Darren Grey and Mark Johnson discuss design of innovative mechanics in roguelikes.
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Synopsis & Useful Links
- Innovation in Seven Day Roguelikes
- Single feature focus
- Needing to know the landscape
- Genre/settings mashup and comboing elements from other genres
- Innovating around restrictions
- Mark's attempts at innovation in Ultima Ratio Regum and how some innovations can only take place in big games
- How to innovate in larger roguelikes
- Player-inspired innovation
- When players don't like innovation, and how to change things whilst bringing them along
- Innovating with geometry and flexing away from traditional grid-based mechanics
- Alternative death / health mechanics
- Challenges in introducing innovation - teaching new mechanics, new UI, too much change at once, communicating innovation with context and theme,
- When you innovate so much it stops being a roguelike
- Areas we think are particularly ripe for innovation in roguelikes
- 7DRLs mentioned: Toby the Trapper, Nightfall, ZeldaRL, Gruesome, Broken Bottle
- Other games discussed: DoomRL, Brogue, Ultimate Ratio Regum, Caves of Qud, Tales of Maj'Eyal, DCSS, HyperRogue
- Non-Euclidean Spaces in Roguelikes
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