diff --git a/content/blog/2022/05/roguelikes-i-like/brogue.jpg b/content/blog/2022/05/roguelikes-i-like/brogue.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ba22dc1 Binary files /dev/null and b/content/blog/2022/05/roguelikes-i-like/brogue.jpg differ diff --git a/content/blog/2022/05/roguelikes-i-like/index.md b/content/blog/2022/05/roguelikes-i-like/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1f9ab79 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/2022/05/roguelikes-i-like/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +--- +title: "Roguelikes I Like" +date: 2022-05-09T08:37:23-07:00 +draft: true +resources: + - name: nethack + src: "nethack.png" + title: "" + - name: brogue + src: "brogue.jpg" + title: "" +tags: ["Roguelikes", "Video Games"] +--- + +I've been playing a whole bunch of Roguelikes lately. Here's a short list of games I've really enjoyed. + +### Nethack + +[Nethack][nh] is the first roguelike I ever played. There were a bunch of students in my Computer Science program at +Oberlin that were always playing it in the CS labs. + +Most recently, it's what got me hooked on the genre all over again. Famously, it gives you almost nothing to go on when +you start. It's up to you to figure out everything based on what you -- the player -- know about the game. It's like a +puzzle! + +{{< post_figure name=nethack >}} + +### Brogue + +[Brogue][b] is the first Roguelike I played after only ever playing Nethack. The first time I started it up I was in +awe. It does a really great job of making use of the terminal to render a beautiful world for you to explore. The water +(there are lakes!) animates, there are fields of mossy grass and plants, there are blobs of goo that explode and spread +noxious pink gas everywhere. + +{{< post_figure name=brogue >}} + +### Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup + +My friend David introduced me to [Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup][dcss] on Twitter. I think it does a good job of distilling +the complexities of many roguelikes into a simpler form that's still rich and engaging. I really like how easy it is to +drop in on people and observe games too! + +[nh]: https://www.nethack.org +[b]: https://sites.google.com/site/broguegame/ +[dcss]: http://crawl.akrasiac.org:8080/#play-dcss-0.28 diff --git a/content/blog/2022/05/roguelikes-i-like/nethack.png b/content/blog/2022/05/roguelikes-i-like/nethack.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0e0e118 Binary files /dev/null and b/content/blog/2022/05/roguelikes-i-like/nethack.png differ