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    This document discusses how roguelike games can help players level up their skills through a "mastery loop" of challenge and learning. It explores common patterns in roguelikes that create engaging and replayable gameplay, such as random elements that require parallel learning, providing a sense of heroism alongside failure, using diverse tools that require strategic thinking, and incorporating variety over randomness. The document aims to illustrate how understanding and applying these roguelike patterns can help designers create games that keep players continually improving.

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    This document discusses how roguelike games can help players level up their skills through a "mastery loop" of challenge and learning. It explores common patterns in roguelikes that create engaging and replayable gameplay, such as random elements that require parallel learning, providing a sense of heroism alongside failure, using diverse tools that require strategic thinking, and incorporating variety over randomness. The document aims to illustrate how understanding and applying these roguelike patterns can help designers create games that keep players continually improving.

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    Level Up Your Game:: The Untapped Potential of Roguelikes

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    This document discusses how roguelike games can help players level up their skills through a "mastery loop" of challenge and learning. It explores common patterns in roguelikes that create engaging and replayable gameplay, such as random elements that require parallel learning, providing a sense of heroism alongside failure, using diverse tools that require strategic thinking, and incorporating variety over randomness. The document aims to illustrate how understanding and applying these roguelike patterns can help designers create games that keep players continually improving.

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    LEVEL UP YOUR GAME:

    THE UNTAPPED POTENTIAL OF


    ROGUELIKES
    TOM CADWELL
    genre
    WHAT IS A ROGUELIKE

    MASTERY LOOP

    AGENDA ROGUELIKE PATTERNS

    APPLYING ROGUELIKES

    Q&A
    WHAT IS A ROGUELIKE

    MASTERY LOOP

    AGENDA ROGUELIKE PATTERNS

    APPLYING ROGUELIKES

    Q&A
    ROGUE
    NETHACK
    STARCRAFT ANGBAND
    WHY ARE
    ROGUELIKES
    INCREDIBLY
    ENGAGING
    MASTERY
    LOOP CHALLENGE

    SUCCESS FAILURE

    LEARNING
    FORMS OF MASTERY
    Not limited to but including…
    ‣ Mechanical skill and dexterity
    ‣ Strategy and judgment
    ‣ Knowledge and understanding
    MECHANICAL SKILL &
    DEXTERITY
    STRATEGY & JUDGEMENT
    KNOWLEDGE &
    UNDERSTANDING
    FORMS OF MASTERY
    ‣ Mechanical skill and dexterity
    ‣ Strategy and judgment
    ‣ Knowledge and understanding
    ‣ NOT Teamwork
    RANDOM
    SKILLS PARALLEL
    LEARNING
    SKILLS
    There used to be a video of LoL here, but was removed to limit size of download for
    the sharing of these slides.
    WHAT IS A ROGUELIKE

    MASTERY LOOP

    AGENDA ROGUELIKE PATTERNS

    PATTERNS IN GAMES

    Q&A
    HERO OR ZERO
    ONE DOES NOT
    SIMPLY

    MAKE A HERO
    HERO OR ZERO
    HERO OR ZERO
    • DO provide a “real ultimate power”
    fantasy
    • DO add ceremony
    • BE CAUTIOUS mixing in and out of session
    progression
    DIVERSE TOOLS &
    MAKING DO
    DIVERSE TOOLS & MAKING DO
    DIVERSE TOOLS & MAKING DO

    • DO ensure tool limitations


    • DO provide some challenges with multiple
    solutions
    • DO ensure tools are powerful
    COMPETING OBJECTIVES
    & STRATEGIC
    COMMITMENT
    STRATEGIC
    COMMITMENT?

    WE LOVE
    COMMITMENT!
    FTL
    BINDING OF ISAAC
    COMPETING OBJECTIVES &
    STRATEGIC COMMITMENT

    • DO clarify tradeoffs
    • DO ensure a balance of goals
    • CONSIDER leveraging an ‘ambiguous’
    future
    VARIETY
    NOT RANDOMNESS
    I HAVE A
    RANDOM IDEA…

    ADD VARIETY!
    VARIETY, NOT RANDOMNESS
    WHAT IS A ROGUELIKE

    MASTERY LOOP

    AGENDA ROGUELIKE PATTERNS

    APPLYING ROGUELIKES

    Q&A
    Random Parallel Learning
    Hero or Zero
    RECAP
    Diverse Tools & Making Do
    ROGUELIKE
    Competing Objectives &
    PATTERNS
    Strategic Commitment
    Variety not Random
    DARK SOULS
    DARK SOULS
    LEAGUE OF LEGENDS
    LEAGUE OF LEGENDS
    CIVILIZATION
    CIVILIZATION
    CIVILIZATION
    CIVILIZATION
    LEVEL UP YOUR GAME:
    THE UNTAPPED POTENTIAL OF
    ROGUELIKES
    TOM CADWELL

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