I was looking through Final Fantasy guides to get ideas for architecture.  In particular I looked at a Final Fantasy 1 handbook by Ben Siron.  I was intrigued by his simple presentation of the Enemy Domain Mapping system – showing what monsters appear in random encounters at each location of a map.  Put simply, there were several “recipes”, each referred to by a single letter, and those letters were arrayed in a grid according to the layout of a map.  It was a simple way to store a complex amount of information in an efficient way.  Here is an example recipe: Continue reading →