-MARTIN'S DUNGEON BASH, VERSION 1.7
+CAVE CHOP SEVEN-DAY ROGUELIKE
==================================
-Copyright 2009 Martin Read.
+Copyright 2012 Martin Read.
This software is released under the terms of the BSD-style licence as provided
in the file /usr/share/doc/apps/LICENSES/BSD on a Debian GNU/Linux system.
-Martin's Dungeon Bash (aka "dungeonbash") is copyright 2005-2009 Martin Read.
+Cave Chop (aka "cavechop") is copyright 2012 Martin Read.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
(INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
-ABOUT THE GAME
---------------
-This is Martin's Dungeon Bash, aka "dungeonbash", version 1.7. This release
-of Martin's Dungeon Bash fixes several bugs in version 1.6.
-
-Martin's Dungeon Bash v1.7 has a very simple concept: Kill as many monsters
-as you can and amass as much gold as you can, diving ever deeper into Martin's
-Infinite Dungeon, until you die. There is no "victory" condition; the only
-objective provided by the design is "see how far you get, how much gold you
-gather, and how many monsters you kill".
-
-There are no new gameplay features currently planned.
-
-The game has a website:
- http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~mpread/dungeonbash/
-
-Discussion of Martin's Dungeon Bash is on-topic for the newsgroup
-rec.games.roguelike.misc ; please put -MPRDB- in the Subject: header of any
-post to RGRM regarding Martin's Dungeon Bash.
-
INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
-------------------------
On Linux (and other Unix-like systems, though I don't guarantee it working
on any given Unix):
- tar xzf dungeonbash-1.7.tar.gz
- cd dungeonbash-1.7
+ tar xzf cavechop7drl.tar.gz
+ cd cavechop7drl
make all
- cp dungeonbash /somewhere/in/your/PATH
-
-Richard Kettlewell reports that Darwin users should edit the Makefile
-before compiling to remove '-Werror' from CFLAGS, due to a bug in Darwin's
-copy of 'ncurses.h'. This may also apply to other platforms' implementations
-of curses. (The version of ncurses currently distributed with Debian
-GNU/Linux takes 'const char *' where it wants strings that it isn't
-going to modify; some implementations of curses declare these functions to
-take 'char *' in those locations.)
-
-David Damerell reports that if you are using a particularly old version
-of GCC, you may need to remove the '-Wunreachable-code' flag from CFLAGS.
-
-(No, I will not consider removing any of the -W flags from the default
-distribution; they are all there for a reason, with -Werror being there to
-stop me getting away with having warnings.)
+ cp cavechop /somewhere/in/your/PATH
-I am also informed that with suitable minor modifications, my code will
-build on Windows XP (I believe using a GCC-based environment).
-
-The dungeonbash binary does not require any setgid or setuid privileges, and
+The cavechop binary does not require any setgid or setuid privileges, and
does not require root privilege to install unless you want to put it in a
system directory (e.g. /usr/local/games), as it has no shared data and no
shared playground. Players are trusted to not savescum, because savescumming
is cheating, and cheating sucks.
-There are not official binary releases of Martin's Dungeon Bash v1.7
-contemporaneous with the source release.
+There are not official binary releases of Cave Chop contemporaneous with the
+source release.
ABOUT THE GAME
--------------
-Martin's Dungeon Bash v1.7 is conceptually trivial: You are trapped in an
-(approximately) infinitely deep dungeon complex from which there is said to
-be no possible escape. Not being ready to give up on life just yet, you
-decide to kill as many of the denizens as possible before you yourself
-succumb.
+This is the seven-day roguelike Cave Chop.
+
+Like its progenitor, Martin's Dungeon Bash v1.7, Cave Chop has a very simple
+concept: Kill as many monsters as you can, diving ever deeper into the
+infinite hellish caverns in which you are trapped, until you die. There is no
+"victory" condition; the only objective provided by the design is "see how far
+you get and how many monsters you kill".
As you dive deeper into the dungeon, you will meet more fearsome foes, and
familiar foes will increase in power. It is said that eventually, the
beasts of the dungeon grow so mighty that they can slay even the boldest of
heroes with a single blow.
+Discussion of Cave Chop is on-topic for the newsgroup
+rec.games.roguelike.misc ; please put -cavechop- in the Subject: header of any
+post to RGRM regarding Cave Chop.
+
REPORTING BUGS
--------------
-Report bugs by e-mail to mpread+dbash+1@chiark.greenend.org.uk.
+Report bugs by e-mail to martin (at) blackswordsonics dot com.
THANKS TO
---------
-* Jeff Lait, for the concept of the Seven-Day Roguelike Challenge (and
- POWDER's speed system, which I have approximately ripped off), and for the
- suggestion I've implemented whereby armour and weapons are slowly ground
- away through use and so the player must carry spares.
-* Jon Amery, for reporting a bug in v1.0 which led to me finding that (1)
- I hadn't put an entry for identify scrolls in permobjs[] (2) magic robes
- weren't being identified on wearing (3) mundane robes weren't being listed
- properly in the inventory. Jon also spotted a bug in 1.0 which I failed to
- fix in 1.1 (regarding summoned monsters), which I have now put right.
-* Adam White, for alerting me to the fact that I was making a now-unsafe
- assumption about the size of long int, which caused the RNG to do Bad
- Things on x86-64.
-* Gero Kunter, for reporting a big bunch of bugs in v1.2 and v1.3, and
- coming up with some very good suggestions for improving play balance.
-* David Damerell, for a host of bug reports.
-* Richard Kettlewell, for the pointers on building the game on Darwin.
-* Programmers too numerous to mention, down the years, who have written the
- assortment of roguelike games I've played.
-* You, for downloading my game.
-
-NEW FEATURES IN RELEASE 1.7
----------------------------
-* None.
-
-BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 1.7
-------------------------
-* 'e'ating now consumes a turn as well as an item of food.
-* Wizards no longer drop runeswords.
-* The HP and XP of wraiths have been corrected to be more appropriate for their
- power rating.
-* The armour spoiler now correctly proclaims itself to be the armour spoiler.
-
-NEW FEATURES IN RELEASE 1.6
----------------------------
-* The curses-based display module should do much less I/O now.
-* There is now a "wizard" mode for debugging purposes. Enable it by changing
- the WIZARD_MODE macro in dunbash.h from 0 to 1.
-* Certain monsters are now (much) easier to hit. (In particular, a first
- level character is now capable of hitting a bad elf, and it's virtually
- impossible to miss a zombie.)
-* Necromantic bolts and lightning bolts now use pure-agility defence.
-* Once your food counter hits the lower end cap, rings of regeneration
- cease to function.
-
-BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 1.6
-------------------------
-* 'T'aking off armour no longer consumes a turn if you are already naked.
-* Treasure zoos no longer have absurdly large numbers of monsters.
-* Flags in struct permons are now being initialised to sensible values;
- this resolves several issues in version 1.5, including the absence of
- black magic, the failure of many monsters to use their ranged attacks,
- and the failure of many monsters to resist elemental damage correctly.
-
-NEW FEATURES IN RELEASE 1.5
----------------------------
-* Zombies no longer regain hit points over time.
-* The player is alerted when his food counter drops below 100, and again when
- it drops below zero.
-* The 'I'nspect command permits the player to examine his belongings.
-* The '\' command permits the player to review what types of item he has
- knowledge of.
-* The '#' command permits the player to inspect the underlying terrain,
- without the obstructions caused by monsters, the player character,
- and items on the floor.
-* Body and agility are now capped at 99.
-* There are more kinds of food. Each individual kind of food has non-zero
- rarity. As a result, the player may well end up needing to carry
- several kinds of food.
-
-BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 1.5
-------------------------
-* A conceptual clash in symbol space has been resolved by categorising
- duellists and warlords as 'f'ighters.
-* The status window now shows body and agility in a "current/max" format so
- that the player can distinguish between temporary and permanent ability
- loss.
-* Demon summoning no longer attempts to make the summoned demon materialise
- on top of the summoner.
-* The first item in the inventory no longer scrolls off the message box when
- attempting to 'd'rop while the pack is full.
-* Body drains now correctly set the status window update flag and update the
- display.
-* If you can't see a monster involved in the resolution of a ranged attack,
- you don't get told what it is.
-* Black magicians' names are correctly displayed when spells are cast.
-* The game will no longer attempt to generate more items than the arrays can
- accommodate.
-* Hellfire messages are changed to be less irritating on repetition.
-* Treasure zoos now work.
-* Restoration potions now trigger a display update.
-* Body and agility damage are displayed in a more useful format.
-* The player's first action now occurs before the first call to
- update_player(), so the player really does get 2000 ticks worth of food.
-
-NEW FEATURES IN RELEASE 1.4
----------------------------
-* Ability score damage may be temporary or permanent; temporary ability score
- damage may be cured using a restoration potion.
-* Armour and weapons are degraded through use, and cannot be repaired.
-* The mechanics of poison damage (e.g. snakebite) have been revamped.
-* Some minor "flavour" has been added to the eating-food message for when the
- player's "food" score is below zero.
-* Command 'D' writes a character dump.
-* The player's name cannot contain any colons, slashes, or backslashes.
-
-BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 1.4
-------------------------
-* Various pieces of black magic now print the correct monster name.
-* The armourmelt curse now has a meaningful effect.
-* The check for whether the player is wearing a ring in combat.c now correctly
- checks against -1, not against 0.
-* Monster healing messages no longer appear when the player is out of sight.
-* The inventory-select function now behaves more intelligently in the face of
- an absence of valid items, and rejects attempts to select nonexistent
- objects.
-* Aggravation scrolls now do something.
-* Eating now updates the status window.
-* Protection and aggravation scrolls now have randomised titles.
-* The level threshold function now returns the correct value for levels
- greater than 19.
-* Defilers now cast spells.
-* Demons can no longer get summoned on top of each other.
-* Daggers found in the dungeon now have non-zero utility.
-
-KNOWN BUGS IN RELEASE 1.4
--------------------------
-* Monster drops which scatter to an explored square that is not currently
- visible are nevertheless visible. (This is a minor bug, IMO, and I'm not
- keen on the added state-maintenance required to fix it.)
-
-NEW FEATURES IN RELEASE 1.3
----------------------------
-* The use of colour has been extended to monsters, and the colour handling
- in the display code has been much improved as a necessary part of this.
-* Some monsters have had their symbols changed; closely related monsters (for
- example, thugs and goons) now share a symbol (but have different colours).
-* Several new monsters have been added.
-* Several new magic items have been added.
-* Dungeon rooms are larger than in v1.2; this should improve the usefulness
- of missile weapons and increase the threat posed by missile-capable monsters.
-* Certain powerful items (most importantly, mage armour, runeswords, and robes
- of shadows) cannot be found until the deeper levels of the dungeon. This
- prevents an early find of such an item from making the first few levels of
- the dungeon a cakewalk. [Suggestion by Gero Kunter]
-* Some monsters can now use "black magic", giving them several ways to attack
- (or evade!) the player, not all of which do pure hit point damage. This
- includes one or two monsters who can attack from a distance, albeit with
- limited power, without having to line the player up on a cardinal.
-* Melee-only monsters using the simplest AI mode will no longer "form an
- orderly queue" if you string them out along a cardinal direction.
- [Suggestion by Gero Kunter]
-* All monsters now slowly recover hit points; trolls simply do so much more
- quickly than other kinds of monsters.
-* Hunger and food have been added. A "hungry" player character regains hit
- points even more slowly than the v1.2-and-earlier healing rate, and
- cannot regain hit points above 75% of his normal total. A "fed" player
- character regains hit points rather faster than the v1.2-and-earlier healing
- rate. Rings of regeneration increase the rate at which the player character
- becomes hungry. The player character now starts the game well-fed, with a
- ration of food in addition to his basic dagger. [Basic suggestion by Gero
- Kunter; effects of hunger inspired by Jeff Lait's _POWDER_; impact of
- regeneration items on metabolic rate is a classic behaviour of roguelikes.]
-* Non-"stupid" monsters who were next to you when you fled a room down a
- corridor will pursue you down the corridor until you can outrun them.
-* The game now waits for a <CR> or <SPACE> before exiting after save, quit,
- or player death, and before continuing play after the player gains a level.
- [Suggestion by Gero Kunter]
-* Increases to maximum hit points are accompanied by an equal increase in
- current hit points. (This makes the early game a little bit more survivable.)
-* The prompt presented to confirm the 'X' quit command is now much more
- paranoid; only a capital 'Y' in response to the query will cause the game
- to be abandoned, with any other response cancelling the quit command.
-* The game now maintains a log file recording every character to die in
- Martin's Infinite Dungeon. [Part of a suggestion by Gero Kunter]
-
-BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 1.3
-------------------------
-* Object name printing is more internally consistent, less potentially
- misleading, and produces a better approximation to "correct English", though
- if I ever introduce "honourable" or suchlike as a description of an item,
- I shall have to refine the algorithm further. [Bug reported by Gero Kunter]
-* Monster name printing produces a better approximation to "correct English";
- the same caveat regarding words like "honourable" applies here.
-* The select_dir() function (used by the 'a'ttack command) now accepts number
- keys as well as the hjklyubn-keys. [Bug reported by Gero Kunter]
-* Player hit points are correctly displayed after a poison potion has been
- consumed. [Bug reported by Gero Kunter]
-* The save file is no longer called "7drl.sav.gz"; the new name for the save
- file is "dunbash.sav.gz". [Bug reported by Gero Kunter]
-* It is now only possible to descend to a new level when standing on a
- staircase; previously, you could descend from any square on the level.
- [Bug reported by Gero Kunter]
-* I believe I have fixed the mysterious "ghost monster" bugs, but I can't
- swear to that.
-
-KNOWN BUGS IN RELEASE 1.3
--------------------------
-* The log file cannot be shared between users except by playing the game in
- a shared world- or group-writable directory. I refuse to add any feature
- requiring setgid or setuid privileges until I have satisfied myself that
- I know what the necessary steps are to ensure the game does not represent
- a security hazard to the system on which it is installed set[ug]id.
-* The AI remains not as smart as I wanted it to be.
-* There *still* isn't any sanity checking when loading a saved game.
-
-NEW FEATURES IN RELEASE 1.2
----------------------------
-* None.
-
-BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 1.2
-------------------------
-* Monsters no longer get summoned in spaces that are not unoccupied floor.
- [Bug reported by Jon Amery, although the bug turned out to not quite be
- what he thought it was.]
-* Saved games can once more be reloaded. [Bug detected locally.]
-
-NEW FEATURES IN RELEASE 1.1
----------------------------
-* Magic robes now auto-ID when worn.
-
-BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 1.1
-------------------------
-* permons[] is no longer stored in the save file, as it has no features that
- are changed at runtime
-* Magic robes are now correctly printed in the inventory when identified.
- [Bug reported by Jon Amery]
-* Scrolls of identify now exist and function. [Bug found due to bug report
- by Jon Amery]
-* The internal RNG now uses "unsigned int" instead of "unsigned long" to store
- its state. As a result, the game can now be played on x86-64. [Bug reported
- by Adam White]
-
-NEW FEATURES IN RELEASE 1.0
----------------------------
-* The game now uses an internal pseudo-random number generator with a much
- larger period than Berkeley random().
-* Save files are marginally smaller, as the new internal PRNG uses much
- less state than Berkeley random().
-* The dungeon walls are now "dark yellow" and the player is now "bright
- white".
-* New monsters.
-* New capabilities for some existing monsters.
-* Several new items.
-
-BUG FIXES IN RELEASE 1.0
-------------------------
-* ood() now works correctly; it makes weak monsters stronger, not weaker,
- and does not cause related divide-by-zero errors in the dice-rolling code.
-* The dice-rolling code now checks for being passed values less than two,
- and simply returns 1 or 0 (as appropriate) in such circumstances.
-* Save/reload now works correctly, without corrupting the dungeon map.
-* The status display correctly depicts the player's Agility.
-* Body potions no longer improve the player's Agility.
-* Monsters created by summoning scrolls are no longer hidden from view
- until the next map update.
-* The 'awake' flag is set (with accompanying message) in the AI branch
- handling the case where the monster is directly adjacent to the player.
-* Mid-level monsters now have some chance of hitting characters wearing
- mage armour.
-* Teleport scrolls now actually work.
-* The archive unpacks into a subdirectory.
-
-KNOWN BUGS AND INFELICITIES
----------------------------
-* There is little incentive for the player to use ranged weapons, as rings
- do not enhance them and dungeon rooms are small.
-* The game does not actually check that the data loaded from the saved game
- file even vaguely conforms to what is expected.
-* Monster ranged attacks no longer get silently absorbed by a non-existent
- monster on their first square of movement.
-* The AI remains less intelligent than it should be.
-
-WRINKLES
---------
-* Due to a change I made at one point for other reasons, monster melee attacks
- are more accurate than monster missile attacks. I like this state of
- affairs; it prevents dragons from being shockingly lethal.
-
-THE ORIGINAL RELEASE NOTES FOR MPR7DRL NOW FOLLOW
-=================================================
-
-ABOUT THE GAME
-This is Martin's Seven-Day Roguelike, aka "mpr7drl", written by me (Martin
-Read) in less than 168 hours total wall time (total of the time I spent
-eating, sleeping, working, coding mpr7drl, playing Nethack, playing SFB,
-playing Angband variants, talking on the phone, arranging to rent a new
-flat, going to the pub to talk about Nethack, reading Livejournal, reading
-Usenet, ...).
-
-KNOWN BUGS AND INFELICITIES:
-* Reloading can corrupt some of the map data; I can't work out quite what's
- going wrong here.
-* print_obj_name() and print_mon_name() are insufficiently sophisticated.
-* The game balance blows goats.
-* The AI sucks rocks through a straw.
-
-But hey. It's a roguelike written in 3600 lines of C in 168 hours, so what
-are you expecting? The next Nethack?
+* Jeff Lait, Jon Amery, Adam White, Gero Kunter, David Damerell, and Richard
+ Kettlewell for advice, inspiration, suggestions, and bug reports that helped
+ make Martin's Dungeon Bash 1.7 the game it was and is.
--- MPR, 19:39 Sunday 2005.01.30 GMT
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