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Ascii Dreams Roguelike of the Year 2009 Winners!

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

The gigantic poll for teh best roguelike of 2009 has finished at Ascii dreams, and the undoubted winner is…. Doom: The Roguelike!

DoomRL

This comes to no surprise as this popular coffeebreak roguelike has broken free from the roguelike niche into the indie world, spawning an active community and attracting heaps of people into our roguemundi! Congratulations to Kornel and good luck with all his endeavours!

Following are the 10 first games:

1. DoomRL: 227 votes

2. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup: 170 votes

3. Incursion: Halls of the Goblin King: 69 votes

4. POWDER: 48 votes

5. Elona: 32 votes

6. GearHead 2: 27 votes

7. Angband: 24 votes

8. Unangband: 21 votes

9. Privateer: ASCII Sector: 19 votes

10. Triangle Wizard: 18 votes

Congratulations to all developers!

The gigantic poll for teh best roguelike of 2008 has finished at Ascii dreams, and the undoubted winner is…. Dungeon Crawl, Stone Soup!

This comes to no surprise as this “variant” has given Crawl, which was already one of the most popular roguelike, a new breath of life. Congratulations to all the development team!

Following are the 10 first games:

1. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup: 126 votes

2. Dwarf Fortress: 116 votes

3. Incursion: Halls of the Goblin King: 45 votes

3. DoomRL: 45 votes

5. POWDER: 30 votes

6. Legerdemain: 28 votes

7. GearHead-2: 18 votes

7. Elona: 18 votes

9. Unangband: 16 votes

10. T.o.M.E: 15 votes

Congratulations to all developers!

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ASCII Dreams Roguelike of The Year 2009

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

The votes are open for this years ASCII Dreams Roguelike of the Year!

Vote at http://roguelikedeveloper.blogspot.com/2009/12/request-for-votes-ascii-dreams.html

There are a lot of roguelikes this time, unsurprisingly, DoomRL leads the list, followed by Crawl, POWDER and Incursion. Vote for your favorite!

How did the roguelikes qualify?

The list was taken from the roguelike releases announced on the Rogue Basin news section between January 1st and December 19th 2009 and from the list of Actively Developing Roguelikes maintained by Jeff Lait. There are a record 99 entries this year – up from 75 the previous year.

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Let’s play POWDER video series

Saturday, January 24th, 2009

Lim-Dul shares some tips and tricks about POWDER in his video series. If you have not played the game yet or would like an introduction visit http://www.youtube.com/user/limdul.

I prepared several videos in advance but only uploaded two so far -
I’ll put one up on Youtube each day till next Thursday when I go on a
trip to the Netherlands – then I’ll see where I go from there.

Lim-Dul

Direct links:
Let’s play POWDER 01: Imps on Acid
Let’s play POWDER 02: Snail Liches, Traps and Water

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The Roguebard has been released!

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

The roguebard, a new website containing music for non commercial roguelike projects, launched some days ago!

The staff plans to host different music contests, and holds a collection of sweet music for your joy (or for your project :) )

Check it out at http://roguebard.eptalys.net/

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Ascii Dreams Roguelike of the Year 2008 Winners!

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

The gigantic poll for teh best roguelike of 2008 has finished at Ascii dreams, and the undoubted winner is…. Dungeon Crawl, Stone Soup!

This comes to no surprise as this “variant” has given Crawl, which was already one of the most popular roguelike, a new breath of life. Congratulations to all the development team!

Following are the 10 first games:

1. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup: 126 votes

2. Dwarf Fortress: 116 votes

3. Incursion: Halls of the Goblin King: 45 votes

3. DoomRL: 45 votes

5. POWDER: 30 votes

6. Legerdemain: 28 votes

7. GearHead-2: 18 votes

7. Elona: 18 votes

9. Unangband: 16 votes

10. T.o.M.E: 15 votes

Congratulations to all developers!

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ASCII Dreams Roguelike of the Year 2008!

Sunday, December 28th, 2008

Time runs out!

ASCII Dreams, Andrew Doull’s blog made famous by its “Designing a Magic System” series, is holding a poll for the roguelike of the year 2008!

The list was taken from the roguelike releases announced on the Rogue Basin news section between January 1st and December 17th 2008 and from the list of Actively Developing Roguelikes maintained by Jeff Lait. There are a record 75 entries this year

It is time to vote, less than 3 days until the poll closes! Go hither!

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International Roguelike DB

Friday, August 8th, 2008

The International Roguelike Database, by Mr. Z (a.k.a. R2) is a tool linked with Roguebasin, via which you can search roguelikes with different criteria and filters.

Check it out at http://www.roguetemple.com/irldb

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The silent noise of the L5 Region

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

People of the rogueworld, I am glad to announce the latest production of Joe Hewitt’s Ataraxia Theatre!

The story begins at the Rishiri Region: L5 Orbital Pattern, not long after the Typhon incident at Snake Lake City (the same time frame of GearHead 2).

Mischa, a wealthy adventurer from Luna, has landed on the fanatics crowded Yatate Spinner, along with her sentient dweller robot dog, Bjorn. What will happen next is unknown, the Red Mask Raiders pirate group, along with a unique characters set will surely add up for an exciting adventure!

So, be sure to link “Mischa’s Story”, which updates on on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. First strip is out already!

(What! you don’t know what GearHead is?)

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Some press coverage

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Altefcat, developer of promising Lands of Elderlore and Mines of Elderlore, has finished revamping his Planet Roguelike, a RSS agregator linked with lots of roguelike related blogs and websites, worth checking out!

Krice, developer of confusing Kaduria and Teemu, has released Rogue Hut, a roguelike blog featuring reviews and advancements over his not Kadurian projects, worth checking out!

Biskup, developer of sucessful ADOM and Jade, is pondering about Shops and Dances over his ADoM Blog, worth checking out!

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Roguemundi: The Roguelike World Map

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Roguemundi

The Roguemundi is the roguelike map of the world, an atlas that contains both roguelike players and developers from all around the globe.

Do you consider yourself part of this world?

Have you enjoyed…
delving into the unholy and foul depths of the earth,
vanquishing legendary foes and acquiring treasure?

Do you spent 40% of your brainpower all day long…
thinking on how to implement that cool feature
that will make your game stand out before the rest?

If so, go now, and be with us.

Peace.

Rogueurope

haha!

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