@Play

@Play is a "monthly column by John Harris which discusses the history, present and future of the Roguelike dungeon exploring genre." It is published on Gamesetwatch.com, with archives of all the site's posts available here, and some more recent articles published on @Play Collected. The articles so far are:

#	Title	Date	Summary
1.	An Introduction To Some Rogue-s	August 6, 2006	An introduction to the roguelike genre.
2.	What the hell does Q do again?	August 20, 2006	A summary of the keys.
3.	Rogue and its Inspiration	September 3, 2006	A view on the original roguelike game, Rogue.
4.	Giant Eel Stories, Volume 1	September 18, 2006	Interesting stories of NetHack ascensions posted on rec.games.roguelike.nethack.
5.	Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Blue & Red Rescue Team	October 2, 2006	Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team and Red Rescue Team.
6.	ToeJam & Earl, The Roguelike That's Not An RPG	October 15, 2006	ToeJam & Earl.
7.	Thou Art Early, But We'll Admit Thee	October 29, 2006	The many ways to die in NetHack.
8.	A View of the Field	November 13, 2006	NetHack, Ancient Domains of Mystery (ADOM), and Linley's Dungeon Crawl.
9.	Hack Hacks	November 27, 2006	NetHack patches.
10.	A Coward Dies A Thousand Deaths, My Computer, Several Billion	December 10, 2006	Rog-O-Matic & Borg, the automatic roguelike player bots.
11.	I Never Meta Rogue I Didn't Like	December 25, 2006	Metagame elements, or How the match may continue between the games.
12.	Giant Eel Stories, Volume 2	January 8, 2007	Interesting stories of NetHack ascensions posted on rec.games.roguelike.nethack.
13.	Mapping the Infinite Cavern	January 22, 2007	Dungeon generation algorithms.
14.	ADOM, Nethack With A Goatee	February 6, 2007	Ancient Domains of Mystery (ADOM).
15.	Tips For Travel In Gridland	February 19, 2007	Moving safely in the grid of any roguelike.
16.	Before Learning to Walk, One Must First Crawl	March 6, 2007	Linley's Dungeon Crawl.
17.	I Believe It Not!	March 20, 2007	The funny features of NetHack.
18.	Storytelling, Bah!	April 2, 2007	The declining state of storytelling and interactivity in gaming.
19.	Doom, doom, doom, doom	April 16, 2007	DoomRL.
20.	Hack's Lost Brother	May 8, 2007	HackLite.
21.	Things to Do While Visiting Ancardia	May 22, 2007	ADOM quests.
22.	Spoiled for Options	June 5, 2007	Wishing and knowing what to wish for.
23.	Architecture of the Mystery Dungeon	June 27, 2007	The Mysterious Dungeon series.
24.	Taloon's Mystery Dungeon, In Great Detail	July 9, 2007	Taloon's Mystery Dungeon.
25.	A Journey to Table Mountain, Part 1	July 24, 2007	Shiren the Wanderer.
26.	A Journey to Table Mountain, Part 2	August 7, 2007	Shiren the Wanderer.
27.	Fei's Problems	August 21, 2007	Shiren the Wanderer.
28.	Balancing a game that looks balanceless	September 6, 2007	The game balance of NetHack.
29.	7DRL: Seven Day Quest	September 24, 2007	The Seven Day Quest.
30.	Starting Out In POWDER, Or 'Beware The Kiwi Bird, My Son'	October 9, 2007	POWDER.
31.	Homebrew Roguelikes On The DS	November 7, 2007	Playing homebrew roguelikes on the Nintendo DS.
32.	A Quick Look at the Nethack Sources	December 15, 2007	The source code of NetHack.
33.	Angband - At Last!	January 19, 2008	Angband.
34.	Nethack Intensified	March 9, 2008	SLASH'EM.
35.	The Delights Of Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer DS	March 28, 2008	Shiren the Wanderer (the DS version).
36.	Larn, Or, I Hocked The Car To Buy A Lance Of Death	April 26, 2008	Larn.
37.	Roguelikes And OD&D	May 16, 2008	The origin of roguelikes: Dungeons & Dragons.
38.	Towards Building a Better Dungeon	June 2, 2008	A comparison between roguelikes and Dungeons & Dragons.
39.	Super-Rogue, Banished to the Deeper Regions	June 20, 2008	The lost roguelikes and the restoration of Super-Rogue.
40.	Izuna, Legend of the Roguelike Ninja	July 1, 2008	Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja.
41.	Brought to You Today by the Letter....	July 18, 2008	The limitation of representing monsters as letters.
42.	Modeling Motion on a Dungeon Grid	August 4, 2008	Timing and speed in roguelikes.
43.	Eye of the Vulture	August 28, 2008	Vulture's.
44.	Phenomedom, Da Dee, Da-Dee-Dee	October 2, 2008	Legerdemain.
45.	Much About Monstania	October 21, 2008	Monstania.
46.	Ten Years Of The devnull Nethack Tournament, Part 1	October 31, 2008	/dev/null/nethack tournament.
47.	Ten Years Of the devnull Nethack Tournament, Part 2	November 3, 2008	/dev/null/nethack tournament; interview with the organizers.
48.	Objects of Collection	December 3, 2008	Different types of items in roguelikes.
49.	Cause For Incursion	January 2, 2009	Incursion.
50.	Spelunk, Spelunk, Spelunk	February 6, 2009	Spelunky.
51.	XRogue Has Not Yet Ceased To Be	March 8, 2009	Advanced Rogue and XRogue.
52.	2009 7DRL Winners, Part One	April 2, 2009	7DRL Contest 2009.
53.	2009 7DRL Winners, Part Two	April 21, 2009	7DRL Contest 2009.
54.	How To Win At Nethack	May 6, 2009	NetHack strategies.
55.	The Rights to Rogue	May 14, 2009	A brief history of roguelikes and licensing.
56.	2009 7DRL Winners, Part Three	June 3, 2009	7DRL Contest 2009.
57.	Fatal Labyrinth, or, "LOOK! A PIT!"	June 26, 2009	Fatal Labyrinth.
58.	Introducing Sporkhack and UnNethack	July 3, 2009	Two NetHack variants that address game balance issues: SporkHack and UnNetHack.
59.	The Python Strikes! You Are Being Squeezed!	July 27, 2009	The Python programming language and its use in roguelike development.
60.	Q&A with Keith Burgun of iPhone Roguelike "100 Rogues"	August 5, 2009	Interview with Keith Burgun, the lead designer of 100 Rogues.
61.	A Date With Asuka	August 28, 2009	Fushigi no Dungeon: Furai no Shiren Gaiden: Jokenji Asuka Kenzan!.
62.	Item Design, Part 1: Potions and Scrolls	October 25, 2009	Disposable (i.e. one-use) items.
63.	Dreamforge's Dungeon Hack	November 25, 2009	Dungeon Hack.
64.	The Berlin Interpretation	December 18, 2009	What makes a game a roguelike?
65.	Crawlapalooza Part 1, Skills and Advancement	January 15, 2010	Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup (the successor to Linley's Dungeon Crawl).
66.	Crawlapalooza Part 2: What's With All These Skills, Anyway?	February 4, 2010	Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.
67.	Crawlapalooza, Part 3: Beogh Liturgical School For Orcs	February 18, 2010	Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.
68.	Crawlapalooza, Part 4: Travel Functions & Play Aids	March 3, 2010	Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.
69.	Wii-ren the Wanderer	March 24, 2010	Shiren the Wanderer (the Wii version).
70.	Enjoy A Coffee Break Of Victory With Desktop Dungeons	April 7, 2010	Desktop Dungeons.
71.	Purposes for Randomization in Game Design	May 12, 2010	Randomization of game elements.
72.	Chocobo's Dungeon for Wii	May 29, 2010	Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon.
73.	Introducing Mayflight - Using Roguelike Design Lessons in a Non-Roguelike	September 2, 2010	Mayflight (a game made by John Harris, the author of @Play).
74.	The Implementation Specifics Of Mayflight	September 20, 2010	Mayflight.
75.	Sprinting Rapidly Through The Dungeon	October 13, 2010	Dungeon Sprint (a variant of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup).
76.	Check And Mate	November 11, 2010	On roguelike design issues.
77.	The Eight Rules of Roguelike Design	January 22, 2011	What properties a roguelike should have.
78.	Excerpts from a Roguelike Encyclopedia, Part 1	March 20, 2011	Several articles from a general encyclopedia of roguelikes.
79.	The Re-return of ToeJam & Earl	February 27, 2015	ToeJam & Earl and its sequels, revisited for its Kickstarter campaign.
80.	Welcome back to the Dungeons of Doom	March 11, 2015	Discussion of the definition of a Roguelike.
81.	Rogue's Item ID in Too Much Yet Not Enough Detail	April 26, 2015	Rogue's Item Identification system.
82.	The Talks of the International Roguelike Developers Conference US, 2015	June 30, 2015	TBA
83.	HyperRogue	February 11, 2016	TBA
84.	The Rescue of Meta-Zelda	March 8, 2016	TBA
85.	A Talk with Digital Eel, Makers of the Infinite Space Games	March 19, 2016	TBA
86.	Interview with Dr. Thomas Biskup, Creator of ADOM	July 10, 2018	TBA