Because technology should be the means, not the end.
A desire not to butt into other people’s business is eighty percent of all human wisdom.
Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
In this chapter, I do some important code review of the MapLevel class which manages map construction and functions within the game. I also track down a few more bugs and look at some testing strategies specific to this roguelike game. Finally, I show how bugs can be accidently introduced through otherwise well-meaning code maintenance.
It’s time to add more inventory items but first we need a way to define their abilities without getting lost in the code.
For this update, I decided to knock out a couple of quick features – the Play Again feature and the spawning of new monsters mid-level. A couple of bugs got squashed along the way.
The game has a solid foundation and now we start building on it. There are still a lot of features to finish and bugs to work out along the way, especially the individual inventory items that will help the player survive in the dungeons.