7DRL Contest 2011
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The 2011 Seven Day Roguelike Challenge was the 7th 7DRL challenge and took place on the week of March 5th to March 13th of 2011.
A substantial number of people posted their progress over the course of the week on the 7DRLC community blog, which received 951 views at the height of the challenge on March 12th.
Links
Competition tags
On Wordpress, entries used the tag 7DRL 2011 for related blog posts. On Twitter, some used the hashtag #7DRL2011 for competition related status updates.
Entrants
There were a total of 100 entrants, 46 of which succeeded.
Successful
- aave - A Little Anxious When It's Dark http://tapio.github.com/alawid/
- Ulf Åström (Happy Pony Land) - PUZZLE CHALLENGE - windows binary, source
- benhem - 3D/2D dungeon crawl - (shh to: sevendrl@benhem.xen.prgmr.com with password:7drl)
- Joseph Bradshwe - Rogue - The Cardlike - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GCQK7ONP
- corremn - Inversion of Control http://code.google.com/p/ioc/
- Joshua Day - Rook - direct download, Windows binary, victory post
- Adam Gatt - God of Change - http://code.google.com/p/godofchange/
- Darren Grey - Broken Bottle
- Filip Dreger - Pac the Rogue - http://sites.google.com/site/pactherogue/
- edenicholas - Regicide! http://sites.google.com/site/edenicholas/regicide
- Furi-wuff (Furi) - 7DRLCC
- Fobbah - Magicko - http://www.fobbah.com/magicko.html
- Friedrich Hanisch & Jana Reinhardt - Pitman Krumb - play online, standalone Win, standalone Mac
- Heroic Fisticuffs - GnomeSquad - website, success post
- Eben Howard - EmoSquid
- hmp - Dwarftown - official website, alternate download
- IBOL - Destiny Of Heroes - download, development journal
- jplur - Gridfolk - binary, screenshot
- Jeff Lait - Vicious Orcs - http://www.zincland.com/7drl/orcs/
- Legend of Angband - JSRL - http://jsrl.instantfreesite.com/
- kaw - Light7DRL - Linux binaries, Windows binaries, source
- LordBistian - unnamed - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8556093/7drl_v2.exe
- Dave Moore - Stygia
- Nicolas Makela - Alfarogue - http://www.elderlore.com/en/planet-roguelike/7drl-success-alfarogue.htm
- Andy Moraczewski - MonsterEnthrallerRL - https://sourceforge.net/projects/monsterenthrall/
- Nathaniel Inman - Kepler-10b - http://code.google.com/p/exploringthebleak/#Kepler-10b
- Nikolaos - Devil *MIGHT* Laugh - http://7drl.org/2011/03/13/devil-might-laugh-success/
- Numeron - The Man in the Mirror - http://www.users.on.net/~rossn/
- psy_wombats - Deep Realm Heroes - http://www.wombatrpgs.net/misc/sdrl.html
- quickfingers - SRL - play, SRL MAC, SRL WIN
- Ralph - PM:theRL - http://7drl.org/2011/03/12/pmtherl-is-finished/
- Justin Reardon - Storming the Ship - source
- Jacob Sadow-Reinshagen (Zurn) - dungeonRL - http://7drl.org/2011/03/14/success-dungeonrl/
- Joshua Sigona (sigonasr2) - Free-Like - http://sigonasr2.servegame.org/freelike/
- Radek Soldek - Alamut - official download, alternate download
- Trystan Spangler - Twelve Hours - official website, source
- Konstantin Stupnik - Monster Slayer Show - https://sites.google.com/site/monsterslayershowrl/home
- Paweł Ślusarczyk - Piraten - http://sabat.us/piraten.zip
- Tyler - Happy Ever After - http://gamejolt.com/freeware/games/rpg/happy-ever-after/4741/
- Anaël Verrier - Anauroch http://anauroch.last-exile.org/
- Ralph Versteegen & Nigel McBride - Geiger A.D. '42 - source, windows version
- Wesley Werner - Wordrogue - http://7drl.darknet.co.za
- wiglud - Mad Mage http://www.wiglud.com/madmage.html
- Pat Wilson - Defender of the Deep - http://code.google.com/p/defender-of-the-deep/
- Oohara Yuuma - kusemono - http://www.interq.or.jp/libra/oohara/kusemono/index.html
- Santiago Zapata (Slash) - Elite International Detective - http://code.google.com/p/elite-international-detective/
Honorable Mention (10DRL)
- Ido Yehieli - Detribus - http://www.detribus-game.com/
Failed
- Jimmy Åberg - A1RL - did not even manage to start the project
- Akhier - The Soul Lord - techdemo
- AstralCalculus - unnamed - http://astralcalculus.tumblr.com/post/3838059648/my-very-incomplete-7drl11-entry
- Derrick Creamer - unnamed - never really got started this week
- Michael Doherty - unnamed - glitchy map generation, player movement, text displays
- Nils Fagerburg - unnamed - had planned on making a roguelike inspired print and play board game
- FruitPie & Fantasy Heaven - Gourmancer - windows binary, source
- Greg - Oculomancer - http://thewired.com/7DRL/oculomancer.zip
- jab - VineMine - didn't get enough time to work on it
- jlund3 - JadeRogue - http://code.google.com/p/jaderogue/source/browse/branches/7drl-11/
- Ed Kolis - Into the Darkness - https://bitbucket.org/ekolis/into-the-darkness
- Thomas Larsen - ZombieRL - http://7drl.org/2011/03/13/graceful-failure-zombierl/
- James Meickle (Eronarn) - Glyph - https://github.com/Eronarn/Glyph
- motioneffector - DirtBox - http://7drl.org/2011/03/13/codename-dirtbox-pre-alpha-day-7/
- Chris Payne (Winterblood) - Tallow - http://7drl.org/2011/03/13/tallow-7drl-failure/
- Paul Pekkarinen (Krice) - Teemu 1.3 - but progress was made
- Sherm Pendley - unnamed - I intend to keep working on it
- Gabriel Arthur Petrie - what I'm working on - I'll finish it fairly soon
- purestrain - unnamed - basic version, version with midi (may not work correctly)
- purplearcanist - Time travel roguelike - the project is not dead yet
- Risto Saarelma - Helltank - that didn't quite work out
- Kristopher Saxton & Jason Makay - Scavenger: Throat Cutting for Fun and Profit
- Nemo - Herakleophorbia - development will continue on this mini-roguelike
- vsync - Warehouse - I'm going to keep working on it screenshot
- Kevin Wells - Unnamed Project - http://code.google.com/p/escape-from-the-masters-lair/
- Zonk - unnamed, fantasy arena/pit fighting - might finish this
Runaways
- Chris Doucet
- Ciarán Walsh
- Del Murgatroid
- deps
- DNewhall
- Drakalor Tourist
- d r
- elig - FarmCraft
- Gregory Friis
- Karies
- Kevin Mees - NRogue
- Michael Durwald
- MisfitBYTE - Late Start
- Nik Coughlin - Legend of the Cheese Golem - https://github.com/nrkn/LosvRL
- Parthon - Randor: Planestrife
- Paxtor
- Peregrinus (+2 friends)
- Pol
- pom - Oubliette
- RedboneBit
- Scott Edgar - Four challenges
- Siquo
- SophieH - ? - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9766731/7drl2011/WebPlayer/WebPlayer.html
- steev - Matter Splatter RL
- Stoney - A Practical Survival Guide for Knights
- Tanthie - Life of a Dragon
- Vincent Berset - Schream
Summary
Challengers: 100 Winners: 46 Failed: 26 Runaways: 27
Logo
2011 7DRL Challenge is the first one for which a logo contest has been made. The winner of the 2011 7D7DRLCLC (Seven-Day Seven-Day Roguelike Challenge Logo Contest) was Nik Coughlin, with this "dungeon on a screen" logo:
Reviews
RogueBasin users have written reviews here: 7DRL Contest 2011 Reviews.
Add your own! Even short reviews will tell challengers that you appreciate their work, help others decide which games to play first, and create an enduring record of this year's highlights. Compared to the time and effort you're already putting into downloading the games, getting them to run, and playing them, it really doesn't take much.
Medal
The 2011 7DRL Challenge Medal is to be designed by Oryx, and distributed by Slashie
Winners will proudly display the medal on their homepage or their RogueBasin user pages. Failures may only look on with envy...