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| {{game-stable| name = Dweller | | {{game-stable| name = Dweller |
| |developer = Bjorn Ritzl (formerly Bergstrom) | | |developer = [[User:Bjorn|Björn Ritzl (formerly Bergström)]] |
| |theme = [[Fantasy]] | | |theme = [[Fantasy]] |
| |influences = [[Angband]], [[Crawl]] | | |influences = [[Angband]], [[Crawl]] |
| |released = Aug 13, 2003 | | |released = Aug 13, 2003 |
| |relver = ? | | |relver = ? |
| |updated = See [http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php?title=Dweller#Change_log Change log] | | |updated = June 12, 2014 (1.25.9) |
| |updver = | | |updver = |
| |language = [[Java]] Micro edition (J2ME) and Standard edition (J2SE) | | |language = [[Java]] Micro edition (J2ME) and Standard edition (J2SE) |
| |platforms = J2ME MIDP2.0 enabled handsets, J2SE enabled computers, Google Android 1.5+ enabled handsets | | |platforms = J2ME MIDP2.0 enabled handsets, J2SE enabled computers, Google Android 1.5+ enabled handsets |
| |licensing = [[Freeware]], [[Closed Source]] | | |licensing = [[Freeware]], [[Closed source]] |
| |interface = [[Tiles]], [[Keypad]], [[Stylus]], [[Mouse]] | | |interface = [[Tiles]], [[Keypad]], [[Stylus]], [[Mouse]] |
| |length = 1 hour | | |length = 1 hour |
| |site = This is the | | |site = http://www.dwellergame.com |
| }} | | }} |
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| '''''Dweller''''' is the first roguelike created for java enabled cellphones. The project was [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.roguelike.development/browse_thread/thread/be1d4e19902a9f3e/4a20ccaf47b3de6d?q=Dweller+group:rec.games.roguelike.*+author:Bj%C3%B6rn#4a20ccaf47b3de6d announced] and a first alpha version was released on the 12th of August 2003. | | '''''Dweller''''' is the first roguelike created for Java-enabled phones. The project was [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.roguelike.development/browse_thread/thread/be1d4e19902a9f3e/4a20ccaf47b3de6d?q=Dweller+group:rec.games.roguelike.*+author:Bj%C3%B6rn#4a20ccaf47b3de6d announced] and a first alpha version was released on the 12th of August 2003. |
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| == Description ==
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| ''Dweller'' is a fantasy roguelike for Java enabled cellphones. A version for desktop computers also exist, but the main focus of development is for mobile platforms. Some of its features are:
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| * Three player classes, the Warrior, the Wizard and the Ranger
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| * A simple end goal, kill the Goblin king!
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| * Random [[dungeon]]s (with optional persistence)
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| * Several different [[monster]]s (Goblins, Orcs, Trolls, Oozes, Vampires, Rats, Bats, Skeletons and so on) with simple AI
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| * [[Item]]s, item enchants and named artifact items
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| * Merchant to buy and sell items from/to
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| * Inventory and equipment
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| * [[Spell]]s and ranged [[weapon]]s
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| * [[FOV]]
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| * Save/Load
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| * Old school pixel graphics and animations
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| * Touch screen support
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| ''Dweller'' is designed to run on any MIDP2 or Android OS 1.5+ enabled handset. Older versions also work on MIDP1 handsets, but in 2009 MIDP1 support was abandoned.
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| == Download and Installation instructions==
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| === Android version ===
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| Dweller for Android can be downloaded for free from the Android Market. Do a search for 'Dweller' to find it or use this market link:
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| http://www.roguelikedevelopment.org/dweller/dwellerqrcode.png market://search?q=pname:org.roguelikedevelopment.dweller.android or https://market.android.com/details?id=org.roguelikedevelopment.dweller.android
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| === Mobile version (J2ME) ===
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| The easiest way to get Dweller installed on your phone is to point your handsets browser to the Dweller WML page at http://www.roguelikedevelopment.org/dweller/index.wml
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| You can also download the JAR and JAD files required to install the game here:
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| * [http://www.roguelikedevelopment.org/dweller/Dweller.jar Dweller JAR]
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| * [http://www.roguelikedevelopment.org/dweller/Dweller.jad Dweller JAD]
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| Old versions of the game can be downloaded from
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| http://www.roguelikedevelopment.org/dweller/old
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| === Desktop version (J2SE) ===
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| Download the Dweller J2SE JAR [http://www.roguelikedevelopment.org/dweller/DwellerJ2SE.jar here]. Run it by opening a command prompt and type
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| java -jar DwellerJ2SE.jar
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| You can also start the game straight away from your browser using Java Web Start. Click [http://www.roguelikedevelopment.org/dweller/DwellerJ2SE.jnlp here] to play now!
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| == Donate ==
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| Dweller is free to download and play, but it is also a one-man effort to bring a full featured roguelike to cellphones and other mobile devices. If you like the game please consider sending a donation:
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| [https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=7ALL9KCTJSXMQ Make a PayPal donation!] http://www.roguelikedevelopment.org/btn_donateCC_LG.gif
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| == Screenshots == | | == Screenshots == |
| 176x220 version
| | http://files.dwellergame.com/screenshots/images/320x480_2.png |
| http://www.roguelikedevelopment.org/dweller/screens/176x220_1.png | | http://files.dwellergame.com/screenshots/images/320x480_4.png |
| http://www.roguelikedevelopment.org/dweller/screens/176x220_2.png
| | http://files.dwellergame.com/screenshots/images/320x480_3.png |
| http://www.roguelikedevelopment.org/dweller/screens/176x220_3.png
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| 320x480 version
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| http://www.roguelikedevelopment.org/dweller/screens/320x480_2.png
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| http://www.roguelikedevelopment.org/dweller/screens/320x480_4.png | |
| http://www.roguelikedevelopment.org/dweller/screens/320x480_3.png | |
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| == How to Play ==
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| Note: All keys can be redefined within the game to better suit your handset. Since mobile phones have a somewhat limited set of input options Dweller also has a rather simplistic interface and way of game play. The game offers the following set of commands:
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| * Movement (one command for each direction)
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| * Interact (pick something up, open a chest, ranged attack on a targeted monster, descend stairs etc)
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| * Targeting (look around on the map and target distant monsters)
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| * Cycle target (only while in targeting mode)
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| * Exit/Cancel (closes a menu or leaves targeting mode)
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| * Inventory
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| * Main Menu
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| === Movement ===
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| Use the Movement commands to move. If you have a touch screen enabled handset just tap on the screen in the direction you wish to move. Note: Orthogonal and diagonal moves take the same amount of time.
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| === Combat ===
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| Move into monsters to attack them. Use [[Dweller#Targeting|targeting mode]] to attack with ranged weapons.
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| === Doors ===
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| Move into doors to open them. Use [[Dweller#Targeting|targeting mode]] to close them.
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| === Interact with items on the ground ===
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| Use the Interact command to stand still and search, pickup items, open chests and ascend/descend stairs. If you have a touch screen enabled handset just tap on the player character to interact with something on the ground below you.
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| === Targeting ===
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| Use the Targeting command to switch to Targeting mode. While in Targeting mode you can use the Movement commands to move a cursor around on the map.
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| Press the Targeting command multiple times to cycle between equipment or plain inspection mode. If you have a touch screen enabled handset tap and hold for half a second to cycle equipment.
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| Use the Cycle Target command to cycle between visible targets.
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| Use the Interact command to interact with selected target using the selected equipment (or no equipment to inpsect a monster/item or close a door). If you have a touch screen enabled handset just tap on a target to immediately Interact with it.
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| Use the Exit command to go back to movement mode again. If you have a touch screen enabled handset tap the bottom of the screen to go back to movement mode again.
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| === Menu ===
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| Use Menu command to bring up the game menu (inventory, character info, new game, save/load etc). If you have a touch screen enabled handset simply tap the bottom of the screen to open the menu.
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| Use the Menu command again to cancel/go back from the current menu. If you have a touch screen enabled handset drag left to cancel/go back from the current menu.
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| === Inventory ===
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| You can access the Inventory from the main menu or by using the Inventory command. Touch screen uses have to go via the main menu to access the inventory.
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| == Character stats ==
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| Your character has four attributes; Attack, Defense, Magic and Speed. When displayed ingame the are shown as Attack/Defence/Magic/Speed.
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| * Attack determines chance of doing damage in combat and the amount of damage that can be done in melee combat. Attack can be increased by using weapons and other items found in the dungeon.
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| * Defense determines your chance of negating incoming damage.
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| * Magic determines your ability to use magic items and deal damage with spell. It also increases your chances of resisting magic attacks.
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| * Speed determines the speed by which you act, allowing you to attack and move more often than your opponents.
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| Besides the four attributes your character has Hit Points (Magic Points was removed in a recent version). When Hit Points reach 0 you die and have to start over.
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| == Inventory and Equipment ==
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| The inventory shows all carried and equiped items. Available equipment slots are:
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| * Melee Weapon
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| * Missile Weapon and ammo
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| * Armour
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| * Shield
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| * Helmet
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| * Boots
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| * Ring
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| * Amulet
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| * Cloak
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| * Trinket (wand or similar)
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| * Spell book
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| Use your inventory to equip/remove/drop/examine items you are carrying. Some weapons require both hands to use, thus preventing the use of a shield.
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| == Testimonies and reviews ==
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| ''"This game takes me back to when I was a kid, keep up the great work!"'' - wezman
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| ''"Just started playing Dweller on my new phone and it seems like a pretty nifty game :) Simple enough to pick up quickly and easy to control despite the lack of keys available."'' - daniel andersen
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| ''"I really love to play roguelikes and I think that dweller is a superb idea THX for all those who developed dweller for making it and working on it. If I can help just let me know ;)"'' - haloocyn
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| ''"Awesome game!!! I've been playing your game since your very first version and i always check your site for new version. It rocks!"'' - Ethaniel
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| ''"IT ROXX!!!"'' - mastaG
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| ''"Far more addictive than the all singing/dancing multi-coloured "Bomberman" that I spent ????5 on downloading. Well found. :)"'' - www.stumbleupon.com
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| ''"I think is the best Java Game I have ever seen, so addictive, so beautiful, and free."'' - Roberto
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| ''"Dweller is surely the best cellular game i've seen; really good job!! Thanks!"'' - Ci00rix
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| DroidGamers review
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| http://www.droidgamers.com/index.php/game-news/android-game-news/383-dweller-rpg
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| Article on Dweller at AtomicMPC
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| http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/article.asp?CIID=24903
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| And of course Rhialto's Dweller fanpage (thanks!)
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| http://rhialto.com/Dweller/
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| == Blog and Social Media==
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| Follow Dweller development on my blog:
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| http://peeksandpokes.blogspot.com/search/label/dweller
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| RSS Feed with Dweller related posts:
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| http://peeksandpokes.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/-/dweller
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| http://badge.facebook.com/badge/148235881890074.1223.1851685123.png
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| [http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dweller/148235881890074 Dweller on Facebook]
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| == Known handset issues ==
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| * On some handsets the key names for joypad and similar non numeric keys aren't shown when using Defined Keys and Show Commands
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| * 2009-09: On HTC Dash handsets the player is rendered at the bottom of the screen. Probably caused by the handset reporting an incorrect(?) screen height
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| == Todo list and ideas==
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| User experience
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| * Add more in-game help
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| Bugs
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| * It should be possible to disarm traps even if there is an item on the map cell where the trap is.
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| * Killing a sleeping monster resulted in a floating z in the same cell on any level (1.8.3)
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| * No healer showed up in my game (1.8.3) Merchant and neutral rats only
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| * When a bow is not equipped through selling equipped bow to Merchant, causes ERROR Exception in main loop java.lang.NullPointerException with no LOG ENTRIES: (blank) when targeting (1.8.3), Equipping bow solves
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| Character and character progression
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| * Sometimes give passive abilities on level up. The Warrior has a chance to knock-back enemies. The Ranger has a chance to temporarily pin enemies to the ground using arrows (effectively a stun). The Wizard has a chance to drain life from a killed monster.
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| * Achievements (kill n monsters, kill n monsters of a certain type, accumulate x gold etc). Give in-game benefits or add to final score.
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| * Add the option to name the player character
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| Death/Win
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| * Improve "game over" screen
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| * Possibly add an item (soulwell, soulgem or similar) that when dead will be consumed and return you to life on the surface with your equipment (and possible with a small loss of stats).
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| Gameplay
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| * Possibly add difficulty levels (Easy, Normal, Hard). Maybe prevent use of stairs up on Hard or something? No starting inventory? Separate highscore tables (or a single one with a score bonus depending on difficulty).
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| Inventory
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| * Switch to a grid system
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| * Make encumbrance more readily available/viewable as it affects game play but is buried on character menu
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| Items
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| * Other lightsources (fires, torches)
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| * More items for the ranger. Concussive arrows (stuns opponent), Explosive arrows (knockback)
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| * Add level/stat restrictions to items
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| * Combine/transmute items (two weak potions = one strong, one healing potion and some herbs = stat gain potion etc)
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| * Destroy items
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| Interface
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| * No suggestions at the moment
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| Map
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| * Perhaps add several stairs up/down, possibly to different branches ("You see a staircase leading down to the sewers", "You see a staircase leading down to a dungeon")
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| * Sewers: Add junk that can be searched for items (can spawn monsters and/or cause disease)
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| * New map type: Catacombs. Undead monsters mostly. Coffins that can be opened for loot/monsters
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| * New map elements: Altar (sacrifice items to gain favors), Teleporter, Fountain (healing, antidote, mutation, poison)
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| * Not possible to disarm traps if an item is on the same position
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| * Doors only unlockable by special keys
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| * Sokoban style rooms that when completed opens a door to a treasure room
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| Merchant
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| * No suggestions at the moment
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| Monsters
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| * Add some kind of danger assessment to monsters (Harmless, Weak, Even, Dangerous, Deadly etc)
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| * Immobile monsters: Statues, Deadly plants
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| * More monsters!
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| * Monsters should avoid undiscovered traps (they already avoid discovered traps)
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| * Charmed/summoned monster AI need to be improved
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| * Monsters (esp. charmed ones) should follow up/down stairs
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| Performance
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| * Screen flickers on some handsets due to too frequent redraws of too much of the screen (ex. Nokia N97Mini)
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| Quests
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| * Add mini quests
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| Social Networking and External systems
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| * Add Facebook support (post Dweller highscores to a users FB page, when finding an artifact weapon and so on
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| * Char dump to SMS/Mail/Webpage/Social Media Site
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| * Possible put the game on Handster.com, Mobango.com and Appoke
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| * OpenFeint
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| Spells
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| * Curse (decreases chance of attacking/casting spells or maybe preventing items from being removed)
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| * Acid (damages inventory and/or equipment)
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| Targeting
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| * Cycle between all available items (scrolls, books, wands)
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| System
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| * Add ability to specify save file location (for instance to use a Dropbox folder)
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| SUGGESTIONS AND IDEAS THAT HAVE BEEN DISCARDED
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| * Place stairs further apart. Note: There is nothing wrong with having stairs close. The player does not need to be forced to explore the whole dungeon as it in many aspects already is a necessity to survive and gear up before going deeper.
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| * Investigate if a Rest command should be added (regain HP with the risk of monsters ambushing). Note: There is no real need for this anymore as you have the merchant on the first level to buy healing potions from. Even with the risk of being ambushed when resting it would make the game too easy.
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| == Change log ==
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| <pre>
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| Next version
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| NEW Monsters will flow around obstacles a bit better than before
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| 2012-01-11 v.1.15.0
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| NEW The Healer now offers to cleanse Slowing effects
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| NEW Added a second level to the maze
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| NEW The healer now offer different strengths on the heals
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| CHANGE The merchant will stock up on basic inventory faster
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| CHANGE Extinguished braziers can be lit again by bumping in to them
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| CHANGE Removed the double (and triple) healing message when using items that provide healing
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| FIX Wraith slowing triggered the purple spell animation on each move
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| FIX Graphical glitch when using a Wand of Mapping in the forest
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| FIX There was a problem with magic resistance not working as it should
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| 2012-01-01 v.1.14.0
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| NEW Side branch with a mini-boss
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| NEW Different stair variants depending on where they lead
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| NEW Pushable stones will disappear if pushed onto an open trapdoor or stairs down
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| CHANGE Trap doors will not be generated on the level above the halls of the goblin king
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| CHANGE Doors are more likely to be generated
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| FIX Scrolls of recall incorrectly required a target.
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| 2011-12-28 v.1.13.3
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| CHANGE When a quest gives a reward it is automatically added to the player's inventory even if it takes the player above the carrying capacity
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| FIX Pushable stone blocks were much too frequent due to some debug code being left when doing the release
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| 2011-12-22 v.1.13.2
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| CHANGE The quickslot help message will not be shown if you have switched of help messages in the settings
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| CHANGE Menu item height increased on touchscreen devices to reduce risk of misclicks
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| FIX Double item descriptions when browsing merchant goods
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| FIX Pushable stones could be pushed on top of stairs and swap position with the stairs and cause a crash when the stairs were used
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| FIX It is now possible to wrap around in menues again
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| 2011-12-10 v.1.13.1
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| CHANGE On J2ME devices the messages will now be drawn without a background color to make more of the map visible
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| FIX The problem with double quests in quest giver lists has been solved
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| FIX Quest givers standing on a tree gave a weird error message66
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| FIX Quests and item info could sometimes end up being to high and blocking actual menu choices. These areas of text are now scrollable
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| FIX On Android any text with shadow was rendering the shadow as white
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| 2011-12-08 v.1.13.0
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| NEW Graphics for triggered traps
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| NEW You can now bump into bookshelves to get a random book
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| NEW Added key bindings for all quickslots
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| NEW Added one new quest with a unique reward
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| NEW The cursor in targeting mode shows if you're targeting with a bow or wand
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| CHANGE Added a max range to missile weapons
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| CHANGE Item stats are only shown at the top of the item menu on large screen devices
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| FIX Items that aren't supposed to be generated could end up in the merchant inventory
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| FIX It was possible to completely mess up the key configuration on J2ME devices
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| 2011-12-03 v.1.12.0
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| NEW Quest system with the Goblin King and a few starting quests (more to come!)
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| NEW World generation has been improved and the dungeon will now be kept thematically intact with optional side-branches (not done yet)
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| NEW A couple of new map tiles for the dungeon (one with a static light source)
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| NEW The minimap visibility is remembered between sessions
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| NEW Added descriptions to some potions
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| NEW Added two unique items
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| NEW Monsters start in an idle state. It is first when they notice the player that the start to attack
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| CHANGE Item info for items in the inventory is shown in the item menu instead of after selecting Examine (except on small screens)
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| CHANGE When examining an item of the same type that you are already equipping the stat values of the equipped item will be shown next to the examined item's stats
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| FIX Help popups weren't always shown when they should be
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| FIX Scrolls of Enchant could fail and still mention that the item starts to glow
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| 2011-11-03 v.1.11.4
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| CHANGE The stats of missile weapons and ammo wasn't shown on the Examine screen. Since the stats are important to determine attack effiency they have been added.
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| CHANGE Going back from the buy/sell menu brings you to the inventory category you came from and not to the start of the inventory
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| CHANGE The character menu button will show the correct character class and not always the warrior
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| FIX Your carried gold is now properly displayed when buying/selling items
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| FIX The map wasn't properly centered (it was off by one both horizontally and vertically)
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| FIX Cursor movement using mouse/touch wasn't working as expected
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| FIX You can now disarm a trap even if there's an item on the same cell
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| FIX The message box at the top of the screen started to scroll after scrolling on the map
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| FIX Sometimes the width of menu items were too long and didn't wrap properly causing text to go off the screen
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| FIX Your gold will not show up in the inventory when selling to a merchant
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| FIX The desktop version didn't redraw the screen after being brought back from a minimized state
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| FIX Scrolls of Enchant were broken
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| 2011-10-28 v.1.11.3
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| FIX Touch/click momevement issues in portrait mode when the map was scrolled and the player was off-center
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| FIX Rendering issues when the map was scrolled and the player was off-center
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| FIX Fixed the description of Potion of Clairvoyance
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| 2011-10-28 v.1.11.2 (J2ME only)
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| FIX Fixed a bug with tile scaling for J2ME
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| 2011-10-28 v.11.1
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| NEW Added tile scaling support to the J2ME version. Experimental and it needs user feedback!
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| NEW It is now possible to drag the map to look around
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| 2011-10-27 v.11.0
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| CHANGE I've changed the way item and monster data is loaded to prevent save games from becoming invalidated by minor changes to the data
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| CHANGE Reduced likelihood of poison being triggered, it was too powerful as it was before
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| FIX Issues with popups and keypad/keyboard input solved
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| FIX The game now correctly remembers if you have an unspent level up (for instance when switching orientation on Android)
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| 2011-09-28 v.1.10.6
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| FIX The message history is now available again
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| FIX Some lines of text in textboxes were sometimes incorrectly hidden
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| 2011-09-23 v.1.10.5
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| CHANGE The define and show keys view has been combined and you can now redefine individual keys instead of having to define all keys at once
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| FIX Layering of UI components was not correct. On small screens some components overlapped and the wrong component handled input
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| 2011-09-23 v.1.10.4
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| CHANGE Added the <More> message prompt again
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| FIX The cause of the performance issues have been found and corrected
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| 2011-09-22 v.1.10.3
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| FIX A couple more performance tweaks. Please send in feedback if the game is still sluggish!
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| 2011-09-22 v.1.10.2
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| CHANGE Made Vampire Bats and Spiders a little less dangerous
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| FIX Clicking on the action bar at the bottom of the screen in portrait mode moved the player
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| FIX Several big performance improvements
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| 2011-09-20 v.1.10.1
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| FIX Input issues preventing movement without a d-pad
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| FIX Fixed an issue that prevented start of a new game after death
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| 2011-09-18 v.1.10.0
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| IMPORTANT The J2ME version now require CLDC 1.1 support (was CLDC 1.0)
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| NEW A lot of changes have been done to the user interface, but there is much more to come!
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| NEW Your current position on the minimap will blink to make it easier to find
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| NEW It is now possible to bind a key to show/hide the minimap
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| NEW "Tip of the day" will be shown on the loading screen
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| NEW Quickslots for easy item access
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| CHANGE Changed the fireball cast animation
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| CHANGE The minimap will be smaller on large screens and always positioned in the top left corner
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| CHANGE Undead are immune to poison attacks
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| CHANGE Poison has now become more lethal as it ticks for damage each turn unless resisted
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| CHANGE D-pad is now semi transparent to not cover vital things on the map
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| FIX Trader and healer names were always the same after a clean installation of the game
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| FIX Improved message feedback when trying to equip an illegal combo of items
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| FIX It is no longer possible for the player character to be charmed/pacified by a dark wizard
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| FIX Trap doors will not be generated at the bottom of the dungeon (nothing happened when you fell through)
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| 2011-07-30 v.1.9.0
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| CHANGE The item Heavy Stone Ring has changed name to Stone Ring to make sure that silly names like Light Heavy Stone Ring doesn't happen
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| FIX Game crashed when trying to fire a missile while not having a ranged weapon wielded
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| 2011-07-29 v.1.8.4
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| NEW Large creatures will push aside smaller creatures when trying to reach the player
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| CHANGE D-Pad is now larger on high-res screens (Android and J2SE only)
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| CHANGE Drain does not work on undead
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| CHANGE Clone will stop working on creatures with 1 HP (previously Oozes kept cloning at 2 HP and never dropped down to 1 HP)
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| CHANGE Only the warrior can use heavy weapons and armor
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| CHANGE Random and persistent game scores are saved in different highscore lists
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| CHANGE Equipment rules have been changed slightly. You can no longer combine a 2h melee weapon with a ranged weapon.
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| FIX Missile weapons with an added effect (such as the stun from a crossbow) weren't activated
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| FIX Gold will now be automatically picked up if pushing a stone results in gold ending up in the players location
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| FIX Gold will now be automatically picked up when finding it in a chest
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| FIX Fixed Potion of Clairvoyance should now work properly
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| 2011-06-23 v.1.8.3
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| NEW You will now get notified if there are no more targets while in targeting mode and the mode will switch from targeting to look mode
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| CHANGE Improved targeting mode to follow the last target and pick a new one when the old one dies (all this was once working but
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| broke at some point)
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| FIX Target cycling sometimes hung the game
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| FIX Merchant inventory restocking now work properly
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| 2011-06-22 v.1.8.2
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| NEW The player will automatically pick-up gold when standing on it
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| NEW Added some more trader names (and made sure the healer is given a name as well)
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| FIX Target cycling for missile weapons and offensive spells should not suggest the player as a target
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| FIX It is no longer possible to equip a shield while wielding a missile weapon
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| FIX It wasn't possible to scroll the list of current key bindings
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| FIX Basic inventory of the trader didn't get refilled properly since 1.8.0
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| 2011-06-21 v.1.8.1
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| NEW Added description of the services the healer provide
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| CHANGE Made poisons more dangerous by decreasing attack and defense more
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| CHANGE The Equipped and Not Equipped categories are removed when viewing the inventory of an NPC
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| CHANGE To prevent accidental selection it is no longer possible to confirm a choice in the gain level menu by pressing Left or Right
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| FIX Some minor copy issues
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| FIX Crash when buying Curing from the healer
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| 2011-06-19 v.1.8.0
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| NEW A healer is now available at the dungeon entrance
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| CHANGE Menu item height increased in touchscreen devices
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| CHANGE Adjusted item prices slightly
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| 2011-06-16 v.1.7.12
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| FIX I'm a klutz - Chests were always empty
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| 2011-06-15 v.1.7.11
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| FIX Chests that were supposed to be empty still contained an item
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| FIX Null pointer when killing monsters, especially using magic
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| 2011-06-14 v.1.7.10
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| NEW Attack and death animation
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| NEW Bloodstains and corpse
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| 2011-05-31 v.1.7.9
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| FIX Fixed some bugs with menu scrolling
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| FIX Fixed Potion of Clairvoyance
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| CHANGE Increased button size on high res devices
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| 2011-05-20 v.1.7.8
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| NEW Improved menus with smooth scrolling
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| 2011-04-12 v.1.7.5
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| NEW Variable size map pieces
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| NEW User generated map pieces
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| CHANGE Increased map size
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| CHANGE Reduced spawn rate even more
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| 2011-03-10 v.1.7.4
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| CHANGE Reduced spawn rate
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| CHANGE Stair respawns will no longer happen when on the surface
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| CHANGE Killing the Goblin King gives an additional scoring bonus when the game is finished
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| FIX Swedish translation was corrupt
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| 2011-03-09 v.1.7.3
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| FIX The merchant accidently started selling Scrolls of Recharging instead of Scrolls of Recall
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| 2011-03-08 v.1.7.2
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| NEW When examining an item in your own inventory it will be compared with your equipped item
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| CHANGE Improved layout on really small screens (176x220)
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| CHANGE Harmonized font size throughout the game
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| FIX Double height title box
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| 2011-03-05 v.1.7.1
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| NEW Font anti-alias in J2SE version
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| NEW Added Potion of Clairvoyance
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| NEW Scroll of Recharging
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| NEW Monsters can sometimes spawn from stairs
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| NEW Commands on the action bar that cannot be used (because the correct equipment isn't available) will get greyed out (Android and J2SE)
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| NEW When examining an item not in your inventory the stat difference with an equipped item of the same type will be shown next to the stats
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| CHANGE Removed teleport ability from Goblin King
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| CHANGE Added confirmation if trying to start a new game while having an already active game
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| CHANGE When you attack and miss a target it wakes up
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| CHANGE You will not get a message about increased health when descending to a new depth if fully healed
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| FIX When gaining a level and the automatic HP increase the current HP was reported instead of the new maximum HP
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| FIX Bag of Monsters had an additional suffix ".. of Good"
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| FIX Some scrolls could be used more than once
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| FIX Adjusted map UI slightly for smaller screens (176x220)
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| FIX A very persistent player managed to get very high stat values and wrap around to negatives. Maximum stat values are now set to 100.
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| 2011-01-28 v.1.6.1
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| FIX The Wizard couldn't use books... oops
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| 2011-01-27 v.1.6.0
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| NEW Directional pad for touchscreen handsets in landscape mode
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| NEW You can now toggle minimap on/off via main menu (which makes minimap accessible to non-touchscreen players)
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| NEW Magic bolt effect when casting spells
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| NEW Added some more information to the Examine screen
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| NEW Android icon
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| NEW Added an Unequipped category to the inventory
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| NEW Wielding a shield gives you an extra chance to avoid incoming melee damage
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| NEW Added items which grant resistance to stat drain (slow, drain etc)
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| NEW Added feedback when the targeted monster tries to cast spells
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| CHANGE Items can have more than one magic effect
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| CHANGE Monsters can now cast more than one spell
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| CHANGE When you push a stone and it swaps places with a sleeping monster the monster will now wake up
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| CHANGE Minor changes to the English copy
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| CHANGE Ranger and Warrior can now use magic items (wands but not books)
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| CHANGE Scrolls of Enchant can now sometimes add a random effect in addition to stat enchants
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| CHANGE You are no longer returned to movement mode after using a ranged attack
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| CHANGE XP is now shown as relative XP instead of absolute, ie. "XP this level"/"XP needed to reach next level"
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| CHANGE The slow attack now always reduce speed by 1 and adds a temporary stun instead of a variable speed loss
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| CHANGE Adjusted XP required each level to make the XP curve a bit steeper
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| CHANGE Adjusted damage code to get rid of really high hits
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| FIX You are now properly returned to the item menu after examining an item at the merchant
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| FIX The target unit frame is cleared when leaving a level
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| FIX Picking up an item that makes you reach the carrying capacity cap is now possible
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| FIX Potions of healing now properly report amount of HP gained
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| FIX Stat gain options when gaining a new character level were not always calculated correctly
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| FIX Incorrect message when knocking back an opponent
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| FIX You can no longer be slowed down to negative speed by monsters with slowing attacks
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| 2010-10-02 v.1.5.1
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| NEW Added a small '!' emote above a monster that wakes up
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| NEW Minimap!
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| CHANGE Damage against sleeping monsters is increased
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| CHANGE Draining an already drained target has reduced chance of success
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| FIX Scrolling a multi-line menu choice on the last line did not show the entire line
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| FIX Some monsters were flagged as unique even though they weren't
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| FIX Monsters were flagged as sleeping even though they weren't, and vice versa
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| FIX The Goblin King would bug out when going back and forth to the level where he was generated
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| 2010-09-30 v.1.5.0
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| NEW Added Elven Bow. Low weight, high damage.
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| NEW Added Crossbow. High weight, very high damage.
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| NEW Monsters can be generated asleep
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| NEW Added a settings menu and moved key bindings and language settings there
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| NEW Android - Reintroduced the option to change tile size
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| NEW Language settings shown the first time Dweller is launched
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| FIX Selected language is now saved between games
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| FIX It is no longer possible to kill yourself if a spellcast backfires
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| 2010-09-26 v.1.4.2
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| CHANGE Android - Graphics is scaled at higher resolutions
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| FIX Trapdoors caused unwanted behaviour when a monster fell through it (nullpointers)
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| FIX Spelling errors and formatting
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| 2010-09-25 v.1.4.1
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| CHANGE Gold does not count towards the final score as much as it did before
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| CHANGE Android - Increased font size for the unit frame
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| CHANGE Unit frames have been moved to the bottom of the screen to stop them from being "jumpy" (when they followed the height of the messagebox)
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| CHANGE Chance of the merchant having better gear is increased with player level
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| FIX A lot of typos as a result of the translation support being added in the 1.4.0
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| FIX Buy All and Sell All options did not work after the translation support being added
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| FIX Wands accidently got double prefixes (Wand of Fire of Fire)
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| FIX Dragon Scale Shield, Book of Teleport, Elven Cloak and Leather Cap had incorrect names
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| FIX Fixed so that the merchant won't have a chance of being generated in an unrechable position
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| FIX Solved a nasty bug related to stun effects that caused dead monsters to become invisible "left overs" blocking the player's way
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| 2010-09-19 v.1.4.0
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| NEW Dweller now support multiple languages. There's currently only a slightly whacky Swedish translation besides the standard English one. More will come!
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| NEW Trap doors that will make you fall to the level below
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| NEW Added action buttons on the map UI for touchscreen devices to simplify targeting and menu access
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| NEW Removed the statusbar at the bottom of the map UI and added proper unit frames for the player and the current target
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| NEW Named mini-bosses
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| CHANGE The merchant's inventory should get pruned and updated in a better way
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| CHANGE Fog of war ghosts of monsters have been removed. They were more of a nuisance than a help.
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| FIX Potions can no longer become enchanted by the world generator when generated from a predefined spawn point
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| FIX Saved games are no longer deleted when loaded at startup. The save game is kept until the game is ended to reduce the risk of losing a game to an application crash
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| FIX Saving redefined keys did no longer work
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| 2010-08-28 v.1.3.0
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| NEW Added an option to Use All (for instance use 3 Mushrooms of healing in one go, without having to go in to the menu between each use)
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| NEW Added Potion of Mutation
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| NEW Pushable stones
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| NEW Some rooms within the dungeon have predefined spawn points for items and monsters when the map is generated
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| CHANGE Game is now saved when moving between levels. This will prevent complete loss of your character if the game crashes
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| FIX Floating damage text was not shown correctly for ranged attacks
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| FIX J2ME and J2SE - Floating damage text was clipped
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| FIX Almost insta-death by draning bug solved (Vampire bats were lethal)
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| FIX Android - Crash bug on app exit
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| FIX Android - Cupcake was not supported afterall due to an incorrect minimum SDK version
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| 2010-08-24 v.1.2.1
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| NEW Added a Buy all/Sell all command
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| NEW A message is shown when you do not have enough money to buy an item
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| NEW Added a low hitpoint warning message
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| CHANGE Adjusted font height to work better in both landscape and portrait mode
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| FIX Android - Floating damage text was clipped
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| 2010-08-23 v.1.2.0
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| NEW Version check at startup to avoid loading invalid saved data
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| NEW Floating text animations above monsters and player when taking damage and upon xp gain
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| NEW Added some stat gain potions
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| NEW Amount of gold shown in the bottom status bar when interacting with the merchant
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| CHANGE Added some extra info to the saved scores (char level and max depth)
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| CHANGE Chests, stairs and traps will no longer be created in water
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| CHANGE Updated the splash screen logo
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| CHANGE Improved scrolling in menues, especially when using a touch screen
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| FIX J2ME - Exiting the app in any other way than from the game menu did not save any ongoing game
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| FIX J2ME - Some of the default keybindings for navigation conflicted with keybindings for inventory and main menu on some handsets (SE C702 among others)
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| FIX Worg graphics was still incorrect - doh!
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| FIX The game over screen was shown multiple times which caused weird behaviour and multiple score entries
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| FIX When enchanting a wielded weapon it gets unwielded but not wielded again. This was unintentional and has been solved.
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| FIX When enchanting an item you have more than one of the whole stack got enchanted. Only stacks of ammo can get enchanted now
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| FIX It is no longer possible to enchant a quiver of normal arrows as those are of unlimited supply
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| FIX On really rare occasions the game crashed when entering a new level
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| FIX Infrequent crash bug when dying
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| 2008-08-13 v.1.1.4
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| FIX Android - save/load code issue solved
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| 2008-08-13 v.1.1.3
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| NEW Monster descriptions are shown upon first encounter
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| CHANGE Underlying floor tile rendered for traps, doors and chests
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| CHANGE Android - save/load code reworked. Should work on 2.2 devices now
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| CHANGE When selling an equipped item you have more than one of you no longer un-equip the item first
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| FIX Solved a recently introduced bug with the map generator that could cause disconnected levels
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| 2008-08-10 v.1.1.2
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| NEW Water animations
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| FIX Selling an equipped item did not remove it first (causing stat gain/loss to become permanent)
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| FIX Vampire graphics was off index
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| FIX Buying/selling did not work
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| 2010-08-10 v.1.1
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| NEW The merchant will be named after player who have contributed to the game by submitting bug reports or giving feedback
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| CHANGE Adjusted item prices. No more arrows being worth thousands of gold.
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| CHANGE When you sell something to the merchant you won't get paid the full price of the item
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| FIX There was an issue with Scrolls of Recall that left a player ghost on the level you travelled from
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| FIX Game over crash bug
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| FIX Crash bug when redefining keys
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| FIX Some monster graphics were wrong
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| FIX Traps and secret doors in the caves are no longer clearly visible even when not found
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| FIX Android - Cycle Target set to Menu key
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| FIX Going back from the Buy/Sell item list takes you to the correct screen
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| FIX Improved touch screen srolling in menues
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| FIX It was possible to kill the merchant with ranged attacks
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| 2010-07-26 v.1.0
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| NEW Brand new graphics
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| NEW Simple idle animations
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| NEW Merchant on the surface to buy and sell from
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| NEW Scroll of Recall to move between surface and deepest dungeon level visited
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| CHANGE ASCII mode removed
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| FIX Null pointer on rare occasion when switching level
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| FIX Null pointer when viewing an empty inventory/ability category
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| FIX Runetime exception when restarting the game after it has been halted (Android)
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| 2010-06-29 v.0.15.2
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| NEW Android support!
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| NEW All text now has a small drop shadow
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| CHANGE Locked the navigation keys completely from being redefined as it risks screwing things up if redefined the wrong way
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| CHANGE Added left/right commands as valid ways of navigating back and forth in menues (this used to work in old versions and is now back on player request)
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| 2010-04-30 v.0.15.1
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| NEW Dweller Desktop now properly resize the drawing area when the window is resized
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| NEW Greatly improved the error handling when loading/saving data
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| NEW Added a loader/progress screen when starting Dweller to give feedback while waiting for the game to start
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| CHANGE The bottom bar is now hidden when showing item categories
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| CHANGE Additional drops from dead monsters favor the cell the monster was in if it is empty, instead of spreading it to adjacent cells
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| FIX Some key codes on some handset models did not show correct key names in the Commands menu
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| FIX It was not possible to close an opened gate
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| FIX The Dweller Mobile code to properly resize when the canvas was resized (not sure if/when that ever happens) did not work
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|
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|
| 2010-04-14 v.0.15.0
| | == Official site== |
| NEW Desktop J2SE support
| | Please visit the official site for up-to-date information about Dweller! |
| NEW Improved feedback from charmed monsters
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| NEW Added a monster kill tracker to the character menu. First time kills reward double the amount of xp
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| NEW All items now have a value in gold, in preparation for features to come...
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| NEW Monsters, primarily humanoids, now drop gold in addition to other loot
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| CHANGE Made targeting a bit more intelligent. If no previous target exists it is always the closest one that gets picked first
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| CHANGE Some keys are now locked so they can't be redefined. This is to prevent a user from redefining keys and completely block navigation within menues
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| FIX Targeting no longer incorrectly cycles through items when it isn't supposed to
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| FIX It is now possible to exit the hiscore and game over screen by pressing center/select, not only menu and exit
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| FIX Selecting an inventory category other than ALL sometimes caused the incorrect category of items to show
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|
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|
| 2010-03-30 v.0.14.0
| | [http://www.dwellergame.com www.dwellergame.com] |
| NEW Door type: Gate. Blocks movement but not line of sight
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| NEW Added an About & Credits screen to the main menu
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| NEW Added a couple of items that increase the light radius
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| NEW Only intelligent monsters can open doors and pick locks. Stupid monsters need to rely on brute force to get passed a closed door.
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| NEW Added two handed weapons that prevent the use of a shield
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| NEW Added items of better or worse than average quality, prefixed "Fine", "Worn", "Strong" and so on
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| NEW Introduced weapon speed to allow for different playstyles using either hard hitting and slow weapons or fast weapons that hit for less
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| NEW Some monsters can now be generated in packs
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| NEW Improved fleeing and pursuing AI behavior
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| NEW Monsters no longer step on known traps
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| NEW Flying monsters (bat, wraith and beholders) are no longer affected by traps on the ground
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| CHANGE Bashing open a door varies in difficulty depending on if the door is locked, jammed, or if it is a gate
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| CHANGE The ranger has an increased light radius
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| CHANGE Hitpoints are always increased by 1 when gaining a level
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| CHANGE Visibility in the starting forest is no longer limited by the player's light radius
| |
| CHANGE Weapons with an added effect (Fire, Poison etc) no longer rely on the player's Magic stat when determining effect
| |
| CHANGE The bottom stats bar area is no longer taking up screen space on views that doesn't use it
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| CHANGE The damage from attacks and spells is now determined using a slightly skewed gaussian distribution instead of a linear
| |
| CHANGE Wands now have a limited number of charges. There is currently no means of recharging a wand
| |
| CHANGE Items are now ignored when cycling through targets
| |
| CHANGE When having an item with a beneficial effect selected in targeting mode only friendly creatures will be cycling through targets
| |
| CHANGE When having an item with a harmful effect selected in targeting mode a hostile creature is selected by default instead of starting centered at the player
| |
| CHANGE Targeting mode automatically targets an enemy if none is already targeted (previously the player was targeted)
| |
| CHANGE Minor change to the Drop one/all menu. If a single item is selected the Drop one/all will be replaced by a simple Drop command
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| CHANGE Improved touchscreen support, especially when moving around on the map
| |
| FIX Proper feedback is now given if the player tries to enchant an item that can't be enchanted
| |
| FIX Solved a fatal bug in monster movement code that could move the monster out from the map (and crash the game)
| |
| FIX Ammo with a limited amount is no longer kept equipped when depelted
| |
| FIX Removed double "You are no longer poisoned" messages when leveling up while poisoned
| |
| FIX Removed double death messages when killing a creature with a ranged weapon using enchanted ammo
| |
| FIX Made sure that tiled levels (the dungeon and sewer) are surrounded by an impassable border of wall tiles
| |
| FIX It is no longer possible to go back to a finished game after killing the Goblin King
| |
| FIX You will now get a proper win if you return to a saved map with the Goblin King on it and you kill him
| |
| FIX Solved the problem with text flooding the bottom edge of a text box
| |
| FIX Damage done and taken is no longer linear. There is less probability to do max damage.
| |
| FIX Solved a crash bug when explicitly saving a game with persistent maps, leaving the level, coming back and loading again
| |
| FIX You can no longer save scum chests. A chest will always contain the same item, no matter when you open it
| |
| FIX You can no longer save scum scrolls of enchants. The result of a particular scroll of enchant applied to a particular item will always give the same result
| |
| FIX Solved a potential problem when dropping parts of a stack of items or when cloning a monster
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| FIX It is no longer possible to resist magic cast by yourself on yourself (for instance resisting own teleports)
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| FIX Damage caused by displacement/knockbacks no longer reduce max hitpoints
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| </pre>
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| Older changes can be reviewed [[DwellerChangeLog|here]].
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| [[Category:Coffeebreak roguelikes]] | | [[Category:Coffeebreak roguelikes]] |
| [[Category:Featured Roguelikes]] | | [[Category:Featured Roguelikes]] |
