I'm planning on making a roguelike heavily inspired by The Binding Of Isaac.

There's going to be a lot fewer items, which will be mostly limited to stat upgrades. There will also be a lot fewer enemies, bosses, etc. There just isn't enough memory, and even if there were I'm not willing to implement anywhere near as many as the original game has.

I think I have a decent scheme for representing the map, where I can store each room in only 2 bytes. However, I'm not quite sure how to approach generating the map in a way that resembles the labyrinthine nature of the original game. Any suggestions?

Here's a picture of the interface as it currently stands.

Edit: This is for the z80 series calcs.

Maybe you could have preset rooms, but selected via a random number...
So, if you have 13 room layouts, then each room could be assigned to a number? Not sure what calculator you're programming it for though.
Also, have a number stored to memory, and after, say, 3 rooms or so, it would put the entry to the next level in a room that you have not entered.
That eliminates the fact that you could just go into 1 room and find the way to the next level. Still though, not sure what calc your using.

Yeah, it will have 16 or 32 room presets, just like the original game has preset room configurations, but what I'm concerned about is arranging the rooms on the map of the floor.

Every room has to be reachable, each floor has to have certain types of special rooms (item room, boss room, shop, maybe secret room). Some rooms also need to be placed specially on the map. The boss and item room have to share exactly one side with another room, secret rooms (if I implement them) can't block the way to the rest of the floor (there has to be a way to get from one side of the floor to the next without breaking into a secret room).

I'm not familiar with that game, but your mockup looks quite nice. ^^

I'd looove to play the Binding of Isaac on-calc good luck with it, hope you'll finish it.

The Binding of Isaac is a game with an incredible amount of complexity; you should probably figure out each and every detail before you actually start working on the project. As for your mockups, you might do with making the hearts smaller, but it looks fine to me.

Quote from: iNk&Venom on June 04, 2013, 10:15:47 pm

Still haven't told me what platform...

Quote from: adrusi on June 04, 2013, 08:54:12 pm

Edit: This is for the z80 series calcs.

Somebody should move the thread.

It could still be more specific, as there are quite a few z80 calcs that are all a bit different. I'd assume its for the 83+/84+ series. Anyhow, moving topic regardless.

I'm thinking of writing it in C on computer first where it's a lot easier to make changes, then porting it to axe.

Lolwut ? This prolly isn't a good idea because Axe is way different than C.

The only rogue-like game i've played is Chambers, also written in Axe for the 84+. It sounds like you want to make something a bit more complicated, but Chambers is fun (though really hard) and perhaps worth checking out if you haven't seen it yet.