Developer's Log

[CraigStern]

- fixed the bug where characters killed in Casual Mode would duplicate in the saved game files (along with their attacks and inventory) going forward into subsequent battles.

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- fixed a typo which caused apples to restore energy when used.

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released version 1.043

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- fixed screen being off-center when game starts up in fullscreen scaled mode.

- buffed up the Mechanic Captain at the start of the Tarion battle, gave Tarion a wall of three Greater Red Spriggats to keep him from being KO'd on turn 1 via the adrenaline pill exploit (and to make the final approach to his location somewhat more challenging).

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I've just laid the groundwork for persistent, procedural dungeons (i.e. where the game remembers each floor and recreates it when you traverse up and down levels). Here's what we've got:

- procedural level generation now takes a seed parameter, meaning that it can now consistently reproduce a generated level! The new, tenth parameter is seed, a number. Feed it the exact same parameters 1-9 and then the same seed, and it'll remake the level exactly. (Leave the seed parameter blank if you want the game to supply its own seed.)

- game now saves and loads the current seed at the start of a scene! This two immediate consequences: first, you can no longer juke the RNG, getting different results out of the same set of actions merely by reloading a battle; and second, reloading a procedurally generated battle will now produce the same exact battlefield no matter how many times you do it, as the seed will remain consistent between reloads.

- new dialogue action: SetSeed. This has one parameter: a number. When this action is run, the seed is set to your chosen number.

- new special character: -SEED-. The game will automatically replace this character with whatever the current seed value is. (Note that the seed value changes every time the game generates a random number, so you'll need this to find out the current seed even if you'd set the seed to something specific at the start of the battle!)

- new special character: -STARTSEED-. The game will automatically replace this with whatever the seed value was when the scene first loaded.

- updated the manual with documentation on seeds.

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- fixed bug where an incorrect Silithis ending shows up if you end the game with Silithis dead and Sarn Kamina alive.

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- added in a check to make sure the game doesn't accept non-numbers when loading up a saved seed. (If something that's not a number erroneously gets saved as the starting seed, the game will now just generate a new one.)

- added in code to have the game's menus adjust position to remain mid-screen when the game is scaling up its graphics.

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- fixed a bug in which the first character in the <CharacterData> section of the saved game file would mistakenly be saved as the starting seed, causing the game to behave as if they'd been wiped from the saved game entirely.

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released version 1.044

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Made a change to help me figure out what's going on with the display issues some people are having:

- You can now generate a log anywhere, not just when you're in battles.

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I've been experimenting with reworking the procedural level generation algorithm so that it doesn't require rooms of uniform size; I've got it mostly working pretty well now, though I expect that I'll be saving the improved algorithm for a different game, as it would likely break existing procedural levels in Telepath Tactics if I were to introduce it in an update.

Meanwhile, in proper Telepath Tactics news:

- added a check to the isAttackGrantedByEquipment method to prevent errors.

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- turned on logging during save file creation to help me catch bugs.

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- fixed a bug in which saving a game in a new slot would cause the game to freeze if the save in question did not contain a value for the starting seed.

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- fixed some issues with the game's camera behaviors related to scaled / unscaled fullscreen modes.

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released version 1.045