Game Deep Dive

Game Deep Dive: Roguelikes examines the history and rise of the often-confusing roguelike genre. Despite being more than 30 years old, the roguelike genre remains a mystery to a lot of consumers and developers. Procedural generation, or having the game generate content, has been a cornerstone and point of complexity since its inception. The 2010s saw an explosion of new s and examples, along with a debate about what a roguelike is. The genre found its way back to mainstream audiences with the award-winning Demon‘s Souls and Dark Souls. Since then, roguelikes have revolutionized the way we see and games. Author and game critic Joshua Bycer explains the differences between the various roguelike s and give a detailed blueprint showing what makes the best ones work. The first of its kind talking about the roguelike genre Examines the and methodology of roguelike games and the different variations A high-level discussion and breakdown of procedural and random content generation Joshua Bycer is a game critic with more than seven years of experience critically analyzing game and the industry itself. In that time, through Game-Wisdom, he has interviewed hundreds of game developers and members of the industry about what it means to video games. He is also a public speaker and presenter at schools and libraries on game and game development.