I don't recall if, in the past, I've ever spoken of the Nintendo DS game, Etrian Odyssey. If I haven't, it's a Wizardry/Might & Magic style dungeon crawler whose primary gimmick is the use of the DS's touch screen as a map that the player must manually fill in with the stylus as they venture through the dungeon.
These days, much as I love the Etrian Odyssey series, I do occasionally like to dabble in games of an older (and less portable) sort, like Shining in the Darkness or Eye of the Beholder. For such cases, developers often expected you to have sheets of graphing paper to keep track of the layout of each floor. Well, as I'm in the process of packing and moving, I don't really have access to such things, so a digital equivalent has been necessary.
I've found such an equivalent - Dungeon Mapper 0.2 alpha by Ryan "Zerker" Armstrong. It runs in Java, has a primarily keyboard-controlled interface, and is generally quite helpful once you learn the controls. It supports dungeons of an arbitrary size and any number of floors per file. And since you can save the maps to a single .dungeon file, sharing your maps to other players playing the same game is easy as pie.
If anybody's been wanting to play these old dungeon crawlers (or anything else that needs a manual map), this is just the ticket.
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