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Roguelikes: An introduction

By Will Swannack | Published: June 20, 2010
If you know anyone who is fanatically into roguelikes or you’ve always wanted to try them yourself but have been intimidated by the insane control schemes and ascii graphics, this is a guide for you. The intent for this article is to provide a series of games ramping up towards the more esoteric roguelikes. Anyone [...]
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Ra

By Will Swannack | Published: May 25, 2010
Ra is an exceptionally simple and elegant board game. Players typically can only choose between two options on their turn. The first option is to draw a tile from a bag and add it to an increasing pile of tiles on the game board. The second is to declare Ra which starts an auction for [...]
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