Posts tagged desktop-dungeons

A Diversity of Roguelikes

by Rowan Kaiser (Jan 19th 2012 4:30PM)

This is a weekly column focusing on "Western" role-playing games: their stories, their histories, their mechanics, their insanity, and their inanity. Once upon a time, the "Roguelike" genre was a semi-hidden cache of secrets in gaming. Games like Rogue and NetHack were passed around from ...

IndieCade 2011: Desktop Dungeons' inspiration, past, and future

by Mike Schramm (Oct 9th 2011 1:30PM)

If you enjoy PC games, especially action RPGs like Diablo, but you've never once played Nethack, you probably should. No, seriously -- go, right now, download it, and check it out. Sure, it's hard, not very accessible (there are no graphics, only ASCII symbols to represent the player, items, and ...

IGF winner Desktop Dungeons gets a facelift, up for pre-order on PC and Mac

by Randy Nelson (Jun 2nd 2011 5:20PM)

Hailing from South Africa -- notably the home country of Joystiq editor Ludwig Kietzmann -- QCF Design is building on the momentum it earned at this year's IGF awards with its bite-sized roguelike Desktop Dungeons by ... building on Desktop Dungeons. The game, which took home Excellence in ...