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Kyzrati Feb 18

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/

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.

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

Untitled progress shot from flim.

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.

Also: Seeing a number of classic participant comments to the effect of "the entire first day all I did was..." :P

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

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...

superbot1 working on island generation with ruins and encounters

nsn with another of those "place dungeon tiles to progress"-type games

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)

gruebite's mapgen is starting to take shape

StevieBee also working on mapgen... (like so many others for this even, I guess :P)

Daid is going the extra mile and making a 7DRL that works on actual GBC hardware!

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...

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.

Update from one of the more anticipated entries this year, Jacob Marks' pirate RL, here seen in the crew hiring and ship upgrade menu.

Neat gif from plushie for this tiny minimalist RL. (Don't have much more information on this one yet...)

Curious-looking WIP entry by "boxes"!

nathan, an npc phd Mar 12

renton is nearing the end of development on their... spelling-related entry? Lots of UI work going into this one.

Kyzrati

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 :)

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

Jacob Marks finished that fantasy pirate RL we saw taking shape (very quickly!) throughout the week--I'm sure "Captain Yendor's Lost Treasure" is worth checking out: https://siofragames.itch.io/captain-yendors-lost-treasure

nsn completed "Master Mason," their first ever 7DRL, inspired by board games: https://nsn.itch.io/master-mason

Change the map layout in order to *avoid* enemies, rather than fight them.

renton finished "Cold Brew," inspired by 80s and 90s Hong Kong action films and featuring a cover/evasion system, projectile system, and turnwise scrolling map to keep up the pressure. Looks interesting! https://rentonl.itch.io/cold-brew

slashie, 7DRL organizer and dev who's joined every year for decades now, made... what appears to be an incredibly meta entry xD

"Berlin Interpretation 1992"
https://slash.itch.io/berlin-interpretation-92

I feel like I should just screenshot the description because that game itself appears to be more typical fare, but the play of it most definitely is not!

(More dev info in slashie's post here: https://old.reddit.com/r/roguelikedev/comments/1rnqkhs/share_your_finished_2026_7drl/o9i4gow/)