Rogue

Make smaller games that speak to people.

Before the video game industry existed, when people were creating Colossal Cave Adventure and the earliest game, like the original Rogue, not Roguelike, but Rogue, these people were all creating personal games, because they were creating...

The fantasies they had sitting around the table playing D&D or imagining controlling a spaceship into space during the Cold War.

This all came out of nowhere because there was no model to follow.

Yep.

This is Rogue, everybody.

And I like Roguelikes, and I like Roguelites.

You

can still download and play that, by the way.

is more like...

Rogue? Rogue.

Yeah.

Like is more a purist dungeon crawl experience.

I don't like

when we use references that no one knows about anymore to describe things.

I don't know what Rogue is.

60-year-old dudes

You know, they're exploring the dungeon.

You know, like, uh, Rogue-

Yeah

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