Two versions out the door. 0.0.4 and 0.0.4a:
0.0.4 changes:
* Character Creation functionality has now been incorporated into the main window and no longer uses an external DLL.
* The inventory screen has been redesigned.
* Multidrop functionality via the keyboard has been implemented (press 'd').
* Eating functionality via the keyboard has been implemented (press 'e')
* Added PseudoIDing of items held in the inventory for a certain amount of time.
* Added key summaries to the bottom of each subscreen.
* Monsters have had their hit points and damage increased.
* The application should now exit correctly and not hang around in memory.
* Upon levelling, two appropriate skill categeories for each class are now increased by 1.
* The chance of cursed items appearing has been more than doubled.
* Added an item view to display detailed item information from the inventory.
* Characters that do not know any magic can no longer access the spell screen.
* The character dump now displays the monster kills for the character.
* Monsters that have special plurals should now be referred to correctly in the plural form.
* Fixed a few minor spelling mistakes in the character dump and a few layout mistakes on the high-score screen.
* Female characters should no longer be referred to as "he" in the character dump.
* When digging a reminder is now displayed of the keys used.
* Drinking from fountains now uses a turn up.
* Monsters in zones are now scaled more appropriately.
* Not wearing any armour at all will significantly increase the rate at which the defense skill is learned.
* The character 'back' slot which was never used in game has been removed.
* Sneak attacks are now flagged in the message log.
* Thieves now get extra sneak-attack damage when using ranged weapons.
* The thievery skill now grants a chance to open and close doors without allowing monsters to react.
* Monsters that are carrying items no longer have their items disappear on death when killed in ranged combat.
* The change in 0.03 to not display messages upon opening and closing doors has been reversed.
* Trying to open or close doors when there are no doors in range will produce an appropriate message in the message log.
* Opening doors as part of movement will now cause a turn to pass.
* Tunnelling now takes only half as long.
* Tunnelling now displays a message indicating if it has been aborted due to nearby monsters.
* Attempting to tunnel through impassable walls now doesn't use up any time.
* Trying to dig on the town level results in a warning message.
* Walking into walls now uses up a turn.
* The rate at which subterfuge skills are learned has been dramatically increased.
* The rate at which ranged combat skill is learned has been dramatically increased.
* Trying to pick up an item with a full inventory no longer gives the message that an item has been successfully picked up.
* The message log now reports that Undead monsters are 'destroyed'and Outsider creatures are 'banished' instead of 'killed'.
* Identified items that are cursed now have 'Cursed' as an integral part of their name, e.g. they are called "A Cursed Longbow [-1,-1]" instead of "A Longbow [1, -1] (Cursed)".
* Unidentified artifacts have now the correct prefix in their name.
* Fixed a bug where an error would occur when trying to write a Hiscore to the HiScore table if the table was empty.
* Special terrain tiles are now described correctly inside an elemental invasion zone.
and 0.0.4a changes:
* Blocked repetitive keypressing whilst in character creation to avoid selecting multiple options with the same keypress.
* The various character creation steps can now be undone.
* Pressing [CTRL] on the background tab in character creation will now generate a random background.
* Half-Orcs are now Orcs everywhere in the game.
* Character Dumps should no longer report dwarven characters as halfings.
* Character files which belong to characters who have died are now moved to the morgue subdirectory.
* Upon death, a copy of the character dump is written to to the morgue subdirectory.
* Common items can now be pseudo-ided.
* Fixed a minor spacing error in automatically generated backgrounds.
Some of the 0.0.4a changes were made in direct response to comments on the blog, so I am reading them and this thread.
Now I've got this out of the way, I'm going to have to start on potions and scrolls, magic and saving and loading.
