7DRL Contest 2009

The 2009 Seven Day Roguelike Challenge had an astoundingly large turnout with an even more impressive output. With 45 entrants and 25 successes this has been by far the most active 7DRL competition to date. The official contest ran from March 7th to March 15th, while a number of contestants chose their own start time. Here is a list (in alphabetical order) of the official participants:

Successful

• Adam Gatt: DungeonMinder - http://code.google.com/p/dungeonminder/
• buub0nik & sinoth: Epic! Monster Quest: Hyper - http://sinoth.net/code/emqh.zip
• Christopher Brandt: Underbooks - http://home.arcor.de/avielsstand/UnderbooksMINGW.rar
• deej: Excitable Digger - http://excitaabledigger.blogspot.com/
• destroysound: Whispers in the Void - http://nihilsys.com/wordpress/2009/03/14/whispers-in-the-void-0666-released/
• Deveah: Pink Ninja - http://freefile.kristopherw.us/uploads/deveah/pn.zip
• Ed: Decimation - http://edkolis.exofire.net/decimation.php
• Elig: Backwards Gravity - http://backwardsgravity.blogspot.com/
• flend: DDRogue - http://urchin.earth.li/~tomford/random/ddrogue.zip
• Florian Diebold: Fortress of the Goblin King - https://launchpad.net/fotgk-7drl/7drl/1.0/
• guesst: The Favored - http://cymonsgames.retroremakes.com/pages/favored/favored.zip
• Ido: Fruits of the Forest - http://yehieli.info/fotf/
• idontexist:True God - http://stonesofchaos.googlecode.com/files/Truegod7drlwin.zip
• jab: Persist - http://code.google.com/p/persistrl/downloads/list/
• Jeff Lait: Jacob's Matrix - http://www.zincland.com/7drl/jacob/
• Legend of Angband: dL1 - http://h1.ripway.com/gifcom/dL1/dL1.zip
• Mary Haas and James Madison: Nyctos - http://code.google.com/p/nyctos/
• Nils Fagerburg: Cypress Tree Manor - http://fagerburg.com/nils/stuff/games/cypressTreeManor/
• Numeron: Domination - http://www.users.on.net/~rossn/
• purpleflayer: chickhack - http://code.google.com/p/chickhack/
• Rick Clark: Escape From Lab 42 - http://cid-bcdbe1b9697ff5dc.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/.Public/lab42/lab42.zip
• s.chiu: Fist of the Rogue Warrior - http://code.google.com/p/fotrw/downloads/list/
• Sir_Lewk: TetrisRL - http://www.cs.drexel.edu/~jlg95/tetrisrl/
• Slash: Expedition - http://slashie.net/page.php?27
• Xecutor: SpiritsRL - http://rapidshare.com/files/209612921/spiritsrl.rar.html

Failed

• Christopher Charles: Unnamed attempt (RGRD)
• corremn: DukeRL (RGRD)
• Darren Grey: The Lion King (RGRD)
• David A: When Zombies Attack! (Blog)
• Emile: Robot Rebellion (RGRD)
• h.j.l.jones: A Roguelike (RGRD)
• Michal Bielinski: Nidhoggr (RGRD)
• Nathan Stoddard: MultiRL (RGRD)
• Nik Coughlin: GrimRL (RGRD)
• Phil O'Neill: Quarterlight (RGRD)
• Sherm Pendley: Unnamed attempt (RGRD)
• Derrick Creamer: Catacombs of the Soulthief (RGRD)

Unknown

• Altefact: Planets of Elderlore (RGRD)
• edwardoka: Fl@shpoint (RGRD)
• Gamer_2k4: Environmental Energies (RGRD)
• HexDecimal: Hydrosphere (RGRD)
• jimmy aberg: AbstractRL (RGRD)
• konjin_: Flying @ (RGRD)
• Mike Judge: Murder in Moscow (RGRD)
• Stein: Tales of Ezcyria (RGRD)

Resume

Challengers:      45
Winners:          25
Failed:           12
Runaways:          8

Medal

The 2009 7DRL Challenge Medal was designed by Slash