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Just got my computer back.  Went to try this out, and it's looking really impressive!  One thing I noticed, I can't seem to put a roof over anything I build.  The cave physics work find, but you can't build a ceiling by hand.

Other than that, it's looking awesome!

From what I understand, XNA is only for C#, but I haven't looked into it recently, so you can't take my word on it.  That being said, I have a book a friend got me that I have yet to really read through, but from looking at the examples, the only difference between a game written in C# with XNA for the PC, and the same game written in C# with XNA for teh Xbox 360, is that the computer version uses keyboard and mouse input, and the Xbox version uses the game-pad (and maybe rumble).

I may actually have to try C# and XNA once I finish my current project... looking through the book, it looks pretty simple, all things considered...

Did you change the colors a bit, or is the contrast on my TV just screwed up?  It's an old TV, so I'm assuming the latter... either way, looks really nice, the colors are a little brighter (at lesat they look like it on my old CRT TV...)

Computer is going in for repairs tomorrow morning.  If the fan just needs to be cleaned I'll have it back that afternoon, if it needs to be replaced I'm likely to have to wait until the end of the week.  Either way, could be worse.  In the mean time, I've started doing as much planning and research as I can using physical resources (books and scrap paper), and I may see if I can get at a friend, sibling or library computer long enough to update you guys.  I'm considering making it almost as much of a rogue-like engine as a game, given how easy it would be to do that from where it currently stands.  Also, I'm thinking I may change the format of the item and enemy files to be like the spell one, any opinions?  (it may or may not be a while before I get to read this again, but it's not abandoned!!!)

Now that I re-read the error, it looks more like it's complaining about '[ycheck]', as though it wasn't a 2D array... now, I know next to nothing about the error messages, so I'm probably completely wrong

Okay, I had to splice several working pieces of old broken cables together, and the result is held together by duct tape, but it works

I didn't get that done until just now though, so I haven't gotten anything besides more planning done today.

Anyways, on to replies...

@ Outcast Orange - I know I had to turn the computer off for a while, but I didn't realize I had died... woah, major revelation   I actually haven't really tried VS yet, I set it up in Code::Blocks, and there is a tutorial for that... if I can find it again I'll put the link up.

@ Nivm - Thanks for the GUI advice!  I'll defiantly squish some of the stuff together, maybe take out all but one like between the short log, or just stick "- " in front of each one, so you can tell where one starts and the last ends.... I'll look into the bugs though, thanks for the heads up.

@ Org - Well, if you're using PDCurses, you could redraw the tile the player is standing on over them, then draw them in a new position.  That way you don't have to redraw the whole map or anything.  That being said, that's going to be hard to keep up with if you start using a field of view or something.  You'll definitely want a single function that draws a tile with whatever is on it if you try this.  I think there's also a variation on the refresh() function in PDCurses that only refreshed parts of the screen that have changed, so you may want to see if you can find any info on that.

@ Alexhans - Thanks for posting that!  I'm going to start a google code page for ToA after I get the rewrite done, and when I do that I may stick that in the wiki, and maybe write one for Code::Blocks, to help people who want to try compiling it themselves...


Thanks for all the input guys, I'm really looking forward to resuming work on this either tomorrow or the day after, depending on how much time I have tomorrow with work and my school's dance...

Same here Bricks!  And some times it isn't even music I was playing.  My brother use to blare various metal songs all the time, and we used to share a room, so even now some of the Disturbed songs and obscure screamo bands he likes remind of Dwarf Fortress, no matter how much I dislike the song

That's a good point though Dasleah... hadn't really thought about that before, but now that you mention I can see where that'd be a problem.  Music has a substantial effect on other things I do, so I can definitely see it influencing writing and such...

  Maybe it's what hasletter is being initiated to?  Unfortunately, without the source, that's about as helpful as I can be...

I've fixed most of the bugs I know about.  I'll be packaging it for a release now, and see about getting it uploaded tonight, if things go well. 

Just a quick heads up though, the items for spells with names longer than 7 characters have random symbols tacked onto the end.  Unfortunately, because I've coded myself into a hole, fixing it would be a needlessly time-consuming process.  So I'm going to ignore it for this release, and work that out during the rewrite.