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