Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

24: Going Rogue with Glenn Wichman (Rogue)

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

The co-creator of Rogue - yes, THAT Rogue - chats with us about the creation and legacy of his seminal 1980 game that birthed a genre! We discuss the origins of its key innovations of procedural generation and โ€œconsequence permanence,โ€ its surprisingly Chesslike origins, and the secret metagame behind Quicken (shhh!).

Rogue

Hack

Nethack

Brogue

Curses programming library

Diablo

ADOM

Moria

Angband

Rogue's instruction manual

Glennโ€™s unused Rogue manual art

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