Uploaded October 2020 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago
This talk is from the 2020 virtual Roguelike Celebration:
roguelike.club/event2020.html
bhauth is the developer for bcrawl, a fork of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup which is currently played about 4% as much. He's also one of the better DCSS players, with a 20-streak of tournament game wins as well as 2 wins in 2 hours. He has been interested in game design and procedural generation for a long time. As a child, he designed questionable board games, and more recently he made a program that automatically generates music. He's worked as a programmer, chemical engineering consultant, and tutor.
In this talk he discusses his view of:
- Why DCSS is worth playing
- What the core mechanics of DCSS are
- How those mechanics are similar to or different from other genres and other roguelikes
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup: crawl.develz.org
bcrawl: github.com/b-crawl/bcrawl
(This is a reupload to reflect the correct version of the video played during the event.)
This talk is from the 2020 virtual Roguelike Celebration:
roguelike.club/event2020.html
bhauth is the developer for bcrawl, a fork of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup which is currently played about 4% as much. He's also one of the better DCSS players, with a 20-streak of tournament game wins as well as 2 wins in 2 hours. He has been interested in game design and procedural generation for a long time. As a child, he designed questionable board games, and more recently he made a program that automatically generates music. He's worked as a programmer, chemical engineering consultant, and tutor.
In this talk he discusses his view of:
- Why DCSS is worth playing
- What the core mechanics of DCSS are
- How those mechanics are similar to or different from other genres and other roguelikes
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup: crawl.develz.org
bcrawl: github.com/b-crawl/bcrawl
(This is a reupload to reflect the correct version of the video played during the event.)
