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Something like the Seven day roguelike?

That the term "roguelike" is vague is a well-known fact, but there are definitions around much better than the one in the article: http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php?title=What_a_roguelike_is

The distinguishing features of roguelikes are random world generation, permadeath, complexity of item interaction, RPG-like stats, killing scores of monsters, grid-based motion, turn-based mechanics and arguably ASCII interface. A game may be a roguelike and not have all of these, but if it has, say, all but two, it is undoubtedly a roguelike.

The reasoning in the article that leads into calling "Super Smash Bros Brawl" a roguelike is just ludicrous. Of course there is no limit to how one can redefine a term, but one should not expect to be taken seriously after saying that every animal with four paws should be called a dog. Saying that "Super Smash Bros Brawl" is a roguelike because it is complex in some way goes against the common use of the word. The author of the article should find a different name for what he means.

Try http://angband.oook.cz/> Angband, http://www.nethack.org/> Nethack, http://www.adom.de/> ADOM, http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/> Crawl, or start looking at http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/> Roguebasin. Then you'll be really living. Briefly.

I've written ray-casting algorithms for 2D worlds, and believe it or not they are quite simple.

See Rogue Basin for tons of examples.

Then this page might be of interest

instead of (n)curses based on the fact that he bought a ncurses book
and it sucked monkeyballs and programming ncurses is not really intuitive

The way to deal with obscure and hard-to-use APIs is to write a wrapper API. Your internal system works with it's own rendering primitives and when it's ready to refresh, it tells nCurses to update the screen. This is the exact same method I used for an attempt to write a 7DRL in order to both prevent clamping to a single development platform and to help speed up the development pace.

Yes, it could work.

One approach is to use surreal time.