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. Cymon's Games reviewed and Cymon's Games visitors voted on their choices for Best in Show, Visual Presentation, and Technical Achievement. John Harris has also reviewed all of this year's entries for his @Play column on GameSetWatch. 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/blog/p/epic-monster-quest-hyper/
Christopher Brandt	Underbooks	http://code.google.com/p/underbooks-roguelike/
Eben Howard	Excitable Digger	http://squipony.com/ExcitableDigger1.1.zip
destroysound	Whispers in the Void	http://nihilsys.com/wordpress/?p=63
Deveah	Pink Ninja	http://freefile.kristopherw.us/uploads/deveah/pn.zip
Ed Kolis	Decimation	http://edkolis.exofire.net/decimation.php
Elig	Backwards Gravity	http://backwardsgravity.blogspot.com/
flend	DDRogue	http://ddrogue.wikidot.com/
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	TetRLs	http://www.cs.drexel.edu/~jlg95/tetrisrl/
Slash	Expedition	http://slashie.net/page.php?27
Xecutor	SpiritsRL	http://max.eyeline.mobi/skv/spiritsrl.html

Failed

• Christopher Charles: Unnamed attempt (RGRD)
• corremn: DukeRL (RGRD)
• Darren Grey: The Lion King (RGRD)
• David A: When Zombies Attack! (Blog)
• Derrick Creamer: Catacombs of the Soulthief (RGRD)
• edwardoka: Fl@shpoint (RGRD)
• Emile: Robot Rebellion (RGRD)
• Gamer_2k4: Environmental Energies (RGRD)
• h.j.l.jones: A Roguelike (RGRD)
• Michal Bielinski: Nidhoggr (RGRD)
• Mike Judge: Murder in Moscow (RGRD)
• Nathan Stoddard: MultiRL (RGRD)
• Nik Coughlin: GrimRL (RGRD)
• Phil O'Neill: Quarterlight (RGRD)
• Sherm Pendley: Unnamed attempt (RGRD)

Unknown

• Altefact: Planets of Elderlore (RGRD)
• HexDecimal: Hydrosphere (RGRD)
• jimmy aberg: AbstractRL (RGRD)
• konjin_: Flying @ (RGRD)
• Stein: Tales of Ezcyria (RGRD)

Summary

Challengers:      45
Winners:          25
Failed:           15
Runaways:          5

Medal

The 2009 7DRL Challenge Medal was designed by Slash