Fame 0.9.9 released!

Working on the new World Map I've had some headache about the content that currently fills up the game's world. Not because there's so little content - I had known it before. It's because the current content is presented in a very poor way. A World Map is typically the most suitable thing for this role. In Fame 0.9.8 the World Map

I had lot of thoughts about procedurally generated content. This has been inspired by another game project, but also by my old notes complaining about numerous problems. The subject is actually never closed in a roguelike game, but this particular game hasn't even reached the playability treshold and I believe that problems with procedural generation have contributed big time here. One thing that has already been fixed are partially predefined locations. There were 8 such locations in Fame 0.9.8 (6 in the Forest Dungeon and 2 in the Altar of Fire) and they all looked the same - the procedural part to the left, the predefined part to the right. Very boring. Now the predefined part is placed randomly and can be of any (almost) size. The only limitation is that the part must have rectangular shape. I'm very satisfied with the result and most likely this change will increase the total number of partially predefined locations in the game, which, in turn, should make it more interesting.

Another matter is generation of items and monsters. The old algorithm worked, but it did not give the player the feeling that encountered items and monsters are consistent with the difficulty level of the current location. The new algorithm uses normal distribution and should be much better (although it probably could use some tweaking).