7DRL Contest 2005

On March 5th, 2005, a great challenge was issued. The denizens of rec.games.roguelike.development were challenged to write a new, complete, roguelike in a mere 168 hours. Since so few roguelikes are ever "complete", some would claim this to be an impossible undertaking.

Nonetheless, fifteen brave souls dared enter the challenge. Of those, ten have provided us with URLs to their works. All of them, however, should be honoured for having taken on this challenge.

2005 was thus the year of the first Seven Day Roguelike Challenge

Successful

• Chris Reuter: Nethack II: Quest For Pants http://www.sentex.ca/~cgreuter/qfp.html
• Crichmon: Lurk http://lurk.basscat.net/lurker7.exe
• Edwin: Quickslash http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~eet23/quickslash/quickslash-src.zip
• Jakub Debski: Bomberogue http://www.alamak0ta.republika.pl/bomberogue.html (1DRL)
• Jeff Lait: You Only Live Once http://www.zincland.com/7drl/liveonce
• Kornel Kisielewicz: DiabloRL http://chaos.magma-net.pl/diablo/
• R. Alan Monroe: 7DRL WIP http://javajack.dynalias.net/rl/7drl/
• Slash: CastlevaniaRL:Prelude http://slashie.net
• The Sheep: Z-Day http://wiki.sheep.art.pl/Z-Day

Failed

• Adam White: The Rogue Monkey (Failed)
• Davis Chord: (Aborted)
• Chris Doucet: Seven Days Castle (Failed)
• Thijs van Ommen: Scrap http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/~mommen/scrap/ (10DRL)
• Raymond Martineau: (Failed)

Runaways

• David Gentle: (didn't Report)

Summary

Challengers:      17
Winners:           9
Failed:            5
Runaways:          1