Nathan Stoddard - home page

This website has my roguelike game Downfall and some of my other projects.

Games

Downfall: Downfall is my main project. It's a roguelike with some unusual features, such as a hexagonal dungeon instead of a standard rectangular dungeon. It's still in development, and doesn't have very many features yet. It has several item types, and multiple dungeon branches, which are all configurable.

I'm also making an RTS + ASCII game, which is not available for download.

Hex board game: a simple implementation of the hex board game.

Libraries

RLLib: a library for creating roguelike games. It's basically a platform-independent terminal, but with extra features. It has easy file access, an RNG, a message-printing system, and more.

Articles

Hexagonal dungeons: explains why and how to use hexagonal dungeons.

Command-line interfaces and usability.

Blog

My blog.

Devlog

My devlog. I used to write an entry here every day or two.

R1's Crawl Page Backup

I made a backup of the files on R1's Crawl Page a while ago. Now that the site has disappeared, I have uploaded a backup of the articles in it.

About roguelikes

Roguelikes are games that are similar to the game Rogue. They are usually ASCII, but some of them have tiles instead, and some (like Downfall) have a combination of the two. You can read more about roguelikes on RogueBasin.

About me

I am Nathan Stoddard, also known as Nate879. You can contact me by e-mail.