Glenn Wichman's guest appearances

Glenn Wichman

Roguelike Radio

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

Frank Lantz

Brian Walker

Justin Ma

Derek Yu

Richard Garfield

Tim Schafer

Edmund McMillen

John Harris

Ryan Clark

Ray Johnston

Aaron Steed

Greg Johnson

Cara Ellison

Mark Brown

Ben Wilson

OwlTail

The co-creator of Rogue - yes, THAT Rogue - chats with us about the creation and legacy of his seminal 1980 game that birthed a genre! We discuss the origins of its key innovations of procedural generation and “consequence permanence,” its surprisingly Chesslike origins, and the secret metagame behind Quicken (shhh!). Rogue Hack Nethack Brogue  Curses programming library Diablo ADOM Moria Angband  Rogue's instruction manual  Glenn’s unused Rogue manual art

The co-creator of Rogue - yes, THAT Rogue - chats with us about the creation and legacy of his seminal 1980 game that birthed a genre! We discuss the origins of its key innovations of procedural generation and “consequence permanence,” its surprisingly Chesslike origins, and the secret metagame behind Quicken (shhh!). <a href="https://archive.org/details/msdos_Rogue_1983" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rogue</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack_(video_game)" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hack</a> <a href="https://www.nethack.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nethack</a> <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/broguegame/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Brogue</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curses_(programming_library)" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Curses programming library</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablo_(video_game)" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Diablo</a> <a href="https://www.adom.de/home/index.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ADOM</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moria_(video_game)" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Moria</a> <a href="https://rephial.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Angband</a> <a href="http://roguelikedevelopment.org/archive/files/misc/EpyxRogueDOSManual/manual.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Rogue's instruction manual</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151813466786526&amp;set=a.10151813466661526&amp;type=3&amp;theater" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Glenn’s unused Rogue manual art</a>

24: Going Rogue with Glenn Wichman (Rogue)

Welcome to Roguelike Radio episode 31, where we discuss the game that inspired our whole genre - Rogue.  Talking this episode are Ido Yehieli, John Harris, Jordan Starkweather, Keith Burgun, Michael Brough and our very special guest Glenn Wichman, one of the co-creators of the original Rogue.  Read more »

Welcome to Roguelike Radio episode 31, where we discuss the game that inspired our whole genre - Rogue. Talking this episode are Ido Yehieli, John Harris, Jordan Starkweather, Keith Burgun, Michael Brough and our very special guest Glenn Wichman, one of the co-creators of the original Rogue. <a href="http://www.roguelikeradio.com/2012/04/episode-31-rogue-with-co-creator-glenn.html#more" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read more »</a>

Episode 31 - Rogue, with co-creator Glenn Wichman