2009′s 7DRL week, part 3

Another day brings another part to this week’s 7DRL summary! Here are a few more @-filled delights for you to take a look at…

• Jacob’s Matrix [link, pictured left] – possibly the best 7DRL entrant yet and my pick o’ the day. Can you find your way out of an Escher-like series of twisty passages before the music stops playing? Comes complete with deviously fast gameplay and even an ASCII portal gun!
• Epic! Monster Quest: Hyper [link, pictured middle] – another contender in the realtime category. Hunt monsters, recruit mercenaries and generally become amazing. Like most realtime roguelikes, it’s very tricky and quite unforgiving.
• DDRogue [link, pictured right] – relatively plain-looking, but interesting use of story points and enhanced combat techniques make this one worth checking out.

That’s most of the “easy to try” entries covered – there are quite a few others that are available only as source code which makes them more difficult to cover. I’ll talk a bit more about those tomorrow, hopefully – but meanwhile, the full entry list on Rogue Temple is still there for your perusal. Happy adventuring!