Will your favorite roguelikes still be playable in 20 years? How about 50? The Uxn/Varvara ecosystem is a radically simple, portable, and personal approach to computing. Learn how to produce games that fit in 64-kilobyte ROMs and which run on 25-year-old hardware as easily as on modern computers or web browsers. Embrace limits to fuel your creativity!
100R — uxn
The Uxn/Varvara ecosystem is a personal computing stack based on a small virtual machine that lies at the heart of our software, and that allows us to run the same application on a variety of systems.
ASCII art + permadeath: The history of roguelike games
Everything from Rogue to the Binding of Isaac.
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.
The CRPG Project
I’ve been thinking about computer RPGs a lot recently, and trying to play a bunch. There’s a quality that I’ve always loved about especially older computer RPGs: you really felt t…
Buy | Cogmind - A Sci-Fi Roguelike by Grid Sage Games
Buy Cogmind, a sci-fi roguelike
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
Weathering Software Winter
Weathering Software Winter
Prospero: a new coding harness for a more civilized age
Uxn
Uxn is a simple virtual machine geared towards graphical applications, with features reminiscent of classic home computers.
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…
cataclysm: The zombie apocalypse starts now
I love it when people suggest console games for Linux are a joke. I can think of three or four games offhand — crawl is one, taipan and gearhead are others — with more depth and intelli…
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
Announcing UTM Games Database
Last month, we released UTM 5 which, amongst other things, is the first UTM release to ship accelerated graphics for Linux (Vulkan 1.3) and Windows (DirectX 11-12). In fact, we are the first virtualization product on macOS to ship DirectX 12 (ahead of VMware Fusion and Parallels Desktop). But shipping the driver is just the first step for a free open source PC replacement for macOS. Maintaining, supporting, and patching issues for the library of over 200,000 Windows games is an ongoing challenge. That is why we are launching db.getutm.app, a community driven game compatibility database for UTM. Users can…
