Quote Originally Posted by Cybren
most console RPGs are on a torus!
Well, true, that. I thought briefly of tori, but didn't immediately feel any torus love, no. But now that I think about it more... ooh, and you could have the 'sun' be a ring of fire that goes from inside the torus, down, stretches out to be larger than the torus, moves up, narrows again, and returns to the centre...

(And a torus is intriguingly easy to map, because it can be unrolled to a flat surface...)