120 Pages
50 Color Illustrations
by
CRC Press
120 Pages
50 Color Illustrations
by
CRC Press
120 Pages
50 Color Illustrations
by
CRC Press
Also available as eBook on:
Game Design 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 designs and... Read more
1 Introduction 1
2 The Birth of the Rogue 3
3 Basic Roguelike Design 7
4 Off-Brand Roguelikes 13
5 Generating Content 19
6 Advanced Roguelike Design 31
7 The Roguelike Rises 45
8 AAA Roguelikes 57
9 The Roguelike Confusion 63
10 Expert Roguelike Design 71
Conclusion 97
Biography
Joshua Bycer is a Game Design Analyst with over a decade of experience writing for major sites, doing YouTube, and the author of the Game Design Deep Dive series. In that time through Game-Wisdom.com, he has interviewed hundreds of game developers and members of the industry about what it means to design video games.
