Shared some concluding thoughts about GRIDLOCK -- my #7drl gamejam game from earlier in the month.

https://drewww.itch.io/gridlock/devlog/909482/gridlockpostmortem

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.

RUNNER/GRIDLOCK
https://drewww.itch.io/gridlock

Drift, dodge, and steal your way through an abstract procedural city.

7DRL 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
https://setsideb.com/7drl-2025/
#play #indies #niche #roguelike #play #2025 #7drl #indie #niche #roguelike

How To Fail at Writing A Game in 7 Days

Also, lots of Tunnels & Trolls-adjacent stuff.

https://chasingdings.com/2025/03/10/how-to-fail-at-writing-a-game-in-7-days/

And that's another #7drl finished. It was a crazy rush near the end, but I managed to create a new, original, roguelike game in seven days!
https://braininabowl.itch.io/quartz

Holy flip, I actually did it. I wrote a roguelike in 7 days. And it works!

https://hawthornbunny.itch.io/call-of-the-cleric

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.

Beneath the Throne of the Goblin Queen, a short bittersweet history lesson about why the goblin kingdom fell into disarray, and our #7DRL entry was submitted yesterday, but I was too tired to remember to post about it!

https://gavrilovmiroslav.itch.io/btt?ref=roguelike.rs

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:

http://roguelike.rs

7DRL entry is done and gone. I'm le tired. https://0x0961h.itch.io/roguechain-7drl-2025

My #7drl #gamejam entry - Scope Creep - is now available to play at https://gridbugs.itch.io/scope-creep. 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.

I'm looking for some #gamemusic for my #7drl 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.

6 days into the #7drl #gamejam. My game is a first-person horror game that's rendered entirely with oscillographics using my synthesizer library (caw). Here's a gameplay demo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CF635GriqBA

As some of you know, I'm participating in the #7drl challenge this year and mostly posting it from my "other" account. Unfortunately (as I mentioned in a previous post), in an act of terrible sysadmin negligence, I nuked the instance my other account is on.

Looking pretty!

Today we dropped a new episode that’s very timely given I’m working away on my #7drl entry. I interviewed Darren and Mark from Roguelike Radio about roguelikes, why programmers are drawn to them, and what the deal is with the 7-Day Roguelike Challenge. Really happy with how this one turned out. https://hachyderm.io/@deadcode/114106000886524746

#7DRL snuck up on me this year, and I'm both too busy and down with a bug of some sort that's going around, so sadly, I won't be able to make a roguelike entry this year.

I am kinda bummed about this. 7DRL has historically been important enough to me to actually take vacation days off of work to participate. It's a yearly ritual for me, and it pains me to skip a year.

But this year it just isn't in the cards.

Great day of #7drl #gamedev today. Write-up on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/roguelikedev/comments/1j2ajo9/comment/mfx7tnu/

I'm excited to dive into adding other mobile entities tomorrow!

#7drl is on! Diving into (working title) RUNTIME.

This year I'm leaning way more into world-building and space-making. So we're going to be in a whole-ass city. First step, generating coherent road layouts. Here's where I'm at for road networks. Three road "weights" -- blue trunk roads (6 lanes), yellow major roads (4 lanes), and red minor roads (2 lanes).