Seven Day Roguelike 2008: Call For Dates

On Jan 24, 7:02 pm, sameli... RemoveThis @gmail.com wrote:
> > >Thus, the available weeks are:
>
> > > >1) February 23rd to March 2nd
> > >2) March 1st to March 9th
> > >3) March 8th to March 16th
>
> If it's ok to post Nintendo DS RogueLike
> i vote for #2 but also #3 is good enought
> if it's no ok ... i'll do it the right way

There are no hardware restrictions. You can write your roguelike in
any language and for any platform. I believe we had a C64 basic
roguelike last year!
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On Jan 24, 8:11 pm, Jeff Lait <torespondisfut....RemoveThis@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 24, 7:02 pm, sameli....RemoveThis@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > > >Thus, the available weeks are:
>
> > > > >1) February 23rd to March 2nd
> > > >2) March 1st to March 9th
> > > >3) March 8th to March 16th
>
> > If it's ok to post Nintendo DS RogueLike
> > i vote for #2 but also #3 is good enought
> > if it's no ok ... i'll do it the right way
>
> There are no hardware restrictions. You can write your roguelike in
> any language and for any platform. I believe we had a C64 basic
> roguelike last year!

yeah, sadly I couldnt get it to run

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> Jeff Lait
> (POWDER:http://www.zincland.com/powder)

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On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:00:08 -0800 (PST), "uschkinredsunshine@gmx.de"
<uschkinredsunshine.RemoveThis@gmx.de> tried to confuse everyone with this message:

>I haven't write everything from scratch, do i?

Try it, it's fun. My first 7drl was entirely from scratch and it was quite
rewarding, considering it was my first roguelike, I had no code, no design
ideas, and programmed it in a language which was considered totally unsuitable
for roguelikes. And now I can brag about it on the newsgroup!

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On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:03:24 -0800 (PST), Jeff Lait
<torespondisfutile.RemoveThis@hotmail.com> tried to confuse everyone with this message:

>Thus, the available weeks are:
>
>1) February 23rd to March 2nd
>2) March 1st to March 9th
>3) March 8th to March 16th

1, although I'm likely to skip this one due to laziness.

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On Jan 24, 4:50 pm, jota....TakeThisOut@hotmail.com wrote:
> On 24 Jan, 14:13, Robson <iceyi....TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Ditto!
>
> > I might makehttp://www.squidi.net/three/entry.php?id=63with a load
> > of changes to make it more roguelike.
>
> Bastard!
>
> (I mean that in a good way!)

I'm not sure I follow... were you going to make that or something?
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In a state of madness Jeff Lait wrote the following :
> 3) March 8th to March 16th

Sadly, this is the only one I could attend :/

regards,
Kornel Kisielewicz
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Too bad for me, I would have really liked to try it this year, but
there is no way for me to have a full week dedicated to development.
Any way, good luck for all of you !

Actually, maybe I'm not the only one in such a situation; has it been
discussed already about doing a 100 hours roguelike, instead of 7
consecutive days ? This way, developers would count each time they
work on their roguelike, and after 100 hours of development, they
release their project. What do you think ?
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On Jan 28, 10:16 am, Altefcat <edemp....DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote:
> has it been
> discussed already about doing a 100 hours roguelike, instead of 7
> consecutive days ? This way, developers would count each time they
> work on their roguelike, and after 100 hours of development, they
> release their project. What do you think ?

If that what it takes to make it work for you, go for it!
I'm sure we can find a jpeg of a medal to send you if you produce a
working game after 100 hours

Good luck,
Ido.
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On Jan 28, 4:16 am, Altefcat <edemp....DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote:
> Too bad for me, I would have really liked to try it this year, but
> there is no way for me to have a full week dedicated to development.
> Any way, good luck for all of you !

I hope you don't think all the participants have a week devoted to
development! I certainly have nothing close to 100 hours available to
me! If I'm lucky, I'll scrape together maybe 30-40 hours of
development time over the week.

> Actually, maybe I'm not the only one in such a situation; has it been
> discussed already about doing a 100 hours roguelike, instead of 7
> consecutive days ? This way, developers would count each time they
> work on their roguelike, and after 100 hours of development, they
> release their project. What do you think ?

I've seen people try that with 24-hour comic contests and similar. I
think it misses the point of time-constrained creativity. It turns
what should be a fun race to the finish into a time-punching ritual.

If you want to write a roguelike over a year timespan, I don't see why
adding a 100 hour limit would at all help. Why not just write a
roguelike over the same timespan without punching a clock? Schedule 2
hours a week of coding and you'll hit 100 hours pretty closely with no
need to fill out timesheets.

The advantage of a 7drl over just writing a roguelike is that the time
limit forces you to *finish* something. A 100 hours over a year is as
a nebulous time limit as "a year" - procrastination and feature bloat
will creep in and you'll never finish. (Not that there is anything
wrong with not finishing - almost all great roguelikes are unfinished)

Like the NaNoWriMo, the goal isn't to create *great* roguelikes. It
is just to create roguelikes. I encourage you to participate even if
you can't have a cleared schedule. Just make something smaller (and
possibly more fun!) with the time you do have.
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On 26 Jan, 21:06, Robson <iceyi... DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 24, 4:50 pm, jota... DeleteThis @hotmail.com wrote:
>
> > On 24 Jan, 14:13, Robson <iceyi... DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Ditto!
>
> > > I might makehttp://www.squidi.net/three/entry.php?id=63witha load
> > > of changes to make it more roguelike.
>
> > Bastard!
>
> > (I mean that in a good way!)
>
> I'm not sure I follow... were you going to make that or something?

No, it was just to say it was a good idea to adapt to RL (I think...).
But even if it wasn't, ya know, you got dibs

Jotaf
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On Jan 28, 1:38 pm, Jeff Lait <torespondisfut... RemoveThis @hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 28, 4:16 am, Altefcat <edemp... RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Too bad for me, I would have really liked to try it this year, but
> > there is no way for me to have a full week dedicated to development.
> > Any way, good luck for all of you !
>
> I hope you don't think all the participants have a week devoted to
> development! I certainly have nothing close to 100 hours available to
> me! If I'm lucky, I'll scrape together maybe 30-40 hours of
> development time over the week.

30-40 is a whole lot... If I am lucky I will be able to gather 20
hours in my week

So, this is not an excuse for not getting in! ;D

SNIP
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> (POWDER:http://www.zincland.com/powder)

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