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Drew HarryShared some concluding thoughts about GRIDLOCK -- my <a href="https://social.coop/tags/7drl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#7drl</a> gamejam game from earlier in the month. <a href="https://drewww.itch.io/gridlock/devlog/909482/gridlockpostmortem" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://drewww.itch.io/gridlock/devlog/909482/gridlockpostmortem</a>I aimed to emulate some specific moments from Titanfall 2 and UFO50 and mostly(?) missed. But I learned a lot, and achieved a lot of personal development goals in the process.

mikaWe're preparing some nice jam updates post <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/7DRL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#7DRL</a>! Read about them here, there's a lot of goodies! Expected this weekend, if the moon shines true! <a href="https://www.roguelike.rs/post-jam-updates/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.roguelike.rs/post-jam-updates/</a>

Grogpod Roguelike PodcastThis is so cursed and I love it lol <a href="https://itch.io/jam/7drl-challenge-2025/rate/3363598" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://itch.io/jam/7drl-challenge-2025/rate/3363598</a><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/7drl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#7drl</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/roguelike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#roguelike</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/balatro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#balatro</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/itch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#itch</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gaming</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/indiedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#indiedev</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/indiegame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#indiegame</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/gamejam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gamejam</a>

Drew HarryRUNNER/GRIDLOCK <a href="https://drewww.itch.io/gridlock" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://drewww.itch.io/gridlock</a>Drift, dodge, and steal your way through an abstract procedural city.<a href="https://social.coop/tags/7drl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#7drl</a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/gamedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gamedev</a>

🧠Oh, that <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/7DRL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#7DRL</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/roguelike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#roguelike</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/game" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#game</a> I made is also <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#opensource</a>, in case you're wondering how it all works: <a href="https://github.com/BraininaBowl/Quartz-7DRL2025" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://github.com/BraininaBowl/Quartz-7DRL2025</a>

SetSideB7DRL 2025 It got by me this year, but the now 20-year-old 7 Day Roguelike Challenge, a gamejam where people try to construct a complete roguelike within a week's time, finished up Saturday.Not only has it been around a long time, but a number of games have come out of it that went on to greater things. Jupiter Hell got its start as a 7DRL project called DoomRL. The amazing Jeff <a href="https://setsideb.com/7drl-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://setsideb.com/7drl-2025/</a> <a href="https://wrestling.social/tags/play" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#play</a> <a href="https://wrestling.social/tags/indies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#indies</a> <a href="https://wrestling.social/tags/niche" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#niche</a> <a href="https://wrestling.social/tags/roguelike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#roguelike</a> <a href="https://wrestling.social/tags/play" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#play</a> #2025 <a href="https://wrestling.social/tags/7drl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#7drl</a> <a href="https://wrestling.social/tags/indie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#indie</a> <a href="https://wrestling.social/tags/niche" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#niche</a> <a href="https://wrestling.social/tags/roguelike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#roguelike</a>

TipaHow To Fail at Writing A Game in 7 DaysAlso, lots of Tunnels & Trolls-adjacent stuff.<a href="https://chasingdings.com/2025/03/10/how-to-fail-at-writing-a-game-in-7-days/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://chasingdings.com/2025/03/10/how-to-fail-at-writing-a-game-in-7-days/</a><a href="https://gamepad.club/tags/7DRL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#7DRL</a> <a href="https://gamepad.club/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://gamepad.club/tags/Kickstarter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Kickstarter</a> <a href="https://gamepad.club/tags/KenStAndre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KenStAndre</a> <a href="https://gamepad.club/tags/rebellion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rebellion</a> <a href="https://gamepad.club/tags/SkullQuest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SkullQuest</a> <a href="https://gamepad.club/tags/trollgod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#trollgod</a> <a href="https://gamepad.club/tags/TunnelsTrolls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TunnelsTrolls</a>

KyzratiFinal <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/7drl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#7drl</a> sharing thread is up on the sub, with a bunch of cool new roguelikes already completed like Archipelago of Monsters, Holy Book, BOARD MASTER, and Unsure: <a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/roguelikedev/comments/1j6yu9s/share_your_finished_2025_7drl/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://old.reddit.com/r/roguelikedev/comments/1j6yu9s/share_your_finished_2025_7drl/</a><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/roguelikedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#roguelikedev</a>

🧠And that's another <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/7drl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#7drl</a> finished. It was a crazy rush near the end, but I managed to create a new, original, roguelike game in seven days! <a href="https://braininabowl.itch.io/quartz" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://braininabowl.itch.io/quartz</a><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/gamedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gamedev</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/indiedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#indiedev</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/roguelike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#roguelike</a>

hawthornbunnyHoly flip, I actually did it. I wrote a roguelike in 7 days. And it works!<a href="https://hawthornbunny.itch.io/call-of-the-cleric" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://hawthornbunny.itch.io/call-of-the-cleric</a>It has stuff I thought I'd never be able to pull off - dungeon generation, enemy pathfinding (hilariously INEFFICIENT pathfinding, to the point that I had to restrict it to when you're within like a few squares of the enemy). The coding felt awfully scrappy - there are so many bits of code depending on other things to happen first, and a bunch of global objects - but I didn't have time to do things cleanly, and I think that's kind of the point anyway when you're working with the PICO-8 on a tight timescale. I'm really pleased with how this went.<a href="https://equestria.social/tags/7drl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#7drl</a> <a href="https://equestria.social/tags/pico8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pico8</a>

Steven PortzerI guess It's time for my yearly "I made a roguelike in 7 days for the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/7DRL" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#7DRL</a> challenge" post. Kind of surprised I managed to implement everything I wanted to include, that has to be a first for me. On the downside, it's not really balanced and a lot of the abilities are probably overly expensive, but in any case here it is: <a href="https://sportzer.itch.io/plague-and-petulance" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://sportzer.itch.io/plague-and-petulance</a>

🧠Work on my <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/7drl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#7drl</a> entry is ongoing. Less than a day left to turn this into an actual game! <a href="https://braininabowl.itch.io/quartz/devlog/902115/day-6-hubris" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://braininabowl.itch.io/quartz/devlog/902115/day-6-hubris</a>

mikaBeneath the Throne of the Goblin Queen, a short bittersweet history lesson about why the goblin kingdom fell into disarray, and our <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/7DRL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#7DRL</a> entry was submitted yesterday, but I was too tired to remember to post about it!<a href="https://gavrilovmiroslav.itch.io/btt?ref=roguelike.rs" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://gavrilovmiroslav.itch.io/btt?ref=roguelike.rs</a>I also wrote several posts over several days about it, and will continue to do so as we're going through a prolonged postmortem of what the tooling we made was doing right and what it still wasn't. You can read that here:<a href="http://roguelike.rs" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">http://roguelike.rs</a>

SteedAnother <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/7DRL" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#7DRL</a> another roguelike is born:1 of 3 is a weird little dungeon crawler that has deck building but no JRPG style battles.<a href="https://st33d.itch.io/1-of-3" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://st33d.itch.io/1-of-3</a>

EntikanSuccesfully completed the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/7DRL" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#7DRL</a> challenge. I made a weird *takes deep tag-breath* <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/abstract" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#abstract</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vector" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#vector</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/roguelike" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#roguelike</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/psychedelic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#psychedelic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/puzzle" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#puzzle</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/arcade" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#arcade</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/game" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#game</a> that feels all <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trippy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#trippy</a> and Jeff Minteresque. So far people have been calling it "puzzling but strangely addictive". I'm very proud of the way it looks, sounds and feels, and I really feel I've leveled up as a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gamedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#gamedev</a> in the process.<a href="https://entikan.itch.io/superlocust" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://entikan.itch.io/superlocust</a>Might also be nice to mention I made it in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/panda3d" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#panda3d</a> , the best game engine in the world.

0x0961h7DRL entry is done and gone. I'm le tired. <a href="https://0x0961h.itch.io/roguechain-7drl-2025" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://0x0961h.itch.io/roguechain-7drl-2025</a><a href="https://peoplemaking.games/tags/7drl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#7drl</a> <a href="https://peoplemaking.games/tags/gamedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gamedev</a> <a href="https://peoplemaking.games/tags/indiedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#indiedev</a> <a href="https://peoplemaking.games/tags/ScreenshotSaturday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ScreenshotSaturday</a>

Kyzrati7DRL 2025 coming to a close this weekend, been seeing some nice projects approaching completion, like these on the discord server from elliotbnvl, jacob_marks, and pecatus. <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/7drl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#7drl</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/roguelikedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#roguelikedev</a>

0x0961hi kinda think that i'm on the final stretch with my entry <a href="https://peoplemaking.games/tags/7DRL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#7DRL</a>

gridbugsMy <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/7drl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#7drl</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/gamejam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gamejam</a> entry - Scope Creep - is now available to play at <a href="https://gridbugs.itch.io/scope-creep" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://gridbugs.itch.io/scope-creep</a>. It was a super-interesting week, figuring out how to render 3d graphics on a (virtual) oscilloscope, and a nice change of pace from the more traditional roguelikes I've made in previous 7drls.<a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/roguelike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#roguelike</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/rust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rust</a>

Arto KoistinenI'm looking for some <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/gamemusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gamemusic</a> for my <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/7drl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#7drl</a> game. It has an anarchistic/punk aesthetic, so something along those lines!Since it's for a game jam, has to be free to use at least for non-commercial projects. There's obviously a bunch of royalty free music sites, but they all require registration and I really can't be bothered with that bs rn. <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/gamedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gamedev</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/gameaudio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gameaudio</a>

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