When editing the dungeon file, it pays to have a good text editor. A nice program in Windows might be, for example, Programmer’s Notepad 2, but any program with suitable syntax highlighting will do. The script file text is based on C/C++ syntax, so you can set the syntax highlighting to this language. It is also highly prudent to select a mono-space typeface. A mono-space typeface means each character has the same horizontal length in the editor. Because we are also going to “draw” with ASCII characters in the script files, it would be good if the characters can properly align in a grid-like fashion, making it easy to identify the geometrical patterns. This is indispensable when it comes to laying out large rooms and even particular dungeons, helping to avoid confusion along the way. Suitable typefaces to consider for this purpose might include Courier New or Lucida Console fonts.

=== Backing up your work ===

This is really the most important step, and should be the first thing you organize. Make a copy of your dungeon file and store the copy somewhere else, that way, you can always revert to the original if you make changes all over the place. No matter if you lose original files, you can usually pick up an old file from a repository somewhere and revert back to it.

== Philosophy ==