[DM-dev] TunnelCrawlers

[Henningsen <al...@gl...>]

I've been thinking some more about the TunnelCrawlers. It would have to be
done like this: use open/closed values like now, only flip meaning after the
Crawlers have done their work. The outside wall limiting the dungeon would
have to be of the wall-type that cannot be joined to, and later discarded.
We could still pre-place rooms that users must pass through, only we'd have
to position Crawlers in front of all the doors in order to get access. The
best thing: One could add a simple little option "build room", that would
cause the Crawler to create a random room with regular dimensions like you
expect to find in dungeons. The neccessary "Look"-function to check for open
space to build in is already there, it would be very simple.

The reason I went with Wall- instead of Tunnel-Crawlers was that I wanted
fairly open dungeons for alife entities to roam around in and hunt the
player. Rooms are just a nuisance for that. But I get the feeling that for
traditional dungeoncrawls with (basically) stationary monsters, the
tunneling approach would be preferable. Of course, all tunnels would be of
uniform width 1.

I don't really want to write this myself, but I'd support anyone who wanted to.

Peter