Over the last few weeks I've been working on a Dragon Warrior 1 clone. I haven't gotten too much done, but I do have it drawing map tiles, the hero and some text info on the screen. I'm currently working on getting the collision detection working for the things like water and mountains.

The next few things I'm going to work on are getting the large map support in. Right now it only loads and draws the whole map. I want it to be able to load the whole map and only display a certain grid of tiles arount the hero. After that I will be adding a text box of sorts for things like combat spam, npc conversations, and debugging info.

My future plans for it include, npc interaction, random encounters, combat, itemization, map to map transitions(i.e. going from the world map to a dungeon map) among other things.

The current source code is in my svn server. You can obtain it from http://ferby.no-ip.org/svn/rpg. Down load the folder and then open a command window or terminal and navigate to that folder then type "java rpg" and that should do it.

Keep checking back, all my updates for it are going to be here. I'll also post current stats of the project (number of files and lines of code) in my future entries.