#brogue — Public Fediverse posts

Our 3-part Episode 100 celebration concludes with us deep diving Brogue CE!

Created by hobbyist gamedev and lawyer by trade Brian Walker, Brogue drastically simplified the extreme length and complexity of 90s roguelikes into a mouse-first, color-packed, shorter tactical masterpiece!

https://grogpod.zone/2026-08-05-EP103/

#GROGPOD100 #brogue #roguelike #gaming #podcast #opensource #retrogaming #ascii #brogueCommunityEdition #broguece #traditionalroguelike #indiedev #indiegame #roguelikedev

For our 9th and final game of our 100th episode super special in July, we are looking at Brogue CE!

Developed by lawyer Brian Walker, it brings ASCII graphics into the 21st century via accessibility, great use of color, and extremely elegant design choices

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brogue_(video_game)

#GROGPOD100 #brogue #roguelike #ascii #opensource #retrogaming #gaming #dnd #dungeoncrawler #broguece #brogueCommunityEdition #crpg #indiedev #indiegame

that's a new one. got gored by my own discordant unicorn at depth 17 #brogue #roguelike

so close! incinerated by a dragon on depth 25 #brogue #roguelike

Best Combo at the moment:

Playing #brogue and listening to #dungeonsynth or #epicmetal .

#valheim is fun, but it's definitly for Multiplayer and i'm Not the Person for Multiplayer.

#gaming

#ZMAngband #traditionalroguelike #roguelikedev Here it is! Non-lit areas of the map are a la #Brogue ,lit areas outside the yellow light source are of different colour too.Magma veins have 2 tones now depending on how close the player is to them. AND I figured out how to colour objects+monsters. This is gonna have a HUGE impact on the visuals.

Playing a little Brogue (http://brogue.roguelikelike.com, you can play in browser) this morning, first run was ok but died pretty quick 😂

#roguelike #roguelikes #brogue

@mattgrayyes adding to the recommendations:

• #openTTD for your #TransportTycoon needs
• #openXCOM for the classic #XCOM / #UFODefence suffering
• #Brogue for a colourful #roguelike
• #OneWayHeroics for a mix between a #rogueLite and an #ActionRPG, where you play a character from various classes who has to try to outrun the darkness swallowing up the world from the left, while gearing up and leveling up to eventually face the evil villain at the end.

@ajroach42 my favourite one probably still is #brogue: https://sites.google.com/site/broguegame/
Not sure if it's text mode enough for your use case though?

now to find some matching Brown Potions in #brogue

#roguelike #roguelikecelebration

New version of #Brogue CE is out! https://github.com/tmewett/BrogueCE/releases

Still remains one of, imo, the most elegantly designed games ever - let alone most elegantly designed roguelike. And the new edition includes the Rapid Brogue variant, which I hadn't tried, but seems very cool

#games #roguelike

Christine McVie talks about "songbird" and as a bonus she is introduced by Nicola Meighan with her lovely #Scotland manner of speech.

( Not sure if this is a #burr or a #brogue but someone will educate me. )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhiAIaFC0Kk

#ChristieMcVieRIP
#Christine McVie

@mjackson He watched #Gracepointe first. I've seen neither - yet. They're both on my list.
Personally, I adore #Tennant w/a #Brogue, so I'll prob like Broadchurch more.

#Gameplay footage for my (failed) run through vanilla #Brogue #roguelike is up at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suF3YlC2rWY
Next recordings will probably be of #BrogueCommunityEdition instead, and I should set #OBS to a bit higher bitrate I think.

Also want to try doing a round with commentary, perhaps on a #livestream, when I get the opportunity to record without much background sounds. :)

#FiXatoPlays #gaming #WindowsGaming #LinuxGaming #MacOSGaming #LetsPlay #Rogue #roguelikes

Listening to long #ambient #audio tracks from the #YouTube #AudioLibrary to see if any of them would be suitable background music for this #Brogue video.

#MerKaBa was decent, but it had a couple of sections where its high pitched tones made me feel like fingernails scratching over a chalkboard...

#Fluidscape by #KevinMacLeod seems to fit much better.
https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100393

I guess I'll be upscaling this #Brogue #video...its height is 714 pixels, which means the highest quality video #YouTube generated is 480p ><

@kelbot I always found #Brogue quite accessible too: https://sites.google.com/site/broguegame/

@Kauroka
Welcome to the Fediverse :)

#book-wise I enjoyed reading:
#TerryPratchett's #Discworld series,
#StephenKing's #DarkTower books (I believe there are #graphicNovels of them as well now),
@vicorva's #BooksAndBone #ACE novel(s, still have 2 more waiting to be read!),
and I really ought to continue with #GRRM's #SongOfFireAndIce

When it comes to #rogueLikes, have you tried #Brogue?

Wouldn't mind seeing some more about your #hydroponics setup.

Btw, hashtags help with content discovery. :)

@greyor
have you tried #Brogue?
game: https://sites.google.com/site/broguegame/
half hour playthrough by me of an older version: https://youtu.be/y4cKWQv7nXc

Or perhaps #CataclysmDarkDaysAhead aka #CataclysmDDA? https://cataclysmdda.org/

If you want a bit more 'modern' graphical #roguelike with a weird sense of humour, I can also recommend #DungeonsOfDredmor: https://dungeonsofdredmor.com/

Yet another take on the genre would be #Duskers: http://duskers.misfits-attic.com/

@cwebber @roptat

#gaming

Okay, that was a really fun run. Only got to level 15, but I did it with a wand of conjuration that I pumped all the way up to 10, which was utterly hilarious. A couple of shots and the whole area was full of phantom swords! I never even needed to use my weapon most of the time.

Got killed by a kraken in the end that pretty much two-shotted me, but totally worth it. Conjuration all the way.

#Brogue #roguelike #gameing