Development status

A rogue-like can go through a number of development statuses on its way to becoming the next NetHack. These categories are used for the Status summary of a roguelike and also to categorize Roguelikes by.

• Talkie talkie projects: No software has been released, and usually no code has been written.
• Alpha projects: a development version with severly limited functionality has been released.
• Beta projects: Beta projects are roguelike games which, while available to the public, are not yet ready to judged as finished products. Unlike Alpha projects, they have progressed to the point where they are fun and enjoyable games if you can handle a few sharp corners.
• Stable games: Stable games are roguelikes that the authors have believed reached a level of maturity that allows them to be judged as games in themselves. Often, development is still ongoing, as rogue-likes are hardly ever finished. (Except for those that were developed in a definite amount of time, like Dungeon Monkey and the 7DRLs, of course.)
• Defunct: the game is no longer under development.