![]() Yoda Stories is actually a semi-sequel to another game, Indiana Jones And His Desktop Adventures-released 19 respectively-back when the Lucasarts name on a game box was practically an industry stamp of “Great Game Inside” instead of “More Star Wars Pap”. ![]() ![]() They’re all at least on the family tree though, as indeed was this week’s slice of little-known obscura. Now, of course not all of those are true Roguelikes, none being truly turn-based and not all featuring permadeath in the traditional style. Whatever you think of the game itself, Diablo 3 managed to sell roughly seventeen billion copies of its randomly generated dungeon-crawl, The Binding of Isaac and FTL knocked the indie world’s socks off, and Torchlight 2 joined the party with no small amount of cheering. It’s a good time for roguelikes and their descendants at the moment. “When nine hundred years old you reach, tell crappy stories you will not, hmm?” I can probably sum this one up in a single sentence. ![]() Though it is a singleplayer game, I suppose. This week, who’s the most dedicated rogue in Star Wars’ interactive legacy? No, not that Solo guy. From 2010 to 2014 Richard Cobbett wrote Crapshoot, a column about rolling the dice to bring random obscure games back into the light. ![]()
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