The compo starts at 2AM here, so I’ll be waking up early in the morning to start coding – I’m planning on trying a second time to do a roguelike, last time I entered I got distracted by too many things over the weekend to get it to a decent state.

When I say roguelike, I’m thinking of a very traditional one, turn based with ascii graphics.

An example of this kind of game would be one of my favorite all time games ever – ADOM.
http://www.adom.de/home/downloads.html

Scroll down to the ascii version.

So, a proper oldschool roguelike, in the browser – I’ve found that far more people will play a game if its just a simple link to click and everything works in the browser.

Tools:
HTML5 / Javascript
Eclipse
Tiled for designing the levels

That’s all you really need – I’ll implement a save system at the end, if I get the main game working properly, which would require a bit of PHP and MySQL – nothing terribly fancy.

Good luck everybody, have fun, and remember – keep it simple.