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Title: Nifty article on Rogue
Post by: getter77 on May 06, 2009, 02:05:46 AM

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/4013/the_history_of_rogue_have__you_.php

Worth I read I suspect.

Edit:  Oddest part?  S.C.O.U.R.G.E. gets name dropped and a footnote in the article yet Crawl Stone Soup is nowhere to be found.  Mildly surprised POWDER isn't in there as well to a lesser degree.

Title: Re: Nifty article on Rogue
Post by: Ex on May 06, 2009, 02:26:48 AM

This is awesome! Too bad they don't link to Temple of the Roguelike OR Roguebasin :(

Title: Re: Nifty article on Rogue
Post by: PaulBlay on May 06, 2009, 05:22:08 AM

Quote from: getter77 on May 06, 2009, 02:05:46 AM

Edit:  Oddest part?  S.C.O.U.R.G.E. gets name dropped and a footnote in the article yet Crawl Stone Soup is nowhere to be found. 

I think there is a bit of a bias towards graphic games (makes better magazine illustrations for a start ;-).  I tried S.C.O.U.R.G.E. for a while but a number of things about it put me off.

Title: Re: Nifty article on Rogue
Post by: stu on May 06, 2009, 11:40:06 AM

well I know the authors, and its a chapter that didnt make the book. It was not designed to name drop every roguelike, if you read the other online chapters published by gamasutra you will get a feel for what they were doing (the book is also really awesome by the way)