Patch Notes; June 2024 (Q2)

Input changes

• -more- text acknowledgement may be done with any button
• removed finger-up acknowledgement in portrait mode
• removed middle-of-touchpad requirement in landscape mode
• Disabled touch area for version info
• Menus have navigation hint text
• Touchpad is greyscale
• history, minimap, and character show for the duration of finger-down
• removed show all inventory from the death screen

Gameplay

• Rewrite cave random generation (maps are no longer reduced to swiss cheese; and are navigable)
• Tombstone text on death
• Threat added to status affects, clarifying interrupts to rest and run
• Shield bash removed due to long term non-use
• Highlight-on-look (tap gameplay area)
• Color & lighting palette update
• Stairs avoid boundary rock adjacency for better visibility on minimap
• Message text is white for this turn; grey for previous turns
• UI displays number of turns elapsed since last player input

Bugfixes

• Game simulation rewind:
• desync in wall/rubble tunneling via wall-bumping
• desync in Rest when preceding certain commands (look, message history)
• desync in code using viewport: detect monster, wand of light, tunneling
• Touching the rotation lock no longer advances gameplay
• Monster spell, Summon: fixes to subsequent player distance calculations
• Spell cancellation does not cost mana/turn (identification, recharge)
• Unknown prayers do not cost a turn.

Optimizations

• Faster simulation for resume/undo (predraw() logic is not required)
• Faster screen refresh on menu navigation & window resume
• Dead characters no longer perform midpoint save on exit
• Minimap:
• Removed unnecessary copy of minimap
• Pixel transfer to texture during predraw
• Skip pixle conversion on supported GPUs
• Scaling on GPU
• Unified code path for fullscreen map / minimap
• Rewrite creature update loop
• Rewrite monster lighting: use logic, no cached state

Other

• Steam support for Windows, Linux, and Apple Silicon Desktops

Build 325

Gameplay

• Spell area of affect visualization
• Low mana cast confirmation

Extra features menu

• ASCII gameplay renderer
• hand_swap option to mirror the user interface
• vsync option
• access to zoom, orientation_lock, renderer information, version information

Bugfixes

• Look at secret door
• Block spell/prayer with low constitution
• Character deletion (issue in prior q2 build)

Optimization

• Rewrite glyph rendering to use a single texture

Build 330

• Bugfix magic rendering (memstomp)
• Dpad options for color and sensitivity
• Dpad default to color
• Vsync default to off all platforms
• External storage test (write/read/delete) displays path as well.