Cogmind & becoming a dev - Josh Ge
From the Roguelike Celebration: https://roguelike.club
From Hobbyist to Full-time Roguelike Developer: Tracing my route from before I even knew what a roguelike was to years of exploring the genre and community before setting out to create a grand and innovative roguelike with just the right mix of traditional and modern features to help guide the genre towards a more mainstream audience without losing anything that makes roguelikes great. For the past three and a half years, Josh Ge (aka Kyzrati) has been working on Cogmind, a sci-fi robot-building roguelike with a focus on audiovisual immersion and a combination of procedural and handmade content. Josh has spent years helping other developers in the community, writing articles about building roguelikes, and also created REXPaint, a widely-used ASCII art and roguelike development tool.