[Dungeon Crawler] Playtesters Desired.

Hello there:

Over the past few months I have been designing a web browser-based RPG in PHP on Linux. Since I am a programmer by training, the technical side of it is fairly trivial to do. However, my own circle of friends (who� currently comprise virtually the entire user base) are all fairly similar to myself in their ideas of what a game should be. In particular, they tend to share my sense of humor; considering I have peppered the game with this same sense of humor, I am curious as to whether the game could actually have a broader appeal.

I am interested in people who would enjoy playtesting the game. I feel the basic feel of it is sound enough for such a test, but am desirous of discovering a few things about the game. To wit:

1: Any rough edges which should be smoothed over, either technically or gamewise.

2: Balancing issues; I am unsure if the early dungeon levels are of a proper difficulty.

3: Ideas for feature extensions--the system is highly modular, from a programming perspective, and so many changes can be made that even preserve the game ruleset retroactively.

4: Bugs. Gotta find those pesky things and squash them.

At the moment, it is more of a traditional hack-and-slash game, closer to NetHack in atmosphere than anything else I can think of, though highly dissimilar technologically of course. The "RP" in "RPG" is coming along more slowly, for two reasons: first, I'm rather fond of the game in its current mindless playability for wasting a bit of time here and there similarly to games I played when younger like "Mordor: the Depths of Dejenol" and its ilk, secondly because inventing a generic plot system for the database schema is proving to be a royal pain-in-the-patootie. So, for the moment, such considerations are far from my mind.

If anyone would be interested in playtesting, the website address is http://www.chronotos.com/dgcrawl/. Logins are free and anonymous (I like the idea of keeping the thing free, and am trying to figure out if an ad-support model is worthwhile; currently I am testing out Google's AdSense program on it), and I have set up a very basic forums system on the site for feature requests and bug reports. I intend to watch both those forums and the forums here for any suggestions and comments. Player death currently has no detrimental effect; it only prints a message and refills health and mana bars. Dying a thousand times while trying to fix bugs is far too annoying, so I shall create a suitable penalty for death after I receive sufficient feedback on the game in its current state.

Thanks in advance!
~Randall