Welcome to Temple of the Roguelike Forums! (a.k.a. Introduce Yourself Thread)

[Enke]

Well, to each his own. Thanks for the welcome.

[Samildanach]

I figure that pessimism is the way to go. I'm either correct or pleasantly surprised.

I used to think that too, but it just leads to confirmation bias and makes you a more grumpy person for no real benefit.  Trust me on this one.

Agreed! I held the same attitude between about 13/14 and maybe 20/21 but when you always assume the worst it makes you gloomy and depressed. Now I tend to favour assumption of unpredictability - whatever is going to happen, it won't be what I'm expecting.   We all find our own position that we're comfortable with, though.

In any case, welcome Enke.

[guest509]

I find that my firm knowledge of how terrible the world is makes me happy, it's sort of a carefree thing. I mean, damn it all to hell anyway, right? There's a certain freedom in knowing it's all to be flushed away soon anyway.

It's the death metal take on things. Fuck it. It's all fucked. So let's rock.

:-)

[Enke]

Alright! I derailed a thread!

[guest509]

No worries. 24 page threads are bound to diverge. 

[Aukustus]

Hello everybody!

I'm a 23-year-old third year IT engineer student from Finland focusing on health informatics. I dreamed about developing my own roguelike but I was pretty much stuck with the C# that my university teaches. Then last July I found the Python tutorial in RogueBasin which looked easy even though I couldn't write a single line in Python. I started developing my own roguelike, The Temple of Torment, in last August. It helped quite a lot that I can program in C#.

I love fps, rpg and rts games on computer. Some rpgs that I like are Diablo 1-3, Baldur's Gate 1-2 and Planescape: Torment. It's clear that my roguelike is influenced a lot by those games.

[guest509]

Welcome. Many people here develop their own games. Roguelikes are not hands down my favorite games to play, but they are definitely my favorite to design.

[BtS]

Hi everyone!
I have been playing roguelikes for around 7 years now and I can easily say that it's my favourite genre. What introduced me to the genre was IVAN (great game btw for anyone who haven't tried it!) and from then I was hooked. Lately, I have been playing Angband the most, but I cycle through the major ones in different periods.

In addition I have been working on my own roguelike for maybe 4 years. I have been lurking on temple of the roguelike and r.g.r.* every now and then since I discovered roguelikes. Now, finally my game is very close to be finished and I'm planning to release it this year. So I have finally decided to "unlurk"

[getter77]

Welcome BtS and the best of wishes on your secret project!   

[BtS]

Thank you getter77! It won't be secret for much longer

[KOManiacJim]

Greetings everyone. My name is James Lee McKigney and I am a Gamer who unfortunately has Autism, Asperger's and ADHD but I am also Sane and I want to be a good part of the community. I work hard, I help my family and I dabble in some game footage recording. But I also tend to be thoughtless at times but I try my best to be a good person.

Now for my personal history on the Roguelike I started playing when I obtained Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Red Rescue Team for Game Boy Advance. I also got several other Roguelikes but they're mostly like the Mystery Dungeon series. Then fast forward to a week ago, I got a copy of NetHack with the Vulture Graphic Interface and that is basically the drawing point to my opinion: It's like Arcade Chess and I love it. Seriously, I kept playing even though I kept screwing up and I am in love with the various aspects of said game and I am even thinking about donating to ADOM and buying various other games in order to build up my roguelike experience. I love every aspect of the games and I hope it will stay for years to come.

I promise to abide by the rules and to be fair and to treat everybody as if they were me. I vow to help other people at all times and I will do my best to be a good part of the community.

[getter77]

Welcome and enjoy your peaceful time learning about the great many more good Roguelikes out there already with more to come.   

[Mats1]

Hi,

I really like roguelikes, with my favourites being Castle of the Winds and Ragnarok (maybe Nethack will join that list one day if I eventually ascend a character). I'm currently working on a roguelike too! I will post some progress updates on here when it's in the first playable state.

-Mats.

[Vanguard]

Welcome!  Those are the same games I got started with.

[MrFlibble78]

Hello MrFlibble78 here.

I've been a long time lurker.

I've wanted to make a proper roguelike for ages and always check the forums for ideas & snippets of information.

I'm currently working on a roguelike for the GameJolt #lowrezjam and then hopefully something a bit bigger.