This are the release notes for H-World 0.0.3


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

- the player charcter can now pick up and drop items
- a new dungeon, the temple
- a new monster type, the skeletons
- a small village is created near the player start location but the 
  houses serve no purpose yet
- a skill system was begun, but is not finished yet
- if a shield is worn, the player character uses the shield to block
  attacks
- a new font, hopefully better readable

(The entrances of the caves and the temple are to the west of the 
players starting location, the entrance of the castle is directly
south. The village is found a bit southern of the castle entrance)


For more info, please read the readme.txt file and the release notes
of H-World 0.0.2

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


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.


**
Chronological list of changes since the last release:

18-Mar-02: FIX: bugfix for usage panel display
           Released H-World 0.0.3
           TIME: 2:00 h

17-Mar-02: NEW: shield block implemented
           NEW: more config options for castle dungeon type
           NEW: randomly generated items to be found in the levels
           NEW: new monster type: skeleton
           TIME: 3:00 h

14-Mar-02: NEW: pickup action finished
           NEW: new font
           TIME: 1:30 h

13-Mar-02: NEW: drop location to inventory added. Things dropped on the
                drop location will be dropped on the sqaure of the player
           NEW: pick-up action continued (unfinished)
           TIME: 1:00 h

11-Mar-02: NEW: basic town building code works now
           TIME: 2:00 h

10-Mar-02: NEW: support for larger images/tiles (128x128)
           NEW: more town building code
           TIME: 4:00 h

09-Mar-02: NEW: town roads
           TIME: 1:00 h

08-Mar-02: NEW: started code for town
           TIME: 0:30 h

24-Feb-02: NEW: code for endless levels added
           TIME: 2:30 h

30-Jan-02: NEW: added more skills, started to link combat system and skill
                system.
           NEW: completed skill info window
           TIME: 1:30 h

29-Jan-02: NEW: started work on skill system
           TIME: 1:00 h

27-Jan-02: NEW: UI for pickup action
           CHANGE: Usage panel now lists all actions
           TIME: 0:45 h

20-Jan-02: FIX: added initialization of pointer members to constructor of
                thing_t class
           NEW: extended thing factory to parse usages
           NEW: started to write pick_thing usage to pick up things
           TIME: 0:45 h


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