Roguelike Celebration's schedule is just as perfect and full and absurd as always. Things that are Roguelikes 2023: Oregon Trail, McMansions, Love Island, Sudoku roguelike.club/event2023.html

I’m going to be live in a half hour for our #RoguelikeCelebration sneak preview, grab a free ticket to check out this year’s social space and some great talks about Diablo, Against the Storm, and taking inspiration from theatre in dynamic narrative!

In Nethack, playing on a Friday the 13th gives you a luck penalty. Playing when it's a new moon leads to a few interesting mechanical changes. Friday after next is both October 13 *and* a new moon! Are you gonna show off your Nethack skills on this spooooky rare day?

Roguelike Celebration is an online event of talks about roguelike development, history, and community (and procedural generation, and related things). It takes place in a bespoke MUD, and it's happening THIS WEEKEND! Tickets are pay what you want, check the replies for a link 🎟️

Tonight we gathered at the obelisk and spoke of eels. ...you know, just your typical conference pre-party. The space opens again around 9:00 am Pacific time and talks begin around 9:30 am. See(l) you soon!

It's such a powerful statement for these Jewish organizations to be demonstrating on Shabbat. "We will not rest" in this context means "the situation is so dire it requires breaking one of our most holy commandments." ❤️

For those who haven't been keeping up with Caves Of Qud, look at that second feature. Late-game gets *wild*.

The police love removing organizers from the streets, not realizing we are constantly building community behind the scenes and where there is one of us there are many. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free. 🇵🇸

For any fellow Albertans who follow me here - there is more context on CCMF so please take a moment. I was impressed by how Wesam kept peace in the face of some truly vile things being shouted by counter-protestors. For him to be charged like this is horrible and absurd.

It’s encouraging to see so many of my peers already in this list, I’m proud to join them. Please take a moment to listen to Younès and to sign, the audience is large and it’s worthwhile to say something.

I now bear the cursed knowledge of a bunch of games and revivals that have been killed off over the years—because they didn’t look “expensive enough to succeed”. Didn’t have enough prestige. Served an audience, but couldn’t be aggressively monetized or live-service. 3/

I’ve been laid off from activision blizzard after 13 years of employment. I was the sole income earner for our household so leads on new positions would be appreciated

Getting the ads is so surreal! I spent 4.5 years on Nightingale, more than my degree or anything in my life. It’s bittersweet having been there at the start but not the end - I wish the team the best! And hope I’ll finally be able to talk more about that unique proc gen system 😉

Miserable, sickening behaviour at my local university. Every year, anti-abortion protestors would take over that same quad with graphic posters for multiple days - no problem. Truckers take over highway 1 for days - no problem. But here it’s immediately over the top violence.

Friendly reminder that our 2024 call for proposals is still open! Send us your crunchy mathy talks, your extremely specific lore talks, your deep academic talks, your frivolous silly talks, your unhinged performance art... roguelike.club/cfp.html

I wrote about the many ways that Israel has made trauma a weapon of war. About how this exploitation betrays the victims of the past. And creates many more victims in the present. It was hard to write. It will be hard to read. I hope it helps. theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int…

Good morning, goblins! We're kicking off talks shortly, but you've still got plenty of time to snag a pay-what-you-want ticket from roguelike.club and join us in the MUD! (You can also watch us on Twitch and YouTube, but the MUD chat is really where it's at)