7-Day Roguelike Challenge to begin tomorrow

Ah, sigh. I love so much of what roguelikes represent, and yet I remain a neophyte in the actual roguelike community. This, for instance. How did I not know about the 7-Day Roguelike Challenge? But wait–maybe you don’t know about the 7-Day Roguelike Challenge either! Let’s learn together:

A Seven-​​Day Rogue­like (7DRL) is a rogue­like cre­ated in seven days. That is, the author stopped writ­ing code 168 hours after they started writ­ing code. A 7DRL can be cre­ated at any time dur­ing the year. How­ever, gen­eral agree­ment was reached that it would be fun to sched­ule a spe­cific week for a 7DRL Chal­lenge.

Last year’s challenge began on Sat­ur­day, March 10th and ended Sun­day, March 18th; this year’s begins tomorrow, on March 9th, and ends on the 17th.

I’m almost tempted to join myself, but due to the confluence of forces beyond my control, there’s absolutely no way I’ll have the time. That shouldn’t stop you, though!

Last year’s 7DRL Challenge produced several dozen finished entries; hit the jump for a list of games with links!

Here they are:

• 2149RL by Adam Piskel
• AppRogue by vwood
• Ascen­sion of the Drill­worms by Sebas­t­ian Steinhauer
• Ascent Into the Depths of Beyond by Jaldhar
• Asy­lumRL by scootah
• Beyond the Light (for­merly Day­break) by Joe M
• Bone Builder by Gob­linz (TE4 mod)
• Cave Chop by Mar­tin Read
• Cog­mind by Josh Ge
• Dark Val­halla by Legend
• Das Schurke Boot by John Maag
• Dead Night For­est Chap­ter 2: The Lost Car­a­van by Edwin DeNicholas
• Drake­fire Chasm by Tanthie
• DuneRL by Draconis
• Emet by jab
• Equal in Death (blood-​​arbiter) by yufra (TE4 mod)
• Escape from the Vault by eggmceye
• Fic­tional Rogue­like by Tritax
• Frag­ile Wrath by Kon­stan­tin Stupnik
• Fuel (for­merly Space Miner) by Ido Yehieli
• Gate­wayRL by kipar
• Hell­mouth by Eronarn
• Hope by slashie
• HunterRL by Mosenzov
• Hyper­Rogue II by Z
• I rule, you rule, we all rule old-​​school Hyrule by Trys­tan Spangler
• Infini­verse by Tapio
• Jagge­dRL by Michael Curran
• Jelly by sheep
• Kaiju Rogue­like by Jason Pickering
• Kitchen Mas­ters by Sammage
• Life of Sir Pointsa­lot by Geeze
• LinLem’s Vague Adven­ture Rogue­like by Mike “Lin­Lem” W
• Locks by zurn
• Me Against the Mutants by Team Rat King
• Mont Asall by OceansDream
• Mujahid by pat
• Mutant Aliens by srd
• Night­fall by numeron
• phage by Pawel Kowal­czyk (TE4 mod)
• Porta Lucis by Chris Whitman
• Pro­fes­sional Sword Tester the Rogue­like by Oohara Yuuma
• Revenge on a Toy Fac­tory by Der­rick Creamer
• Road­like by Sos Sowoski
• Robo­Cap­tain by heroicfisticuffs
• Ruins of Kal Raman by tndwolf
• Shadow Rogue by Orkus Malorkus
• Smooth Rogue by peous
• Steel Knights by psy_​womvats
• SUN CRUSHER!!! by JO
• Swamp Mon­ster by Craig Turner
• Sword in Hand by Jeff Lait
• The Adventurer’s Guild by nolithius
• The Chal­lenge! by XLambda
• The Death of Juga t’Dy (for­merly TurnRL) by ivanah
• The Well of Enchant­ments by IBOL
• Top Dog by kbmonkey
• TrapRL by RedMike
• Turam­bar by Leg­end of Angband
• Waagham­mer by corremn
• War­den by magikmw
• Wyrm by deej
• Zaga-​​33 by Michael “Brog” Brough

One of these days, I’d like to run down this list and play a few, maybe even do an IndieRPGs.com Checks Out episode or two. In the meantime, why not check them out for yourself?