I played a lot of those text adventure games recently that use nothing other than ascii characters to display itself and only the keyboard for controls. I decided that I would make a game like this and I thought I may as well make a fangame of Oddworld using it. Hopefully this won't fall into vapourware as have many previous fangames (like joshkrz's unfortunately).
I have started making it, not loads yet but still, the base is there, I just need to make the actual level screen portion. It has got a story, here are a few screenshots of what has happened so far:
Class type screen:
Each class of mudokon does have their individual bios. Also, the way the class exp bonuses work is: random(10, 15+classbonus). So if the class bonus was +3, you'd have a chance of getting between 10 and 18.
Intoduction screen (story):
I'm sure you can guess who the certain mudokon is.
Stats loadout screen:
Continued from the class screen, this is where you actually pick your starting stats. This is where that random 10 to 15 thing works out.
Main game screen (in progress):
I will be continuing this after I get back from school today so don't worry if I don't post for a while.