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Graduates’ Twitter-inspired videogame taking gaming world by storm

January 28, 2015Marie DanielsGames development / Students

A fantasy videogame designed by University of Lincoln graduates has been listed in the top 51 British games to look out for this year and could soon be released on one of the largest PC gaming marketplaces. In Hashtag Dungeon players can generate and share their own content via Twitter. Top videogame blog Kotaku UK…

Create your own dungeon with new roguelike

March 11, 2014Marie DanielsGames development / School news / Social media / Students

Developers from the University of Lincoln, UK, have created a new fantasy roguelike that allows players to generate their own content through Twitter. #Dungeon is a simple dungeon crawler, created from tweeting code tagged as #HashtagDungeon. Roguelike is a sub-genre of role-playing video games, characterized by random level generation, tile-based graphics and permanent death. Likened…