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Alexei Pepers @ampepers

apepers @ cohost Technical System Designer at Gardens, formerly of Blaseball and Nightingale! Proc gen Ranger/Druid. Roguelike Celebration MC. (She/her)

Joined April 2009
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Alexei Pepers@ampepers
23 Oct 2019
🎉 #roguelikecelebration talks are up! This is my talk on proc gen practitioners, a fun and lighthearted one with a D&D twist. If you enjoyed that tag yourself meme I made a few weeks ago, it was from this so please give the source a look 😄 m.youtube.com/watch?v=mYMdMA…

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Roguelike Celebration@roguelike_con
19 Oct 2024
Good morning, goblins! We're kicking off talks shortly, but you've still got plenty of time to snag a pay-what-you-want ticket from roguelike.club and join us in the MUD! (You can also watch us on Twitch and YouTube, but the MUD chat is really where it's at)
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RT @NaomiAKlein: I wrote about the many ways that Israel has made trauma a weapon of war. About how this exploitation betrays the victims…

How Israel has made trauma a weapon of war

A year later, memorials to the 7 October attacks use art, virtual reality and dark tourism to stir support for limitless violence. But there is a different way to remember

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T・O・D@GomessVV
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Roguelike Celebration@roguelike_con
12 Jun 2024
Friendly reminder that our 2024 call for proposals is still open! Send us your crunchy mathy talks, your extremely specific lore talks, your deep academic talks, your frivolous silly talks, your unhinged performance art... roguelike.club/cfp.html

Roguelike Celebration CFP

Technical talks, game design lessons, creative uses of procedural generation, interactive roguelike performances - we want to hear about it all!

roguelike.club
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Miserable, sickening behaviour at my local university. Every year, anti-abortion protestors would take over that same quad with graphic posters for multiple days - no problem. Truckers take over highway 1 for days - no problem. But here it’s immediately over the top violence.
Harsha Walia (she/her)@HarshaWalia
10 May 2024
STFU with "Canada is not the US"
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Getting the ads is so surreal! I spent 4.5 years on Nightingale, more than my degree or anything in my life. It’s bittersweet having been there at the start but not the end - I wish the team the best! And hope I’ll finally be able to talk more about that unique proc gen system 😉
Nightingale
@PlayNightingale
6 Feb 2024
Nightingale is an upcoming survival crafting PC game in a Gaslamp Fantasy universe. Become a Realmwalker, and survive, craft, and build in a beautiful but dangerous Fae Realms. Our unique procedural generation system creates fantastical worlds for you to explore and discover.
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☾ MΣGΛП ΣMBЯΣΣ ☽@so_bewitching
25 Jan 2024
I’ve been laid off from activision blizzard after 13 years of employment. I was the sole income earner for our household so leads on new positions would be appreciated
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Xalavier Nelson Jr.@WritNelson
23 Jan 2024
I now bear the cursed knowledge of a bunch of games and revivals that have been killed off over the years—because they didn’t look “expensive enough to succeed”. Didn’t have enough prestige. Served an audience, but couldn’t be aggressively monetized or live-service. 3/
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It’s encouraging to see so many of my peers already in this list, I’m proud to join them. Please take a moment to listen to Younès and to sign, the audience is large and it’s worthwhile to say something.
🇵🇸 Younès@pyrofoux
24 Nov 2023
The games industry's silence on the Palestinian genocide is disgusting, and this needs to change. To all gamedevs: Please read our letter to The Game Awards, sign it, and share it as much as you can. Palestinians need all the support we can give ✊🏽🇵🇸 📩forms.gle/oxnB1PKMxVuYUJUB6
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For any fellow Albertans who follow me here - there is more context on @CanadianCMF so please take a moment. I was impressed by how Wesam kept peace in the face of some truly vile things being shouted by counter-protestors. For him to be charged like this is horrible and absurd.
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RT @TaylorMcNallie: The police love removing organizers from the streets, not realizing we are constantly building community behind the sce…
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Dominic Tarason@DominicTarason
4 Nov 2023
For those who haven't been keeping up with Caves Of Qud, look at that second feature. Late-game gets *wild*.
Caves of Qud 1.0 out now!@cavesofqud
4 Nov 2023
Feature Friday! store.steampowered.com/news/…
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Michele Rosenthal@dialmformichele
27 Oct 2023
It's such a powerful statement for these Jewish organizations to be demonstrating on Shabbat. "We will not rest" in this context means "the situation is so dire it requires breaking one of our most holy commandments." ❤️
IfNotNow🔥✡️
@IfNotNowOrg
27 Oct 2023
Replying to @IfNotNowOrg
BREAKING: NYPD have come to disperse the crowd and silence our voices but we’re only getting louder. We will not rest until we get a ceasefire, safe return of hostages, and an end to the siege on Gaza. Countless lives are at stake. @jvplive
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Roguelike Celebration@roguelike_con
21 Oct 2023
Tonight we gathered at the obelisk and spoke of eels. ...you know, just your typical conference pre-party. The space opens again around 9:00 am Pacific time and talks begin around 9:30 am. See(l) you soon!
A screenshot of the Map Obelisk room with over 20 users in it. Chat transcript: MC-Alexei: need a snack? eels. need a rope? eels. need a friend? eels! what can't they do kevingranade: stay still Adam-Nelson: walk jaycie: walk

ALT A screenshot of the Map Obelisk room with over 20 users in it. Chat transcript: MC-Alexei: need a snack? eels. need a rope? eels. need a friend? eels! what can't they do kevingranade: stay still Adam-Nelson: walk jaycie: walk
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Roguelike Celebration@roguelike_con
16 Oct 2023
Roguelike Celebration is an online event of talks about roguelike development, history, and community (and procedural generation, and related things). It takes place in a bespoke MUD, and it's happening THIS WEEKEND! Tickets are pay what you want, check the replies for a link 🎟️
A screenshot of the MUD during a previous year's talk from a user named Cursed-Recruiter.

ALT A screenshot of the MUD during a previous year's talk from a user named Cursed-Recruiter.

An ASCII map of this year's social space, in monochrome green. It looks like a shopping mall.

ALT An ASCII map of this year's social space, in monochrome green. It looks like a shopping mall.

screenshot from previous year's MUD chat. user ch00beh says: ok so far what we have learned today: book is roguelike, tarkovsky is roguelike, artifact is roguelike, spreadsheet is roguelike, beethoven is roguelike, orange is environmental storytelling, streaming is roguelike, documentation is roguelike, and wiki is roguelike

ALT screenshot from previous year's MUD chat. user ch00beh says: ok so far what we have learned today: book is roguelike, tarkovsky is roguelike, artifact is roguelike, spreadsheet is roguelike, beethoven is roguelike, orange is environmental storytelling, streaming is roguelike, documentation is roguelike, and wiki is roguelike

A screenshot of a previous year's talk. Slashie is on the left and small, and the title slide is large on the right. It says "Celebrating Moria, the first roguelike*".

ALT A screenshot of a previous year's talk. Slashie is on the left and small, and the title slide is large on the right. It says "Celebrating Moria, the first roguelike*".

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Roguelike Celebration@roguelike_con
4 Oct 2023
In Nethack, playing on a Friday the 13th gives you a luck penalty. Playing when it's a new moon leads to a few interesting mechanical changes. Friday after next is both October 13 *and* a new moon! Are you gonna show off your Nethack skills on this spooooky rare day?
A wiki page. "Nethack knows when it is Friday the 13th, and decreases your base Luck by one accordingly. The game gives a warning message: "Watch out! Bad things can happen on Friday the 13th" If Friday the 13th happens to be a full moon, the modifiers to base Luck will cancel each other out. Between 1995 and 2025, Friday the 13th has occurred or will occur during (Nethack's definition of) a new or full moon on the following days: September 13, 1996 (new); February 13, 1998 (full); March 13, 1998 (full); August 13, 1999 (new), October 13, 2000 (full); June 13, 2003 (full); March 13, 2009 (full);, June 13, 2014 (full); November 13, 2015 (new); January 13, 2017 (full); July 13, 2018 (new); September 13, 2019 (full); October 13, 2023 (new); June 13, 2025 (full)

ALT A wiki page. "Nethack knows when it is Friday the 13th, and decreases your base Luck by one accordingly. The game gives a warning message: "Watch out! Bad things can happen on Friday the 13th" If Friday the 13th happens to be a full moon, the modifiers to base Luck will cancel each other out. Between 1995 and 2025, Friday the 13th has occurred or will occur during (Nethack's definition of) a new or full moon on the following days: September 13, 1996 (new); February 13, 1998 (full); March 13, 1998 (full); August 13, 1999 (new), October 13, 2000 (full); June 13, 2003 (full); March 13, 2009 (full);, June 13, 2014 (full); November 13, 2015 (new); January 13, 2017 (full); July 13, 2018 (new); September 13, 2019 (full); October 13, 2023 (new); June 13, 2025 (full)

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I’m going to be live in a half hour for our #RoguelikeCelebration sneak preview, grab a free ticket to check out this year’s social space and some great talks about Diablo, Against the Storm, and taking inspiration from theatre in dynamic narrative!
Roguelike Celebration@roguelike_con
4 Sep 2023
Replying to @roguelike_con
And don't forget, our preview event is on Sunday, with even more exciting speakers! ti.to/roguelike-celebration/…
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Dr Kate Compton@GalaxyKate
4 Sep 2023
Roguelike Celebration's schedule is just as perfect and full and absurd as always. Things that are Roguelikes 2023: Oregon Trail, McMansions, Love Island, Sudoku roguelike.club/event2023.htm…

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My biggest problem playing BG3 is thinking “damn, I wish I worked on this” - and only now have I connected the dots that actually, one of the most complete publicly-viewable games of my career IS a BG game… Sword Coast High, an officially sanctioned high school AU dating game 😅
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