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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 9h

Water, Earth, Fire, Air... Data? @tylermakesgames.bsky.social will bring the spirit of kitbashing to roguelikes in 'Kitbashing & Databending for Proc-Gen"!

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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 9h

What does @nictringali.bsky.social have in common with Salt-N-Peppa? They know something about Pushing It. Nic will be giving us a lesson on pushing it in "Hubris, Bluffing, and Large Numbers: Exploring Push Your Luck"!

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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 9h

As a president once said, the only thing to teach is teaching itself. I'm pretty sure that's what he said. @codingcrafter.bsky.social will be teaching us just that in "Roguelike Design = Instructional Design: Connecting Procgen and Pedagogy"!

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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 9h

@nickcummings.com will be giving a talk that should catch the eye of baseball and blaseball fans alike, "Baseball Is a Roguelike (no, really)"! bsky.app/profile/nick...

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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 9h

Kicking of the Sunday talks, @bushn.bsky.social will be giving "Stealing roguelike mechanics from Microsoft Word"! After all, what is more Rogue-like then stealing? And navagating within text documents. bsky.app/profile/bush...

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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 9h

Only a couple more days until Roguelike Celebration 2026 this weekend, and we still have so many more talks and speakers to shout out!

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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 15/10/2026

Three days left until Roguelike Celebration! Continuing our look back to our first conference in 2016, here's Brian Walker presenting "How Brogue Tells Stories." www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfb6... (Been playing Brogue for yeeaarss, and just beat it last month! Roguelikes do teach persistence.)

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Brian Walker - Proc gen & gameplay

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Kitfox Games 🦊 @kitfoxgames.com · 14/10/2026

Caves of Qud and Thousand Hells are both part of the Roguelike Celebration 2026! Grab a ticket (pay what you can) and tune in this weekend to hear from & chat with experts in procedural generation, about game design: www.roguelike.club/event2026.html store.steampowered.com/sale/rogueli...

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Roguelike Celebration Celebration 2026

Roguelike Celebration is an annual online conference dedicated to roguelike games and the art of procedural content generation.

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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 14/10/2026

The last talk on Saturday, but CERTAINLY not the least, is "Modular Motivations: Building Reactive Roguelike NPCs" from @baldsavant.bsky.social! Nathan will give us the rundown on how to populate your procedural world with NPCs that feel active and alive, without breaking the budget.

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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 14/10/2026

@kingsford.bsky.social is kicking off the final talk block on Saturday, with "Exploring the Monte Carlo Forest: Using MCTS to balance your game and enlighten your monsters". Have you heard about Monte Carlo Tree Search, but been too intimidated to try using it on your own game? This talk is for you!

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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 14/10/2026

@droqen will be giving "making sudoku poems using tools" - we'll learn about applying systematic constraints to creative output, and see a LIVE sudoku poem demo!

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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 14/10/2026

Do you like complex simulationist systems? How about the humble coin flip? Johnathan Pagnutti will use Google Sheets to explore random rolls in "Coin Flips, Violence and Spreadsheets: the binomial distribution in Fire Emblem: Three Houses".

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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 14/10/2026

@radiofreelunch.bsky.social will be talking about his new game Thousand Hells in "Totally Not a Roguelike Deckbuilder"! David will walk us through the process of staring with a roguelike card game, and pivoting into something different.

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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 14/10/2026

Back for day three of shouting out all the cool speakers and talks you can see at Roguelike Celebration 2026 this weekend!

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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 14/10/2026

Favorite quote: "Giving you text that makes your mind tells stories is one of the core ingredients of roguelike-ness"

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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 14/10/2026

Four days left until Roguelike Celebration! We've been going on for ten years and counting, and we've built up some deep video archives. Today's talk from 2016 features @galaxykate.bsky.social and how to use Tracery to make grammars do the work for you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=isB8...

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Kate Compton - Practical Low Effort PCG: Tracery and data oriented PCG authoring

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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 13/10/2026

More (or less?) on minimalism - @deptofmeteors is presenting "Some Quite Fantastic Shapes: Procedural Narrative & Terry Riley’s In C". Matt will use the guided improvisational music piece to talk about procedural games with their own strong sense of possibility.

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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 13/10/2026

@everettruessfans.bsky.social will be giving "Found (Mathematical) Objects: Generative Beats Without AI/ML". Euclid? Check. Duchamp? Check. Particle Accelerators? Check to that too. This talk really does have it all.

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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 13/10/2026

Gamers. Yern. For. The. Mines!! @everest.bsky.social is digging deep into tunnels, buried worlds, and all thing subterranean in "Dungeons, digging, and wells - the gamers yearn for the mines. This is a retrospective of video game holes."

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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 13/10/2026

Speaking of getting lost, do you love mazes? Did you ever want to learn more about different types of mazes? Lucky for you, @eblong.com is giving us a map to all things maze in "Mazes: Are we lost yet?"

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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 13/10/2026

@gblekkenhorst.bsky.social is presenting "it's standing right behind you: interface games as metaleptic convergences". Have you ever played a game that imitates a different kind of interface? Did it draw you in and maybe give you the heeby-jeebies? Watch the talk to find out why!

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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 13/10/2026

Day two of shouting out the speakers and talks at Roguelike Celebration 2026, this weekend! All of these speakers do amazing work, and you should check them all out.

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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 13/10/2026

Cogmind has great particle effects in its ASCII package - Josh mentioned that Cogmind has over 200 particle engines in a single screen.

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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 13/10/2026

Five days out from Roguelike Celebration! We can't wait to share our MUD-like social space with you. Here's another blast from the (2016) past: Josh Ge talks about developing Cogmind and the process of going from player to dev. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9se2...

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Josh Ge - Cogmind & becoming a dev

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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 12/10/2026

This is a BANGER off a lineup if I do say so myself, and only the first four talks! We'll be posting about the rest of the talks over the course of the week, but you can see the entire schedule here: www.roguelike.club/event2026.html

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Roguelike Celebration 2026

Roguelike Celebration 2026 is taking place October 17th and 18th, with a weekend of talks, games, and conversations about roguelikes and related topics, including procedural generation and game design...

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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 12/10/2026

Closing out the opening block, @cthompto.bsky.social is presenting Spaces for Contemplation: Procedural Generation as a Tactic for Nonlinear Narrative in Art. Chelsea will explore how procedural generation can be used for spaces that resist linear narrative constructions! I love all those words!

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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 12/10/2026

How do you make a repeatable puzzle out of a badly designed database? @bjarkeal.bsky.social will tell us how in his talk, Corrupted Databases - Building an (In)finitely Repeatable Logic Puzzle in a Discord Bot. I KNOW we have some weird puzzle sickos who are going to devour this.

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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 12/10/2026

Another returning speaker, @mtrc.bsky.social will be presenting The City, The Street, The Lens: Perspectives on Building and Appreciating Generative Systems. Mike will use the medium of street photography as a lens (heh) to examine cities as procedural generators. 📸🌇

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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 12/10/2026

Saturday will be kicked off by @jorisdormans.bsky.social and Sersa Victory, with “Unfolding” Traps: Extending Hazards Across Time and Space. Typical dungeon traps are single-turn affairs - you trigger the trap and experience the effects. But what if a trap unfolded across multiple turns and areas? 👀

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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 12/10/2026

We can't wait for all the wonderful talks this weekend at Roguelike Celebration 2026! Each day this week leading up to the event we're going to highlight our speakers. Grab a ticket to see the talks live: ti.to/roguelike-ce...

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Roguelike Celebration: 2026

Celebrate the rich history and inspiring future of roguelikes with streamed talks and more in our own custom-built roguelike social space! Roguelike games have been part of gaming culture for over 30 ...

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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 12/10/2026

Favorite quote was them talking about including permadeath: "We were trying to make it more immersive by making things matter, not by making things more painful."

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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 12/10/2026

Only six days away from Roguelike Celebration! We've been around since 2016. This week, we'll be posting six standout talks from back then. First - a panel discussion with the creators of curses and the one and only Rogue! www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaB7... (Info for 2026 at www.roguelike.club)

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Glenn Wichman, Michael Toy & Ken Arnold - Rogue panel

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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 08/10/2026

What kind of proc gen practitioner are you? Do you dive deep into esoteric algorithms, or do you bargain with them until they do what you want? Do you build tools for others to use or do you embrace the weird corner cases? Taken from @apepers.bsky.social's 2019 talk: www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 05/10/2026

In our final preview event talk, Jamie Brittain talks about how roguelikes succeed as story-generating games _because_ they avoid traditional narrative structures. youtu.be/C2CzHLtt1Fw Roguelike Celebration is only 12 days away! Buy tickets at ti.to/roguelike-ce... for a whole two days of talks.

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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 04/10/2026

Next up from our preview event - Greg L talks about using bit-level hackery to power everything from flood fill to convulation shaders to the Game of Life. Black magic indeed. youtu.be/oj3xA28N60I Roguelike Celebration starts in 14 days!

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Greg L - Bitwise Black Magic: How to Computer, Better Faster Stronger

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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 03/10/2026

Tickets are pay-what-you-can on Tito: ti.to/roguelike-ce... The fees go towards: * an honorarium for all speakers who accept it * defraying AV costs for speakers and volunteers * professional human (!) captioning * commissioning our delightful artist for the year * software/server costs

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Roguelike Celebration: 2026

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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 03/10/2026

Our full schedule is up, and what an amazing one it is! roguelike.club/event2026.html Our delightful alternate-sports themed MUD will be open for you to watch all of this goodness live on October 17-18!

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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 03/10/2026

Roguelike Celebration 2026 is only 15 days away! We're in the process of uploading the talks from our preview event earlier last month. First up! Martin Pichlmair talks about pre-Rogue roguelikes - the history of procedural generation before computers. youtu.be/EMb6B2cIJps

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Martin Pichlmair - Ancient Roguelikes: The Pre-History of Roguelike Games

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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 07/09/2026

Excited to see y'all in our freshly painted MUD space with preview event speakers @martinpi.bsky.social, @matronboy.bsky.social, and Greg L. who made this lovely little ad as part of a coding demo for his talk! September 13, 2026, 2PM PDT | 21:00 UTC www.roguelike.club/event2026.html

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Jamie 'Brexit' Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Delighted to announce I'll be one of the speakers at the preview event for the legendary @roguelike.club with a talk titled "Don't Save The @: What Roguelikes Teach Us About Story Structure" Details here: www.roguelike.club/event2026.html

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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 28/08/2026

The Roguelike Celebration Preview Event is coming soon to an internet near you! Join us on September 14th for these exciting talks explore our exciting custom-built multiplayer game/chat space, and see cool talks! Get your free ticket here: ti.to/roguelike-ce...

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Roguelike Celebration: Preview Event 2026

Roguelike games have been part of gaming culture for over 30 years and they have a deep and special place in our hearts. We'd love to get to spend some time with you all learning about roguelikes and ...

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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 12/08/2026

Due to an unexpectedly large number of submissions, we will need to close applications to the Roguelike Celebration Steam Event THIS FRIDAY, August 14th! This is your last chance to get your game considered for the event! forms.gle/Nka47iktejxp...

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Call for Steam Event Participants 2026

Roguelike Celebration is an annual festival featuring the development, history, community, and play of roguelike games, procedural generation, and related topics. Our Steam event is an extension of th...

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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 28/06/2026

Got an idea that just took some time to percolate? Or maybe this post is instigating some percolation. Great! We've extended the deadline for the Roguelike Celebration CFP to July 19th! www.roguelike.club/cfp.html Even if you have a vague idea, send it in and let's figure out how to flesh it out.

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Roguelike Celebration CFP

Technical talks, game design lessons, creative uses of procedural generation, interactive roguelike performances - we want to hear about it all!

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