Can you believe I had never heard of roguelikes before 2008? A friend of mine got me into Spelunky (the same one who introduced me to Metroid, so she’s batting 1000 so far), and from there the two of us embarked on a years-long journey into the sea of roguelikes and roguelites and roguelike-likes. For anyone in the class who’s scratching their head right now, roguelikes are a genre of RPGs that carry on the tradition of the 1980 game Rogue. They’re turn-based dungeon crawls so difficult that I’ve never actually beaten any of the countless roguelikes I’ve played. Roguelike elements — namely procedurally-generated