# tmewett/BrogueCE

Brogue: Community Edition - a community-lead fork of the much-loved minimalist roguelike game

Repository: https://github.com/tmewett/BrogueCE
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/broguece
Homepage: https://sites.google.com/site/broguegame/
Language: C
License: AGPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: brogue, game, roguelike, dungeon
Last push: 2026-08-05T12:06:37+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 88/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 96, release rhythm 70, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2557, "days_push": 28, "days_rel": 202, "gap_med": 3, "n_releases_24m": 2}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1446, forks 163 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:45.229689+00:00)

## What it is
Brogue: Community Edition is a community-maintained fork of the minimalist roguelike game Brogue, written in C. It features randomly generated dungeons where players descend 26 levels to retrieve the Amulet of Yendor, with graphical tiles and cross-platform releases.

## Use cases
- play a minimalist roguelike game
- find an open-source dungeon crawler for Linux, Mac, or Windows
- download a turn-based procedurally generated dungeon game
- continue playing Brogue with community bugfixes and enhancements
- build a roguelike game from C source code
- find a lightweight single-player strategy game

## When to choose
- you want a polished, actively maintained minimalist roguelike
- you prefer elegant, tactical gameplay over complex interfaces
- you need a game that runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows
- you want graphical tiles with an option for ASCII mode

## When to avoid
- you want real-time action or multiplayer gameplay
- you prefer graphics-heavy modern games
- you need a mobile version (only via a separate third-party Android port)

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: game, graphics
- domain: gaming-tools, entertainment, cross-platform
- platform: windows, cpp, c
- tags: roguelike, dungeon-crawler, sdl2, procedural-generation, turn-based, single-player, community-edition, game-development, linux, macos, desktop

## Member repositories
- tmewett/BrogueCE (main) score 88

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:45.229689+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:36:11.587379+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/tmewett/BrogueCE (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:45.229689+00:00, sha 1f0bdbcd365d)
  - homepage: https://sites.google.com/site/broguegame/ (fetched 2026-08-29T11:46:00.279819+00:00, sha fc125a7891e8)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.