bhauth - What makes Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup a good game?

This talk is from the 2020 virtual Roguelike Celebration:
https://roguelike.club/event2020.html

bhauth is the developer for bcrawl, a fork of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup which is currently played about 4% as much. He's also one of the better DCSS players, with a 20-streak of tournament game wins as well as 2 wins in 2 hours. He has been interested in game design and procedural generation for a long time. As a child, he designed questionable board games, and more recently he made a program that automatically generates music. He's worked as a programmer, chemical engineering consultant, and tutor.

In this talk he discusses his view of:
- Why DCSS is worth playing
- What the core mechanics of DCSS are
- How those mechanics are similar to or different from other genres and other roguelikes

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup: https://crawl.develz.org/
bcrawl: https://github.com/b-crawl/bcrawl

(This is a reupload to reflect the correct version of the video played during the event.)