One-Week Dungeons

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One-Week Dungeons

Diaries of a Seven-Day Roguelike Challenge

Computer games design Games development and programming

Author: David L. Craddock

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Language: English

Published by: CRC Press

Published on: 17th February 2022

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 4 Mb

ISBN: 9781000427202


—Kobo review

"An entertaining, race-against-time narrative."

—Goodreads review

"A fast-paced look into seven-day roguelikes, something so niche most people wouldn''t have heard about, but the book is well written and shows how important it is to get your thoughts down so you can sort out your ideas."

Eleven game designers. Eight grand ideas. Seven days to will them into reality.

Every year, programmers around the world compete in the 7-day roguelike challenge, or 7DRL, a weeklong game jam where participants endeavor to design and program a roguelike role-playing game. Their obstacles: day jobs, family responsibilities, sleep deprivation, and visionary concepts too big for 168 hours to contain.

Told over a series of daily journal logs, One-Week Dungeons: Diaries of a Seven-Day Roguelike Challenge chronicles the journeys of eleven 7DRL participants as they race to build their dream games before the clock expires.

David L. Craddock writes fiction, nonfiction, and grocery lists. He is the author of over a dozen nonfiction books about video game development and culture, including the bestselling Stay Awhile and Listen series and Arcade Perfect: How Pac-Man, Mortal Kombat, and Other Coin-Op Classics Invaded the Living Room, and fiction for young adults, including The Dumpster Club and Heritage: Book One of the Gairden Chronicles. Find him online @davidlcraddock on Twitter.

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