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11: Taking Back Roguelikes with Raigan Burns

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

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Roguelikes: A Wild Movement

Reagan: It's just that it drives me crazy as someone who likes roguelikes, pre spelunky before anyone who didn't like roguelikes knew what a roguelike was. And then also, the kind of games that are being made, I, my new term is rouge light, because it's like a very common misspelling of rogue, but I feel like it's perfect for that kind of game. Because these games, like the grind based ones don't understand at all what's interesting about roguelikes. So they should be called rouge lights from now on.

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