Gauging interest in a Dominions Roguelike...

[Murph]

I'd be interested in helping, but I can only assist w/art, game balance and concept/development, as I can't code to save my life. I'd be happy to weigh in at a later stage, though.

[Ed Kolis]

DUHHHHH!!!!!

I should just buy a copy of Shrapnel's very own homebrewn DUNGEON ODYSSEY game, and start from there! It's pretty close to being a roguelike... if you discount the realtime factor, but then maybe it's moddable to make it turn-based or at least pauseable realtime like SE5 is supposed to be, I really haven't looked into it much yet

(is "homebrewn" even a WORD? )

[Zooko]

I've hacked Dungeon Crawl a little, not because I liked the code (written in C, of medium quality), but because I like crawl's superior balance and more consistent flavor vs. alternatives such as nethack.

http://zooko.com/repos/

If you really want to write in C, then I recommend the crawl code base. For one thing, it is actively developed. However, I don't think you should write in C, but instead the Lua modding system of ToME (just from what you said about it -- I don't know anything else), or else just write your own in a nice language like Python or E.

[Ed Kolis]

Reviving dead topic...
No, I haven't revived DomBand (my name for this roguelike) - but instead I have started on a new roguelike: Dungeons of Relentless Killing, or DORK for short!
I started a thread about it over in the SE4/SE5 forum, seeing as that's a good place for off-topic discussions, and also posted on rec.games.roguelike.development...
DORK's magic system, though, will be based on Dominions' school/realm system; I'm not sure exactly how but it will. (In other words, I might have skill levels for the schools as well as for the realms, even though Dom2 doesn't, or I might do something different to simulate the research levels in the schools - perhaps the player will have to pay and wait for research to be conducted? - but there will definitely be some sort of "tech-grid" type of thing as it's known in SE4, just because it's more interesting than simple linear progressions )