Roguelike Radio podcast

[Darren Grey]

If we get more proper roguelikes on Steam then hopefully that'll become less of an issue. In particularly I want the people who played Binding of Isaac and thought "bleh" to come across Brogue and think "oh, maybe this genre is more interesting than I thought".

[UltimaRatioRegum]

I simply didn`t know that all  I always wanted the most from videogames -depth, originality, attitude, complexity, emergent gameplay and so on is just few links away.

Just an off-topic aside; that is EXACTLY what I felt when I first played NetHack. I was amazed this had always been out there!

[Darren Grey]

New Roguelike Radio episode on What Players Want from 7DRLs:

http://www.roguelikeradio.com/2015/03/episode-98-what-players-want-from-7drls.html

7DRL-makers, take note

[Krice]

Alan's voice sounds almost like Benedict Cumberbatch.

[Samildanach]

Alan's voice sounds almost like Benedict Cumberbatch.

Ha! That's new. I often get "soothing"; this is the first time getting "Cumberbatchian".

[Darren Grey]

We've now reached the milestone of 100 episodes! And what better way to celebrate it than to talk about many deaths:

http://www.roguelikeradio.com/2015/06/episode-100-yasds.html

The episode includes YASDs from many devs and communities members, with Andrew and I making general fun of them

[Alvarop]

That was a fun episode! It was also pretty informative, giving insight and thoughts about certain roguelike mechanics.

Keep it up.

[Samildanach]

The new one is an interesting format, I think. With Roguelike Radio usually having themed episodes - either on a particular mechanic or a particular game - the wider ranging discussion prompted by the Q&A feels a bit different (at least to participate in).

What did others think?

[getter77]

Good episode, though I have to imagine it makes it harder to write up the little summary blurb footnotes after the fact given the wide berth of meandering inherent to the topics at hand.

[Darren Grey]

It's even harder to write the summary when unable to listen to the episode and on a mobile in an airport

[Krice]

Kornel's episode was nice even I was (and still am) disappointed to what happened to GenRogue and higher goals in roguelike development. But I can understand it if you want to make money/career out of programming it's important to concentrate on making actual games (or if you simply find other things in life). Still, I would argue that from the old guard I'm the one that hasn't quit (at least not yet). I'm still aiming for that next gen roguelike.

[Krice]

I think first developers of IVAN are finnish, so it's one of the few roguelikes from Finland. Wasn't Frozen Depths guy also a Finn?

[Aukustus]

Wasn't Frozen Depths guy also a Finn?

Yes he is.

[Aleksanderus]

Wasn't Frozen Depths guy also a Finn?

Yes he is.

So it seems like Finland is a roguelike utopia!

[Krice]

So it seems like Finland is a roguelike utopia!

Finland is one of the countries that is producing roguelikes. I think roguelikes are a good indicator of perhaps even generic intelligence level of a country: countries that produce roguelikes have smarter people than countries that do not produce roguelikes. Of course USA is an exception, because it's a multicultural country and there are big differences in people's abilities in that country.