Roguelike

Building roguelike games with AI. These articles cover procedural design, card-based mechanics, extraction gameplay, and devlogs from building roguelikes inside Makko. Includes the Sector Scavengers devlog series documenting a full roguelike build from concept through playable prototype.

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Indie Game Development

How Do You Make a Game Fun? A Roguelike Dev's Playtesting Process

Finding the fun is not a brainstorm. It is a loop. Tony Valcarcel on weekly playtests, raw notes, and the north star keeping Sector Scavengers honest.

Roguelike

Roguelike Devlog: Redesigning a Game UI With an AI 2D Game Maker

How rapid prototyping with an AI 2D game maker fixed an overloaded roguelike command deck: a Sector Scavengers devlog.

AI Game Development

No-Code Roguelike: How I Shipped a Full AI-Generated Game in 10 Days (Devlog #1)

TL;DR: I prototyped the core gameplay loop for a roguelike in 10 days using Makko.ai for every line of code, every asset, and