IRDC - Rgrd Meeting 2008

Name:  IRDC
Time:  Saturday, September 20.
Place: Berlin, Germany
Venue: bootlab.org
Chat:  IRC: QuakeNet #rgrd
News:  rec.games.roguelike.development
Wiki:  http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php?title=Rgrd_meeting
People: 9

The International Roguelike Development Conference IRDC 2008 was the first IRDC.

Initially conceived as a rgrd meeting, the name IRDC was adopted at this conference.

Discussions during IRDC 2018 led to the creation of the Berlin Interpretation

Presentations

"Stealth and Facing in Roguelikes" -- Ido Yehieli (aka Joe6pack)
"Batteries included - introduction to writing your game in Python" -- Radomir Dopieralski (aka The Sheep)
"Context and Meaning in character-based roleplaying. A communication scientist's view on roguelikes" -- Mario Donick
"The Discretization of Space and Time: Role in Roguelike Design" -- Jeff Lait

All presentations are available on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEFC7B8888265466C&feature=plcp

Participants

Christopher Brandt (Germany)
Mario Donick (Rostock, Germany)
Radomir Dopieralski (Poland)
Andreas Dorn (Germany)
Chris Hartmann (Germany)
Ido Yehieli (Vienna, Austria)
Jeff Lait (Canada)
Milesss (Poland)

Venue

bootlab
http://www.bootlab.org
Oranienburger Strasse 54, 10117 Berlin (Mitte)
http://tinyurl.com/5vcbut (google maps)

The bootlab is part of the 'Kunsthaus Tacheles':

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunsthaus_Tacheles

Venue Selection

Berlin, Germany was selected as a place for the venue, the following places were considered:

Berlin, Germany (9 votes)
Atlanta, Georgia, USA (2 votes)
Cracow, Poland (1 vote)
Stockholm, Sweden(1 vote)
Santiago de Compostela, Spain (1 vote)

Inside Berlin, the following venues were considered

Name of the event =

The following names were considered, with IRDC 2008 being selected as a winner:

IRDC 2008 - International Roguelike Development Conference 2008 (3 votes)
TRICoRD - Tailoring Roguelikes: International Conference on Roguelike Development (0 votes)
SARGE - Society for the Advancement of Roguelike Games and Endeavors (0 votes)
AMPHORA - A Multinational Populace Helping to Orchestrate Roguelike Awareness (0 votes)
DUPRE - Developer's Union for the Promotion of Roguelike Endeavors (0 votes)

Planning

Back in 2008, Roguebasin was used to coordinate the meeting; for historical purposes that content has been moved to IRDC 2008 Planning

IRDC 2008

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