WIP: Thumgeon v2.1 fixes #243
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- Use button API. - Simplify rendering.
- Optimize code for end of game. - Remove unnecessary garbage collection. - Use Thumby API for button poling.
- Simplify code and use Thumby button API where possible. - Combine `monsterUpdate()` with `turnCounter` into new `updateTurn` function, to reduce code duplication. - Performance: Monster updates iterate over smaller 3x7 active area (not 5x9). - Refactor monster movement code. - Refactor player movement code and some menu navigation. - Refactor inventory item dropping code.
- Shorten code where menu items are highlighted.
- Remove reference to GP since we now use `$`.
Ultimate fix for exits and other great things by @AyreGuitar ! Supported by @seriuqS-nitsuA (A.G.S). - Spawn floor exit (stairs) first, using the last room generated. Also fix position to lower-right corner. This ensures the exit is always viable. - Remove `ensureExit()` function. - Refactor door generation for readability and code size. @ace-dent. - Prevent spawning a shop in the first room, to avoid overwriting the Welcome sign. - Simplify placement of treasure chests; use `getRandomFreePosition()`. - Populate all fixed position objects first in a room (exit > shop > sign), to prevent overwriting randomly placed ones. Co-authored-by: AyreGuitar <[email protected]>
- Pre-equip `basicswd` and `pants` at the start of the game. By @AyreGuitar and @seriuqS-nitsuA (A.G.S). - Restore chests to 10% chance of spawning. - Tweak probabilities for enemy spawning. First enemy is reduced to 40% chance (was 50%). This gives overall odds of: 0 Enemies ~47% or ~9 rooms in 18 room level; 1 Enemy ~44% / ~8 in 18 rooms; 2 Enemies ~8% / ~1 in 18 rooms. Co-authored-by: AyreGuitar <[email protected]>
- When moving the player to a new floor, use the existing `getRandomFreePosition()`. - Use less code to check for doors.
- Simplify and de-duplicate code for spawning loot. Now only generate *one* piece of loot in a room, with three possible tiers: basic (88% chance), good (10%) or ultra (2%). Overall chance of any loot spawning is 35% per room. - Add some lists of items with separate `itemLevel`s. This may help future refactoring. - Bonus: Trial slower clock speed (24 vs 48MHz), to extend battery life.
- Fix gold to 4 digits `9999`max, to prevent overdrawing a South doorway. - Reduce gold from chests, but add a 1 in 100 jackpot! - Bonus: overclock CPU when ascending stairs to next floor; removes slight delay.
- Difficulty tuning for monsters: Now 50% chance of a monster, and 1 in 10 monster rooms can have a ‘horde’ (1-2 extra monsters based on Floor). Hordes cannot occur in the first dungeon room. - Combined `a` and `b` monster spawning code, to give better control over statistics. - Increase chance of a Chest from 10 > 15%. The gold yield was decreased in an earlier commit to keep balance.
- Change loot odds: 84% basic, 14% good, 2 ultra (was 88-10-2). Balanced better loot, by spawning less often (35 > 33% chance). - Comment out unused `??? x` items. - Drop gold symbol in HUD, for larger values. This makes more space for South Doors.
- Reduce maximum new doors spawned per room, from 3 to 2. This makes levels less sprawling and easier to navigate. Statistically it is closer to the original v1 game.
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Thumgeonbutton code to use API #189.