4DRL Contest 2010

First 4DRL Challenge, October 2010

Make a (or mod, or finish a previously abandoned) roguelike game in 4 days!

Date

Pick 4 consecutive days between 22/10/10 (Friday) to 27/10/10 (Wednesday).

Rules

Use whatever you like (existing engines, libs, code, graphics, sounds) but mention what you used at the end.

Participants

• tametick + nefD: js/html/css, starting from an existing unfinished game.
• rsaarelm: Something with Factor.
• humasect: Haskell+libtcod or Lisp+css3
• jice: TreeBurner - C++,libtcod. using "the cave"'s code-base
• ohai
• Kalantir: C++ with pd/ncurses. From scratch Unable to participate due to interview prep
• Darren Grey: FreePascal, new game
• sokercap: Flash or XNA
• linux_junkie: Zombie Swarm - Lua + libtcod
• sofuture: failing the '4 days' part, but here in spirit -- Erlang/cecho(ncurses)
• Wally: C++/LibTCOD. Might be recycling some code that I have currently.
• purplearcanist: AchronalRL. Python. Using libtcod, but may recycle old code.
• Whales: C++, curses. Going to write a fresh engine, albeit a simple one.
• jab + derrida: Common Lisp, brainstorming.
• Nolithius: ActionScript 3, using Dance of Death's code-base.
• Josiah + Jeremy: C# all brand new code. Started 22/10/10 ~7pm, Finished 25/10/10 11:46pm (Weekend presented other things which left little time to work on the game, many features were unable to be added/completed)
• Samel: not sure I'll manage to enter. c + ncurses.
• Joshua Day: Freehold, village defense in the vein of Jakub Debski's Settlement -- C, lua, opengl. long-term engine; game from scratch. Sun - Wed (cst)
• Daniel X. Moore + condr: Probably a simple one using HTML/CoffeeScript on http://pixie.strd6.com/developer/apps platform
• Normandy: Some unfinished Java console rendering stuff
• Jaldhar: "So You Think You Can Dance...ON MY GRAVE?" (C++/ncurses/Linux) Sun - Wed
• mirrormatch:C++ & curses - sat midday - tues night (finished, source @ http://github.com/mirrormatch/4drl )
• InaVegt: Python + libtcod, using a premade cave generation engine
• Stoney: FreePascal/Lazarus, new game, premade engine

Participants Progress/Submissions

• humasect: http://github.com/humasect/huma4drl
• sofuture: http://github.com/jzellner/rogueunlike
• mirrormatch: http://github.com/mirrormatch/4drl
• Nolithius: http://www.nolithius.com/game-development/4drl-success-chronophase
• Josiah + Jeremy: http://www.mediafire.com/?4ddyxg60xl30x78
• tametick & nefD: http://www.tametick.com/cq/
• Darren Grey: http://www.gruesomegames.com/blog/?p=58
• Joshua Day: 4d failure. (rl still to come.)

List of finished projects

• Cardinal Quest by Ido
• Chronophase by Nolithius
• TreeBurner by jice
• UNSTOPPABLE by Darren Grey

Links

• rogue temple: http://www.roguetemple.com/forums/index.php?topic=1352.0
• r.g.r.d: http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.roguelike.development/browse_thread/thread/4d5ac1d53f1964b0#
• tigsource: http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=15230.0
• reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/roguelikes/comments/dpqxa/4drl_challenge_october_2010_make_a_roguelike_in_4/
• Ludum dare: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2010/10/19/4drl-challenge-october-2010/
• Mirror Match Games: http://mirrormatchgames.com/post/1417473633/finished-4drl-entries

Tips

• Sol's "rules" for surviving Ludum Dare: http://sol.gfxile.net/ldsurvival.html
• Procedural Content Generation wiki - http://pcg.wikidot.com/
• Rogue Basin: http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/

Resources

• Example of a quick&dirty 'fake' console in Java2d: http://www.filedropper.com/consoleexample
• JavaScript A* and Field of View example code:

* Demo Page: http://www.sevrd.com/canvas/astar/demo1.html
* Archive: http://www.sevrd.com/js-astar-los.tar.gz

• as3sfxr: http://www.superflashbros.net/as3sfxr/
• A Java RL engine (MIT license), contains a bunch of useful code: http://code.google.com/p/jaderogue/