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The 2011 Seven Day Roguelike Challenge was the 7th 7DRL challenge and took place on the week of March 5th to March 13th of 2011.

A substantial number of people posted their progress over the course of the week on the 7DRLC community blog, which received 951 views at the height of the challenge on March 12th.

On Wordpress, entries used the tag 7DRL 2011 for related blog posts. On Twitter, some used the hashtag #7DRL2011 for competition related status updates.

Successful

Honorable Mention (10DRL)

Ido Yehieli - Detribus - http://www.detribus-game.com/

Failed

Jimmy Åberg - A1RL - did not even manage to start the project

Akhier - The Soul Lord - techdemo

AstralCalculus - unnamed - http://astralcalculus.tumblr.com/post/3838059648/my-very-incomplete-7drl11-entry

Derrick Creamer - unnamed - never really got started this week

Michael Doherty - unnamed - glitchy map generation, player movement, text displays

Nils Fagerburg - unnamed - had planned on making a roguelike inspired print and play board game

FruitPie & Fantasy Heaven - Gourmancer - windows binary, source

Greg - Oculomancer - http://thewired.com/7DRL/oculomancer.zip

jab - VineMine - didn't get enough time to work on it

Jlund3 - JadeRogue - http://code.google.com/p/jaderogue/source/browse/branches/7drl-11/

Ed Kolis - Into the Darkness - https://bitbucket.org/ekolis/into-the-darkness

Thomas Larsen - ZombieRL - http://7drl.org/2011/03/13/graceful-failure-zombierl/

James Meickle (Eronarn) - Glyph - https://github.com/Eronarn/Glyph

motioneffector - DirtBox - http://7drl.org/2011/03/13/codename-dirtbox-pre-alpha-day-7/

Chris Payne (Winterblood) - Tallow - http://7drl.org/2011/03/13/tallow-7drl-failure/

Paul Pekkarinen (Krice) - Teemu 1.3 - but progress was made

Sherm Pendley - unnamed - I intend to keep working on it

Gabriel Arthur Petrie - what I'm working on - I'll finish it fairly soon

purestrain - unnamed - basic version, version with midi (may not work correctly)

purplearcanist - Time travel roguelike - the project is not dead yet

Risto Saarelma - Helltank - that didn't quite work out

Kristopher Saxton & Jason Makay - Scavenger: Throat Cutting for Fun and Profit

Nemo - Herakleophorbia - development will continue on this mini-roguelike

vsync - Warehouse - I'm going to keep working on it screenshot

Kevin Wells - Unnamed Project - https://github.com/darkoppressor/escape-from-the-masters-lair

Zonk - unnamed, fantasy arena/pit fighting - might finish this

Runaways

Chris Doucet

Ciarán Walsh

Del Murgatroid

deps

DNewhall

Drakalor Tourist

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elig - FarmCraft

Gregory Friis

Karies

Kevin Mees - NRogue

Michael Durwald

MisfitBYTE - Late Start

Nik Coughlin - Legend of the Cheese Golem - https://github.com/nrkn/LosvRL

Parthon - Randor: Planestrife

Paxtor

Pol

pom - Oubliette

RedboneBit

Scott Edgar - Four challenges

Siquo

SophieH - ? - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9766731/7drl2011/WebPlayer/WebPlayer.html

steev - Matter Splatter RL

Stoney - A Practical Survival Guide for Knights

Tanthie - Life of a Dragon

Vincent Berset - Schream

Summary

Challengers: 98 Winners: 46 Failed: 26 Runaways: 26

Logo

2011 7DRL Challenge is the first one for which a logo contest has been made. The winner of the 2011 7D7DRLCLC (Seven-Day Seven-Day Roguelike Challenge Logo Contest) was Nik Coughlin, with this "dungeon on a screen" logo:

Reviews

RogueBasin users have written reviews here: 7DRL Contest 2011 Reviews.

Heroic Fisticuffs is posting his reviews on his blog

Geoffrey White has posted a number of reviews on his blog

Darren Grey has highlighted some of his favourites on his blog.

Ratings of all games as reviewed by a committee along with feedback on each title can be found here.

Add your own! Even short reviews will tell challengers that you appreciate their work, help others decide which games to play first, and create an enduring record of this year's highlights. Compared to the time and effort you're already putting into downloading the games, getting them to run, and playing them, it really doesn't take much.

Medal

The 2011 7DRL Challenge Medal was designed by Nik Coughlin, and distributed by Slashie [1]

Winners may proudly display the medal on their homepage or their RogueBasin user pages. Failures may only look on with envy...