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To do in San Francisco this weekend: the first-ever roguelike celebration
- jere 10y agoThe speaker list on this thing is absolutely mindblowing. I really wanted to go, but having just gone to a roguelike conference last month and this one being on the opposite coast, I just couldn't swing it. But it will be streamed!
- busterarm 10y agoOh my god! YES. I wish I knew about this earlier >< And I wish I weren't on call all weekend and working this insane ETL project. Hopefully there's VODs.
- versteegen 10y agoHoly hell, there's only a few people missing for it to literally be "all stars". Which makes it unfortunate that there are two tracks! How come IRDC never had this, and I haven't even heard it mentioned in rgrd?
- jere 10y agoThe scope of this thing seems to have surprised everyone. It appears to be a combination of location (many of the famous attendees live on the west coast I guess) and Noah simply emailing people to come. As far as rgrd, I usually only step in there around events to ask if anyone is participating and have never gotten any interest from anyone. There were a lot of announcements on reddit.
- TheAceOfHearts 10y agoPropose changing the link to the event page [0]. This "blog post" doesn't add anything. [0] https://roguelike.club/ https://roguelike.club/
- phlyingpenguin 10y agoTo be fair, I've had http://roguelike.club http://roguelike.club on my to-revisit list for a while and it doesn't obviously mention the twitch stream in big bold letters on the front page so I had missed that option. I'm quite glad to see it.
- kqr2 10y agoLooks like they are sold out as ticket sales are ended. How much were the tickets originally?
- jere 10y ago$20-$45. $20 was probably the early bird. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/roguelike-celebration-tickets-26125753833 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/roguelike-celebration-tickets-2...
- fjarlq 10y agoStreaming for track 1 and track 2: https://www.twitch.tv/roguelike_con https://www.twitch.tv/roguelike_con https://www.twitch.tv/roguelike_con2 https://www.twitch.tv/roguelike_con2
- jmspring 10y agoIf they want CA history, hand's down reach out to Joseph and his Emperor Norton tour -- http://www.emperornortontour.com/index.html http://www.emperornortontour.com/index.html Full of history and comedy.
- forkandwait 10y agoThe only computer game I play is DCSS. Once got to the vaults as a troll beserker, but I can't get any farther than that. (I know, I know .... slow down, just don't get killed...)
- vvanders 10y agoDCSS has such incredible depth, these types of games reward you if you can dedicate the time to them. It's not a pure roguelike but I've found Nuclear Throne to be fantastic. Nice blend of old school arcade controls and brutal rougelike roots.
- WalterSear 10y agoI've been trying to get into that, but I'm just not finding it to have the depth of Binding of Isaac. Then again, what does, in twitch-rogues? Maybe I just need to make it past the first sewer level before I give up.
- zubat 10y agoCatacomb Kids might suit you. It has a lot of depth of interaction.
- WalterSear 10y agoThanks! I hadn't seen that one yet.
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- PhasmaFelis 10y agoI haven't played it yet (waiting for the full release), but this video about the many, many uses for a small rock sold me on backing Catacomb Kids: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N59tLIvQeJE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N59tLIvQeJE
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- dang 10y agoUrl changed from http://boingboing.net/2016/09/16/to-do-in-san-francisco-this-we.html http://boingboing.net/2016/09/16/to-do-in-san-francisco-this..., which points to this.
- gragas 10y agoSo can I not go since tickets are already sold out?
- WalterSear 10y agoTwitch streams
- renownedmedia 10y agoI like how the page doesn't mention the date.
- britta 10y agoThat's just the schedule page - sorry this is confusing! The intro page (https://roguelike.club/ https://roguelike.club/) has the date - tomorrow (Saturday), September 17.
- britta 10y agoAw, thanks for posting this and being excited about it! This is a labor of love organized by my friend Noah with help from a few other friends and me, just for fun since we love playing roguelikes. We did sell out of tickets; our very graciously donated venue (thanks to Eventbrite) has an attendee limit since it's basically an office rather than a large venue. I hope you all will watch the streams! The talks will also be recorded so you can watch them later.
- mintplant 10y agoThank you for providing streams! This just happens to be the weekend I leave the Bay Area so otherwise I'd be pretty bummed about missing it.
- SubiculumCode 10y agoangband zandband sangband I died in them all.
- Grue3 10y agoHoly shit, the developers of Rogue, Thomas Biskup, Tarn Adams, and even the creator of Kingdom of Loathing (for some reason) all in the same place?
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoThis is so cool that it almost (but not quite) makes me wish I lived on the west coast. But coming from the east coast, the west coast is weird.
- agentgt 10y agoI'm on the east coast as well (Boston). Although I dislike San Francisco for taking away talent and attention from Boston I wouldn't consider them weird compared to local Cambridgites. You want oddity come to Cambridge MA. To be honest though I love weird. The major weird thing I don't like about SF is the climate (like why is hot during the wrong times of year).
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoI didn't say the people were weird. But the climate is unpleasant, and you can drive for miles and still be in the same state. And even "northern" california (I believe SF qualifies) is pretty far south, so it hardly ever snows. And all the landscapes look pretty ordinary, and then you suddenly see a palm tree (although that's more LA than SF). And I do love Cambridge. Why? Bookstores. Bookstores everywhere. If you're looking for a book, and you can't find it in Cambridge, than you're probably not looking hard enough. And there's the MIT Press bookstore as well: Their CS section houses SICP, EPL, TAPL, The Little Books, and countless other excellent books on one row of shelves. If that's not awesome, I don't know what is. I know that as a Cambridgeite, you know many more reasons why Cambridge is cool, but frankly, having a lot of bookstores is pretty high on my list of ways that places can be awesome. And yes, it totally sucks that so much talent is on the other side of the country. Living in the New Haven suburbs, I can say that it's hard to get a good pizza most places. And that's the least of the reasons it sucks.
- agentgt 10y agoTotally agree with the landscape (SF) and the bookstores (Cambridge). I love hobyy/game stores as well (we have one in Waltham as well as many in Cambridge). I hope they do this as on the east coast some time. I'm a long time ADOM and Crawl player. I really only play rogue like computer games. I would post links to my crawl profile but it is rather embarrassing how much time I have spent playing crawl. I'm sad to miss this event.
- vanderZwan 10y agoJosh Ge will be speaking at this event. I have been closely following the devlog of his modern RL game Cogmind since the start and I can highly recommend it, as well as the game itself: http://www.gridsagegames.com/cogmind/ http://www.gridsagegames.com/cogmind/ http://www.gridsagegames.com/blog/ http://www.gridsagegames.com/blog/
- Merem 10y agoFor those with knowledge of the genre: What are the better, traditional roguelikes that you can recommend? I've only played Elona so far and quite liked it.
- krokodil 10y agoADOM (Ancient Domains of Mystery) is a favorite of mine. I prefer the original CLI version to the Steam version (especially since the original is free). Dwarf Fortress is also very satisfying though it does have a higher learning curve.
- jasonkostempski 10y agoCataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is my favorite game of all time.
- eropple 10y agoI'll give a thumbs-up to DDA. It's got problems--I think there's not enough game to it when you get past the baseline stages of survival--but it has a lot of different systems that mostly work together pretty well.
- rogual 10y agoBrogue is very traditional and very thoughtfully designed. It's the author's idea of what Rogue might look like today if development had continued. https://sites.google.com/site/broguegame/ https://sites.google.com/site/broguegame/ It's my favourite Roguelike because it's the genre distilled to its essence. Also the short bits of flavour text are very well written.
- potatoyogurt 10y agoBrogue is also one of the most visually beautiful roguelikes despite sticking to the old roguelike convention of using individual ascii characters to represent everything in the dungeon. It is really impressive.
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- JauntTrooper 10y agoNice, I wish I could go! My username is inspired by my favorite rogue-like growing up, JauntTrooper:Mission Thunderbolt. It was released in 1992. Here it is, if folks are interested in playing it: http://www.old-games.com/download/3974/jaunttrooper-mission-thunderbolt http://www.old-games.com/download/3974/jaunttrooper-mission-...
- ddp 10y agoOh my, the hours we wasted inside of DEC playing that game as it was being developed, which was just called Doom at the time. It's a pity Dave hasn't given it the SDL treatment or updated it for OS X but the rights are probably all screwed up from publishing it for the original Mac back in the early 90's. It was fun because of its wonderful sense of humor and sci-fi storyline, ATMs, radioactive green slime, and all the wonderful warrens (where you could find wonderful things way beyond your current level). It really did have a story and a mystery to be solved. A true classic. You'd need to post a picture of the Security Authorization Chart for any of us to play that however.
- ddp 10y agoI just checked and Doom is available in the VMS Hobbyist program (http://www.openvmshobbyist.com/downloads.php?cat_id=3 http://www.openvmshobbyist.com/downloads.php?cat_id=3), so you should be able to get it to run under SIMH (http://simh.trailing-edge.com/ http://simh.trailing-edge.com/), if you're so inclined. Security Authorization not required here. :-)
- JauntTrooper 10y agoWow, no kidding! You were there when he was building it too? That's so awesome. :) Did he ever make any other games? The game fills me with such nostalgia. As a kid, I couldn't find a retailer who sold it, so I wrote a letter to Casady & Greene in order to buy a copy. I still remember how excited I was when it arrived. The Security Authorization Chart should be in the ReadMe file, by the way. :)
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- plq 10y agoI can't help but wonder: What is roguelike?
- lbotos 10y agoNot trying to be pedantic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roguelike https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roguelike It's games that are like Rogue.
- rconti 10y agoWay too many headlines (and accompanying stores!) on HN that don't bother to explain themselves.
- kbenson 10y agoThere's enough distinct sets of knowledge and experience that there will always it problems communicating succinctly (a title) and effectively to everyone. In this case, if you visit the link, one of the header menu items is "Roguelikes?" which explains it.
- personjerry 10y agoOfftopic, but does anyone have experience with porting NetHack? Back when 3.6.0 was first released I tried updating the Mac tileset port, but only got about "halfway" :(
- poshli 10y agoDirect link in stream to Dwarf Fortress talk https://www.twitch.tv/roguelike_con/v/89873769?t=278m https://www.twitch.tv/roguelike_con/v/89873769?t=278m
- poshli 10y agoDirect link in stream to ADOM talk https://www.twitch.tv/roguelike_con/v/89873769?t=351m https://www.twitch.tv/roguelike_con/v/89873769?t=351m