{"id":14580,"date":"2011-10-10T10:11:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T08:11:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"pc-gamer-reviews-local-desktop-dungeons-beta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/14580-pc-gamer-reviews-local-desktop-dungeons-beta","title":{"rendered":"PC Gamer reviews local Desktop Dungeons beta"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve been following<\/a> the locally developed roguelike Desktop Dungeons since its humble beginnings, right through to it winning a design award at IGF<\/a> 2011, where it managed to beat out the likes of Minecraft, Faraway and Super Crate Box.<\/p>\n

Developers QCF Design took home a prize purse of US$2500 (±R17,260), after famously taking to the stage to accept the award and saying “We kind of didn’t write a speech because of Minecraft.”<\/p>\n

The game was also nominated for the Seumas McNally Grand Prize, but ultimately Minecraft came out on top in that category.<\/p>\n

Although the game has been wildly praised through its beta stages, it has yet to be released, and is scheduled to become available on 17 October.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, the first official review of the game has been published by heavy weight online rag PC Gamer, who loved it, calling it “Bite-sized, colourful chunks of randomly generated adventure,” and “the perfect casual roguelike experience.”<\/p>\n

PC Gamer awarded the game 81\/100. Be sure to check out the full review here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Desktop Dungeons was also featured at E3 earlier this year. When talking about appearing at the expo, QCF’s Rodain Joubert said “The news kinda snuck up on us, but in a good way. Like a mugger who wants to bludgeon you with a wiffle bat. Except that the wiffle bat is made of delicious chocolate. And the mugger’s actually IndieCade.”<\/p>\n

You can pre-order Desktop Dungeons here<\/a> for $10 (R80).<\/p>\n

PC Gamer reviews local Desktop Dungeons beta<\/a><\/strong> << Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

QCF's roguelike impresses with a score of 81\/100 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}