KyzratiJan 6
7DRL 2026 dates announced--make a roguelike in 7 days!
https://itch.io/jam/7drl-challenge-2026
#roguelike #roguelikedev #gamejam
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In preparation for the upcoming #7drl challenge, there's a thread up on r/roguelikedev for hooking up with partners--go it alone... or not! (also on Discord)
https://old.reddit.com/r/roguelikedev/comments/1r63oro/7drl_2026_collaborations_thread/
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7DRL 2026 started over the weekend, and we have our first progress thread up and ready in r/RoguelikeDev (with many others sharing in the discord #7drl channel): https://old.reddit.com/r/roguelikedev/comments/1rifaft/share_your_7drl_progress_as_of_monday_20260302/

Looks like 539 devs joined this year so far. Fewer than in the past, but there's still time yet.

Mar 2 at 1:15pmWeb
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This year Jacob Marks is working on a pirate 7DRL--buy a ship, sail the seas... make crew members walk the plank? :P

Terrain's looking nice. Updated animated version on discord: https://discord.com/channels/205277826788622337/417212831918718992/1477859712132190470

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Untitled progress shot from flim.
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Oh there are already *two* pirate 7DRLs taking shape this year! (every year there's a random theme that happens to get shared across multiple entries, maybe this year it's pirates xD)

This one's from trustyape.

Show threadKyzratiMar 2
ptrefall doesn't have much time this year, so classic roguelike it is. Good font for it, at least :D
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Also: Seeing a number of classic participant comments to the effect of "the entire first day all I did was..." :P
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Aaaand that's enough of a summary for day one. If I keep looking at this stuff I'd have to make one of my own xD
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Wednesday 7DRL sharing thread in progress: https://old.reddit.com/r/roguelikedev/comments/1rk93zn/share_your_7drl_progress_as_of_wednesday_20260304/

From there and other sources of updates we have...

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superbot1 working on island generation with ruins and encounters
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nsn with another of those "place dungeon tiles to progress"-type games
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Amazing progress from Jacob Marks on that pirate roguelike! (and as I started wondering last time, it looks like we have a theme building because a *third* in-progress pirate 7DRL popped up recently, too :P)
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gruebite's mapgen is starting to take shape
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StevieBee also working on mapgen... (like so many others for this even, I guess :P)
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Daid is going the extra mile and making a 7DRL that works on actual GBC hardware!
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7dRL Friday thread is up!
https://old.reddit.com/r/roguelikedev/comments/1rlz27r/share_your_7drl_progress_as_of_friday_20260306/

Not nearly as many people using r/RoguelikeDev for in-progress sharing this year, but the Discord channel is always hopping...

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Kinda outside the realm of normal RLs, like many of his entries, but Numeron's got an interesting-looking TB non-RTS project coming to completion: Rogue Time Strategy.
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Update from one of the more anticipated entries this year, Jacob Marks' pirate RL, here seen in the crew hiring and ship upgrade menu.
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Neat gif from plushie for this tiny minimalist RL. (Don't have much more information on this one yet...)
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Curious-looking WIP entry by "boxes"!
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renton is nearing the end of development on their... spelling-related entry? Lots of UI work going into this one.
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With 7DRL having come to a close last weekend, we have sharing threads where devs have been dropping their games and other info on r/Roguelikedev (https://old.reddit.com/r/roguelikedev/comments/1rnqkhs/share_your_finished_2026_7drl/) and r/Roguelikes (https://old.reddit.com/r/roguelikes/comments/1rowj70/7drl_2026_release_megathread/)

191 entries this year, the highest success-to-participation ratio in 7 years. The number of folks expressing enough interest may have dropped, but what's left was a lot of dedicated developers :)

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Browsing through the entries devs are posting about...

"Lexicon" by akirassasin looks pretty :) (no wonder--tileset by loren schmidt!)
https://akirassasin.itch.io/lexicon-7drl26

Show thread0x0961hMar 7
@Kyzrati damn that looks sick
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@0x0961h Yeah this has been one of the popular ones on Discord, with regular updates. Looks like they took the week off to make a banger :P (and the end result probably is, at least in terms of appearance and feature set, from what I can tell so far)
Show thread0x0961hMar 8
@Kyzrati ngl, hope they'll continue working on it, it looks like a complete game already wtf xD
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@0x0961h A good big pirate roguelike would be well-received. (There are several such 7dRLs this year, at least one of which came about because I mentioned that fact yet again in the run up xD)