Gauging interest in a Dominions Roguelike...

[Cainehill]

Ewww. Except that it's bloody difficult to look up a graphic tile to see what something is, which is one reason many of us Angbanders prefer the ascii characters - a red 'U' signifies danger far better than an ugly red blob of pixels

[sushiboat]

You still have the same keyboard commands that let you examine a particular spot and identify what's there. If you are talking about looking up a tile in some table, I have never done that. Once you identify a tile a few times, you remember what it is, just as you would with the ASCII. It's been a long time, but I remember more problems with subtle ASCII differences that meant huge differences in the monster's difficulty.

[quantum_mechani]

Cainehill said:

Ewww. Except that it's bloody difficult to look up a graphic tile to see what something is, which is one reason many of us Angbanders prefer the ascii characters - a red 'U' signifies danger far better than an ugly red blob of pixels

I second that, true roguelike players use ASCII.