Stu's Rusty Bucket

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Cracks and Crevices Release 0.4

OK, I’ve sat on the release long enough. I’m sure some basic bug will pop up but what the hey.

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Changelog

0.4 20080209

* *BIG* Rewrote mainloop code (fixed some subtle round bugs).
* Rounds now work properly for all NPC’s and the PC
* Timers work correctly
* Rewrote attribute code
* Gold drops on floor now
* Monsters die correctly!
* Initial quest time shortened to make it more attainable.
* Messages are now counted and displayed as Msg (x) if repeated to stop cluttering the display.
* Remove character dump when starting a new game
* Dont save character dump when saving game
* Stopped monsters and drops from appearing in the message window (doh!)
* Stopped saving from doing an explicit call to exit instead of falling through the game loop like quit does, which revealed some mem leaks that were plugged.
* Gold drops were dropping underneath the player not monster!
* Spells in spellbooks
* Start spell when buying first spellbook
* Attack/Target Cycling/Cast Spell commands
* Implemented 99% of the spell attributes
* Casting spells now works! (no whizzbang animation. it just works)
* auto pickup working
* Pickup key words
* Fixed : When selling item, unequip it automatically
* Added circular fov for easy games
* Bumpbed facing fov for medium + hard games
* Added leveling up
* Added ctrl-c as break all from program
* Added ESC as means to close out most all dialogues
* Made some defaults sane (no mixing cursor + keypad)