Celebration 2017
Information from the Roguelike Celebration on November 11-12, 2017.
Video recordings of all talks are available on the Internet Archive and YouTube.
Tweet archive: #roguelikecel.
Schedule
Friday, November 10
| 7:00pm | Pre-party at Game Nest (222 7th St) |
Saturday
| 9:00am | Doors, coffee and breakfast provided by GitHub |
| 9:45 | Welcome / Announcements |
| 10:00 | Santiago Zapata: Conserving the classic roguelike definition, does it make any sense in 2017? |
| 10:30 | Alan Malloy: Using data from Crawl game servers to influence game development |
| 11:00 | Break |
| 11:15 | Ben McGraw: How character build systems make for engaging game choices |
| 11:45 | Jim Shepard: The history of metaprogression in video games |
| 12:30pm | Lunch provided by GitHub |
| 2:00 | Tim Keenan: Melding curated narrative into the roguelike structure |
| 2:30 | Joe Sondow: Twitter bots and procedural generation |
| 2:45 | Matt Ritchie - talking about working on and completing a larger game in your spare time |
| 3:00 | Break |
| 3:15 | Darius Kazemi: How to use randomness and procedural generation to create interesting content |
| 3:45 | Shawn Main: The role of randomness in games |
| 4:15 | Break |
| 4:30 | Thomas Biskup: Experiences about crowdfunding ADOMs, lessons learned, best practices and things to know before you do something potentially foolish. |
| 5:00 | Choose-your-own playthrough of Caves of Qud |
| 6:00 | Botnik comedy show |
| 7:00 | Informal evening gathering at The Thirsty Bear, 661 Howard St. |
Sunday
| 9:00am | Doors, coffee and breakfast provided by GitHub |
| 9:45 | kick-off announcements |
| 10:00 | Thomas Biskup: The future of ADOM |
| 10:30 | Jason Grinblat: talking about procedural history generation in Caves of Qud |
| 11:00 | Break |
| 11:15 | Emilia Lazer-Walker: Procedural generation and emergent storytelling in real-world / AR games |
| 11:45 | Ben Berman: Level generation using machine learning |
| 12:30pm | Lunch provided by GitHub |
| 2:00 | Leonard Richardson: Twenty years of robotfindskitten history. |
| 2:15 | Cassie Stuurman: Your favorite Nethack food, slime molds |
| 2:30 | Ian Holmes: Cellular automata for emergent dungeons |
| 3:00 | Break |
| 3:15 | Max Kreminski: How to craft compelling character arcs in procedurally generated systems |
| 3:45 | Tyriq Plummer: The influence of roguelike mechanics on platformers |
| 4:15 | Break |
| 4:30 | Dan Recht: How roguelikes taught him how to lead a startup |
| 5:00 | Nethack run(s) with Adeon |
| 7:00 | Go home! |
Sponsors
GitHub donated use of their office event space for Roguelike Celebration 2017, including sponsoring food and recording video and audio for the talks.
Roguelike Celebration 2017 was sponsered by Noisebridge, a hackerspace for technical-creative projects, doocratically run by its members. It is a non-profit educational institution intended for public benefit. We're grateful for their service as our 2017 fiscal sponsor.
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