IRDC 2008

Name:  IRDC
Time:  Saturday, September 20.
Place: Berlin, Germany
Venue: bootlab.org
Chat:  IRC: QuakeNet #rgrd
News:  rec.games.roguelike.development
Wiki:  http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php?title=Rgrd_meeting
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Developers discuss their interpretations of what a roguelike is, leading to the Berlin Interpretation

The International Roguelike Development Conference IRDC 2008 was the first IRDC.

Initially conceived as a rgrd meeting, the name IRDC was adopted at this conference.

Discussions during IRDC 2018 led to the creation of the Berlin Interpretation

Presentations

• "Stealth and Facing in Roguelikes" -- Ido Yehieli (aka Joe6pack)
• "Batteries included - introduction to writing your game in Python" -- Radomir Dopieralski (aka The Sheep)
• "Context and Meaning in character-based roleplaying. A communication scientist's view on roguelikes" -- Mario Donick
• "The Discretization of Space and Time: Role in Roguelike Design" -- Jeff Lait

All presentations are available on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEFC7B8888265466C&feature=plcp

Participants

• Christopher Brandt (Germany)
• Mario Donick (Rostock, Germany)
• Radomir Dopieralski (Poland)
• Andreas Dorn (Germany)
• Chris Hartmann (Germany)
• Ido Yehieli (Vienna, Austria)
• Jeff Lait (Canada)
• Milesss (Poland)

Selected Venue

bootlab
http://www.bootlab.org
Oranienburger Strasse 54, 10117 Berlin (Mitte)
http://tinyurl.com/5vcbut (google maps)

The bootlab is part of the 'Kunsthaus Tacheles':

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunsthaus_Tacheles

Venue Selection Process

Berlin, Germany was selected as a place for the venue, after considering the following places:

• Berlin, Germany (9 votes)
• Atlanta, Georgia, USA (2 votes)
• Cracow, Poland (1 vote)
• Stockholm, Sweden (1 vote)
• Santiago de Compostela, Spain (1 vote)

Inside Berlin, the following venues were considered

• bootlab (winner)
• c-base
• Chaos Computer Club

Name of the event =

The following names were considered, with IRDC 2008 being selected as a winner:

• IRDC 2008 - International Roguelike Development Conference 2008 (3 votes)
• TRICoRD - Tailoring Roguelikes: International Conference on Roguelike Development (0 votes)
• SARGE - Society for the Advancement of Roguelike Games and Endeavors (0 votes)
• AMPHORA - A Multinational Populace Helping to Orchestrate Roguelike Awareness (0 votes)
• DUPRE - Developer's Union for the Promotion of Roguelike Endeavors (0 votes)

Planning

Back in 2008, Roguebasin was used to coordinate the meeting; for historical purposes that content has been moved to IRDC 2008 Planning