This are the release notes for H-World 0.1.8


There are a few new feaures included:

- The persistent home level required a facility to start new games.
  Starting anew game now cleans up persistent levels and saved games.

- Chest and similar containers. Can be opened with the 'o'pen 
  command. One chest type included so far. (Opening also works
  witht the previously existing bags and backpacks).

- Unidentified items and identify scrolls added. Currently all items
  are individuals, i.e. identifying one potions doesn't identify all
  potions of this class. ATM I'm not sure if this is desireable or not.

- A small addition to world display, it now can display height levels.
  It's nice but not terribly useful currently. Maybe later on height
  difference can block line of sight or provide partial cover against
  ranged attacks.


For more info, please read the readme.txt file and the old release
notes.


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Chronological list of changes since the last release:

24-Aug-03: CHANGE: debugging and balancing for release

17-Aug-03: CHANGE: if there is a saved game the program asks upon
                startup if the player wants to continue the old game
                or to start a new game. If there is no saved game
                always a new game is started.
                If the player starts a new game although an old saved
                game exists, all files related to the old game (i.e.
                saved persistent levels) are removed.

15-Aug-03: NEW: started to work on a 3D map display

14-Aug-03: NEW: Some levels now have sloped, wavy ground
           NEW: identifying items

04-Aug-03: NEW: view can now display height levels for landscape waves

28-Jul-03: CHANGE: modifications of world_view_t to suit the needs
                   of the colony game

21-Jul-03: CHANGE: full seperation of model and view classes. This makes
                   the view class nicely reuseable.

15-Jun-03: CHANGE: continued work on item selector

14-Jun-03: NEW: started suport for unidentified items

30-May-03: NEW: things can block movement (new "block_move" flag)

29-May-03: NEW: trade view can now handle bartering and paying with
                money, also mixtures are possible
           FIX: fixed some weird bugs that caused actions to be added
                twice to an actor (which finally lead to a double delete)

26-May-03: CHANGE: improved sword overlay image
                   improved fountain image
                   enlarged one bush and one tree type images
           NEW: if the PC enters a square with some items, the message
                "You see a XYZ" is displayed. 
                   
25-May-03: NEW: include feature for props files (nested files)
           NEW: started to work on support for persistent levels
                (home is now persistent, other levels are transient)
           NEW: 'o'pen command to open chests and containers
           NEW: new item: chest

24-May-03: FIX: fixed a bug that could crash the game if no usage
                was selected when the user typed 'u' (use item)
 
23-May-03: NEW: some tests with scaled tiles


written by Hansjörg Malthaner, Aug. 2003
Email: hansjoerg.malthaner@gmx.de