Racket Roguelike: Post-mortem

Almost four months ago, I started writing a series on how to write a roguelike in Racket. I believed then as I believe now that Racket is an excellent all around language and that I would like to see more done with it–particularly in games.

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Racket Roguelike 9: Daedalus' wrath!

I think by now it’s well past time that we got to adding a bit more content. So far, here’s what we have (bolded entries we actually used in day 8):

  • entities: rat, goblin, bomb, bomber goblin
  • armor: leather, chain, plate, enchanted
  • weapons: club, dagger, battle axe, longsword, magic sword
  • potions: health potion
  • coins: copper, silver, gold, platinum
  • levels: forest, caves

We can do better than that though!

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Racket Roguelike 6: Dig deeper!

Moria… You fear to go into those mines. The dwarves delved too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dum… shadow and flame. – Saruman, Lord of the Rings

Today, we dig too deep.

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Racket Roguelike 4: Slightly smarter critters!

A very minimal update today, since the many, many early May conference deadlines are fast approaching. But despite there only being a few lines of changes, already we are starting to get a bit more character to the game. Essentially, today we want to make the enemies smarter and add a bit more explosive sort of attacks.

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