Ever wanted to write your own roguelike game?

	Imagine! Building your own world, stocked with weird and 
wonderful creatures, mad wizards and terrifying dragons. Your intrepid
hero stood alone to face all kinds of adversity. 

	Imagine! Producing a game that others will find hours of 
enjoyment locked within. A game that provides them with a new 
challenge every time they play, that'll have them tearing their hair
out and begging others for clues. A game that they may eventually
conquer and brag about ceaselessly to a group of fellow addicts.

	Imagine! The mind-crushing bugs! The public baying for fixes,
the next version and this really cool idea featuring living-dead
spatulas to be implemented. Hounded to ignore your education, your
family and your friends just to work on this abhorrent creation...
Hang on, let me start again...

	Ever wanted to write your own roguelike game?

	Well... No-one ever said it was going to be easy...


	Topics.

	What the Development pages aim to do is give you a helping hand.
The list of topics cover some basic design problems you may come across
while developing a roguelike game. The hope is to provide you with the
experience of several different designers/programmers who have already
beaten their heads against stone walls to reach a working solution.


	Help Wanted/Offered.

	If you need some direct one-on-one assistance or think you could
help out someone working on a game, the help wanted/offered pages are
where you should go.

	There are several ways in which you can help out to build the 
development pages into a useful tool for all Roguelike designers out
there.

	As always, you can contact me at rogue@skoardy.demon.co.uk


	Write an article to cover a listed topic.

	Is there an area on the topic list that you think you could 
write about? If you think you know enough about a topic to be of
help to anyone designing/writing a Roguelike game, please get in 
touch.


	Write an article to an already covered topic.

	Do you think you can offer an alternate solution to a covered
topic? We're interested in those too.


	Suggest a topic.

	If there is an area of Roguelike development that you think 
should be on the topics list but isn't, suggest it. It may just 
encourage someone enough to write an article on that topic. As well
as helping yourself, you'd be helping others.


	Volunteer for Help Offered.

	Want to be responsible for helping someone out in more
ground-level kind of way? Send me a note of which area you think
you can help out in and I'll add it to the page.