"Designing for Mastery" in Roguelikes
Added 2025-08-07 00:49:08 +0000 UTCA deep dive into building roguelikes that leave room to demonstrate mastery even when facing extreme challenges in environments defined by RNG, procedural content, and permadeath.
We did another Roguelike Radio recording! Been a long while and the episode (recorded last week) is still in editing, but as we covered an inspiring topic close to my heart I also wanted to write about it for the blog.
At nearly 7k words it turned out to be quite the piece--time-consuming but worthwhile, I guess :)
I'll be making that article public once the episode is released, but that's still in editing (release date unknown) so I couldn't link directly to the recording yet...
Until then, you can check it out the article as an image below, or here as text with the password "rr".
Update 250822: The Roguelike Radio episode is now out! Also updated the article itself with a link and made it public now so others can check it out as a companion to the talk.
