Roguelike Celebration: 2025

Celebrate the rich history and inspiring future of roguelikes with streamed talks and more in our own custom-built roguelike social space!

Roguelike games have been part of gaming culture for over 30 years and they have a deep and special place in our hearts. Over the last six years hundreds of roguelike fans got together to celebrate these games and their rich history and now we're ready to do it again - virtually! We loved getting together and celebrating - so this year we're holding a two day conference to get as many roguelike fans as we can into one virtual place.

Once again, we’re hosting this year’s conference in our own custom game chat space. All you’ll need to attend Roguelike Celebration is a web browser!

If you didn't attend last year's event you can read all about it on our website.

The conference will take place on October 25 and 26 virtually. Times listed on this page are in Pacific Daylight Time (UTC -7:00.)

All talks will be live-streamed on Twitch and YouTube Live; a ticket gets you additional access to our custom social space! Speaker Q&A, breakout rooms, and unconferencing happen exclusively in the social space.

Full schedule and speaker information iwll be released soon our website!

Tickets Prices in USD

Schedule

October 25th, 2025

9:00am – 7:00pm PDT
Saturday Talks
Type Start Time (PST) Title Speaker(s)
social 09:00 AM social space opens
kickoff 09:15 AM kickoff
full 09:30 AM The Roots of Roguelikes in Fantasy Fiction Michael Brough
full 10:00 AM Mixing hand-crafted content with procgen to achieve quality Sébastien "deepnight" Benard
lightning 10:30 AM Stuff: the behavioral science of inventory Max Sahin
lightning 10:45 AM Roll for Reminiscence: Procedural Keepsake Games Florence Smith Nicholls
social 11:00 AM social time
full 11:30 AM Hoist the colours! Art direction and tech art in Sea Of Rifts, a naval story generation RPG Alex Birke, Sofie Schmidt
full 12:00 PM From Code to Craft: Procedural Generation for the Physical World bleeptrack
full 12:30 PM The best genre for a non-Euclidean game Zeno Rogue
social 01:00 PM social time
full 01:30 PM Play as Procedural Generation: Oath as a Roguelike Strategy Game Cole Wehrle
full 02:00 PM Teaching Long Term Consequences in Games Jeff Lait
social 02:30 PM social time
lightning 03:00 PM A Mythopoetic Interface Reading of Caves of Qud Ray
lightning 03:15 PM Wait, No, Hear Me Out: Simulating Encounter AI in Slay the Spire with SQL Johnathan Pagnutti
full 03:30 PM Robot Karaoke Goes Electric Jamie Brew
social 04:00 PM social time
full 04:30 PM Planning and Replanning Structured Adaptive Stories: 25 Years of History Stephen G. Ware
lightning 05:00 PM Scrubbin' Trubble: The Journey to Multiplayer Roguelikery Tyriq Plummer
lightning 05:15 PM Roguelike Radio 2011-present Andrew Doull
social 05:30 PM social time
unconferencing 06:00 PM unconferencing
social 07:00 PM social space closes

October 26th, 2025

9:00am – 7:00pm PDT
Sunday talks
Type Start Time (PST) Title Speaker(s)
social 09:00 AM social space opens
kickoff 09:15 AM kickoff
lightning 09:30 AM Scaling the Ivory Tower Kestrel
lightning 09:45 AM Dyke sex and ennui: Generating unending narrative in 'Kiss Garden' Ada Null
full 10:00 AM We Are Maxwell's Demons: The Thermodynamics of Procedural Generators Younès Rabii
lightning 10:30 AM The Procedurality of Reality TV Design - An Overview. Dennis Greger
social 10:45 AM social time
unconferencing 11:15 AM unconferencing
social 12:15 PM social time
full 01:15 PM Picking up the Pieces: building story in a roguelike world Paul Dean
full 01:45 PM Hand-Crafted Randomness: Storytelling in Wildermyth's Proc-Gen World Patrick Belanger, Jackson Wagner
full 02:15 PM Music algorithm showcase Nifflas
social 02:45 PM social time
lightning 03:15 PM Building a Roguelike with a Tile Rewrite Language Seth Cooper
lightning 03:30 PM Anatomy of a Morgue File Quinten Konyn
lightning 03:45 PM Don’t Pick Just One: Set-Based Card Mechanics in Roguelike-Deckbuilders Alexander King
full 04:00 PM Playtesting Process for Ultra Small Teams Brian Cronin
social 04:30 PM social time
lightning 05:00 PM Sol LeWitt, Combinatorial Enumeration, and Rogue Mark Gritter
full 05:15 PM Luck be a Landlord - 10 Lessons Learned Dan DiIorio
full 05:45 PM The Form and Function of Weird Li'l Guys: Procedural Organism Generation in a Simulated Ecosystem Liza
social 06:15 PM social time
social 07:00 PM space closes