7DRLC 2013 is over. The num­ber of rogue­like devel­op­ers and play­ers con­tin­ues to grow: accord­ing to the offi­cial game reg­is­tra­tion page, there were 357 entries this year (com­pared to 100 entries last year). This is very excit­ing news!

If you reg­is­tered a rogue­like for the chal­lenge, please update your entry to indi­cate, in par­tic­u­lar, whether your 7DRL was suc­cess­ful and where it is avail­able for down­load. (If you don’t have a web­site your­self, you can upload your 7DRL at 7drl​.org.)

The list of rogue­likes on this site will be updated soon.

Finally, I apol­o­gise for the slow load times you may have encoun­tered while vis­it­ing this site. I plan to upgrade the host­ing plan before next year’s challenge.

Check back for more information—reviews, thoughts on this year’s chal­lenge, etc.—over the next few days!

Num­ber of entries for 7DRLC 2012 (last year’s chal­lenge): 100.

Num­ber of entries for 7DRLC 2013 (this year’s chal­lenge): 253 (so far).^[1]

To a quar­ter of a thou­sand peo­ple: good luck!

1. You can start late if you want, but you’ll have less time. [↩]

7DRLC 2013 will run from Sat­ur­day, March 9th to Sun­day, March 17th. You can choose any 168-​​​​hour period inside this win­dow to cre­ate your roguelike.

Basic Tools

Reg­is­ter Rogue­like · Cre­ate New Post · Upload File

Resources

Rules and FAQ · Rogue­Basin · RogueTem­ple · Rogue­like Radio Episodes on 7DRLs

Com­mu­nity

#7DRL2013 · Face­book Event · RGRD IRC Chan­nel · RogueTem­ple Forums

7DRLC 2013 is start­ing very soon! What are you plan­ning for your 7DRL? (Feel free to cre­ate a new post intro­duc­ing your roguelike.)

I’d like to get some feed­back on this web­site before 7DRLC 2013. In par­tic­u­lar: what do you think could be improved?

Is the blog intu­itive enough to use?

Would you find an instruc­tions page helpful?

Do you think facil­i­ties for upload­ing rogue­likes are adequate?

—And any­thing else you can think of.

From Jeff Lait’s email—

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.

————–

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 Ninth Annual 7DRL Challenge!

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

Feb 23 – Mar  3: #######
Mar  2 – Mar 10: ##############
Mar  9 – Mar 17: ################

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 9th to March 17th, you are hereby chal­lenged
to write a rogue­like in 168 hours!

To par­tic­i­pate, fol­low these sim­ple steps:

1) Any time on March 9th to March 17th (as mea­sured in your time
zone), reg­is­ter on http://​7drl​.roguetem​ple​.com.
2) Write a rogue­like.
3) After 168 hours, if you have com­pleted a playable rogue­like, add your
down­load link to 7drl​.roguetem​ple​.com!  If not, set your sta­tus
to failed and we will all com­mis­er­ate and agree that given a few scant
more hours, it could have been great.

In case some­thing goes wrong with 7drl​.roguetem​ple​.com reg­is­tra­tion
(It won’t!), use rec.games.roguelike.development as a backup.

You are encour­aged to use http://​7drl​.org for blog­ging your game development.

Good Luck!

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

I’ll update this site later today to (a) reflect these dates and (b) stream­line the reg­is­tra­tion process.

Help pick the dates for 7DRL Chal­lenge 2013! Respond to Jeff Lait’s Call for Dates.