Roguelike Radio

We discuss the 2026 crop of Seven Day Roguelikes, including highlight games, recent trends and experiences of taking part. Read more »

Darren Grey and John Harris discuss the Japanese roguelike Omega Labyrinth Life. Read more »

Darren Grey, Andrew Doull and Rob Parker discuss design analysis of games during play. Read more »

Darren Grey and Mark Johnson discuss design of innovative mechanics in roguelikes. Read more »

Darren Grey, Andrew Doull and Rob Parker discuss the role of "jank" in games. Read more »

Darren with Josh Ge (aka Kyzrati) about Designing for Mastery and the latest in Cogmind development. Read more »

Darren interviews Kornel Kisielewicz about his upcoming game Jupiter Hell Classic. Read more »

We discuss table top roleplaying games and how they have moved on from the inspiration for the original Rogue, with Marc Majcher, Sam Dunnewold and Andrew Doull. Read more »

We discuss modern development for older home computers such as the Commodore-64, with Mark Johnson, Andrew Doull and Ricki Sickenger of Badgerpunch Games. Read more »

Darren Grey interviews Tanya X Short, head of Kitfox Games. Read more »

We discussed the kinda poker-themed and vaguely roguelike-ish game Balatro, with Darren Grey and Mark Johnson. Read more »

Andrew Doull and Rob Parker interview Jason Grinblat and Brian Bucklew, creators of Caves of Qud, about the milestone 1.0 release of their game. Read more »

We discuss the how science fiction intersects with the roguelike genre, with Darren Grey and Andrew Doull. Read more »

We discuss the recently released Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil (aka Shiren 6), with John Harris and Rob Parker. Read more »

We discuss the 10th "Mansiversary" of Dungeonmans, with Darren Grey and Jim Shepard. Read more »

We discuss the new development of 868-BACK, with Darren Grey, Andrew Doull and Michael Brough. Read more »

We discuss the annual Roguelike Celebration event, with Noah Swartz, Em Lazer-Walker, Kawa and Darren Grey. Read more »

We discuss designing magic systems for roguelikes, with Owen (aka Scatha), co-developer of Sil, Alexei Pepers and Darren Grey. Read more »

We discuss the kitchen sink school of game design, with Kornel Kisielewicz and Darren Grey. Read more »

Discussion of the results of the 2019 Seven Day Roguelike Challenge, with Darren Grey, Tone, Andre Odendaal, Patrick Davison and Lachlan Kingsford (www.nerdygentleman.com). Read more »

We discuss the kitchen sink school of game design, with Alexei Pepers and Darren Grey. Read more »

Episode 151 of Roguelike Radio features Rob Parker and Eben Howard, with guests Hadley St. Clair and Kevin Cole, developers of Haque (steam and itch.io) This episode contains spoilers for story and gameplay elements in Haque Read more »

We discuss Rot.js, a roguelike toolkit and display library using JavaScript, with Darren Grey and rot.js creator Ondrej Zara. Read more »

We discuss the interaction of chaos theory and procedural generation, with Alexei Pepers and Darren Grey. Read more »

We discuss the how roguelikes deal with the after death experience, with Kawa and Darren Grey. Read more »

We discuss the role of difficulty in roguelikes, with Mark Johnson, Darren Grey and Andrew Doull. Read more »

We're back with an episode dedicated to Michael Brough's latest roguelike Cinco Paus. Please note that this is a spoiler filled episode and you're strongly encouraged to play the game for at least a couple of hours first to get the full experience of learning the game. Read more »

A discussion of the outputs from the Seven Day Roguelike Challenge 2018, with Darren Grey, Steve Johnson (aka irskep), Rob Howard (aka AquaTsar) and Jeremiah Reid. Read more »

We discuss the role of AI in PCG games, with Mark Johnson, Brian Bucklew and Tommy Thompson. Read more »

We look back on the roguelike events of 2017, with Darren Grey, Mark Johnson, Rob Parker and Eben Howard. Read more »

A recording from the International Roguelike Development Conference 2017, held in Novi Sad Serbia. Read more »

Mark Johnson hosts a discussion panel about Multi-User Dungeons alongside original MUD creator Richard Bartle; MUME developer and manager Pier Donini; and Cat Rambo, developer of Armageddon and president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Read more »

Episode 140 of Roguelike Radio, where we discuss Horror in Roguelikes, with Darren 'Gruesome' Grey, Rob 'Neoliberalism' Parker, Eben 'Phantom' Howard and Mark 'Medusa' Johnson. Read more »

Episode 139 of Roguelike Radio, where we discuss Unexplored with Rob Parker and Eben Howard interviewing the game's creator, Joris Dormans. Read more »

Episode 138 of Roguelike Radio, where we interview Jeremiah Reid, creator of the vampiric Golden Krone Hotel. Read more »

Episode 137 of Roguelike Radio, where talk about a new book on Procedural Generation in Game Design, with Darren Grey, Mark Johnson, Tarn Adams and Tanya X Short. Read more »

This is episode 136 of Roguelike Radio, where we interview Eniko, creator of possession-based roguelike MidBoss. Read more »

This is episode 135 of Roguelike Radio, talking about the results of the 2017 Seven Day Roguelike Challenge. Talking this episode are Darren Grey, Ian Bowes (of ASCII Curious and the LaserBeards podcast) and Chris Haner (aka Rogueliker). Read more »

This is episode 134 of Roguelike Radio, where Darren Grey and Mark Johnson discuss the role of Randomness in roguelikes. Read more »

This is episode 133 of Roguelike Radio, where Darren Grey and Jeff Lait talk about how to make a traditional Seven Day Roguelike Read more »

This is episode 132 of Roguelike Radio, where Darren and Mark talk about the End of 2016! Read more »

This is episode 131 of Roguelike Radio, where we report from the International Roguelike Developers Conference (Europe 2016). Read more »

This is episode 130 of Roguelike Radio, where we talk about Jupiter Hell, the successor to Doom the Roguelike. Talking are Kornel Kisielewicz, Darren Grey and Mark Johnson. Read more »

This is episode 129 of Roguelike Radio, where we talk about Michael Brough's Imbroglio with Rob Parker, Alex Cheng aka vivafringe, Apple and Andrew Doull. Read more »

This is episode 128 of Roguelike Radio, where a panel of experts discuss How to be Good at Roguelikes! Our group of roguelike seers include Darren Grey, Mark Johnson, Brandon (aka Demise), David (aka zxc) and Mikko Juola (aka Adeon). Read more »

This is episode 127 of Roguelike Radio, recorded at the New York International Roguelike Developers Conference held 6-7 August. Kawa hosts, and is joined by Mark Johnson, Jeremiah Reid, Brian Bucklew, Jason Grinblat, Patrick Kenney and Brett Gildersleeve. Read more »

This is episode 126 of Roguelike Radio, where we talk about IVAN, with Darren Grey, Mark Johnson, Zeno Rogue, Serin Delaunay and Ryan van Herel. Read more »

This is episode 125 of Roguelike Radio, where Andrew Doull is joined by Daniel Cook, Ste Curran and co-host Mark Johnson to talk about the roguelike puzzle game Road Not Taken (available on Windows, Mac, PS4 and just been released on iOS). Read more »

This is episode 124 of Roguelike Radio, where Mark Johnson is joined by James Whitehead, Ben Hendel-Doying and Chris Park to talk about roguelike elements in Shoot Em Ups ("Shmups"). Read more »

This is episode 123 of Roguelike Radio, where Darren Grey, Mark Johnson, Paul Jeffries, Zeno and Marek/Fulgur14 talk about Geometry in Roguelikes. Read more »