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24: Going Rogue with Glenn Wichman (Rogue)

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

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The Importance of Graphics in Roguelikes

The first roguelikes started appearing. How did you feel about that? We didn't make rogue open source. I felt kind of excited to see that people were taking what we had done and going further with it. In net hack there is a rogue level where you can run into the ghost of Glenn Wickman. You know so all of these roguelikes they had to write it all from scratch. It's good because really rogue as a piece of software was not very good. But also like none of those games like unless you start considering Diablo or stuff like thatNone of those games ever were commercialized, particularly right now.

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