Jeremiah Reid - Juice your Turns

This talk is about "juice" and game feel within traditional roguelikes. Juice is all about adding polish, feedback, tiny details, and love to a game. The talk will include a survey of the best examples of juicy roguelikes in the wild, break down some very easy to use techniques for adding juice, and talk about my journey from ignoring to embracing such techniques. As is tradition in this kind of talk, we will step through a demo of taking a static roguelike and adding polish to it until the end result feels like a completely different game.

[@fdagpigj]

For anyone considering adding these, remember accessibility and at the minimum add a setting to disable it. If you want to be extra nice you could expose the intensity of every individual feature.

[@kmatlockii]

I love all of these specific practical strategies (with examples). Great talk!

[@LonelyKnightess]

A fantastic example of roguelike juice is Soulash. Wonderful spell effects and a punchy UI make the game feel far better than it has any right to.

[@andrescolon]

Great talk! thank you for sharing these.

[@artursmiarowski8993]

Very inspirational, definitely gonna test some of them.

[@mthw]

Fantastic talk, thank you

[@sampson217]

That was awesome

[@acyanotypeguy1795]

These videos makes me want to become a programmer!!

[@jonathanlochridge9462]

That juicey game is funny and silly.

[@TheCLion]

what is that crazy looking game in the beginning of the presentation? great talk!!

[@epiphoney]

Brogue is unicode not ascii :p I want his juicy ascii game. Smallest Quest is supposed to be minimal & juicy.

[@ДаниилВалов-ж1э]

I think that Stoneshards has very juicy gameplay

[@matsf8268]

Brogue is great

[@themustardman6665]

Reload and restart art both R ;-;

[@JeremiahReid]

Woops! I had actually changed restart to be Escape but forgot to update the control text. It's fixed now.

[@AndrewKay]

Alternative title: how to make your game annoying for autistic players. I almost laughed out loud at 19:45 when you said "you might not always notice" screenshake - I don't get how anyone wouldn't notice it! I guess neurotypical people just have duller senses?
I'm mostly just teasing, I enjoyed the talk and I got some things out of it. Just, for people making games with these flashy, bouncy animations, please make sure there's a setting to disable them. Thanks!

[@milesrout]

It has nothing to do with being autistic, and no, normal people do not have 'duller senses'. Everyone notices this awful cartoony animation style. Every adult thinks "yeugh is this game for kids?"

[@tenhovergonha8739]

Some games gets us tired just by watching...