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Roguelike Development.

Introduction.
How you can help.

Help Wanted.
Help Offered.

Roguelike Skeleton - 'Blah' by Erik I. Bolsø.
Work In Progress - Adventurers of the Realm.
Topics.
Free Graphic Tilesets.
Roguelike Development Links.

Roguelike Skeleton - 'Blah' by Erik I. Bolsø

File - blah-1.0.tar.bz2 [26k]
Supplemental Doc.

Work In Progress - The Adventurers of the Realm.

Introduction.

Entry 1 - The Map.
Entry 2 - Monsters.
Entry 3 - Map Arrays.
Entry 4 - Combat.
Entry 5 - Objects and Inventory.

Development - Topics.

Dungeons and Mazes

Creating a Dungeon - Brian Bucklew [bbucklew@inteletek.com].
Dungeon-Building Algorithm - Mike Anderson [mike@mikera.net].
Creating a Forest - Bryan Strait [strait@mail2.quiknet.com].
Fractal Landscapes - Mike Anderson [mike@mikera.net].
Populating The Dungeon Of Items & NPC's - Stuart George [entropy@ihug.com.au].
More Continuous Content - Joseph Swing [JSwing@wport.com].
Representing the Dungeon - Brian Bucklew [bbucklew@inteletek.com].
Finding Explorable Regions - Ross Morgan-Linial [rmorgan@jetcity.com].
Keeping track of the Dungeon.

Game Mechanics

Creating a Character - Brian Bucklew [bbucklew@inteletek.com].
Random Names - Gero Kunter [kunter@mathematik.uni-marburg.de].
Random Name Generation Using Regular Expressions - Brian Robinson [bcr19374@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu].
Object Representation - Sean Middleditch [sean.middleditch@iname.com].
Creating Inventories - Erno Tuomainen [ernomat@evitech.fi].
Inventory Abstraction - Kenneth Power [uncle_wiggly@bigfoot.com].
Equipment Wear and Tear - Michael Heinich [mheinich@yahoo.com].
Representing Magick Spells - Sean Middleditch [sean.middleditch@iname.com].
Programming Roguelike Magic - Juho Snellman [jsnell@lyseo.edu.ouka.fi].
Line of Sight - Tobias Downer [geoffd@iglou.com].
Line of Sight - Steve Register [saregist@nlamerica.com].
Computing LOS For Large Areas - Gordon Lipford [lipford@sympatico.ca].
An Efficient Observation Algorithm - Avier Taylor-Paul [taylor@tcnj.edu].
Field Of Vision - Régis Dubois [heroicjourneys@altern.org].
Ray-Tracing Field-of-View Demo - Greg McIntyre [greg@puyo.cjb.net].
Simple Combat In The Dungeon - Brian Bucklew [bbucklew@inteletek.com].
Randomiser Algorithms - Simon McGregor [londonien@hotmail.com].
Time Tracking - Gwidon S. Naskrent [naskrent@artemida.amu.edu.pl].
Handing Out Experience - Rick Carson [rickcarson@hushmail.com].
Shopping.
The Building of Towns - Michael Blackney [michaelblackney@hotmail.com].
Implementing Interesting Townfolk AI - Odin Jensen [odin@nukesoftware.dk].
Roguelike AI - Doing It The Generic Way - Sami Hangaslammi [shang@st.jyu.fi].

Gameplay

The RPG system.
Story - George Petryk [americ@total.net].
Allocating Experience and Character Advancement - Matthias E. Giwer [mgiwer@ij.net].
Save Game abuse.
Interaction.
Language in Roguelike Games - Esa Ilari Vuokko [eivuokko@mbnet.fi].
Play Balance.

Multiplayer Fun

Sureal Time - Damian Bentley [Damian.Bentley@dsto.defence.gov.au].

Monsters

Plug-in Monster AI - Mike Anderson [mike@mikera.net].
Tracking by Scent and Sound - Jim Crawford [pfister_@hotmail.com].
Monsters Who Carry - James Burton [burton@cs.stanford.edu].
A Better Monster AI - Joseph Swing [JSwing@wport.com].

Graphics

Pretty Pictures - Darren Hebden [rogue@skoardy.demon.co.uk].

Sound

Sound & Music - James Burton [burton@guide.cz].

Techy Stuff

Heap Space Conservation - Steve Segreto [ssegreto@titan.com].
Compressing Savefiles - Ross Morgan-Linial [rmorganl@fhcrc.org].
Info Files - James Burton [burton@guide.cz].
Stacktraces in gcc-compiled programs in Win32 and Linux-executables - Jurriaan Kalkman [thunder7@xs4all.nl].
How To Write A Roguelike Game/Engine - Esa Ilari Vuokko [eivuokko@mbnet.fi].
Redefinable Keyboard Bindings - Stuart George [dfiber@mega-tokyo.com].

Other

Variants.
Borgs.

Free Graphic Tilesets.

Gfx Introduction.

Set ov00_000 - Player Characters.
Set ov01_000 - Floor, Wall & Dungeon Bits.
Set ov02_000 - Monsters.
Set ov03_000 - Monsters.
Set ov04_000 - Weapons & Shields.
Set ov05_000 - Misc Objects.
Set ov06_000 - Helmets & Armour.
Set ov07_000 - Outside & Town Stuff.

Roguelike Development Links.

Free GFX Tilesets - David E. Gervais' free tilesets for use in RL dev.
More Free GFX Tilesets - This time from DeBray Bailey.
MapMaker - A REALbasic module by Bryan Winter for creating dungeon maps.
EasyConsole - A Visual C++ library for console management created by Jean-Michel.

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