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11: Taking Back Roguelikes with Raigan Burns

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

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The Difference Between Net Hack and Spelunky

Mark Brown defines roguelikes as video games where the levels are randomly generated each time you play. Reagan, let me still try to break this down. So what is the difference between spelunky and net hack and roger? And why does why does that matter? I think there's a maybe we need a term for a broader genre of game that uses procedural generation permadeath," he says.

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