Roguelike Celebration

Core Traditional Roguelike Values

by @slashie, builder of the Temple of the Roguelike, 2022. v1.3.1 The foundations of this article are the conclusions from my talk at the Roguelike Celebration in 2017. Click here for a brief histo…

SAHCon 2025!!!

Welcome to the virtual Homestuck Convention Hall. A single day of fun to make the world a little brighter!

How Memory Safety Approaches Speed Up and Slow Down Development Velocity

Every March, developers worldwide each try to make a roguelike game in less than 168 hours as part of the 7DRL Challenge. Roguelike games are hard, involving procedural level generation, pathfinding, line-of-sight algorithms, and more dijkstra maps than you can imagine.

Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ 十 Tʜᴇ Sʏʟʟᴀʙᴜꜱ (ORI) - CC0 on Twitter / X

Resource accumulation can itself be an important *skill* within roguelikes (many roguelikes require that you accumulate *something* to power up), but the point is not sitting around endlessly gathering more stuff. A roguelike is *merely* a cookie clicker (incremental game).— Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ 十 Tʜᴇ Sʏʟʟᴀʙᴜꜱ (ORI) - CC0 (@sunriseoath) July 20, 2026

March 2026 event extravaganza

Get ready for our busiest month so far! From our regular meetups to world class conferences, this March we have at least ten (10!) DWebYVR and adjacent events going on.

Solovember 2026

A game jam from 2026-10-31 to 2026-12-01 hosted by Sero. We've all been waiting all year, and it's almost finally November. Just like SoloSeptember we have another month all about solo and solo-friendly tabl...

Folklore Jam 2026

A game jam from 2026-09-30 to 2026-11-08 hosted by W.H. Arthur, unseeliejess, Lucky Newt Games & Lari Assmuth. Deadline extended a week to the 8th of November! Analogue game jam on folklore (including myths, urban legends, etc.) from your own culture or a place...

Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ 十 Tʜᴇ Sʏʟʟᴀʙᴜꜱ (ORI) - CC0 on Twitter / X

My family loves roguelikes. The first game we played with roughly this loop is League of Legends (generally, MOBAs). When we were in China in ~2010, my brother watched our oldest cousin playing the original DotA and was mind-blown that your progress is not saved between games.— Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ 十 Tʜᴇ Sʏʟʟᴀʙᴜꜱ (ORI) - CC0 (@sunriseoath) July 20, 2026

Friday Friday, July 10, 2026 (On the Chud Vision of Roman History)

Hey folks, Fireside this week! I’ve been a bit behind because we had some family travel followed by an issue with a water leak in the basement which has pushed me out of my normal home office…

Holiday.js 2025 - Phoenix Holiday Hackathon

A free festive hackathon in Phoenix, AZ. December 20th, 2025. Any language welcome, AI focus.

rpg.actor Fashion Jam

Walk the Fashionista Runway and show off your style. May 5th–25th, 2026.

2026 - European Ecovillage Gathering

Europe’s biggest annual festival in celebration of ecovillages and regenerative communities, where over 800 people come together to learn, share, co-create, celebrate, and experience what it takes to build community.

Fireside Friday, July 14, 2023

Fireside this week! Next week we’re going to launch into our next big series on the structure of the Roman Republic, a companion to How to Polis, 101, but because of what is going on with the…