I Declare Victory!
The Seven Day Quest was completed just before midnight Friday; seven
hours before the deadline.
You can read the whole blow-by-blow of the dev effort at
http://7dayquest.blogspot.com/
You can play the game online at http://www.babelsphere.com/7dayquest/game/
If you want to download all the source files, you can get the zip file
at http://www.babelsphere.com/7dayquest/game7.zip
Final line count, about 3500 lines of javascript (counting returns,
not semicolons). This is a bit misleading, though. The defnition of
the 50 monsters constitutes over 500 lines all by itself.
I began with just two small bits of js I horked from the net -- a
random number generator and a JSON stringifier. I had planned to
create the graphics files beforehand, since I figured that would be
legal, but I only got around to creating 8 of them before the start of
the competition, so the other 100 or so graphics files were also
created durng the 161 hours of coding.
Overall, I'm pretty happy with what I created. This has been a lot of
fun!