The 7DRL Contest
Every so often, the denziens of rgrd decide to hold a 7DRL challenge.
The challenge is to write a Seven Day Roguelike (7DRL). While you are free to write a 7DRL whenever you feel like it, doing it during an official challenge lets you share the pain of tracking down a hard-to-find bug at the last second before the deadline.
The challenge has been held twice so far, and the results are available here:
February 25th, 2006
On February 25th, 2006, the dwellers of rec.games.roguelike.development were again challenged to write a new, complete, playable, roguelike in the scary span of just 168 hours. One full year had passed since the first time the brave ones challenged the myth. Thus it was that the second Seven Day Roguelike Challenge was announced.
Still, twenty brave souls dared to challenge the impossible. Of those, thirteen have provided proof of their heroic deed. All of them, however, should be honoured for having taken on this challenge.
Successful
- Joseph Hewitt: King of MuHyup
- konijn: Valley of Ge-Hinnom
- Slash: Mt. Drash: the Roguelike
- Jeff Lait: Letter Hunt
- micromoog: Zombies! (1DRL) http://distractionandnonsense.com/zombies
- Timofei Shatrov: The Rougelike http://common-lisp.net/project/lifp/rouge.htm
- Christopher Brandt: RogueTower
- Corremn: Warlock of Firetop Mountain http://www.adam.com.au/savre/
- Steven Fuerst: 2DRL in 2K (2DRL)
- Jakub Debski: RogueDash (1DRL)
- Brog: Elements http://www.geocities.com/smestorp/
- Donnie: The Curse
- Jude Hungerford: Happy Hunting
Failed
- Zircher: Invader (Failed)
- Michal Ancient Bielinski: Commander (Failed)
- Icey: Paprika (Failed 7drl)
- HArold: Deserted... (Failed)
- tongHoAnh: The Walk (Failed)
- Krice: ZeldaRL (Abandoned)
- Martin Read: Halls of Danenth (Failed)
Runaways
- Parthon: TBA! (Didnt Report)
Summary
Challengers: 21 Winners: 13 Failed: 7 Runaways: 1
Medal
The 7DRL 2006 Contest Medal was designed by Paula Agudelo and distributten by Slash
March 5th, 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 https://diablo.chaosforge.org/
- 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