Episode 5: Frozen Depths

Welcome to this week's episode of Roguelike Radio. Episode 5 focuses discussion on Frozen Depths, a cold-themed roguelike by Glowie. Talking this week are Darren Grey, Andrew Doull and Ido Yehieli. The mp3 of the podcast can be downloaded here, played in the embedded player below, or you can follow us on iTunes.

Topics covered this week include:
- Food clock systems
- Overarching themes to games
- Terminal interface on modern systems

Join us next week for discussion of Dungeons of Dredmor.

Episode 4: DoomRL

Welcome to this week's episode of Roguelike Radio. Episode 4 focuses discussion on DoomRL, a coffeebreak roguelike by Kornel Kisielewicz. Talking this week are Darren Grey, Andrew Doull, John Harris and Ido Yehieli. The mp3 of the podcast can be downloaded here, played in the embedded player below, or you can follow us on iTunes.

Topics covered this week include:
- What makes a coffeebreak
- Feature creep in roguelikes
- Annual Roguelike Release Party 2011 (briefly)

Relevant links:
- List of ARRP 2011 games
- @Play review of DoomRL from 2007

Join us next week for discussion of Frozen Depths.

Episode 3: Brogue

Welcome to another episode of Roguelike Radio. This week we will be discussing the roguelike game Brogue, which downloadable from the developers site found here. This week we have Erez Ben-Aharon, Scott Edgar, and John Harris in our longest podcast to date! The mp3 download of the podcast can be downloaded here, can be played in the embedded player below, or you can follow us on iTunes.





Topics covered this week:
-The beautiful ASCII style in Brogue.
-The different items in the game, and how they interact together in interesting ways.
-The monsters and how they are unique.


Thanks for listening, next week we will be covering DoomRL.

Episode 2: Desktop Dungeons

Thank you for joining us for the second of hopefully many episodes of Roguelike Radio. This week we have Andrew Doull, Scott Edgar, and Erez Ben-Aharon talking about the game Desktop Dungeons, a game that had a successful free alpha release and is now being developed as a commercial game. Access to the beta as well as the finished commercial released can be bought for 10 US dollars, or the alpha version can be downloaded for free off of the developer's website. The mp3 download of the podcast can be downloaded here, can be played in the embedded player below, or you can follow us on iTunes.

Topics covered this week:
-Is Desktop Dungeons really a roguelike?
-What is a roguelike?
-And, oddly enough, a little bit of discussion about desktop dungeons itself. (in retrospect less than we originally intended)

Links:
Infinite caves, Infinite stories.

The Berlin interpretation.

Sorry for the delay in posting, we are still working out some of the kinks in the process.