Brogue creator Brian “Pender” Walker joins us to chat about the elegant design behind his sublime roguelike dungeon-crawler, from the lessons he took from Rogue (and those he didn’t), to creating a rich world of interactions while keeping things simple.

Things we discussed:

Brogue

Zach's instructional Brogue stream

Brogue w/ Daily Challenge

Brogue w/ Daily Challenge + Potion change

Rogue

Angband

Nethack

Derek Yu on Brogue

Roguelike Celebration talk: Procedural level design in Brogue and beyond

Hearthstone's Dungeon Run

David Sirlin on balancing multiplayer games

Slay the Spire

Andrew Doull's Ascii Dreams

Unangband

Brian's lessons From the original Rogue post

Brian's Roguelike Radio interview

Brogue's Jellymancer build

Into the Breach

Caves of Qud

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup

Braid