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Development => Development Process & non-technical => Topic started by: chooseusername on January 28, 2014, 07:27:11 PM
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Do you know of any interesting blogs where people discuss/post about the development of their roguelikes? I have an aggregator which collects these sorts of blogs, so people can go to one place to find them, rather than having to stumble over them individually.
Link: Planet-RLDev (http://planet-rldev.disinterest.org/).
The reason I do this, is that once something like this builds up momentum, then rather than having to go searching for interesting blogs or stumbling onto them through happenstance, people tend to approach me and ask me to add them. At least that's what I've found with my Planet-MUDDev (http://planet-muddev.disinterest.org).
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I've been posting devlogs for the development of Possession 2 on my blog (http://ironypolicy.wordpress.com/).
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I've been posting devlogs for the development of Possession 2 on my blog (http://ironypolicy.wordpress.com/).
Cheers. I've added your "roguelike" tag rss feed. Are there going to be many non-development related posts under that tag?
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Also check out http://roguebase.net/ which does something similar. The more, the merrier :)
As always,
Minotauros
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Also check out http://roguebase.net/ which does something similar. The more, the merrier :)
As always,
Minotauros
That's great, when people complain mine doesn't have a wider scope, I can point them at yours.
I prune out blogs which just do release posts, or have too much off-topic content. Ideally, it should be just posts with actual development work or ideas.
Edit: I've added a link to the site pointing them to roguebase as an alternate source of aggregated feeds.
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I've finally started up a blog to cover development of my game. It's a 3d roguelike.
Blog is here:
http://pickleddevblog.blogspot.kr/
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I've been posting devlogs for the development of Possession 2 on my blog (http://ironypolicy.wordpress.com/).
Cheers. I've added your "roguelike" tag rss feed. Are there going to be many non-development related posts under that tag?
Not planning on it. Everything under there so far has been development-related. I haven't posted reviews or anything.
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Mines up here: http://yetanotherroguelike.tumblr.com/ (http://yetanotherroguelike.tumblr.com/)
Great idea for the aggregator too, I really enjoy reading others' posts. Thanks.
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I've got a tag for roguelike stuff on my blog (typically reviews around 7dRL time) http://squidpony.com/tag/rogue-like/ (http://squidpony.com/tag/rogue-like/)
and a category for my roguelike library (mostly release updates but also conceptual posts about what features are going in) http://squidpony.com/not-games/squidlib/ (http://squidpony.com/not-games/squidlib/)
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Hmm, you can tag stuff on blogs? Is that supported on Blogspot? And can you tag stuff retroactively, after you've posted it? I've got a blog which I post 7DRL progress on, but I also use it for other stuff too...
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Yes, you can tag stuff on blogsplot and tag it retrospectively. And feeds can be tag specific.
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Mines up here: http://yetanotherroguelike.tumblr.com/ (http://yetanotherroguelike.tumblr.com/)
Great idea for the aggregator too, I really enjoy reading others' posts. Thanks.
Looks suitable, sorry for the delay, missed these latest posts. Added.
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I've got a tag for roguelike stuff on my blog (typically reviews around 7dRL time) http://squidpony.com/tag/rogue-like/ (http://squidpony.com/tag/rogue-like/)
and a category for my roguelike library (mostly release updates but also conceptual posts about what features are going in) http://squidpony.com/not-games/squidlib/ (http://squidpony.com/not-games/squidlib/)
I've added the squidlib blog, as reviews are not on development related. If it becomes primarily release notes, and lacks development content, will be removed. Thanks.
Sorry for the delay, missed recent posts to this thread.
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OK, here you go! :)
http://edkolis.blogspot.com/search/label/roguelikes
edit: Actually, I did tag one non-dev post as "roguelikes", but it was a discussion of the genre in relation to other genres of games. Is that OK, or should I make a specific "roguelike-dev" tag?
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Here's my roguelike tag: https://http://zireael07.wordpress.com/category/roguelike/ (https://zireael07.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?category_name=roguelike)
I've got a comparison with Incursion in the works, do you want to see it?
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Zirael, your link is asking me to sign in... ???
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whoops, fixed, pasted a wrong link...
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The link is still pointing to the admin page. Perhaps you only edited the text, and not the actual link URL?
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OK, here you go! :)
http://edkolis.blogspot.com/search/label/roguelikes
edit: Actually, I did tag one non-dev post as "roguelikes", but it was a discussion of the genre in relation to other genres of games. Is that OK, or should I make a specific "roguelike-dev" tag?
What if you want to make more general posts not development related in the future? Please make a specific roguelike-dev tag.
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Here's my roguelike tag: https://http://zireael07.wordpress.com/category/roguelike/ (https://zireael07.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?category_name=roguelike)
I've got a comparison with Incursion in the works, do you want to see it?
The posts you do have are release notes and relevant to players of your game, not to people who might want to develop their own game.
If in the future you start posting development-related posts, please put them under a custom tag like roguelike-dev away from release notes, and I'll be happy to add the blog.
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I have a category on my blog for "design" which is for all the more generic articles about making roguelikes:
http://www.gamesofgrey.com/blog/?cat=44
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I have a category on my blog for "design" which is for all the more generic articles about making roguelikes:
http://www.gamesofgrey.com/blog/?cat=44
Added, thanks.
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Here's my roguelike tag: https://http://zireael07.wordpress.com/category/roguelike/ (https://zireael07.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?category_name=roguelike)
I've got a comparison with Incursion in the works, do you want to see it?
The posts you do have are release notes and relevant to players of your game, not to people who might want to develop their own game.
Well, if you're going to be that strict, then technically none of my posts are of interest to people developing their own roguelikes, unless you count "me blabbing on about the progress of my roguelike" of interest to folks developing their own... I mean, I'm not getting into algorithms or anything useful; just sharing what I've done so far. Maybe I misunderstood what you were looking for, and so my blog wouldn't be a good fit for your aggregator?
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Well, if you're going to be that strict, then technically none of my posts are of interest to people developing their own roguelikes, unless you count "me blabbing on about the progress of my roguelike" of interest to folks developing their own... I mean, I'm not getting into algorithms or anything useful; just sharing what I've done so far. Maybe I misunderstood what you were looking for, and so my blog wouldn't be a good fit for your aggregator?
It isn't a case of strictness. It's a case of focusing on a topic.
The aggregator is for people that want some insight into how others are working on their own roguelikes. They don't need to be discussing algorithms, while occasionally some posts on that topic are interesting, they might be discussing how they did their UI. Or how they implemented some element of their game world. Or they might even describe how some part of their game works, with screenshots, and ask for thoughts from other developers.
There's a difference between this and release notes.
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OK, here you go:
http://edkolis.blogspot.com/search/label/roguelike-dev
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OK, here you go:
http://edkolis.blogspot.com/search/label/roguelike-dev
Thank you! Looks great.
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Here would be mine: http://engineersjourney.wordpress.com/category/roguelike-dev/
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Thanks for setting this up, love having this all in one place.
Here's mine: http://redtiegames.com.au/tag/roguelike/
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Here's mine:
http://vjointeractive.wordpress.com (http://vjointeractive.wordpress.com)
Got lots of strange stuff relating to random dungeon creation. Moved from pure 2d into 2.5D (it's not actually in 3d, but it is - if you get me?)
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Reading up those blogs, prolly going to have a post about dungeon generation up sometime soon.
EDIT: Choose, any way to check older posts on the aggregator? The earliest I can see are May 8.
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Reading up those blogs, prolly going to have a post about dungeon generation up sometime soon.
EDIT: Choose, any way to check older posts on the aggregator? The earliest I can see are May 8.
It's more intended to make it easy to be made aware of the blogs and collectively receive the relevant part of their content. If you use a blog reader to subscribe to the feed, then you can have your blog reader archive them.
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Here's mine:
http://vjointeractive.wordpress.com (http://vjointeractive.wordpress.com)
Got lots of strange stuff relating to random dungeon creation. Moved from pure 2d into 2.5D (it's not actually in 3d, but it is - if you get me?)
All posts look to be consistently roguelike development posts, will add it. If in future you post non-development related posts, will remove the feed until you tag the relevant one. Gotta keep it low noise.
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No problem - i'll keep it dev based :)
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Just out of interest how do you run an agregator like this? I'd love to set up a similar one for the blender game engine. Is there something you use to do it automatically or do you have to manually add entries?
I like the way it tends to drive blog posts on to shared subjects, like a few days ago there were several posts by different bloggers about random level generation.
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I think the similar topic'd posts were coincidence more than anything else.
You want something like this (http://www.planetplanet.org/).
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Thanks!