Roguelike Celebration is a great small conference about roguelike games, featuring talks by game designers, fans, and others. Videos All of the previous years' talks are available on YouTube; a few talks

Do games have to exist solely for the benefit of the player? Max Kreminski is a researcher in "computational creativity", games, and related topics. Their game Epitaph is an "idle game about

A multi-player roguelike on the Commodore 64 Leif Bloomquist (@schemafactor on Twitter) demonstrated using the Commodore 64 as a client for a multi-player, real-time roguelike dungeon crawler. (What makes

Chogue is a chess/rogue hybrid developed by researchers at Concordia University in Montreal. You can play it online here: Only one of the researchers, Jonathan Lessard, was able to attend. The other, Pippin

Danny Day -- Dynamic Event-Listener in Desktop Dungeons Danny Day is a developer on Desktop Dungeons, a "roguelite". They went through a long open access period while tuning the game, and made

Roguelike Celebration 2018 continues with day 2. The livestream can be found at though as I write this we're on lunch break. Tarn Adams: Procedural Stories and Roguelikification Tarn is one of the co-creators

Alexei Pepers on Nethack Alexei gave a talk in a previous year about making roguelikes more accessible to the blind. This year she talked about things she had found in the Nethack code while reading it

These two talks focused on storytelling, but in two very different ways. Jim Shepard: Storytelling, World Building, and You Jim's talks are both funny and informative. Today he was speaking on ways to

Bob Nystrom (not the hockey player) wrote the book "Game Programming Patterns". His web site is His talk at Roguelike celbration was about programming patterns: why the popular ECS pattern may

Santiago Zapata on Roguelike history Santiago's talk on influences and development of roguelikes was interesting; I always like the histoical approach he takes. Dungeons and Dragons is obviously a huge

Josh Ge is the creator of Cogmind and moderator of the roguelike-dev subreddit. His talk is advice, not a tutorial. What language? Well, any language works but he recommends Python to get started. A Python

Octocat and this year's T-shirt. Github has generously hosted us again this year. There's a demon in the breakfast area: Unfortunately it appears that rotating the images on my phone doesn't work to orient