A few other things to take care of

That links that stuff all together

Treasures set

Encounters set

Bandit

Thief

Run away

Next stop, the enemies

Preparational packaging

This is all in preparation of the thieves you'll meet in this dungeon. This is a thief's den after all, so it's only to be expected you'll be stolen from here.

The money recovery will be able to use the same variables as the ones used by the abilities stealing all money at once, so no issue there!

Alternate money steal effect

I hope, as nothing has been tested yet

Item recovery has been set right

However recovering items has not yet been implemented (which will btw in the hard mode NOT happen).

Stealing from allies has been implemented

Class adaption for stealing items

That was too long ago anyway

Alpha Update

The boss Jesse was named after the famous U.S. criminal Jesse James. His persona however (as far as he has one) was not based on anybody or anything.

Art Jesse

Art bandit

Art thief

And walking all the way back from the end point to the starting point works as well (this is something easily overlooked, you know).

This works

A small test is needed but trouble should not be expected

The enemies, bosses, nor the Hall of Heroes member will appear yet

That does at least complete the map itself

Area 005 has been done

No trouble to be expected, but hey, ya never know, right!?

Area Boss

Running

As far as I can check for now, this appears to be working

Now Area 004 will be for the boss and 005 to meet Rubine... This is a bit of rushed job, I don't care, I wanna have this over and done with.... My schedule is allowing me less and less time for this project. It's clearly time to have it finished

A new map has been created in stead for this location

The puzzle, as I announced! The puzzle should no longer be reachable (unless you find out a way to cheat)

It's now official, I'll cancel this puzzle.... The existing puzzle will be dummied (in case I still change my mind, but the chance for that is low).... It simply isn't worth the trouble and I notice I'm way behind schedule

Really there are so many setbacks about this, that I am seriously considering to skip it.... This dungeon is getting less and less worth the trouble....

Syntax error

All Okay Now?

I fixed that issue

That provided the answer I needed

Take II

Extra errorcheck must provide more answers

And now something completey different happens

VS will have to provide me some answers now!

A .NET error has been found.... A referrence to a null object is made inside the API

A packer issue in JXSDA

Success

The next step in this method will be to convert this into C++ so Apollo can benefit from this as long as lzma is still an issue there...

Now it looks like it would be really effective if JCR6 did support solid archiving technology, which is possible, and I even have a few ideas for that, but as it's delicate and prone to bugs I wanna make sure this cannot go wrong so easily, so in other words, that'll take TIME... Loads of time....

That too appears to work

JXSDA is used in the savegame I made, let's see if it also loads properly

I've decided to make NALA use this method for savegames.... Less memory eating than lzma but still better than no compression at all

JXSDA Bug

I've created an experimental packing algorithm.... Not gonna be used in this game anymore, but in my future projects it can be worth gold, especially as long as lzma is not yet an option (and zlib even less of an option).

I've set the basis for a small project that will also start soon.... The full work on this will only begin after I finished the Thief's Den, though

Crashing in my debug tool whenever volumes or volumized directories contain characters that shouldn't be in a file name

Some required debug crap set

I think I got it, but I'm not 100% sure....

But I have an idea.... Well, sort of...

I do have a few issues, as I didn't think everything through right, so I really need to sort this out....

All Crashes accounted for

Take VI

Another (sigh)

Take V

Case error

And while the builder runs, I'm gonna fix myself some food, as I am starving

Take IV

And fixed a bug in the process

Call to a Pascal function that no longer makes sense in the game

Yes I voided the actual issue, good

Take III

A bit of an issue in the NIL parser?

Take II

Was to be expected when transferring from a case insensitive language to a case sensitive one

Case Error

Take I

Okay, by high exception I got the time today to put things to da test, so let's go!

I don't want "Pascal" to show in my repository, so i moved to the source of my spiral prototype to gist

I'll test later if this works.... That is that stuff will at least compile as many things may have gone wrong in the translation from Pascal to NIL. NIL is unlike Pascal case sensitive (that issue won't be there in Neil, but hey, as far as Dyrt is concerned I'll have to take it the way it is).

I did however see a kind of error that would have caused trouble when popping the floors would have to chain to popping other points on the way

I really cannot tell what this will do for the gam yet, as there are still no visual effects

The prototype code has now been translated to NIL and adapted to the different needs between the prototype DOS environment and the in-engine needs of communication with Kthura

Preparations to pop

I wrote a prototype for the spiralling routine.... This prototype will now have to be translated to NIL

So far it's all cool, I see

Quick test to see if there are no parsing errors

This class does nothing by itself though, but at least I can get a few things on the move now....

A class which will be used for the actual chain effect.... I do need to do a few more things, as the chain must also increase on the moment other geo points pop in the chain process... This is however something I need to brainstorm about....

She's good

Please note, no effects should be expected it everything still happens under the hood

Okay, it works the way it should now...

Take II

Bad C-String-Formattting

Take I

I'll test this all later, though

The geo points can be triggered now, however nothing will happen... YET! Some logs will indicate for me if everything worked the way it should, though....

Clickables (Can't believe I didn't need that earlier, hahaha)

Apparently so!

Does it work?

Point scanner

From here I need to make actual effect, which will take quite some effort

I did make a bit of underground working better, but no big deal here

FINALLY!

Take X

Two small blockmap issues.... Hey, while I'm still at it, I might as well take care of this!

Did I void it?

Nil value? That is not possible!

Take XI

Fuck you!

Take X

Before I'm gonna work on, first a little break.... My brain feels like it's exploding

And fixed it!

I think I found out why

Okay, some data is created the first time, and the second time the resetter (which is (for now) empty), but the logs do indicate things are not yet complete

Take IX

I've added more debug lines that should help me in figuring this out!

Things do not yet seem fully right

Take VIII

Does that FINALLY cover all of them?

DA FUUUUUCK!

Take VII

In memoriam

Sean Connery

?

Fix completely ignored

Take VI

Lack of "self"

Take V

I hope

The cockroach... I think

Well?

Well, fuck it! It may not work tonight, may it! I'll get back onto this tomorrow, then

Take IV

Will this work?

Fix ignored?

Take III

Case error

Syntax error x2

Take II

Code typo

Take I

I must note it once more, though, no visual effects yet.... Everything that's done now is happening under the hood... The debug log allows me a few insights though

From here I can start the test

Area 003

Not yet entirely done, but far enough to get stuff on the roll... Well, almost

Puzzle initiator

(I could hardly believe this was still missing)

I've set up an object data link

Set up a few more preparations in order to get things right for the geo puzzles

License data

Bad file name

I did set up the basis for the mapscript in the Thief's Den

I've been in a bit of a slowdown... Sorry about that, but I just did too much and I need to remotivate myself or this will not go well

Running

From here I can get into the actual creation of the puzzles themselves, and of course, scripting them out!

THAT should do it!

Take VII

I don't like it, but here goes nothing

Better... But NOT good enough!

Take VI

A bit of map hacking

Calculation error

Things do not work the way they should... Time to take a look "under the hood"

Take V

Let's see

Take IV

I hope

Yeah right

Take III

A var name issue

Take II

And I also saw a few wrong things

I forgot a few important things

Take I

No telling if it works, but here goes nothing!

Floor script

Other stuff comes later!

That part works

Take IV

Color setting

Take III

Many required fixes

Take II

I guess I forgot something

I need to test if this works

I've set up a script that will make putting Geo Points easier

Most stuff appears to be in order.

Take I

At least I can test things until that point is reached

From here things will get complicated due to the unique puzzles of this place

Area 002

The hard work is just about to begin, though!

That works

Let's see how this works out!

Just like the original game this will be "Deadly Deadly Deadly" by Widzy

Linked to the map

Rebuilding music

Script for creating music resource adapted for the Thief's Den

Now I need to look a few things up in the old code