Another week another batch of updates for Caverns of Underkeep

This time there are only a few minor corrections/improvements, the game is probably very close to a 1.0 release – I would still like a nicer gui in the town though…

1. Bug Fixed – Multiplicity of items now taken into account when calculating your score.
2. If you don’t use any magic you get a +2000 bonus to your score (the barbarian automatically gets this of course.)
3. Drinking mana potion sfx distortion problem resolved.
4. Bug Fixed – Carry capacity had an ‘off by one’ error (you could only carry one less than what it actually said)
5. Bug Fixed – Game incorrectly told you that if you increased your endurance you could carry more.
6. There are now 200 arrows in the shop and each bundle of arrows that you find randomly generates 4-8 arrows (previously 2-6)
7. Hall of Legends now displays the top 16 scores (to stop an overflow display error)

I should probably create an extended hall of legends to be displayed on the webpage.

I spent the morning making some changes to Caverns of Underkeep

1. Fixed a double move bug involving moving the mouse as you are being attacked by a monster.
2. Corrected the Antwerp graphic
3. Fixed alignment issues with # of potions text
4. Disarm now auto-attempts to disarm all adjacent traps – no longer need to use the mouse to select a trap
5. Fixed a couple of spelling errors
6. Little Blobs now drop pink acid
7. Bandit archer damage lowered by 1 (again)
8. Error sound plays if not intelligent enough to identify an item
9. Potion of permanant strength and Potion of vigor now play sfx and output text to the console when used.
10. Added short cut keys for some of the spells

• (H) eal
• (F) ireball
• (B) less
• (T) own Portal
• (M) eteor Shower
• (E) nquire
• (P) urple Death

Changes made to the beta version today

1. Can double click in shop to buy items
2. Heartbeat SFX doesn’t play in town
3. Bonus to XP if the player clears all the traps on a level
4. “The walk back to town…” dialog removed
5. SFX added when you perform a transaction in the shops
6. Can now buy pants and helmets in the armour shop
7. Display xp required for next level up
8. Play error SFX on fail to equip an item
9. Can now buy the water walk boots from the magic shop
10. Using a potion no longer takes up a turn
    
11. Archer Bandit maximum damage lowered by 2
12. Removed “Do you want to use the elevator…” dialog
13. Ranged attacks actually take the ranged weapon damage into account
14. Fixed mis-named item, “Cursed Boots” is now named correctly
15. Gain +1 attack and +1 armour when the player levels up (rather than +1 attack or +1 armour)
16. Can buy multiple potions from the healers shop
17. (Y) and (N) work as shortcut keys for yes/no dialogs
18. (Enter) key works to dismiss ok dialog
19. Increased Maximum carry weight by 25%
20. Can now select ogre avatar by using the left button (previously only avalible if you pressed the right button)
21. Alpha value for blinking prompt on custom name dialog fixed
22. Added 20 words to the wordchest dictionary

I just finished a play through of the game with a friend and I have a page long list full of (mostly easy) changes to make, it’s funny how much stuff you can simply forget. Stuff that you fully intended to do (and have written the code for) but you just forget to hook it up at the right place.

The list is long, but it’ll proably be less than a days work to implement most of the items on it.

So yeah, there will probably be an update to the beta less than two-three days after releasing it

Yippie! Balloons and cake for me!Caverns of Underkeep has reached Beta!

Play the game here

The only thing that remains on my to-do list is to tidy up some of the interface artwork (such as in the town) I’ll keep the game in a rolling beta status. Which means I’ll patch it if someone finds a bug that needs fixing and in about a months time I will call it release version 1.0