OK we need to agree on some terminology / nomenclature:
What are we going to call the collection of tiles that make up the cave system?
Locations, areas, what?
These tiles are broken down into three different types of tiles:
Cave - Obvious
Passageway - obvious
Transition\Entrance\Threshold - Which of these three (or does anyone have a better term?) do we wish to use?
Search tiles - These are the tiles that get placed over the cave tiles with search icons on them.
Major search tiles - the mandatory tile that must be placed on one of the search tiles in each completed cave. These tiles will have the discoveries and obstacles on them. I like the term 'Cave Feature' for this tile, but I understand this might not work if we plan on using the different game types suggested by Scurra. I think if we come up with a more open ended name for this tile, then we can be a lot more flexible with what we want to do with the tiles in the future.
Obstacles - obvious
Discoveries - the things that score you points.
Are we ok with these terms?
how about "portal" sounds more 'cavey'
or, "mouth"