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Roguelike Contest - Play the Winners!

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Thu, 04/02/2009 - 10:58am — Matt Barton

John Harries has posted about a bunch of games that came out of the rec.games.roguelike.development annual event--in which contenders write roguelikes in 7 days (the 7-Day Rogue Like challenge). It looks like a fun event, and since I know some Armchair Arcadians are avid rogue fans, I thought I'd post it here. One of them (Chickhack is even written in Commodore 64 machine code!

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Thu, 04/02/2009 - 11:43am
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Nobody voted for my entry :(

Nobody voted for my entry :( but it plays a lot better than some that were on the winners list. My game was too traditional I guess, instead of far out there or bizarre.

I think, this year we had the largest turn out for 7DRL entries ever, hopefully next year will be even bigger still.

-- Stu --

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Thu, 04/02/2009 - 11:44am
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yakumo9275 wrote:

Nobody voted for my entry :( but it plays a lot better than some that were on the winners list. My game was too traditional I guess, instead of far out there or bizarre.

I think, this year we had the largest turn out for 7DRL entries ever, hopefully next year will be even bigger still.

-- Stu --

You should have let us know to look for it. Can you point us to it now?

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Thu, 04/02/2009 - 12:07pm
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downloads

downloads here;
http://redmine.bloodycactus.com/projects/rawdin/files

cymon revied it here (he used a screenshot after he used a scroll of map reveal so dont assume the screenshot is what you will see playing normally)
http://cymonsgames.retroremakes.com/2009-7drl-tomb-of-rawdin/

building the source requires libtcod + sdl installed but there are makefiles and such in the archive if you want a linux build (my native platform).

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Thu, 04/02/2009 - 9:28pm
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I just wanted to say thanks, this is one of the greatest short turn coding compo's out there. And I enjoy each years strange selection.

For another view look at John Harris's @play article on this site's step-sister http://www.gamesetwatch.com/column_at_play/ for a brief review of some of the 7drl submissions.

-Cecil

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