11: Taking Back Roguelikes with Raigan Burns

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

• Episode: 11: Taking Back Roguelikes with Raigan Burns
• Website: Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games
• Feed URL: https://eggplant.show/rss
• Duration: 01:37:09
• Published: 2019-01-31 18:00

Raigan Burns of Metanet Software (N, N+, N++) stops by for a spirited debate on the term “roguelike,” as we discuss the tenets of the genre, why (and if) they’re important, and how Spelunky fits into it all.

Things we talked about:

N++

GMTK: Roguelikes, Persistency, and Progression

Wandering Towards Interactive Narrative

Notes on the Synthesis of Form

DoomRL

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