Episode 125: Road Not Taken

This is episode 125 of Roguelike Radio, where Andrew Doull is joined by Daniel Cook, Ste Curran and co-host Mark Johnson to talk about the roguelike puzzle game Road Not Taken (available on Windows, Mac, PS4 and just been released on iOS).

You can download the mp3 of the podcast, play it in the embedded player below, or you can follow us on iTunes.

Topics Discussed:

• The origin story of Roguelike Radio via One Life Left
• That point in the podcast where I have to count how many times Dan Cook says 'like' in order to get the podcast tags right
• Daniel Cook's website Lost Garden
• Playing the fool's game of favourites
• Comparing Road not Taken to Dark Souls (everyone drink!)
• Rebuilding a genre from ground up
• Spry Fox's design process
• Robert Frost's the Road Not Taken
• Finding an audience for difficult art games
• Does audience size matter?
• Road Not Taken's relationships
• Congratulations, You Have Died!
• Ste Curran's Pixelgrams: Pixel Puzzles and Chime Sharp
• Spry Fox's Steam Birds Alliance 
• The themes of Road Not Taken
• Russ Pitt's short documentary on Spry Fox

An apology: this was originally scheduled as episode 126 (thus the terrible edit at the start that Darren made which hopefully you didn't notice but I'm going to point out anyway); the podcast recorded at the New York 2016 International Roguelike Developers Conference should be coming shortly.