Simeon Pilgrim

Build 1.0.15 is now available for your gaming pleasure.

• The game now plays sampled sounds, so you can have that authentic gaming experience!  I even use a blend of PC Speaker sounds and Tandy 1000 sounds.  I’m moving towards the latter, as they sound way better
• Also this Installer is actually playable, as build 1.0.14 was missing a .dll, and I wonder why nobody mentioned this….
• Enhanced the ‘Dump Monsters’ debugging, it now dumps all monsters plus details shown in my monsters blog post, to a monsters.html file in the current working directory
• Started working on decoding the affects and their meaning, to clean-up above monsters.html

Also a warning that the game-play may have been affected by the level of code-refactoring I have currently been undertaking, so watch-out, but feel free to report any issues.

Stu posted a dump of Curse of the Azure Bonds monster data from the Apple IIe disk set.

Not to be out done, I have dumped the same data but with more details… because I can.

Update: Oh god this table looks bad on my site

Now I just need to alter my port, so I can start having a round robin Vs. battle between all the monsters to rank them. This will help with improving the AI (if you can call it that), which currently does some silly things.

A new version of the game is now available: build 1.0.14

This build, from a user’s perspective only adds a new cheat: to remove the race based level limits, that was requested by Pope.

I have been feeling bad about the status of the port recently.

Behind the scenes  I have been renaming and cleaning-up the code.  I have also started getting the project to build under mono, so it could be played on Linux or Mac OS X (the primary target of the two).

I’m torn between making it a stand-alone application, that looks native (as it presently is, but cross platform), or using Silverlight 2.0 and keeping it single targeted.

The game can now be completed.  I finished my dungeon crawl last night, with the help of the magic God’s Intervene cheat.

Here are the changes in build 1.0.13:

• Fixed issues stopping the end-game sequence from working, so the game is now winnable
• Fixed the crash that happened when sword of Frost Brand, or Flame Brand is readied
• Fixed the way text wrapping happens, so the end game text is displayed the same as in the DOS version
• Fixed the animation picture code, so end-game animations are drawn correctly
• Fixed a small 3D view rendering problem with the far distance wall
• Cheat settings are now saved in your user profile, so you don’t have to keep turning them on each time you start the game
• Time now passes correctly when resting or searching and after combat
• Altered the Area Map to now overlay the arrow icon cleanly
• Added new cheat “Improved Area Map” that shows doors in blue, allowing for walking around a dungeon completely from the Area Map

I have been working on getting the sound sub-system ground-work done, but functioning sound is still a long way off.

Installer 1.0.12 is now available.

Issues fixed in this build:

• Fixed the Fear spell, so it is removed when combat is ended
• The icon designer now reverts to your original colours when you ‘Exit’ a sub-menu instead of keeping the changes
• Fixed the price text when buying healing from a Temple
• Fixed crash when removing cursed items

Enjoy.