The roguelike page

Rogue-lites

How-to

• Roguelike coding advice (21 October 2020) and the text-based version
• Digging digital dungeons: Simple roguelike levels via BSP trees (11 January 2020)

Postmortem

• The gameplay of Electric Rogue (1 December 2017)
• Reviving Electric Rogue (17 November 2017)

Links

• An Ode to the Brilliance of Roguelikes (10 October 2017)
• On The Evolution of Roguelikes and the Construction of Genres (1 September 2017)
• Things I Hate About Roguelikes – Part 2: Identification (25 June 2017)

Not about roguelikes, but procedural generation

• “No Man’s Sky” and 10,000 Bowls of Plain Oatmeal (2 September 2016)
• ‘No Man’s Sky’ Is Like 18 Quintillion Bowls of Oatmeal (21 August 2016)
• So you want to build a generator..., wherein Kate Compton famously coins the phrase "10000 bowls of oatmeal" (22 February 2016)

And a timeless one: How Pitfall Builds its World.

Resources

• Rogue Basin, "the Roguelike information resource that you can edit": large wiki dedicated to the genre.
• Temple of the Roguelike: home to a blog, forum, database and other valuable projects.
• Procedural Content Generation in Games: a textbook and overview of current research.
• Procedural Content Generation Wiki: games that use it, how to do it, and more.
• Angband variants table, long list with detailed summaries.

Miscellaneous

• Ultima Ratio Regum 0.9 Released! (31 December 2021)
• 700,000 lines of code, 20 years, and one developer: How Dwarf Fortress is built (31 December 2021)
• The Binding of Isaac at HG101 (8 January 2020)
• Ultima Ratio Regum 0.8 Released (27 December 2020)
• What is a Traditional Roguelike? (12 February 2020)
• Dungeon Generation in Enter The Gungeon (28 June 2019)
• Dissecting the development of Dwarf Fortress with creator Tarn Adams (3 June 2019)
• 20 years later, David Brevik shares the story of making Diablo (18 March 2016)
• Screw the Berlin Interpretation! (14 May 2013)
• Dwarf Fortress learning curve: a little humor (6 May 2011)

Fave games

• POWDER: pick-up-and-play roguelike with graphical tiles, a surreal atmosphere and great depth of simulation that can be played with just a D-Pad and two action buttons on many platforms.
• Lost Labyrinth: coffeebreak roguelike with high production values similar to a JRPG, plus unusual mechanics for character creation and advancement.
• Pretty much anything by Ondřej Žára.

See also:

• my roguelike collection on itch.io;
• roguelike reviews and more on the wiki.