Check out all the finished roguelikes for this year’s 7DRL Challenge!

HERE!

Many thanks to the reviewing committee!

• Xecutor 12.55%
• irskep 7.45%
• roaderful 6.67%
• jere 6.27%
• rubybliels 6.27%
• sparr 5.88%
• 8BitGoggles 5.10%
• MatthewLacker 4.71%
• tomtl 4.71%
• James McNeill 4.31%
• PNJeffries 4.31%
• CaptainKraft 3.92%
• Deevoh 3.92%
• heroicfisticuffs 3.92%
• IceBoxr 3.14%
• Lachlan Kingsford 3.14%
• keipra 2.75%
• Wazoo Labs 2.75%
• AquaTsar 1.96%
• jmlait 1.96%
• Vedor 1.57%
• Fengol 1.18%
• Starstew 1.18%
• PyrooL 0.39%

This year we had 249 entries, 133 of which ended up with a finished entry. The reviewing committee swiftly went through them with 308 assessments, evaluating 56 of these entries with a 2+ score. You can check the results here

Everybody get ready! Here are some links courtesy of Mr. Darren Grey

Avast, ye rogues!

It is now days till the 11th Seven Day Roguelike Challenge, being held 7th to 11th March 2015. Here are some links to help you get prepped:

• Roguelike Radio episode on How to Make a 7DRL, and other 7DRL-related Roguelike Radio episodes
• Unity Pro 1 month trial for participants, and their new 2D roguelike tutorial
• libtcod, the dedicated roguelike library, and its excellent Python tutorial
• T-Engine, the lua-based roguelike game engine
• rot.js, the roguelike toolkit in javascript
• Reviews of the 2014 7DRLs
• 7DRL blog, where developers can share their struggles and successes

US roguelikers may also be interested in the upcoming International Roguelike Development Conference being held in Atlanta, Georgia, on May 30-31. This is the first time IRDC has been held outside Europe. There will also be a UK-based conference later in the year.

When the challenge begins a registration page will be available at http://7drl.roguetemple.com/.

It took almost a year to tabulate and publish the results, but they are now available here.

Remember you can also check the detailed reviews at the International Roguelike Registration System, which will soon be activated for the 2015 challenge and evaluation.

May be we won’t take as much time this year 🙂

We are set for the eleventh annual 7DRL Challenge. GET READY!

The challenge will run March 7 to March 15, you are invited to take part and create a roguelike game in 7 days, starting from whatever you want but producing a new, complete, playable game at the end of the week!

The 7DRL challenge breathes new life every year into the roguelike development community, last year we had 248 challengers, don’t miss this opportunity!

In 2005, the roguelike community established a yearly event, the 7DRL Challenge, in which all the world is challenged to create a roguelike in a one-week span.

7DRL Challenges are NOT about being a fast coder, but rather proving you can release a finished, playable roguelike to the world. There is no winner of the challenge, but rather all those who finish are honoured for their work, the criterion is completeness.

You CAN use external libraries, game engines, pre-existing generic code/algorithms, pre-existing generic art, etc. You can even start your game from an existing game, if you are willing to turn it out into something unique, you must however say what resources were reused.

Challengers may use the International Roguelike Registration System to accept the challenge once it starts; you can also check the reviews for last year entries here!

More info

• Roguebasin entry for 7DRL 2015
• Roguebasin entry for the 7DRL Challenge

It’s been ages since the Orange October Minigun 7DRL Challenge, back when the roguelike renaissance was just beginning. That challenge was joined by not many participants, however it was the inception of Kornel Kisielewicz’s Berserk!, was joined by DarkGod (of ToME fame) and had several interesting entries.

It’s about time we do another 7DRL Challenge before our main March event!  But why play a battle alone, when we can join the war?

PROCJAM 2014 is happening next November 7, and I suggest we swarm over it like a band of rabid jackals.

There are two ways to enter:

• Make a game with procedural generation in it. Maybe a Twine adventure with randomised character personalities? Maybe an action-RPG where each player gets their own procedural theme tune? Maybe an old-fashioned world-generator for a strategy game? Create a game for #procjam using the optional theme (announced at the start of the jam) and include a procedural twist in there somewhere.
• Make a tool that generates stuff to help game developers. We already have amazing tools like sound effect generator SFXR, music generation like Abundant Music, or random sprite-grabbers like Spritely. What other tools could we make to help people generate cool things for the games they make? Maybe a corporation generator for cyberpunk cities? A tool for generating alien alphabet fonts? A library that automatically generates enemy ships for space shooters?

I thus challenge you all to create a roguelike in 7 days, just along with the PROCJAM’14! Let’s have a lot of fun! Usual 7DRL Challenge rules apply, so read them.