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2025

Year 12 of the Cogmindoriginal ↗
18 Dec 2025
Designing for Mastery in Roguelikes (w/Roguelike Radio)original ↗
7 Aug 2025

2024

Year 11 of the Cogmindoriginal ↗
20 Dec 2024
Multitile Actors, Revisitedoriginal ↗
3 Sept 2024
Full UI Upscaling, Part 5: Completion and Demosoriginal ↗
23 Feb 2024
Adventures in Map Zooming, Part 5: QoLoriginal ↗
11 Feb 2024
Full UI Upscaling, Part 4: Simpler Lightweight Fontsoriginal ↗
19 Jan 2024
Full UI Upscaling, Part 3: Dynamic Terminal Swappingoriginal ↗
12 Jan 2024
Full UI Upscaling, Part 2: Holy Mockups!original ↗
5 Jan 2024
Full UI Upscaling, Part 1: History and Theoryoriginal ↗
2 Jan 2024

2023

Year 10 of the Cogmindoriginal ↗
22 Dec 2023
Adventures in Map Zooming, Part 4: Polishingoriginal ↗
12 Dec 2023
Adventures in Map Zooming, Part 3: Implementationoriginal ↗
7 Dec 2023
Adventures in Map Zooming, Part 2: Engine-level Architectureoriginal ↗
2 Dec 2023
Adventures in Map Zooming, Part 1: Realtime Image Scalingoriginal ↗
29 Nov 2023
Experimenting with Drone PIPoriginal ↗
25 Nov 2023
Projectile Deflectionoriginal ↗
23 Nov 2023
A Simple Approach to Player-Designed Robotsoriginal ↗
21 Nov 2023
Special Events Give Back, and Perfect Stealthoriginal ↗
19 Nov 2023
Teleportation Mechanicsoriginal ↗
17 Nov 2023
“Post-Balance” Cogmind Item Expansionoriginal ↗
15 Nov 2023
Roguelike-Discord Integration Using Webhooksoriginal ↗
30 Jun 2023
Writing about Cogmind and Roguelikes, a Historyoriginal ↗
28 Apr 2023
Cogmind Beta 11 Player Statsoriginal ↗
21 Mar 2023
Special Mode Design, Polymind Part 2: Players, Stats, and the Futureoriginal ↗
7 Feb 2023
Special Mode Design, Polymind Part 1: Architecture, Features, and Balanceoriginal ↗
28 Jan 2023

2022

Year 9 of the Cogmindoriginal ↗
4 Dec 2022
On Backtracking in Roguelikesoriginal ↗
29 Nov 2022
The Scrap Engineoriginal ↗
2 Oct 2022
Item Variants and Randomization in Roguelikesoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2022
Garrisons 2.0original ↗
18 Jul 2022
Kyzrati’s Game Design Philosophyoriginal ↗
8 May 2022
Rebalancing Cogmindoriginal ↗
10 Mar 2022
Special Commands Menu Designoriginal ↗
9 Mar 2022

2021

Maps Between Maps, and DSFsoriginal ↗
10 Dec 2021
Year 8 of the Cogmindoriginal ↗
4 Dec 2021
Design Overhaul 4: Fabrication 2.0original ↗
15 Nov 2021
Map Comments and Log Notesoriginal ↗
12 Nov 2021
Spicing Up Primary Maps 2: Area Denialoriginal ↗
27 Sept 2021
Spicing Up Primary Maps 1: Cargo Convoysoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2021
Extreme Infowar: Active Sensor Suiteoriginal ↗
2 Aug 2021
“Desire Paths” for a Robot Worldoriginal ↗
22 Jul 2021
Design Overhaul 3: Damage Types and Criticalsoriginal ↗
17 May 2021
Design Overhaul 2: Propulsionoriginal ↗
22 Apr 2021
Design Overhaul 1: Capping Inventoryoriginal ↗
9 Apr 2021
Infowar Expandedoriginal ↗
26 Feb 2021
The Map Ruler (and other overlay QoL)original ↗
23 Feb 2021
Cogmind Beta 9 Player Statsoriginal ↗
9 Jan 2021

2020

Item Searching and Filteringoriginal ↗
27 Dec 2020
Cogmind 2020 ARG Walkthroughoriginal ↗
22 Dec 2020
Cogmind 2020 ARG Post-mortemoriginal ↗
9 Dec 2020
Year 7 of the Cogmindoriginal ↗
4 Dec 2020
Exploring the Concept of a Terminal Roguelike “Overmap”original ↗
9 Nov 2020
Audio Accessibility Features for Roguelikesoriginal ↗
30 Jun 2020
Building Cogmind’s Ambient Soundscapeoriginal ↗
14 Jun 2020
My Cogmind Dev Toolsoriginal ↗
11 May 2020
Developing Multitile Creatures in Roguelikesoriginal ↗
7 Apr 2020
Special Mode Design: Battle Royaleoriginal ↗
3 Mar 2020
What is a Traditional Roguelike?original ↗
12 Feb 2020
Special Mode Design: RPGLIKEoriginal ↗
6 Jan 2020

2019

Leaderboards and Player Stats with Protobufsoriginal ↗
26 Dec 2019
Leaderboards and Player Stats: The Old Wayoriginal ↗
10 Dec 2019
Year 6 of the Cogmindoriginal ↗
3 Dec 2019
Movement QoLoriginal ↗
26 Nov 2019
Steam Rich Presenceoriginal ↗
11 Nov 2019
Special Mode Design: Abominationsoriginal ↗
26 Oct 2019
Siege Tread Mechanicsoriginal ↗
30 Sept 2019
Sorry macOS users, but Apple has gone too far for some of us devsoriginal ↗
29 Sept 2019
Quicksaving and Restore Pointsoriginal ↗
27 Sept 2019
Rebranding Difficulty Modesoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2019
Building the Ultimate Roguelike Morgue File, Part 4: History Loggingoriginal ↗
27 Aug 2019
Building the Ultimate Roguelike Morgue File, Part 3: Mid-run Stat Dumpsoriginal ↗
2 Aug 2019
Building the Ultimate Roguelike Morgue File, Part 2: ASCII Mapsoriginal ↗
17 Jul 2019
Building the Ultimate Roguelike Morgue File, Part 1: Stats and Organizationoriginal ↗
3 Jul 2019
Robot Hacking: Upgradesoriginal ↗
12 Jun 2019
Special Game Modes in a Roguelike Contextoriginal ↗
28 May 2019
Turn Time Systemsoriginal ↗
23 Apr 2019
Roguelike Level Design Addendum: Static or Procedural?original ↗
28 Mar 2019
Kyzrati is on Patreonoriginal ↗
11 Mar 2019
Roguelike Level Design Addendum: Procedural Layoutsoriginal ↗
6 Mar 2019
Level Design and Shaping a Cogmind Experienceoriginal ↗
18 Feb 2019

2018

Year 5 of the Cogmindoriginal ↗
4 Dec 2018
Debugging Mapgen Seed Divergenceoriginal ↗
14 Nov 2018
How to Make a Roguelikeoriginal ↗
24 Oct 2018
Roguelike Celebration 2018, the Experienceoriginal ↗
12 Oct 2018
65 Robot Hacksoriginal ↗
15 Aug 2018
Robot Hacking, Take 2original ↗
13 Jul 2018
Achievements UI: Design and Implementationoriginal ↗
21 May 2018
Achievementsoriginal ↗
4 May 2018
2018 7DRL Postmortem, Part 4: Finishing Touchesoriginal ↗
29 Mar 2018
2018 7DRL Postmortem, Part 3: Spending Too Long on Map Generation and Contentoriginal ↗
26 Mar 2018
2018 7DRL Postmortem, Part 2: First Days with UI, Aesthetics, and Mechanicsoriginal ↗
23 Mar 2018
2018 7DRL Postmortem, Part 1: Preparationoriginal ↗
21 Mar 2018
POLYBOT-7, a 2018 7DRLoriginal ↗
12 Mar 2018
Color Customizationoriginal ↗
10 Jan 2018

2017

Player Metrics: Stats and Preferences on and off Steamoriginal ↗
29 Dec 2017
Year 4 of the Cogmindoriginal ↗
12 Dec 2017
Data and Insights from a Month on Steamoriginal ↗
20 Nov 2017
Cogmind Released on Steamoriginal ↗
17 Oct 2017
Prepping for Steamoriginal ↗
3 Oct 2017
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