Haven't even heard of it, checking it out right now though, thanks :>!
To be honest I've got a lack of creativity when it comes to producing a story/script,
so I'm basicly just writing the engine just for the sake of coding.

Sphere looks powerful enough to me - provided your not afraid of doing custom scripting.

T-Engine might be another option worth looking at. Again there will be custom scripting need - I think more than with Sphere.
screenshots: http://te4.org/tome/screenshots
description: http://te4.org/te4
game made in 7 days with it: http://te4.org/blogs/darkgod/2011/04/t-engine/t-engine-game-scored-4th-position-annual-7drl-contest

Win32 would be the truly Castle of the winds-like choice. (Not recommending you actually do this.)

That explained the glowing eyes

You sir, have made my day. I have been looking for one of these for weeks.

My pleasure.

You might consider checking out the rogue basin sometime. Its got pretty much everything roguelike you could want.
http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/

Here's the Castle of the Winds page for example:
http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php?title=Castle_of_the_Winds

Awesome, thanks man. :)

What is a good rogue game for someone who hasnt played one since the origional 15 years ago?

I've made plenty of games. All of them were crap.

I'm an old C64-user, and as many of you know that computer didn't have a DOS-like operating system. It had BASIC. So you could start typing in your own programs from the second you turned the computer on. I did that a lot.

Later on, I made some stuff with a neat version of AmigaBASIC called ACE, and even later I made some IF-games. One of them is even on the IF-archive. I'm not going to tell you what it's called of course, because I kinda wish it wasn't there.

...on the other hand, I googled it just now and found someone have given it a very positive 4/5 stars review at an IF review site, so maybe it's not quite as bad as I thought.... (I do remember feeling quite proud of it back when I originally uploaded it) :)

Oh, and I'm even credited on Mobygames. As a playtester. For a free game. But hey! It's something. :-)

I don't get this... why isn't everyone posting links? Who cares if it's crap, that's what we have to show, that's what we've spent time on, and really, it's not for us to judge.

And personally, I want to see everyone's work. It's part of us learning, getting inspiration, developing. I want to see what everyone has done.

I agree, id like to try some too even if the creator thinks its crap

Any of the modern roguelikes listed here would likely qualify.
http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php?title=Major_roguelikes
A warning though most of them are long and all of them are HARD.

My favorite is TOME2. (TOME3 was a bust and has since been abandoned. I haven't really tried TOME4 yet.)

You might try a coffee break roguelike or two to get back in the swing of things first.
http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php?title=Coffeebreak_roguelike

Take a look at the [made in] seven day[s] roguelikes.
[url=http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php?title=Category:7DRLs]http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php?title=Category:7DRLs[/url]
Most of them are playable. Most of them include source code.

I've started a lot of times but never did much in the way of finishing anything. I did make a Qbasic game where you would lure animated blobs of goo that were chasing you into randomly placed traps. I also made a puzzle game in DOS that had a good working base to it. Pieces dropped, removed, and there were special blocks that did their thing. You could even pick your back ground.

Then I tried making a tile engine a few times. First in dos, then in Direct Draw which got depreciated, then using OpenGL. The editor was fairly slick but need a few more features and I never got a game made using the engine though I had a couple of ideas.

A few years ago I started making a 2D fighting game but the graphic content was so brutally time consuming that I had to give it up when I got married. I did get two players moving around using a working animation engine complete with collision detection. I had a whole editor for animating, a particle engine, and two stages going. It actually could have been the coolest thing I ever did had I stuck with it. I've more or less given up coding by now and the last thing I did was to start to make a puzzle game for a contest a couple of years ago using XNA on Gamedev.net. The contest got canceled though and I didn't get past the blocks coming onto the play field. It was looking promising.

If someone were to be interested in such things then C# and XNA is a fantastic way to go. Practical, powerful, and saves one a lot of trouble of reinventing wheels as well as side stepping a lot of dangers involved in C++. Plus there is a good community for it with resources, and even the possibility to port it to the Xbox360.

Awesome thank you

Well heres a link to my Galaga/Space Invaders game in Python that I mentioned on the last page.
https://github.com/jcnix/abg