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Writing about Cogmind and Roguelikes, a History

Something that’s kinda bugged me lately is when I look at the blog sidebar and notice that the article count in the archives seems to be trending lower, even though it doesn’t really feel like I’m doing nearly that much less writing. Now I’ve had some theories and assumptions to explain this trend, but it’s […]

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Year 9 of the Cogmind

Early this year Cogmind celebrated its 10th anniversary since it was first released as a 7DRL, and as the year comes to a close it’s once again time for an annual review to take a quick look at where we’ve been, and where we’re going! First here’s our yearly dev collage showing off in visual […]

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Kyzrati’s Game Design Philosophy

Recently a player asked me a question regarding my game balance philosophy, and while I can often respond to queries by pointing to some previous article, despite all my writing and no doubt occasionally touching on related topics, I had yet to explicitly do any sort of summary of the philosophy behind my gamedev work. […]

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Year 8 of the Cogmind

Cogmind is now in its 9th year of continuous development, so as usual let’s take a look at the past year of progress in yet another annual review! Although most of the feature progress I share is in the form of animated gifs, there are a handful of static PNGs as well which I’ve compiled […]

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Year 7 of the Cogmind

And another year of development whooshes by! Okay, so no surprise there, Cogmind has now been in continuous development for over seven years, and it’s once again time for the usual end-of-year annual review. Building Cogmind is still very much my full-time job at the moment, though as we’ll see in the review, this year […]

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