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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

On Roguebasin:

Full list at:

http://mirrormatchgames.com/post/1417473633/finished-4drl-entries

Links

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/

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