NRnrjames·Nov 2, 2025
Brogue (Community Edition) also is awesome!
https://github.com/tmewett/BrogueCE
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BrogueCE
Brogue: Community Edition - a community-lead fork of the much-loved minimalist roguelike game
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Brogue: Community Edition - a community-lead fork of the much-loved minimalist roguelike game
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I love any opportunity to suggest people try out Brogue. It was developed with the idea "What would have happened if development continued on Rogue?" Info here:…
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11 sourcesI love any opportunity to suggest people try out Brogue. It was developed with the idea "What would have happened if development continued on Rogue?"
Info here: https://sites.google.com/site/broguegame/
Repo/downloads here: https://github.com/tmewett/BrogueCE
In The story of RogueOr if you want code that's easier to extend, read and don't want to do your own memory management.
Here's a bit of code from that project that generates a monster:
https://github.com/tmewett/BrogueCE/blob/master/src/brogue/M...
It just allocates an object per monster, followed by initializing a long list of members that presumably just gets longer as more game systems get added.
The same code in ECS would look a lot simpler, and probably perform better/have better cache locality.
In Flecs – A fast entity component system for C and C++Here's a rogue-like game written in straight C, with hard-coded arrays, structs, and defines.
https://github.com/tmewett/BrogueCE
component systems are useful when you have no design doc, or a design doc written by new-hire monkeys. Or when management has no idea what the goals are.
In Flecs – A fast entity component system for C and C++Adding Brogue [1] to the list. Neat and very well balanced.
[1] https://github.com/tmewett/BrogueCE
In NetHack 3.6.7I believe the original author of most of this content was Brian Walker, creator of brogue, which uses Dijkstra maps to great effect. In my opinion, brogue is the greatest 'modern' traditional roguelike.
latest 'community' version: https://github.com/tmewett/BrogueCE
reddit community with seeded contests: https://www.reddit.com/r/brogueforum/
original game: https://sites.google.com/site/broguegame/
In Dijkstra Maps VisualizedSure, it also feels closer to Sudoku than to Tennis. But I think it's closer to a "traditional roguelike" (like Jupiter Hell: https://store.steampowered.com/app/811320/Jupiter_Hell/ or Brogue: https://github.com/tmewett/BrogueCE) than to either.
In 10 years of FTL: The making of an enduring spaceship simulatorBrogue is an excellent and free roguelike. You can grab the Community Edition of it over here: https://github.com/tmewett/BrogueCE
It's fun to get a group of friends together and play a daily seed run... see who gets the most gold, who gets deepest, etc.
In Roguelike Tutorial in Rust (2019)For those interested in a more detailed history of the roguelike genre, I can’t recommend enough David Craddock’s book Dungeon Hacks: How NetHack, Angband, and Other Roguelikes Changed the Course of Video Games.
It’s a really neat delve into the dungeons of procedurally generated adventures, and led to me getting hooked on Brogue [1]
[1] https://github.com/tmewett/BrogueCE/
In On NetHack's 35th Anniversary, It's Displayed at Museum of Modern ArtSince we're talking about roguelikes, Brogue[0] is awesome as well.
[0]: https://github.com/tmewett/BrogueCE
In Ask HN: Favourite open source game?Brogue: A Roguelike with a Focus on Exploration
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