Dungeon Creation Contest

Icey’s cool town Tarindel has announced a roguelike development contest to be held at his new forums… the goal? to write a cool dungeon generator that outputs to an HTML file to be appraised by the world!

To commemorate the opening of the programming forums on my website, I
am hosting a Roguelike programming contest. The objective: write a random dungeon generator in the language of your choice.

Sound easy? It’s as easy or as hard as you make it. The point is to have fun, create some interesting new dungeon designs, give you a reason to try out that algorithm that’s been in the back of your head, or even learn a new language. Because all entries are output to HTML, no mucking with I/O libraries is needed.

Deadline is August 5th, so… if you feel like creating and sharing some content, surf here, read the guidelines and go onto your quest!

nethack.net

NetHack.Net Logo A nice resource for all of you nethackers or nethacker wannabes… this website is got lots of cool stuff, including this nifty, hand-drawn map of all the nethack realm! perhaps some artist here would be interested in producing a polished version? (would be a different kind of charm :P)

It also has some nice stats based on scripts for players, scores and death causes… Also, the level descriptions are complete and useful… have a look! NetHack.net

300…. Gameplay ideas

Composition Army Sean Howard, a veteran game designer and developer, has imposed himself a challenge to write up one gameplay idea that hasn’t been implemented yet each day for three hundred days.

There are some pretty nifty ideas in there, whether or not they have already made it into a game, and some of them are really qualified for a roguelike (idea 004, for example has been used in some roguelike games with procedurally generated quests). The author is cool about people using these ideas in games, so you can feel free to grab them and use it in your roguelike.

Also, his pixel art is cool 🙂
Further info Here

The Roguelike Fanworks Archive

Limoli’s sexy female drakalor explorer A collection of fan-made pictures, movies and writings about roguelike games, you can find it here.

Be sure to check out the Lord of the Rings gif cmovies trailers, Limoli’s Adom female character “Elera” and Chibi Dark Link’s “Halion” High-Elven ranger.

It’s pretty empty for now, but you can help the author fill it!

This website is intended to be an archive of all the fanworks based on, inspired by, or created for roguelike games. […] If you have some art you’d like to submit, please e-mail me[…]. We accept artwork, fan writing, movies, any form of fan tribute to this great series and concept of games.