Firstly, my apologies for the lack of updates these last few months. Job-hunting, house-hunting and the new podcast have all leeched my time away. This update covers activities for the whole of the last three months.

Major News

Roguelike Radio podcast

A new weekly podcast has started focusing on our favourite game genre. Roguelike Radio has had 10 episodes to date, as well 4 bonus interviews with developers. Each week the topic alternates between a focus on an individual game (such as DoomRL or Dungeons of Dredmor) or a discussion on a general topic to do with roguelike game features.

Cardinal Quest released

Ido Yehieli has released his commercial roguelike Cardinal Quest, available on BMTMicro and Gameolith, with a free demo playable on Kongregate. Its retro graphics and music have proved so popular that a free giveaway caused BMTMicro’s servers to crash after 100k copies were downloaded in under an hour!

Annual Roguelike Release Party 2011

ARRP 2011 proved a huge hit with 27 releases, including 9 completely new titles. You can find a full list at Björn Ritzl’s blog.

Classic RLs in Your Browser

Donnie Russell has been hard at work converting several classic roguelikes for play in flash in your browser, making them much more accessible on modern systems. Available are Rogue, Hack, MAG and Larn, some with tiles options. There are also versions of Rogue and Hack for the GameBoy and Nintendo DS.

New Roguelikes!

Allure of the Stars – Sci-fi tactical squad-based roguelike

Bushudo – Island survival game for the iPad

ButtonHack – Coffeebreak RL playable in your browser (using Unity)

Cardinal Quest – Arcade-style dungeon crawler, on sale for $4.45

Dungeons of Decay 0.4.9 – Coffeebreak RL written in libtcod

Hack n Slash Online – Alpha of an in-browser online roguelike

Harrowed – Minimalist roguelike made in 1 hour for the Zero Hour Game Jam

Into the Dungeon++ – Graphical roguelike released for ARRP

js-like – Javascript-based roguelike in beta stage

Legacy – New graphical roguelike with an overworld and animated actions

LumberjackRL – Explore the wilderness, chop down trees, eat flapjacks!

Magog – Hex-grid game with portal-connected areas

Netpack – Pac-man with random levels and inventory system

Rings of Valor – Real-time roguelike with a variety of races and classes

Rogue Assassin – Stealth-based roguelike still in early stages

Rogue Zombies – ASCII zombie-killing browser game

RogueDungeons – Graphical roguelike with a great UI

Run from the Shadow – 2DRL with themes of guilt and escapism

The Lair of Xar – Tile-based dungeon crawler

The Slimy Lichmummy – Retro roguelike with some cyberpunk elements

World of Tey – Short alpha of a new fantasy roguelike

X@COM – ASCII squad game based heavily on X-COM

Zombie Swarm – Zombie-killing RL with guns and allies

Updated Games:

Sources: Planet Roguelike, RogueBasin, Temple of the Roguelike forums, List of Actively Developing Roguelikes, rec.games.roguelikes.announce



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