OT: The ambiance and setting (part 3)

[Omnirizon]

sorry for the terse answer

it will be a roguelike, but more in the tradition of maybe a game like Uncharted Waters or Ogre Battle, or UW fused with OB. Overland travel, trading if desired, battles maybe, but mostly just RPG stuff; encounters and items and character advancement stuff. Encounters are largely with other humanoids, and not an unecessarily large host of random monsters including lice, rabbits, and newts (but there will be troglodytes). Also like Uncharted Waters and Ogre Battle, I'd like the player to be able to have an entourage, and for overland battle to switch to a tactical screen (tactical screen will be more like typical roguelike battle); city and dungeon encounters will already be on this tactical level. I suppose sieges are possible, but current goal is to get a system and character creation and ONE city working.

Lastly, unlike a roguelike, it will not be tiles (or rather, pixels are treated like tiles), thus objects can occupy more than one tile. objects will probably just be circular masks (or tokens) with an alpha-numeric glyph on top, which is good because it allows sprites to be added later. maps and such will be either handpainted or built in tile-like fashion randomly or from text files.