Building a Modern Roguelike in 2019
Nathaniel Inman provides source code to creating a random map generation and 3d roguelike explorer. He talks about the experiment and anticipations of the future of FPS Roguelikes.
At numerous times I've created demos trying to figure out how to merge a traditional roguelike into a FPS without sacrificing it's roots. Here's an article I made in 2017. Unlike many others I don't feel like just random maps makes a roguelike, I've even gone so far as saying no FPS is a roguelike. In this experiment I've tried to merge those ascii characters into the map itself and dropped the textures. The code can be executed and ran or viewed in its entirety on Github here.
I randomly rotate the ascii characters, before doing so everything looked super uniform. The trouble is making everything look pretty without being distracting or too realistic. The exciting thing about roguelikes was the imagination taking over and filling in the gaps.
Overall the experiment was fun and a mild success. Next steps will be to work on a combat engine. I'm pretty sure that will be the dealbreaker. Games like hotshot merge turn-based and real-time combat.