[DM-dev] DungeonMaker v 1.1 released

[Henningsen <pe...@al...>]

Hello everyone,

        I am pleased to announce that I'm back to coding and have released a
new version of the DungeonMaker. The only difference to version 1.0 is that
dungeons are not rendered to text files any more, but graphically to an
SDL-surface. That means you need SDL installed to run the new DungeonMaker,
but you'll get a much better view of how the dungeons look. I'm using SDL
1.08, but try whichever version you have, I only make a few very basic
SDL-calls.

        Version 1.2 is almost ready to go too, and shows the dungeon
creation process as a movie. This gives very good insight into the
intricacies of dungeon creation, and is a great help for dungeon design. You
might want to wait for that, it is really very cool to watch the dungeons
grow. 1.1 has mostly been put on the net for the record, to document the
switchover to SDL with the minimum amount of other code. The online manual
includes a tutorial on the changeover from 1.0 to 1.1, focusing on SDL. 

        After version 1.2 I will probably re-write the program from scratch,
incorporating all the ideas I've had over the summer. I'm very enthusiastic,
and hungry for coding after a long summer as a home builder.

Take care,
Peter Henningsen
alifegames.com