Grogpod Roguelike Podcast

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Podcasting about roguelike games, their development, and their history. https://grogpod.zone
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Caves of Qud never ceases to deliver on legendary creature names

#CavesOfQud #roguelike #gaming #procgen #indiedev #indiegame #steam #steamdeck

Ever wondered what it's like to be that pro at Smash Brothers who would dunk on all the neighborhood kids? Spiritfall is your answer!

An excellent mashup of action-platforming, charming art, toe-tapping tunes, and roguelite design - build some spell synergies from saintly spirits to stop the spread of The Blight!

Wavedashing has never been this easy!

https://grogpod.zone/2025-06-20-spiritfall/

#Spiritfall #roguelike #podcast #gaming #steamdeck #steam #nintendoswitch #xbox #playstation #roguelite #smashbros

Spiritfall

Dat ain’t Falco! This week we wavedash into Spiritfall: the platformer beat-em-up with strong influence from the Super Smash Brothers series as well as Hades. The Blight has taken over the lands and your mysterious animal gods have tasked you, the Omenforged, to beat them back. With an array of...

GROGPOD Roguelike Podcast

Traveling through Vienna this week and happened to take the metro right past @hcigroup in Rennweg - home of the student developers of the free to play roguelike deckbuilder Forty-Five!

Not every day that I happen to zip past the hometown of European devs we’ve covered on the podcast!

#fortyfive #wien #vienna #travel #podcast #indiedev #indiegame #gaming #roguelike

one of the things I love about #roguelike games is how differently each play-through pans out.

One time your character is a tank, covered in high-grade armor and bristling with powerful weapons; or you're a super-wizard. You demolish every enemy on the level and stride up victoriously to claim the winning prize.

Other times you're on fire, pursued by dragons and ogres, and down to your last bar of health as you snatch the winning prize with your last ounce of energy to win the game.

I wrote a song! It's a fan-song for the puzzle game Blue Prince. Thoughts welcome, whether or not you know the game (I guess potentialy very mild plot hints if you haven't played but might want to, but it's written fairly obliquely):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anxfnFIbqgY

#Songwriting #MastoMusic #BluePrince #Gaming

Queen of Violets

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The #Roguelike Celebration needs to raise some additional funds to be able to pay for their live captioner at this year's event https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/MTUwMzgw

Can these game announcement streams stop happening while I’m still pretending to be at work?

#SummerGamesFest #TheGameAwards #gaming #steam #playstation #xbox #nintendoswitch