This are the release notes for H-World 0.0.2


Since the last release a few more features have been finished:

- a basic monster AI for instinct driven monsters
- a combat system
- two monster types to test the AI and the combat system.

There are two monster types, tiger bugs, which hunt alone and fearless,
and jackals which only attack as a pack, but are too afraid of the player
to attack him alone.

The combat system does not yet depend on the limb system, but is a 
classical hitpoint based system. H-World features two types of hitpoints:
- blunt damage (BP)
- cut damage (CP)

Currently a thing just dies if one of the BP and CP drop to 0, later on it is 
planned to let thing only die if the CP drop to 0 and get unconscious if the
BP drop to 0. 


The player can't die in this release, if one of BP or CP drop to 0 the
game will restore them to 9999.


A few changes occured: the game itself is now completely keyboard 
controlled, only the inventory window requires the mouse.


The windows version uses to have little stalls every few seconds. If this
annoys you, just minimize the debug (console) window. At times there is very 
much debug output written, minimizing the debug window will speed up the
program during such operations, too.


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Chronological list of changes since the last release:

05-Jan-01: FIX: fixed a bug in level destruction code (executed before 
                loading a new level).
           FIX: fixed a bug in door creation code (open doors still look wrong)
	   NEW: new monster type: Small naga (appears in the castle)
	   NEW: cave levels now contain tiger bugs, too.
	   NEW: released version 0.0.2
	   BUG: the windows version crashes at times while fighting (the
                linux version seems to be unaffected by this problem).
           TIME: 3:30 h

04-Jan-01: FIX: fixed a bug in AI code (fear reduction accumulated over time)
           NEW: basic combat system
           CHANGE: performance optimization, about 10% speedup
           TIME: 5:00 h

03-Jan-01: NEW: basic monster AI for instinct driven monsters works
           TIME: 3:00 h

02-Jan-01: NEW: started work on AI action for attacks
	   NEW: started work on second monster type: Tiger bug
           TIME: 2:00 h

01-Jan-01: NEW: started work on first monster type: Jackal
           TIME: 3:00 h

30-Dec-01: NEW: Used persistence layer to store and load the map (not
                completely working yet)
           TIME: 3:00 h

29-Dec-01: NEW: Persistence layer for object network storage
           TIME: 4:00 h


written by Hansjörg Malthaner, January 2002
Email: hansjoerg.malthaner@gmx.de