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Stream-of-consciousness: What the hell is this? It's like Boy George from Space, I don't even -- wait, what the -- damn, I want those glasses.

I probably really don't want to know, but who's Bluepike?

Nevermind, just noticed that was supposed to be BlueSpike, and looked it up. Damnit.

Sonichu.com is one of those lovely places you faith in humanity can go to die.

Somehow it managed to suck several hours of my life from me. I'm convinced this is some kind of abomination created by eldritch horrors disguised as internet asshattery.

Is that a black KKK member holding up a very large shroom?

It's Pyramid Head draped in a black sheet about to get pwned by a gigantic water balloon.

Sadly, it doesn't exist. But if it did...

If you want to make this a roguelike, it's entirely doable. Lectorog brings up some points but most of them, as with any system, are solvable with a little bit of intuition.

- Using libtcod, you can use any console size very easily.
- The tile problem is just a problem of abstraction, and can be solved away using numerous methods. For a roguelike assassination game I actually don't think this would be terribly difficult. Yes, it's a detail-oriented game, but you don't have to include EVERY tiny little object in a house/apartment. Just the ones that matter and some other generic flavor items.
- Difficult to get into and boring if you suck at it? That's EVERY roguelike with permadeath. ;P My suggestion is to make permadeath optional, with either a score modifier or restricting an online score ladder to permadeath-only.
- Maybe it's just me, but creating hit personalities that would allow you to suspend disbelief about them does not sound as insanely difficult as some other things I think are completely possible within the bounds of procedural generation, but it actually sounds pretty damn fun.

Again though, some of those points are good, and creating any roguelike (and making it enjoyable) is undoubtedly challenging. I just wanted to offer you some counterpoints, though. If you had the motivation to write that giant text block down, go and start writing the game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIX0EBurrJg&feature=related

I *almost* feel sorry for that camel spider...

Well, someone posted 'spiderman.mp4' on that (awesome) dance, which got me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3abMUH_P1E

But, I honestly half-suspected that it would bring me to this ancient meme; I haven't thought about it for years, but it was around during my earlier days on the net:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk6omPlM8bw