[DM-dev] brilliant :)

[Stephan B. <ste...@ei...>]

Dr. Henningsen,

It's brilliant :). A couple of month ago I started pouring through old=20
Nethack and Moria source code in an attempt to find some code for=20
Dungeon generation, which I would like as a plugin for QUB: the Q=20
Universal Boardgame (http://qub.sourceforge.net). That code is so=20
ancient and ill-organized that it's too much work to deal with, though.=20
Two minutes with DM and I've found it! I love that you've made the=20
output simple text. I'll be making a Perl script which takes that input=20
and makes a graphical representation of it (via HTML and <img> hrefs).=20
I'll post it to the list as soon as I'm done. I have a huge collection=20
of graphics from Nethack which can easily be used for the=20
wall/floor/column graphics. If you would be interested in thinking=20
about doing some XML output, I would be happy to help with that.=20

Something simple like:
<Dungeon>
 =20
  <floorsquare>
=09  <pos>#,#</pos>
=09  <img>filename</img>
=09  <type>some type of type info (fire, North Wall, NW corner,=20
etc.)</type>
=09  <notes>arbitrary user notes (could be implemented
as hoverhelp in a graphical client)</notes>
  </floorsquare>
  <floorsquare>
=2E..
  </floorsquare>
=2E..
</Dungeon>

That's off the top of my head, anyway. Of course it's nowhere near as=20
lightweight as text, but perhaps it would have some usefulness in=20
feeding 3rd-party apps (I can imagine a DungeonMaker server on the=20
internet, which sends XML output on request. Might have uses for any=20
number of dungeon-crawling games).

Take care, and thanks for DungeonMaker!

:)

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