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+# I've begun working on my Roguelike game for the 7DRL
+
+Okay, so today I started Dungeon of the Day (working title), for the 7 Day Roguelike challenge 2021.
+
+# Devlog Day 1
+
+i started by creating a an array of arrays (2d array) to 'hold' the level. i looped through it to assign a blank characters, at first a zero, but now a period. it took me some time to figure out how to properly point to a x,y position properly with this method. argh. lots of trial and error and i copy-pasta one line i didn't really understand from stackoverflow but understand what it outputs and worked backwards. actually, here it goes. this is cool. separately, maybe i can revisit making my own processing-derivative drawing parser in ascii. ok ok, that's a later project. anyway, i can now address a grid of text with x,y coordinates. great. proud of myself! lol. i have a grid of periods.
+
+next i pick a random x,y position on the grid for the player. drop an @ there.
+
+now i save to an external file. i think a core mechanic of my game will be that you can only play one move a day. inpsired by michael brough's vesper.5 'ritual'-game where you can (only move one square a day). that game got a lot of notice. oh, but it wasn't ascii. and it was 7 or 8 years ago. argh. anyway. i think i like this idea. and it's doable. and even though the command line and ascii art does not appeal to my 'art' base, my hacker phreaks like this, and i like this too! lol. it's not visual though. michael's work is so appealing because it speaks its own visual language. should i just work in p5 again? i have a half-engine for roguelikes in p5. maybe i could revisit? but way, i like this idea of a "Message of the Day" (Dungeon of the Day?) roguelike where it's in the command line, since that's my primary interface on my computer. i mean i'm typing in the command line now. 
+
+the concept is loosely that it's an ambient game. when you open a new terminal window the board (perhaps) is displayed as the message of the day. you can make one move a day. (how?). other than moving, maybe you can also use an item, talk to npc's, buy something at the market? or maybe you can move up to 3 different characters, like Lost Vikings (o.g. nintendo game that i liked that there doesn't seem to be any modern clones of).
+
+okay, need to figure out more core mechanic/compelling gameplay. an ambient game is nice perhaps but needs some juice to make people want to play this and not skip over it.
+
+other roguelike ideas i'd been thinking of but maybe not this time:
+* monome teletype-based roguelike for my modular synth. moving/fighting/spells would each play a different sound. i wish i could plug a nintendo/snes controller though instead of a keyboard. i guess i could use a numpad instead. each number to trigger a different script, for each direction and maybe 0 for something.
+* use p5.js to make more out-there experimental compelling visuals, a la a Broughlike
+* use Lua. which i really enjoy, and there are (brough-like again!) tutorials for
+* use pico-8 which i also enjoy, and is a subset of Lua with extended API, and i have some tutorials and previous experience on. i particularly love how it combines a CLI with visuals on same screen. i wish i could do this with p5/js.
+* use my PLOGO logo-language to make a roguelike. kind of a funny idea. also, i did built a console into it.
+
+anyway.... no end of (bad) ideas
+
+# Day 1 1/2
+What should terrain look like? 
+
+Old PETSCII? ZZT? (Can i get this with unicode or do i need to load a special font in the terminal, and then have to package that font? Can node do this?
+
+oh wait, or should i just do this. it's easy. emoji.
+
+```
+🎄
+🌳
+🌲
+🌴
+🎋
+🏡
+🌱
+🌿
+🏕️
+```
+
+too cheesy? possibly
+
+code page 437 - (for example in ZZT)
+
+=> https://wikimili.com/en/Code_page_437 page 437 characters translated to unicode
+=> https://github.com/berenddeschouwer/fourthreeseven unicode page 437 font to work in linux!
+=> https://www.masswerk.at/nowgobang/2020/petscii embedded (copy-pastable) in this article
+=> https://style64.org/petscii/ petscii to unicode converter
+
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 # Posts
 
+=> 7drl-2021-day1.gmi 2021-03-05 - 7DRL day 1 devlog
+
 => plogo.gmi 2021-02-14 - PLOGO, a little LOGO-like toy language
 
 => 2021-02-12-playful-walk.gmi 2021-02-12 - A Playful Algorithmic Walk