Cracks and Crevices by Stu George
Dance of Death v0.6.136 by Nolithius
Dungeon Monkey Unlimited by Joseph Hewitt
Dweller 1.4.0 by Björn Ritzl
Expedition v0.1.8 RC3 by Slash
Exploring The Bleak, Release Candidate by Nathaniel Inman
Fall From Heaven by User:Jolly Roger.
Iso Unangband WIP 4 by Hansjoerg Malthaner
NLarn 0.6 by Joachim de Groot and Johanna Ploog
Rogue Assasin by Numeron
SewerJacks 0.8.8a by corremn
Teratogen 0.0.3 by Risto Saarelma
The cave – Walking @ by Jice
Toby the Trapper 1.2 by Darren Grey
T-Engine4 / ToME beta11 by DarkGod
Traction Edge, techdemo 0.1 by Mongrol
Umbra 10.09 Alpha, by Mingos & Jice

The 2010 7DRL Challenge is coming!

Slash — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:42:15 +0000

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

IRDC 2009 is coming

Slash — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 03:15:58 +0000

IRDC 2009 is coming!

Slash — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 04:26:42 +0000

The Second International Roguelike Development Conference is coming! While some votes are being cast over r.g.r.d. for the location of the main event (discussion has barely started), it has been proposed that many micro-events be held on different cities all around the world roughly at the same time!

If you would be interested in participating or helping host such a meeting, please fill the Clustered Model survey, so we can find out how many neraby roguelike lovers could meet!

What is this conference? if you are a roguelike developer or player seeking to have a nice time with fellow roguelikers, and probably watch one or two roguelike development related conferences, this is your oportunity!

Berlin International Roguelike Development Conference 2008

Slash — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:59:56 +0000

And so it was that several roguedevs met at the historical city of Berlin for the first IRDC on September 2008. There were not many, but it is quality which matters, and we are looking forward for future events.

You can download the videos and related material at http://sheep.art.pl/misc/irdc/

These are some of the presentations:

Christopher Brandt: How not to write a roguelike – a review of his own experience trying to write DungeonHunter contrasted with his success on Aviel’s Stand
Ido Yehieli: Description of facing-based field of view, hearing radii, and their impact on UI and gameplay.
Jeff Lait: Survey of different methods of discretization and its gameplay implications.
Radomir: Introduction to Python as an effective roguelike platform with examples from Z-Day.
David Ploog: Remarks on Roguelike Design (Not Coding)
Mario Donick: Symbolism on roguelikes

The so-called “Cabal of Elite Roguelikers” also announced an official roguelike re-definition, “The Berlin Interpretation”, based on the current roguetemple definition; you can read and discuss it here

Have fun watching the videos!

First International Roguelike Development Conference: Berlin 2008

Slash — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:58:46 +0000

The First International Roguelike Development Conference is on! Don’t miss your chance to meet fellow roguelike developers and players!

Place: Berlin, Germany
Time: Sat Sep 20th-Sun Sep 21st 2008.
Sign up and fill your details here

Eat your stone soup, August Crawl Tournament

Slash — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:53:09 +0000

The dudes at crawl.akrasiac.org have announced a public tournament to take place during the month of August! It is time to prove your dungeon crawling skills against talented crawlers from all around the world!

Hello everyone! With help from a cast of characters always growing and always awesome, I’m putting together the first Crawl tournament in the style of various nethack tournaments, including the /dev/null network tournament and Eidolos’s June tournaments. Here are the basics:

* You play as many games as you want for the entirety of August.
* Wins get you meta-points, especially for the fastest or first or streaks.
* High scores in race/class combinations get you meta-points, especially if you have the most of them.
* Getting runes and killing uniques also get you meta-points, so you don’t need to be a Crawl Champion to get your name up on the scoreboard.
* Clans of six players or less are encouraged and clans have their own special additional meta-points to determine which clan wins.
* There should be at least one server in the US and at least one in Europe; if you’re interested in hosting a server, please send me email.

You don’t need to do anything to sign up other than play on CAO. When there is specific information about the exact start/end times, specific information about clan memberships, and a webpage with the current status of “Who’s winning each prize?,” I’ll post again. If it tempts you at all, there will be actual, physical, you-not-your-character can touch them prizes. :)

The tournament has started, you are still on time to get in! Go to Crawl at akrasiac.org

Also, join roguetemple’s clan and fight for glory and fame!

2008 Roguelike Soundtrack Contest Entries, and Interview with Mingos

Slash — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:53:14 +0000

The 2008 Roguelike Soundtrack Contest entries have been published! Check out the contest homepage and vote for your favorite!

They were 15 valiant bards entering the dreadful labyrinth of the 2008 roguelike soundtrack contest. Only 8 of them survived the traps and hidden creatures. You can vote until July, 20 23:59 GMT for your favorite soundtrack

Thank you Mingos and Jice for arranging this contest. And thank you contestants for providing us with quality soundtracks!

Check the Interview with Mingos for further details!