The roguelike is a sub-genre of role-playing video games, characterized by level randomization, permanent death, and turn-based movement. Most roguelikes feature ASCII graphics, with newer games increasingly offering tile-based graphics. Games are typically dungeon crawls, with many monsters, items, and environmental features. Computer roguelikes usually employ the majority of the keyboard to facilitate interaction with items and the environment. The name of the genre comes from the 1980 game Rogue.

The Dead Linger is a first-person zombie survival game by Sandswept Studios, featuring procedurally generated worlds of up to 64,000 square kilometers. The game went into Alpha on October 31st, 2012, and eventually it will allow you to drive cars, barricade windows, craft items, explore diverse areas, and kill zombies. Lots of zombies.

The alpha phase of the release life cycle is the first phase to begin software testing (alpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabet, used as the number 1). In this phase, developers generally test the software using white box techniques. White-box testing is a method of testing software that tests internal structures or workings of an application, as opposed to its functionality. Alpha software can be unstable and could cause crashes or data loss.

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1. My first language is not English, so please excuse my grammar and/or stylistic mistakes. Please feel free to correct and/or comment on the next below. Thank you for understanding.2. A lot of people tend to compare The Dead Linger with Minecraft. I do not own Minecraft, nor did I have played it at any time. Basing this article on youtube videos and/or reviews and not actually playing Minecraft first would be wrong. Hence, I am not doing this.Here goes. Enjoy!- http://www.thedeadlinger.com/- Windows (Mac/Linux unofficially with WINE or alternatives)- Sandswept Studios- Singleplayer/Multiplayer (LAN, Online)As we established, there are some of the core mechanics in roguelike games, that make them unique.In The Dead Linger (will refer to it as TDL later on), when you start up your game for the first time, ais being built. A planet sized world, that is randomly generated. Forests, mountains, hills, fields, farmlands, towns, suburbs, cities - are just a few of biomes that will be featured in TDL. Everything you see - you can get there. Every structure - enterable. Every item - manipulated (at least to a common sense degree). Bodies of water are planned. Dynamic weather is also planned. Day/Night cycles are implemented.In the latest build of The Dead Linger, players can enjoy the farmlands with corn and cabbage fields. Experience the echos of life that was before in suburbs. Venture deep in-to the forests in search of a prison. Discover the things they are capable of when pressed on to survive no matter what. Find an arsenal of melee weapons and firearms scattered randomly in the suburbs. And of course - have an apple on a roof of a barricaded house.First, let me just say that if you played any roguelike at all, you have probably noticed that they are HARD. One wrong decision can lead to your death. And, it will be permadeath (permanent death is a situation in which player characters (PCs) die permanently and are removed from the game) at that. TDL will feature difficulty levels, and only Hardcore difficulty will have permanent death.Perils that will lead to your untimely death may include - hunger, infection, blunt-force trauma, gunshot wounds, lacerations and incineration. Future builds implement complex health system, with different layers of wounding.The world you generate can be an unforgiving place. Zombies are the only enemy (except for hostile players) that can do any direct damage to your character right now. Zombies in turn, can only be killed by damaging the infected brain - a headshot or a trauma to the head. They are many in numbers and lurk in unusual places. Hunger is a factor also, but unless you spawn in the forest or neglect the housing estate visible just up ahead, is pretty hard to die from. Hostile players are rare right now (if only because we all are nice), but even friendly players sometime do friendly fire or accidental discharge. Health is regenerating over time, but only as a placeholder.Well, where should I begin? Planned is basically anything you can scavenge in a general store. Clothing, tools, electronics, toys, weapons, vehicles, food, cigarettes and many many more items. So far, item generation file in TDL got 403 entries. No all of them are implemented, but this is just a drop in the ocean, since there will be crafting. At this point the exact style and system of crafting is unknown, except that some of the concept art show peculiar combinations and there is a thread on forums with propositions. Vehicles are planned too, with maintenance and vehicular homicides.Clothing can be found in suburban houses, so is food, weapons and ammo.Weapons are divided in to melee and firearms. Melee weapons are silent and do not require ammo, but in turn they have short range and a slow rate of fire (swing rate). Amongst the others you can find a sledgehammer, metal pipe, frying pan, discipline paddle and a baseball bat. Firearms are faster in dispensing punishment, ranged and make a lot of noise - alerting nearby zombies and players. Right now there is no difference in damage on firearms, only aesthetics, number of rounds in a magazine and sights. Also in the game are gas masks, but for now they are decorations more than anything, until infection will be implemented.Let me write some of the turn offs you can get in TDL.- some people, even after reading what "a game in alpha" means, still think that they are purchasing a finished and polished product. And I cannot blame them, "alpha" these days passes for "early access" in a lot of games. But this is not the case with The Dead Linger. No. It is true alpha, with all the ugliness that is attributed to an early stage of development.- other people, can't stand anything that is not AAA and photo-realistic, 1920 high definition picture. Those people can just move along. TDL feature placeholder art/textures/models, which are subject to change at any time without warning. It was stated on TDL Kickstarter page that developers aiming for STALKER - Clear Sky graphics in final versions.- someone else is impatient, and want all the PLANNED features NOW. I too want them now, but am patient and see no problem with development times. TDL in it's current state is playable, especially if you are in-to role-playing and find some friends to play along. Or if you like solitude, grab a gun and head out for, well, whatever you are seeking. SandSwept Studios (people behind making the game) are a small team and working really hard to deliver more content with each build. You can read changelog here (it is not recent, but close enough) and get a good idea on the progress vs. time developers are doing.Music is a part of atmosphere. Any way you look at it - music changes the mood, one way or the other. In The Dead Linger, music adds sorrow. Adds the realization that you are only a speck of sand in the desert. That your life means nothing to the world anymore. That human kind is no longer a young lead dancer, but a inept old man stepping on his partner shoes. That humans failed each other.But there still is hope...Music in TDL is done by Jonathan Churchill and Brandon Chapman.Where are the skills ? Where are the monsters ? Where are the NPCs ? Well, since the game is in the early stage of development - some of the features are yet to be implemented.We will have to wait and see - how The Dead Linger evolves with next build. If you are interested, you can read up about TDL here, meet the community here, and pre-purchase it here - it is 19.99USD during alpha. For your 20 bucks you not only get the game - now and when it is done - but also supporting the further development and can participate in fleshing out the game! With the amount of content in the final version of the game, 20USD is very small price.