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Hello guys! I'm making a java based roguelike, called mirkwood.  Many of you know what a roguelike is, if not, read this excerpt from my website:

The typical roguelike's mechanics are based around the player traveling through a vertical dungeon, wiSth the goal of reaching the bottom, and usually collecting an item.  Finally, the play ascends to the top.  The dungeon is typically randomly generated.  Combat and movement is turn based, so the player must move for enemies to move.  Another popular aspect is simple, usually ASCII graphics (a player is shown as an @, and orc as an o, and a goblin as a g.)


Now this game is unlike most roguelikes.  As opposed to generating a completely random set of dungeons, mirkwood simply generates a huge overland map.  The players goal is to hunt down Thendil, an elf corrupted by an evil energy sent throughout Middle Earth after the defeat of Sauron.  Sounds easy enough.  There is a twist though.  Since the game is built completely on one level, that means the player doesn't encounter harder monsters as they descend.  Instead, the player is stuck fighting anything from a weak rat to a giant red dragon or even the elusive Mirkwood Monster from the beginning of the game.  Of course, if they player has their luck about them, they could just happen to find the right monsters and items at the same time, and possibly even evade an encounter (could there be a secret luck ability hidden in the coding of the game? I don't know, that's part of the mystery.) 

The game can be pretty fun, it generates a completely random world map, 600 by 200 tiles.  This means to traverse every square, the player would take 120000 turns (of course they would starve long before this.) 

Anybody find this interesting?