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
Not all scrolls and potions are helpful in a roguelike but that’s part of the fun … more or less. In this update, I add a mix of scrolls including Remove Curse, a frustratingly rare item that you’ll want after putting on the wrong armor and Aggravate Monsters which wil make your life on the level a lot more exciting. As before, every new scroll leads to a re-examination of the code.
The Scroll of Confuse Monster is a scroll that gives the player the power to confuse the next monster they attack for a certain number of turns and then the monster’s confusion lasts a certain number of turns so there are multiple steps to tackle here.
It’s time to add more inventory items but first we need a way to define their abilities without getting lost in the code.
The method for processing user commands was getting out of control so I decided on some creative use of the Dictionary class to automate things.
In this chapter, I review the access modifiers available in C# and how they affect where properties and procedures can be accessed in the code.
