Talk:Complete Roguelike Tutorial, using python+libtcod, part 5

This is a really splendid tutorial!

Two minor suggestions for improvement:

• In make_map: Move the call to place_objects(new_room) to just before appending the new_room. Else the player may be placed on top of an object (since the player-placement does not check for blocking).
• In place_objects: When computing the random spot for a monster, using values room.x1 and room.x2 without without modification allows monsters to be placed in the walls of the room. (Those placements are pruned afterwards when checking against is_blocked, but it results in fewer monsters than expected being placed.) --Dontroel 21:31, 22 March 2012 (CET)
  • Hehe. Finally had the time to make it to part 8 of the tutorial. I see that you make a nice pedagogical point of fixing precisely the slight error in placement of monsters. :) I'll just leave this comment here, if other readers are puzzled about this and should check this discussion page. --Dontroel 12:11, 1 April 2012 (CEST)