Hey Slashie were you thinking something on the lines of a top down zelda style game or sticking with the jumper style of Spelunky but adding tons and tons of pazzaz?
I was thinking more on keeping the jumper style, just changing the theme to classic rogue, adding monster zoos, hunger limit, all that
But anyway here is Spelunky with a little sword replacing the whip. Kinda neat I guess. You can put any type of weapon on him you want. Great big battle axe might be fun. Here is the modded .exe.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2WU23L3C
I got a lot of errors on start up, but after ignoring all of them I could give it a look. Interesting
The next step would be replacing the sprite with a rogue
So, I think it'd go like this:
* Implementing Hunger
* Implementing rogue monsters (Some are already there)
* Implement Amulet of yendor
* Going back to the surface