Alexei Pepers

Speaking of Polaris - I’m giving a 60 minute lecture at GDC about system suspense, a topic from a previous year! I’ll be able to dig into some case studies that didn’t make the report - so if you’re into systemic games and designing for surprise, check it out 😊 schedule.gdconf.com/session/desi...

I knew this because of Mary Carillo’s amazing badminton riff.

now you know

Part of my literal job is to fly out to physical game studios to rescue and recover historical materials that might be endangered and put them in a permanent archive. @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social is a 501(c)3 publicly funded to do that, my DMs are open, and I'm free for the next couple weeks...

"I wonder why they had to do it (shut a studio down)" THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO!!! THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO

First post to celebrate yet another year captioning my favorite event! This event has been with me through out of state moves, getting married to my wife, and having TWO kids! Wild. @roguelike.club

And that’s a wrap on Roguelike Celebration! I feel very lucky to get to facilitate so much enthusiasm and creativity every year, and give my time back to an event which has brought so much joy and fulfilment into my life. It’s so much work but it’s what I’m proudest of helping to nurture ❤️

We’re about to start a very special 45 minute delve into the history and source code of Hack. Real classic Roguelike Celebration fare!

This is just starting now and promises to be a good one!

The @roguelike.club social space is rad because we can run into issues like “ah you’ve accidentally slipped into a past world, rooms that exist and yet do not. We don’t know how to follow you there. We’re not sure what happens when you leave. Please click the obelisk and hard refresh your browser.”

I had an excellent time making @roguelike.club ‘s art for their event this year! If you like roguelike games you should check out the last day of their event today, and get a shirt with my cyberpunk utopian futuresports art! ⭐️🌙🌀

It’s happening! It’s now!!! I have been so excited to see how the hell they did this crazy thing

1 minute into @roguelike.club and we already have a “VI & EMACS CONTAINMENT/FUN ZONE OF UNITY AND PATIENCE” on the slides, did you know that our conference rules

hello here are two ''sudoku poems'' i made during my talk at @roguelike.club & thanks to whoever taught me the word METALEPTIC

For those not following Mike Cook’s public talk series you’re missing some fantastic stuff! Last year at AIIDE we got “games are generators” and today we got “cities are generators”. The Mike Cook fandom is abuzz with what might be revealed to be a generator next.

Roguelike Celebration 2026 is now happening! Please pick up a pay-what-you're-able ticket at ti.to/roguelike-celebration/roguelike-celebration-2026 and join us in our custom event space for the first of two days of many fun and interesting talks!

The time for @roguelike.club is now!!! We’re already kicking it off with a breakdown of trap design patterns in the style of programming design patterns and it kicks ass.

I'm giving a talk on Sunday about push your luck games. It's a bit of a design exploration that I think will go to some interesting and unexpected places

I will continue to spam Roguelike Celebration posts until we at least have as many tickets sold as we typically do one day before the con, the schedule is too good this year to accept anything less!!!

Closing out the weekend is conference veteran @slashie.bsky.social! Slashie covers how designing games for years is itself roguelikesque, in "The Decades-Long Design Experiment That Escapes Permadeath and Finds a New Form Every Run". The perfect talk to close out Roguelike Celebration 2026!

Have you heard of Nuzlocke runs? Whether you have dodged the concept until now or are intimately familiar with the pain of losing to Self Destruct, you'll learn more from @leggystarscream.bsky.social in "The Art of the Long-form Roguelike Run: The Nuzlocke"!

Michael Howk and @dainialpadraig.bsky.social are giving a joint presentation of Hack: The "Lost Roguelike" - they separately submitted talks about the same inciting incident in recovering and repairing the Hack sourcecode, and agreed to give the talk together!

Ring Ring! Hint please? @hey.paris will talk us through the process of building Hint Line '93 in "Please Hold: Building a Playable Museum Exhibit About 1993 Game Support". This talk is going to make me want to visit Melbourne just for this museum exhibit, I can tell.

Only one more sleep 'til Rooguelike Celebration! Before getting into the last batch of speaker shoutouts before the show, one more reminder that tickets are pay-what-you-can - we'd love for you to hang out and join us! ti.to/roguelike-ce...

Let me spell it out: they managed to implement localization for Caves of Qud, the game that has a ridiculous amount of procedurally-generated text in it.

There is a WILD collection of talks by incredible people across the weekend - this is not a conference about roguelikes as much as it is a conference about a very particular kind of good technology/art/games weirdness, and you absolutely will love it. Schedule: www.roguelike.club/event2026.html

Day two of shouting out the speakers and talks at Roguelike Celebration 2026, this weekend! All of these speakers do amazing work, and you should check them all out.

We can't wait for all the wonderful talks this weekend at Roguelike Celebration 2026! Each day this week leading up to the event we're going to highlight our speakers. Grab a ticket to see the talks live: ti.to/roguelike-ce...

Only six days away from Roguelike Celebration! We've been around since 2016. This week, we'll be posting six standout talks from back then. First - a panel discussion with the creators of curses and the one and only Rogue! www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaB7... (Info for 2026 at www.roguelike.club)

Roguelike Celebration is just over a week away! Pay whatever you can to join and support a range of talks, including my own that looks at intentionality in procgen narrative through the lens of Terry Riley's minimalist masterpiece In C. ti.to/roguelike-ce...

Apple’s auto-generated podcast chapters are mostly annoying but I do get a kick out of starting my day with Elf Criticism, thanks @rangedtouch.bsky.social

I've been given the honor of giving the closing talk at this year's #Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club, joining a stellar speaker lineup. I'd share my talk's title, but it would go over bsky's character limit! Check out the full program: www.roguelike.club/event2026.html

Hey look! I'm giving a talk this year! It's about Reactivity in Roguelikes, building characters that can feel alive and responsive to player action. You should come see it!

Our full schedule is up, and what an amazing one it is! roguelike.club/event2026.html Our delightful alternate-sports themed MUD will be open for you to watch all of this goodness live on October 17-18!

This was *such* a good talk, major kudos to @martinpi.bsky.social who got through a whole breadth of ideas at such a measured pace. Always impressive to be both information-dense and relaxing to watch!

Very excited to be speaking at this event! Finally getting to talk about the games/proc gen influences in my art work :)

Come watch me talk about falling sand

The schedule's out - I'm speaking at the Roguelike Celebration again this year! My talk is titled "The City, The Street, The Lens" and it's about street photography, collisions in time and space and how to think about procedural generation differently. More here: www.roguelike.club/event2026.html