Elflings

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Elflings is a video game being designed by Dan Norder. Low-rez pixel art, Roguelike sensibility.

It's the Roguelike Celebration 2025 call for presenters!

The virtual conference will be Oct 25-26. Presentations are either live or pre-recorded. Talks are 30 minutes or a quick 10 minutes and can be about roguelikes, similar games or procedural generation. Proposals must be submitted by June 30th, and you can make multiple submissions!

https://www.roguelike.club

I gave a talk last year on Robotlike games. You could talk about your game!

#roguelike #roguelite #gamedev #indiedev #gaming

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate!

This was an early doodle from back when I was learning Nintendo style. This isn't compliant with the NES color system, though. The figures have 8x8 pixel heads on bodies the same size, so it's quite similar to the Elflings ultra-low resolution style.

I bet he watched a cartoon coyote try to blow up a roadrunner once too. Can we expect a breathless article about that?

Today's Roguelike Celebration livestream is on a different page than the link I shared yesterday. Best to just click https://www.youtube.com/@roguelikecelebration and look for the Live video link at the top of the page. That also has info with links to all the old presentations that are already online. Presentations from this weekend will be archived there later.

You can also buy tickets / donate / get merch. Well worth it!

#roguelikecelebration #RoguelikeCelebration2024 #roguelike #gamedev

Before you continue to YouTube

Roguelike Celebration 2024 going on NOW, and most of the day and tomorrow. There is a livestream on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRaILJ_1nqs Come take a peek at whatever is happening right now, or check the schedule at https://www.roguelike.club/event2024.html and pick what you want to see. My presentation starts at 8pm Eastern.

#roguelikecelebration #RoguelikeCelebration2024 #roguelike

Roguelike Celebration 2024

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Fun little monsters from my presentation this weekend, done in the Elflings retro pixel art style. They are basically Nintendo-style graphics in size and colors.

#pixelart #RoguelikeCelebration2024 #RoguelikeCelebration #Roguelike #robot #zombie #orc #etc

Can you believe it? Roguelike Celebration 2024 is THIS WEEKEND (Oct 19-20)!

PLUS, we'll have a no-agenda pre-party in the MUD on Friday night, because who doesn't want to spend more time at the goblin market? (Did we mention it's a goblin market this year?)

Snag tickets: https://roguelike.club

Roguelike Celebration

I can't believe it's almost here. My presentation "Chase: The BASIC Language Proto-Roguelike" will be Saturday night, Oct. 19, at the Roguelike Celebration, an online event. Learn more than you wanted to about escaping robots and avoiding electric fences. And zombies. And orcs.

#RoguelikeCelebration
#RoguelikeCelebration2024
#roguelike #videogames #retrocomputing #BASIC

Here's my demake of Princess Peach.

It might not be obvious that Elflings graphics are *even smaller* than the original Super Mario Bros. sprites until you see them side by side like this. The extreme color limitations are the same as with the original Nintendo.

And, yes, I should be working on #GBJam or my presentation on Robotlike games (Chase and its variants) for the 2024 #RoguelikeCelebration -- get your tickets now!

#peach #nes #pixelart #roguelike #RoguelikeCelebration2024

@clayote @xot @mid_kid @getter7seven

Thanks, everyone. You saved me from either creating a totally unnecessary workaround for making diagonal moves on a Game Boy interface or throwing them out completely.