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This year's 7-day roguelike challenge had all the entrants put their games on itch.io [0]. In the episode of Roguelike Radio [1] that covered the 7drl, they la

This year's 7-day roguelike challenge had all the entrants put their games on itch.io [0]. In the episode of Roguelike Radio [1] that covered the 7drl, they lauded itch for requiring a working download, since entrants are allowed to use any platform at all (some write in c with raw escape codes written to the terminal, some write PICO-8 games, etc), and in years pay the hardest part of judging has been getting some of the games to run at all. It turns out people who like making roguelikes in a 7 day sprint don't tend to prioritize little things like making sure their work can actually be played. [0] https://itch.io/jam/7drl-challenge-2018 https://itch.io/jam/7drl-challenge-2018 [1] http://www.roguelikeradio.com/2012/03/episode-26-how-to-make-7drl.html?m=1 http://www.roguelikeradio.com/2012/03/episode-26-how-to-make...

jere 8y ago
This year's 7DRL starts in just over a month, on March 2! :) https://itch.io/jam/7drl-challenge-2019 https://itch.io/jam/7drl-challenge-2019 I can highly recommend the challenge. It's a great community, it's got an organized judging phase, and roguelikes are one of the easiest genres to get into, especially for programmers. You can do all systems and no graphics if you want. Also, I think you meant to link to this episode (the one you linked came out the year before itch launched) http://www.roguelikeradio.com/2018/05/episode-145-7drls-2018.html http://www.roguelikeradio.com/2018/05/episode-145-7drls-2018... I was on this one and we talked about itch quite a bit. My submission last year also ranked #1 and I bet HN might find it interesting as it's got a hacking theme: https://itch.io/jam/7drl-challenge-2018/rate/232187 https://itch.io/jam/7drl-challenge-2018/rate/232187
- philsnow 8y ago
  Argh, thank you for those corrections. I had just listened to the RR episode, did a quick search for it, and copied the link for the first result assuming it was the right one.

jere 8y ago

This year's 7DRL starts in just over a month, on March 2! :) https://itch.io/jam/7drl-challenge-2019 https://itch.io/jam/7drl-challenge-2019 I can highly recommend the challenge. It's a great community, it's got an organized judging phase, and roguelikes are one of the easiest genres to get into, especially for programmers. You can do all systems and no graphics if you want. Also, I think you meant to link to this episode (the one you linked came out the year before itch launched) http://www.roguelikeradio.com/2018/05/episode-145-7drls-2018.html http://www.roguelikeradio.com/2018/05/episode-145-7drls-2018... I was on this one and we talked about itch quite a bit. My submission last year also ranked #1 and I bet HN might find it interesting as it's got a hacking theme: https://itch.io/jam/7drl-challenge-2018/rate/232187 https://itch.io/jam/7drl-challenge-2018/rate/232187

philsnow 8y ago
Argh, thank you for those corrections. I had just listened to the RR episode, did a quick search for it, and copied the link for the first result assuming it was the right one.