Elderlore

Here is the lastest update on Planet Roguelike:

• New feed: UnNetHack Blog, a blog for a NetHack variant called UnNetHack.
• New feed: Rogue-ish Werks, a blog about Brogue.

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Here is the lastest update on Planet Roguelike:

• New feed: NLarn, a remake of the classic Larn.

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I am still working on Mines of Elderlore, here are the new features:

• there are achievements that the player can accomplish, like his best hit, his best weapon combo, or the least rounds before winning
• a menu system has been added,to change player name, dungeon name, view your scores and achievements, and replay past games

Anyone wanting to beta test it is welcome!

There are now more than a thousand articles on Planet Roguelike. Congratulations to all the bloggers! Here are the lastest updates on Planet Roguelike:

• New feed: Nolithius from Ebyan Alvarez-Buylla, author of the flash roguelike “Dance of Death”.
• New feed: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, the official Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup development website.

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I have been following Libtcod for a long time, since it is probably the most promising project related to roguelikes published on the past years. What I was missing was a good reason – and some motivation! – to dive in it and code my own Libtcod roguelike.

On the other hand, the next 7DRL is arriving; Mines of Elderlore, my 7DRL attempt some years ago, made me realize that coding under time pressure, with a common goal with some other folks, can be a really stimulating experiment and good way to produce something that simply works.

So I would really like to try to create a 7DRL roguelike under Libtcod this year. But what I need first is to improve my knowledge in this library, and, well yes, practice a little my oldy pythonic skills. And what better subject for this than my old 7DRL Mines of Elderlore?

Adding Libtcod was easier than I would have expected. The python files were already set to handle different displaying libraries (Curses and Pygame), and Libtcod is very well documented and supported by its author Jice, so only a few hours were necessary to provide this first version.

You can download the game there:

The state of the game is far from completed: it is just a work in progress, still playable from the beginning to the end (I hope…), but some features and details are lacking.

You can tweak the moe.ini file to change the screen size, set it to fullscreen, and some other more-or-less explicit parameters. F1 to F4 keys provide in-game help.

Here are the lastest updates on Planet Roguelike:

• New feed: Tametick, from Ido Yehieli, the author of the famous 7DRL Fruits of the Forest, Cryptrover, and WebRL, a very interesting javascript roguelike.
• New feed: RogueBasin News, that follows every updates being made on RogueBasin News page.
• New feed: Angband on oook.cz, news from the AngBand community.
• New feed: GameSetWatch Column @Play, the monthly column by John Harris which discusses the history, present and future of the Roguelike dungeon exploring genre.
• New feed: Incursion news, from Incursion the roguelike.

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You are developing a medieval / fantasy roguelike with graphics, you are looking for nice tiles ? If so, have a look at those tiles:

420 -Pixel Art- Icons for RPG by ~Ails

Those tiles were drawn by Henrique Lazarini, aka Ails, a young brasilian artist whose art is worth to look at. And all those tiles are free to use as long as you mention their author, since they are licensed under a CC-BY-SA 3.0 licence.

Good evening,

Planet Roguelike is a place where all the blogs dealing about roguelikes are mirrored. It has been running for a month now under Wordpress, with good results. 53 blogs are currently gathered on Planet Roguelike, for a total of 688 posts.

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Planet Roguelike is available online at this address: http://www.elderlore.com/en/category/planet-roguelike

or can be received in your favorite newsreader with this feed: http://www.elderlore.com/en/category/planet-roguelike/feed

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To my point of view, Planet Roguelike is a good place to promote your blog if you are a roguelike blogger looking for readers. But if you prefer not being mirrored on Planet Roguelike, just tell me and I will remove your blog.

I will soon add a voting system to let you promote posts that you like; links to the top promoted posts will be displayed in the sidebar.

Any feedback is welcome, good or bad: tell me what you think of it!

Altefcat

Here are the last updates of the Planet Roguelike:

• New feed: Kaduria, Krice big roguelike project
• New feed: Play roguelike… and stuff, roguelikes playing feedback from Mario Donick the creator of LambdaRogue
• New feed: The Ascii Dungeon, a blog with many roguelike reviews from various authors
• New feed: Dinofarm Games, editor of 100 Rogues, a roguelike for the iPhone
• From now on, new articles from the feeds are categorized both in “Planet Roguelike” and in a category dedicated to the feed

As with the other feeds, the categories from the feeds are converted into tags, and their articles can be commented and browsed by date or by author.

Planet Roguelike articles are available online at this address, or can be received with this feed. You can suggest new feeds with this form.

Here are the last updates of the Planet Roguelike:

• those websites have been added: Kamyran’s Eye 2 (author), The Den, Triangle Wizard.
• The Evilscience feed have been updated, the whole blog was published previously instead of its roguelike category only.
• Adom’s author was named ‘admin’ and thus was merged with my own articles; Adom is now published under Thomas Biskup.
• The Chronicles of Doryen’s author was named ‘admin’ and thus was merged with my own articles; it is now published under Jice.
• rec.games.roguelike.announce articles are now published under the new user rec.games.roguelike.announce.

As with the other feeds, the categories from the feeds are converted into tags, and their articles can be commented and browsed by date or by author.

Planet Roguelike articles are available online at this address, or can be received with this feed. You can suggest new feeds with this form.

I wish you all a happy new year!