7DRL Contest 2011

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.

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 - source and Linux binary, 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://servut.us/nizpu/random/AlfaRogue_2011_7DRL.rar
Andy Moraczewski (Peregrinus) & 2 friends - 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/ (code will be re-released on some repository soon)
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
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: 98
Winners: 46
Failed: 26
Runaways: 26

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.

Heroic Fisticuffs is posting his reviews on his blog

Geoffrey has posted a number of reviews on his blog

Darren Grey has highlighted some of his favourites on his blog.

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...