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Ok I am building a really really really simple Roguelike in C# to show how easy it is to do and also to show how C# is such a cool language to build RogueLikes. More details soon but here is a a really exciting screenshot…

Screenshot of ReallyReallyReallySimpleRougueLike

We are going to see a lot more articles and tutorials from me  on roguelike games this year and part of the reason for this is the importance for these type of games for the beginner/intermediate developer. Whilst it’s obviously hard to build any sort of 3d game for a beginner developerwithout assistance – building a simple yet playable roguelike game however (even just using a windows console app say using C#) is quite possible. OK you are not going to make a fortune out of a simple textbased rouguelike ,but you may well be able to get your friends to play it!!!

Some cool links for roguelikes:

http://www.roguetemple.com/

http://roguelikeradio.blogspot.com/

http://roguelikedeveloper.blogspot.com/

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2011/12/12/shadowcasting-in-c-part-one.aspx

Dom

Eric is one of the great C# gurus going around – here is his latest reading list

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1769249

Cheers

Dom

Just an interesting little find – so I added a new entity to my EDMX and lo and behold I start getting the “An item with the same key has already been added” when I tried to add a controller – anyway the fix was to remove a couple of rougue navigational properties that had been added automatically!!!!

So if you don’t need them and they are causing this problem – remove them

Dom

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ausdev/archive/2011/09/29/switched-on-briefings.aspx

I am pretty sure its free – let me know if I am wrong!

Dom

So one of the really great things about conferences these days is that the conf videos are usually available and the recent Build conference in the US is one of those gems. Its a collection of dev/infrastructure presentations but you should be able  to find enough good dev sessions here:

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/Build2011

Dom

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dglover/archive/2011/09/21/windows-phone-developer-workshop-brisbane-oct-8th-and-9th-2011.aspx

Dom

A great article and some really interesting comments worth a read…

http://ayende.com/blog/90113/if-you-donrsquo-t-have-pet-projects-i-donrsquo-t-think-i-want-you#comments

Dom

http://dddbrisbane.com/

stay tuned

Dom

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/Australia/Tech-Ed-Australia-2011

cheers

Dom