Its interesting that ASCII games could have such a high level of interest at the moment and there was a really interesting 10-15 minutes on the subject in a recent podcast I listened to – the podcast was actually about a game called “100 rogues” but from about 40 min into the podcast the guys at ROGUELIKE radio focus on the reasons why the roguelike genre is getting so popular. Its a great listen so if you have a chance…

http://roguelikeradio.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-10-23T12:50:00-07:00&max-results=7

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