Josh Ge - How to Make a Roguelike 

omg thank you for that i was crying with the thought of listening to the whole talk with that rubbish song playing!

Exactly. What's with the rubbish song playing at the beginning? How distracting..

Yeah, I'll never understand why so many talks online include music. If it wasn't there in the first place, don't add it.

This was apparently playing in the common room around the corner and the mic was picking it up. I didn't even hear/notice it while there, but good thing someone went and turned it off! I had the first talk so there were a few technical difficulties, oh well :P

oh thank goodness

oh hey bud

Downloaded and am playing from this comment! Very fun game

you are welcome

Haha nice seeing you here battlemode 😇

I assume in the sense that "X" is a stand-in, like a mathematical variable. Those kinds of RL's often have names like RL (DoomRL, AlienRL, etc.)

eXisting ?

I was thinking about it. xD

You're not alone lol

Why? Not ideal but it's possible.

Modern JavaScript is rich and powerful, on equal footing with other high level dynamically typed languages like python and ruby.

@@raucousgeorge No it's not because no one uses JS for anything seriously useful like they do Python. JS is never used for any serious development or AI work. JS is great for what it's good at but what it's good at is so limited you'd have to be deluded to put it on the same level as a proper language.

@@Pat315 your idea of what constitutes "useful" might be a little too narrow. People use node.js for writing web back ends all the time, in large and growing numbers, including major web apps.

Javascript gets a bad rap because being a weak-typed interpreted language allows for a lot of sloppy coding. When used properly with common best practices it is incredibly handy and powerful. Every game jam project and several personal ones I've developed exclusively with JavaScript. Biggest advantage is the ease of distribution; everything "just works" out of the box (again, wether it works "well" or not depends on code quality and practices followed). Plenty of full-stack applications are written in pure JS (Node, Express, Mongo, etc.). Also makes for great prototyping: if runtime performance is really that critical, anything written in JS can be translated into C (just use the same algorithms and data structures) and compiled to a native app/exe.

No, Roguelike games are games like Rogue. An ascii dungeon crawler. Those are rogue-lites. They have one of two common features, but are mostly different from Rogue.

@@unclearimage alright, but if those games didn't have one or more progressions that persist, would they be roguelikes as well? Or it has to be ASCII and turn based? I'm just trying to understand.

@@McHorsesCreations The more like Rogue a game is the more it's a Rogue-like. Rogue-lites generally having procedural generation and permadeath, but not much else. However it's become so watered down people have been forced to refer to Roguelikes as "Traditional Roguelikes" now

@@unclearimage thank you very much for explanation! It sucks that all of these popular games using the term wrong. 😔 It kind of reminds me like brostep (Skrillex-like) music is called dubstep while the actual dubstep artists and fans were overshadowed by brostep music. 👊😔

You're severely missing what a Roguelike is

im all out of years sorry

Really its subjective, but it will almost have to be 2D unless you want to use 20 years.

@@eugeneiii2972 well I just want pixel grafics tbo or some vector art with some amount of detail. Like enter the gundon...

@@gilgabro420 Yes, I'm doing 1 bit pixel art for mine.