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Building the Ultimate Roguelike Morgue File, Part 4: History Logging

The final part of Cogmind’s new scoresheet that I added was the “history log,” referring to a list of important events and actions that took place throughout a run, and when (turn number) and where (depth/map) they occurred. Even without any other supporting info from the scoresheet, by covering the highlights of a run in […]

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Building the Ultimate Roguelike Morgue File, Part 3: Mid-run Stat Dumps

In the first part of this series I described how I didn’t want to get into fundamental changes to the stat system while in the middle of development, leading me to completely avoid modifying the underlying architecture despite greatly expanding the number of stats recorded. Among other limitations, this is also why we’ve gone for […]

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Building the Ultimate Roguelike Morgue File, Part 2: ASCII Maps

Although there’s only so much information ASCII alone can hold without color or a supporting interface, it’s still worth it for morgue files to include a map of the area around the player at the end of the run for added context. For wins generally not so much, but such maps can definitely be useful […]

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Building the Ultimate Roguelike Morgue File, Part 1: Stats and Organization

In-game content is important, but for many roguelike players there’s a lot of fun to be had outside the game as well, be it reviewing records of one’s own runs, getting good insights into runs by other players, or relying on data to learn more about the game and engage in theorycrafting. Back in 2015 […]

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Morgue Files

Death is fairly frequent in roguelikes, but the fun doesn’t stop there! We usually still have access to post-game “content” in the form of text files detailing how a particular run played out. The typical traditional roguelike player tends to love statistics describing their performance, and detailed morgue files are a good way to satisfy […]

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