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Topics Discussed:
- 2016 is over! Many are happy to see it permadie, but we're just interested in the cool roguelike stuff!
- The amazing Roguelike Celebration in San Francisco with the original Rogue devs and a tonne more attending
- Two more Roguelike Developer Conferences in New York and Bulgaria with cool presentations
- Lots of cool 7DRLs!
- Jupiter Hell, successor to Doom the Roguelike, over-funded on Kickstarter
- DoomRL made open source after legal threats from ZeniMax
- Many games updated, including major updates to Cogmind, CataclysmDDA and The Ground Gives Way
- Steam releases for Cardinal Quest 2 and UnReal World
- ADOM RPG published
- Revivals of Larn, GearHead 2 and Nethack (!!)
- A new traditional roguelike - Dungeons of Everchange
- Brut@l, a PS4 roguelite with ASCII roguelike references (cool to see!)
- A review of some of our favourite Roguelike Radio episodes from the year
- Looking forward to 2017 - a ProcGen book with many roguelike contributors due to be released, 7DRL challenge dates announced for 4-12 March, where will IRDC be next..?
- Roguelike Radio eps we'd like to do this year
- What were your highlights from the year? Any games we missed? And what are you looking forward to in 2017? Post below!
Join us next time for more roguelike-y goodness :)
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ReplyDeleteAwesome to see that the podcast is going strong! I had thought it was slowing down, but the sidebar proves me wrong (I must have still been thinking about 2014 - early 2015).
ReplyDeleteI'd like to throw Golden Krone Hotel out there as a topic for this year, as I *hope* to release the game fully in 2017. I know a few people that have been on the show that have enjoyed the game (not that I want to volunteer them), but I'd be happy to send keys to any contributors who want to check it out. If a full show doesn't fit, perhaps a "where are they now" episode on RLs Darren was encouraging to go to Steam in 2015.
As an aside on the topic of reviving old roguelikes, anecdotally I've seen an unusual number of people (not a lot but more than usual) appearing around the place saying they used to play Nethack or Angband or Moria back in the day, and they're just rediscovering the whole genre of roguelikes now.
ReplyDeleteIn theory that's something which could come as a side effect of older games seeing new releases. People hear through word of (digital?) mouth that an old favourite is being updated and it brings them into contact with the vastly enlarged present day roguelike landscape.
I would love to have you interview LuckyLuckLuc. He streams a lot of roguelikes, but notably, he recently beat every single class on Sword of the Stars: The Pit on Insane difficulty. I think he'd be interesting considering how impossible and luck dependent people consider the game.
ReplyDeleteI liked the shmups episode, too... but I am of course biased :P
ReplyDeletebut seriously: thanks! minute 29 made my day :)