Darren Grey
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Darren Grey
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Affable rogue, co-host of Roguelike Radio, roguelike developer, writer for Fallout London, Skywind and various other bits, and huge Tolkien nerd
Cookie Cutter episode on reward mechanisms.
To the Moon ep on neurodiversity.
Super Meat Boy ep on perseverance.
Baldur's Gate 3 ep on grooming.
Undertale ep on friendship circles.
Psychonauts ep on... everything.
November 12, 2025 at 12:39 PM
FTL. Never accept surrender when there's more loot to be had from slaughtering the enemy (or slowly asphyxiating them).
November 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Big difference is lack of instant info back then. A sudden incident far away from journalists is going to take time to get good info on, and less likely to become headline.
Also at the time the expected downfall of Major was a huge rolling piece. That's where public interest was.
November 4, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Don't knock it till you've tried it.
November 3, 2025 at 11:00 PM
What really gets me is the constant perspective switching. It's such a core part of the gameplay experience. Glitchy environments I can half live with - constant changes in gameplay mode I can't.
October 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
In the south it's referred to as a smoking gilet, whilst in the north a lounge gilet or longilet for short. In some parts of Yorkshire it's known as a lopsilot.
October 16, 2025 at 10:01 PM
These are based on real bomb preservation shelters from WW2. You can see them in the London Transport Museum.
October 16, 2025 at 11:12 AM
One of my favourite bits of London river trivia is that the Westbourne river runs in a pipe through Sloane Square tube station. You can stand underneath it waiting for your train. secretldn.com/secret-river...
This Busy London Tube Station Has A Secret River Running Through It – And Barely Anybody Knows That It’s There
There are plenty of secrets hidden beneath the streets of our city; one of which is an entire river that barely any Londoners know about.
secretldn.com
October 9, 2025 at 12:35 PM
So boring!
September 19, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Farticle.
(good read otherwise, but I couldn't help but laugh at this)
September 18, 2025 at 12:51 PM
One of the AIs is a DM and the other AI is a player. Both are apparently "sentient".
September 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Obra Dinn and Paradise Killer are obvious ones you'll doubtless know well.

Persuasion RPG is a recent odd little procedural game with information gathering and interrogation: dementia5.itch.io/persuasion-rpg
Persuasion RPG by Dementia5
A Text-Driven Victorian Roguelike Mystery
dementia5.itch.io
September 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Since the 00s roguelikes have broken free of the D&D mold a lot more. There's more emphasis on positional combat and environment manipulation, which are less expressed in D&D but easier to build upon in a grid-based game.
September 17, 2025 at 12:21 PM