7DRL Challenge

To quote at length from an e-mail posted by Jeff Lait on the rec.games.roguelike.development newsgroup:

What is a Seven Day Roguelike?

A Seven Day Roguelike is a roguelike created in seven days. This means
the author stopped writing code one hundred and sixty eight hours
after they started writing code.

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A Seven Day Roguelike (7DRL) can be written at any time. However, a
general agreement was reached that it would be fun to schedule a
specific week for a challenge. This allows the various authors to know
that others are also desperately tracking down a bad pointer reference
on the 167th hour.

The week has been chosen for the Seventh Annual 7DRL Challenge!

After an unscientific straw poll, the following scientific-looking
graph was generated:

Feb 25 - Mar  4: #########
Mar  3 - Mar 11: ##########
Mar 10 - Mar 18: ###################

A discursive analysis of this shows that the use of the # sign makes
for an aesthetically pleasing method for representing bar graphs.

The week for the Seven Day Roguelike Challenge has been chosen!

Within the week of March 10th to March 18th, you are hereby challenged
to write a roguelike in 168 hours!

To participate, follow these simple steps:

1) Any time on March 10th or March 18th (as measured in your time
zone), post to rec.games.roguelike.development that you have started
work on your Seven Day Roguelike.
2) Write a roguelike.
3) After 168 hours, if you have completed a playable roguelike, post
your success to rec.games.roguelike.announce!  If not, post your lack
of results to rec.games.roguelike.development, where we will all
commiserate and agree that given a few scant more hours, it could
have been great.

Good Luck!

I will try to post a reminder message the Wednesday before the
challenge.

Just a note regarding point (1): I’m pretty certain Jeff meant “Any time on March 10th or March 11th.” The 18th is probably not the best day to start (unless you’re planning to make an out-of-challenge roguelike, that is).

I’m looking forward to this year’s challenge week, and I hope you are too!