Re^2: Wizard v1.2

How come when I kill Demons in combat, I only get 3 gold, but when I zap them with a spell, I get 6?

Also, I hit a "deep recursion" at one point, which I thought was odd, but it didn't affect gameplay, which is, of course, smooth and realistic. :-)

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Re^3: Wizard v1.2 by wazoox (Prior) on May 09, 2005 at 19:27 UTC
Hmmm, looks like a bug :) For the deep recursion problem, I didn't really understand what happened, but I didn't care too much because it works fine anyway :) BTW I'm surprised to see that there so few text-based adventure games on perlmonks, and I started working on it more seriously :)	[reply]
Re^4: Wizard v1.2 by Roy Johnson (Monsignor) on May 09, 2005 at 20:51 UTC
The deep recursion is due to, well, everything recursing. You have battle calling freedale, which calls battle, which calls toad, which calls.... I've revamped the game quite a bit. I got rid of the recursion, in favor of (usually) `redo`. Freedale is like a main event loop, and everything else is called from there, and eventually returns to there. I introduced some randomness into how much gold you get, gave each zone a limited supply of monsters (and limited the types), got rid of the "you don't find any monsters" thing, added a couple of jokes, changed formatting, just bunches of stuff. Still, it's basically the same game. Read more... (9 kB)	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: Wizard v1.2 by wazoox (Prior) on May 10, 2005 at 07:09 UTC
Wow, nice improvements :) update: However you forgot some \n here and there! ;) I just added that... Read more... (9 kB)	[reply] [d/l]