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Node  ( Start  / Room / Corridor )
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Link   ( Blank tile / door with button / locked door* / Others* )
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Node(s) ( Room / Corridor )

With some rules :
 1/ Start link is always a blank or door with button
 2/ Room only "fathers" corridors, N depending on the room size.
 3/ A corridor fathers at most one room (at the end) and N corridors,  
    where N depends of the length of the corridor.

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Each node has : 
 a/ a size
 b/ a type (octagonal_room, twisty_corridor etc.)
 c/ parent(s)
 d/ child(ren) (with their specified links)
And very important :
 e/ a hierarchy level
 f/ a key/button/puzzle stack

Additional rules :
  4/ Every time a "locked door" is chosen as a link, a puzzle / lock / button is chosen randomly as a trigger, and added on the stack of the parent room.
  5/ The childs of a node have the same hierarchy level as their parent except if the link is a locked door (or any other thing like movable wall or closable pit)
  6/ If a room has, say, 3 locked doors as links to its children,
      and it's hierarchy level is "a", then the children will have 
      hierarchy level "aa" "ab" and "ac" ( following me ? ) I don't
      expect a room / corridor to have more than 26 children, and
      if it happens, there are solutions (uppercases etc.)
  7/ Then arbitrary recurse keys / puzzles in the stack through nodes
      of the same hierarchy or higher in the alphabet ( "aa" > "abc" )
  8/ When digging the dungeon, instead of immediatly drawing blank
      tiles by 1, mark them with their hierarchy level. Allow corridors 
      and rooms to connect only if they have the exact same hierarchy
      level.
  9/ Clean up to draw the true dsb maps.