Happy New Year roguelike fans!  It's 2013, we're all still alive, and we're back with a new episode of Roguelike Radio.  This week we cover the Resurrection of ADOM, with Darren Grey, Thomas Biskup and Ignacio. Read more »

Hosts discuss challenges in determining Roguelike game of the year, controversy over erotic roguelikes, appeal of Lua for scripting in game development, trend of first person shooter roguelikes, debate over whether commercial action RPGs qualify as roguelikes, discussion on what constitutes a roguelike and exploration of introducing tiles and cool items in the game. They also mention recent updates and releases in the genre, highlight popular roguelike games and their communities, and express disappointment in the lack of game discussions in general communities.

Justin Ma and Matthew Davis, developers of the roguelike spaceship sim FTL, discuss the game's influences from board games, its scale and setting, the mechanics and design choices of crew members, advanced tactics and dialogue events, risk and crew member survival, flaws in the system, and post-release activities and future plans.

Welcome to Roguelike Radio episode 55. This week we talk about Strategy games, and how similar and dissimilar they are to roguelikes. Talking this episode are Darren Grey, Andrew Doull and special guest Troy Goodfellow, founder of Three Moves Ahead, the podcast which directly inspired Roguelike Radio. Read more »

Guests Darren Grey, Ido Yehieli, Michael Brough, Sos Sosowski, and Zapa discuss the thrill and challenges of participating in game jams. They share their experiences, talk about popular game jams like the Seven Day Roguelike Challenge and Ludum Dare, and explore the benefits of participating in game jams including creativity, learning, and community.

Listen as Darren Grey, Tom Betts, Michael Cook, Ian Horswill, Leif Foged, and Andrew Doull discuss the intersection of game design and academia. They explore automated game design, constraint technology, crossover between game design and other fields, designing games with a multi modular AI program, exploring 3D roguelike game development in Unity, procedural content generation in a dungeon crawler game, presenting academic concepts to a general audience, moving beyond copying existing games, open access to academic research in game design, challenges and solutions in collaboration between academic and indie game development communities, challenges of procedural content in game design, and an open source bibliography database and academic events.

Welcome to Roguelike Radio episode 52. This week we continue our talk from the last episode about Graphics and Tile Design. Talking this episode are Darren Grey, Ido Yehieli, Jagosh Kalezich (Cardinal Quest artist), Thomas Whetnall (Fuel and others) and John Attea (DCSS artist). Read more »

Welcome to Roguelike Radio episode 51. This week we talk about Graphics and Tile Design in roguelikes.  Due to the length of this recording it has been split into two - the second part will be up in a couple of days. Talking this episode are Darren Grey, Ido Yehieli, Jagosh Kalezich (Cardinal Quest artist), Thomas Whetnall (Fuel and others) and John Attea (DCSS artist). Read more »

Welcome to Roguelike Radio episode 50. This week we talk about the 50th episode and look back over the show's first year. Talking this episode are Andrew Doull, Ido Yehieli, John Harris and Ryan Boyd. Read more »

Welcome to Roguelike Radio episode 49. This week we interview Tarn Adams, creator of Dwarf Fortress. Talking this episode are Darren Grey, John Harris and Tarn Adams. Read more »