I love Roguelikes. I admit that I maybe love them more in theory than I actually love to play them, but I’ve played enough Nethack to genuinely feel a deep affection for the actual gameplay itself and not just its spiky, spartan, elitist, and techno-mythic aura. Roguelikes are awesome, insanely deep, demonstrations of the power of combinatory systems, a kind of state-space pr0n, and because of their ridiculous and wonderful ascii surface, they are also sort of like the computer game equivalent of brilliant radio drama.<\/p>\n
It turns out that Game Set Watch has somebody writing a column about Roguelikes, his two most recent articles are about ADOM, and I think they nicely capture the quality that makes these things so beautiful –<\/p>\n
Things to do While Visiting Ancardia I love Roguelikes. I admit that I maybe love them more in theory than I actually love to play them, but I’ve played enough Nethack<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamedesignadvance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamedesignadvance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamedesignadvance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamedesignadvance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamedesignadvance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gamedesignadvance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamedesignadvance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamedesignadvance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamedesignadvance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/a>ADOM, Nethack with a Goatee<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"