Monthly Archives: August 2025

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• ►2025 (2)
  • ►December(1)
    • Year 12 of the Cogmind
  • ►August(1)
    • Designing for Mastery in Roguelikes (w/Roguelike Radio)
• ►2024 (8)
  • ►December(1)
    • Year 11 of the Cogmind
  • ►September(1)
    • Multitile Actors, Revisited
  • ►February(2)
    • Full UI Upscaling, Part 5: Completion and Demos
    • Adventures in Map Zooming, Part 5: QoL
  • ►January(4)
    • Full UI Upscaling, Part 4: Simpler Lightweight Fonts
    • Full UI Upscaling, Part 3: Dynamic Terminal Swapping
    • Full UI Upscaling, Part 2: Holy Mockups!
    • Full UI Upscaling, Part 1: History and Theory
• ►2023 (16)
  • ►December(4)
    • Year 10 of the Cogmind
    • Adventures in Map Zooming, Part 4: Polishing
    • Adventures in Map Zooming, Part 3: Implementation
    • Adventures in Map Zooming, Part 2: Engine-level Architecture
  • ►November(7)
    • Adventures in Map Zooming, Part 1: Realtime Image Scaling
    • Experimenting with Drone PIP
    • Projectile Deflection
    • A Simple Approach to Player-Designed Robots
    • Special Events Give Back, and Perfect Stealth
    • Teleportation Mechanics
    • "Post-Balance" Cogmind Item Expansion
  • ►June(1)
    • Roguelike-Discord Integration Using Webhooks
  • ►April(1)
    • Writing about Cogmind and Roguelikes, a History
  • ►March(1)
    • Cogmind Beta 11 Player Stats
  • ►February(1)
    • Special Mode Design, Polymind Part 2: Players, Stats, and the Future
  • ►January(1)
    • Special Mode Design, Polymind Part 1: Architecture, Features, and Balance
• ►2022 (8)
  • ►December(1)
    • Year 9 of the Cogmind
  • ►November(1)
    • On Backtracking in Roguelikes
  • ►October(1)
    • The Scrap Engine
  • ►September(1)
    • Item Variants and Randomization in Roguelikes
  • ►July(1)
    • Garrisons 2.0
  • ►May(1)
    • Kyzrati's Game Design Philosophy
  • ►March(2)
    • Rebalancing Cogmind
    • Special Commands Menu Design
• ►2021 (14)
  • ►December(2)
    • Maps Between Maps, and DSFs
    • Year 8 of the Cogmind
  • ►November(2)
    • Design Overhaul 4: Fabrication 2.0
    • Map Comments and Log Notes
  • ►September(2)
    • Spicing Up Primary Maps 2: Area Denial
    • Spicing Up Primary Maps 1: Cargo Convoys
  • ►August(1)
    • Extreme Infowar: Active Sensor Suite
  • ►July(1)
    • "Desire Paths" for a Robot World
  • ►May(1)
    • Design Overhaul 3: Damage Types and Criticals
  • ►April(2)
    • Design Overhaul 2: Propulsion
    • Design Overhaul 1: Capping Inventory
  • ►February(2)
    • Infowar Expanded
    • The Map Ruler (and other overlay QoL)
  • ►January(1)
    • Cogmind Beta 9 Player Stats
• ►2020 (12)
  • ►December(4)
    • Item Searching and Filtering
    • Cogmind 2020 ARG Walkthrough
    • Cogmind 2020 ARG Post-mortem
    • Year 7 of the Cogmind
  • ►November(1)
    • Exploring the Concept of a Terminal Roguelike "Overmap"
  • ►June(2)
    • Audio Accessibility Features for Roguelikes
    • Building Cogmind's Ambient Soundscape
  • ►May(1)
    • My Cogmind Dev Tools
  • ►April(1)
    • Developing Multitile Creatures in Roguelikes
  • ►March(1)
    • Special Mode Design: Battle Royale
  • ►February(1)
    • What is a Traditional Roguelike?
  • ►January(1)
    • Special Mode Design: RPGLIKE
• ►2019 (21)
  • ►December(3)
    • Leaderboards and Player Stats with Protobufs
    • Leaderboards and Player Stats: The Old Way
    • Year 6 of the Cogmind
  • ►November(2)
    • Movement QoL
    • Steam Rich Presence
  • ►October(1)
    • Special Mode Design: Abominations
  • ►September(4)
    • Siege Tread Mechanics
    • Sorry macOS users, but Apple has gone too far for some of us devs
    • Quicksaving and Restore Points
    • Rebranding Difficulty Modes
  • ►August(2)
    • Building the Ultimate Roguelike Morgue File, Part 4: History Logging
    • Building the Ultimate Roguelike Morgue File, Part 3: Mid-run Stat Dumps
  • ►July(2)
    • Building the Ultimate Roguelike Morgue File, Part 2: ASCII Maps
    • Building the Ultimate Roguelike Morgue File, Part 1: Stats and Organization
  • ►June(1)
    • Robot Hacking: Upgrades
  • ►May(1)
    • Special Game Modes in a Roguelike Context
  • ►April(1)
    • Turn Time Systems
  • ►March(3)
    • Roguelike Level Design Addendum: Static or Procedural?
    • Kyzrati is on Patreon
    • Roguelike Level Design Addendum: Procedural Layouts
  • ►February(1)
    • Level Design and Shaping a Cogmind Experience
• ►2018 (14)
  • ►December(1)
    • Year 5 of the Cogmind
  • ►November(1)
    • Debugging Mapgen Seed Divergence
  • ►October(2)
    • How to Make a Roguelike
    • Roguelike Celebration 2018, the Experience
  • ►August(1)
    • 65 Robot Hacks
  • ►July(1)
    • Robot Hacking, Take 2
  • ►May(2)
    • Achievements UI: Design and Implementation
    • Achievements
  • ►March(5)
    • 2018 7DRL Postmortem, Part 4: Finishing Touches
    • 2018 7DRL Postmortem, Part 3: Spending Too Long on Map Generation and Content
    • 2018 7DRL Postmortem, Part 2: First Days with UI, Aesthetics, and Mechanics
    • 2018 7DRL Postmortem, Part 1: Preparation
    • POLYBOT-7, a 2018 7DRL
  • ►January(1)
    • Color Customization
• ►2017 (15)
  • ►December(2)
    • Player Metrics: Stats and Preferences on and off Steam
    • Year 4 of the Cogmind
  • ►November(1)
    • Data and Insights from a Month on Steam
  • ►October(2)
    • Cogmind Released on Steam
    • Prepping for Steam
  • ►July(1)
    • Beyond the Design Doc: Unplanned Cogmind Features
  • ►June(1)
    • Cogmind Alpha Year 2 Sales Data (Pre-Steam)
  • ►May(3)
    • Cogmind's Two-Year-Old New Logo
    • Versioning Schemes
    • Working with Seeds
  • ►April(1)
    • Music for Cogmind?
  • ►March(1)
    • Dissecting a Cogmind Changelog
  • ►February(1)
    • Adjustable Difficulty
  • ►January(2)
    • Pricing a Roguelike
    • Map Prefabs, in Depth
• ►2016 (19)
  • ►December(1)
    • Year 3 of the Cogmind
  • ►November(3)
    • Improving the Hacking Experience
    • Weaving Narratives into Procedural Worlds, Part 3: Methods
    • Weaving Narratives into Procedural Worlds, Part 2: Characteristics
  • ►October(1)
    • Weaving Narratives into Procedural Worlds, Part 1: Value
  • ►September(2)
    • Roguelike Celebration 2016, the Experience
    • Ability/Effect Systems and Scripted Content
  • ►August(1)
    • The Alpha Release Cycle: Running a Successful EA Program
  • ►July(2)
    • Tutorials and Help: Easing Players into the Game
    • Roguelike Celebration--See you in San Francisco?
  • ►June(2)
    • Inventory Management, Revisited
    • Iterative UI Design
  • ►May(2)
    • Cogmind, 1 Year of Alphas
    • Fabrication
  • ►April(1)
    • FOV Aesthetics
  • ►March(1)
    • Generating and Populating Caves
  • ►February(2)
    • Dialogue UI
    • Designing Cogmind's World Map
  • ►January(1)
    • An Alternative UI?
• ►2015 (27)
  • ►December(2)
    • REXPaint 1.0
    • Year 2 of the Cogmind
  • ►November(3)
    • Unauthorized Hacks
    • Garrisons
    • Garrison Access
  • ►October(2)
    • Morgue Files
    • Player Metrics (Alpha Challenge 2015)
  • ►August(1)
    • Traps
  • ►July(2)
    • Roguelike Development with REXPaint
    • Readable Text Fonts for Roguelikes
  • ►June(2)
    • Releasing a Commercial ASCII Roguelike, a Post-Mortem
    • The Making of Cogmind's Alpha Trailer
  • ►May(2)
    • Cogmind Alpha Access LAUNCHED!
    • Map Composition
  • ►April(3)
    • The Living Dungeon
    • A World of Robots
    • Cogmind the Roguelike
  • ►March(3)
    • Alpha Release State
    • Cogmind Release Schedule
    • Tileset 1.0
  • ►February(3)
    • Map Intel: Information Warfare, Revisited
    • ASCII vs. Tiles
    • Web Support in Single-Player Roguelikes
  • ►January(4)
    • Tileset Concepts, an Open Poll
    • Wanted: Pixel Artist
    • Robot Hacking
    • ASCII Wallpapers
• ►2014 (49)
  • ►December(3)
    • The Importance of Roguelike Food Clocks
    • Cogmind ASCII Art Gallery
    • Inventory Management
  • ►November(3)
    • Information Warfare
    • UI Feedback: Map Dynamics 2.0
    • Anatomy of an ASCII Title Screen
  • ►October(3)
    • New Cogmind Website
    • The Player is Always Right: An Existential Approach to Game AI
    • From Prototype to Full Game
  • ►September(3)
    • Cogmind Fonts
    • Font Creation
    • Fonts in Roguelikes
  • ►August(4)
    • Robots
    • Consumables
    • Cogmind Roadmap: Year 1 and Beyond
    • Projectile Penetration
  • ►July(4)
    • Non-Interactive Machines
    • Furnishing a/the Dungeon
    • Dungeon Prefabs
    • Dungeon Metrics
  • ►June(4)
    • Mapgen: Cellular Automata
    • Mapgen: Tunneling Algorithm
    • Procedural Map Generation
    • Kickstarter?
  • ►May(4)
    • Options, Revisited
    • Sound Design in Cogmind, a How-to
    • The Audio Engine
    • Weapon SFX
  • ►April(4)
    • Sound in Roguelikes
    • Accommodating Color Blindness
    • Making Particles
    • MORE ASCII Particle Effects
  • ►March(5)
    • Cogmind ASCII Art, the Making of
    • ASCII Art
    • ASCII Particle Effects
    • Balance
    • Playing Your Own Game
  • ►February(6)
    • Items: Types & Distribution
    • You, Cogmind
    • Data-driven Development
    • Making a Game
    • Map Dynamics
    • Message Log
  • ►January(6)
    • F1 Help
    • Ally Orders
    • Ambient Sound
    • Animation vs. Pacing: A Dilemma of Modern Roguelikes
    • Part Info Visualization Modes
    • Recycling Units & Repair Stations
• ►2013 (22)
  • ►December(6)
    • Scanalyzers & Fabricators
    • Terminals
    • Hacking, the Interface
    • Hacking, the Concept
    • Burnout, Momentum & EM Disruption
    • Context Help
  • ►November(5)
    • Info, Animated
    • Fog of War
    • Allies & Factions
    • GUI Animation
    • Introducing... the Intro
  • ►October(7)
    • Drag & Drop
    • Large Parts & Non-Parts
    • Melee Combat
    • Machines
    • Multi-tile Robots
    • Options
    • Building a Better UI
  • ►September(4)
    • Guided Weapons, Salvos & Overloading
    • Straight to the Source
    • Core Concepts
    • Cogmind Returns