I had tried to do one recently using OCaml but it was sort of a pain using libtcod or sdl/opengl/ncurses directly. So now I'm thinking about transpiling OCaml

I had tried to do one recently using OCaml but it was sort of a pain using libtcod or sdl/opengl/ncurses directly. So now I'm thinking about transpiling OCaml to Javascript and using one of the many Javascript rogue like libraries. I mention this because Racket has a Javascript compiler (and tons of other languages these days like F#, Scala, etc also have to js compilers). The browser is just such an easier platform to get people to play your game.