SaveGame Members

Creates a new game.

Prints a 'press any key' message and waits for a key press

Give a fire brand to a set of bolts we're carrying

Give a brand type to our melee weapon

Blast energy in all directions

Check to see if a racial power works

Checks the stack of items at a grid coordinate for a chest and returns the first chest item found. Returns null, if no chest is found.

Use the same algorithm that we use for missiles to see if we have a clean shot between two locations, but without actually shooting anything

Close a door

Count the number of chests adjacent to the player, filling in a map coordinate with the location of the last one found

Count the number of closed doors around the player, filling in a map coordinate with the location of the last one found

Get the number of known traps around the player, storing the map coordinate of the last one found

Count the number of open doors around the players location, puting the location of the last one found into a map coordinate

Creates a new game that can be played.

Create phlogiston to refill a lantern or torch with

Heavily curse the players armour

Heavily curse the player's weapon

Removes all items from a grid tile.

Disarm a chest at a given location

Disarm a trap on the floor

Display the 'Equippy' characters (the visual representation of a characters' equipment)

Interrupts a repeat command. This is known as disturbing the player.

Channel mana to power an item instead

Returns true, if the drain life actally hits and affects a monster.

Create a background for a character by stringing together randomised text fragments based on their race

Returns an item from the players inventory. If there is no item at the desired slot, null is returned.

Returns the index of a monster.

Returns the index of this monster in the monster list. This method is provided for backwards compatability and should NOT be used. Will be deleted when no longer needed.

Returns the quest number for the current dungeon and the current

Returns an spell selected by the player. If the player doesn't have any spells capable of being selected, false is returned; otherwise the spell selected by the user is returned on the output parameter. If the user cancels the selection, a true value is returned and the output spell parameter is set to null.

Find a spike in the player's inventory

Returns the specific store that the player is currently in. Returns null, if the player is not detected as being in a store.

Returns the next keypress. The behavior of this function is modified by other class properties

Return whether or not an item can be activated

Return whether or not an item is a high level book

Retrieves a save game from persistent storage. If no persistent storage is specified, a new game is created. This static method is used as a factory to generate the SaveGame object that can be played using the Play method. This is the only static method.

Indicates the beginning of a new command being issues by the player. All messages that have been rendered to the player are batched together and stores into a fixed length queue. This MessageFlush is called in the RequestCommand method during the dungeon game play and when in a store.

Locate the cursor in the viewport at a specific level grid x, y coordinate.

Check if we can and should move forward on our current path, adjusting our path if necessary to go around corners and stopping if the way forward becomes ambiguous or we see a monster.

Open a door at a given location

Pauses for a duration

Step onto a grid with an item, possibly picking it up and possibly stomping on it

Plays the current game.

Have the player attack a monster

Check whether a ranged attack by the player hits a monster

Work out whether the player's missile attack was a critical hit

Plays a sound

Process all the monsters on the level

Process the player's latest command

Returns true, if the projectile actally hits and affects a monster.

Run a single step

Make a piece of armour immune to acid damage, removing any penalty at the same time

Serializes an object and uses the persistent storage services to write the object to the desired facilities.

Check whether we can see a wall in a certain direction from a point

Returns an item selected by the player. If the player doesn't have any items capable of being selected, false is returned; otherwise the item selected by the user is returned on the output parameter. If the user cancels the selection, a true value is returned and the output item parameter is set to null.

Shows the players inventory on the screen. Returns false, if the player has nothing in their inventory.

Initialise the navigator with a direction

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Summon an item to the player via telekinesis

Check whether there's room to summon something next to a location

Tunnel through a grid tile

Update the screen using a double buffer, drawing all queued print and erase requests.

Represents the previous character class.

Returns the race of the previous character. Used as a default during the birthing process. Set to HumanRace if there is no previous character. Returns null, before the birthing process is started.

Represents the character class of the player. Will be null prior to the character class birth selection.

Returns the object that the calling application provided to be used to connect the game input and output to the calling application.

Appears to be the height of the level.

The direction the player is currently running in

Appears to be the width of the level.

Set to indicate that there is a full screen overlay covering the normally updated locations

Set to indicate that the cursor should be hidden while waiting for a keypress with a full screen overlay

The players inventory.

Returns the date and time when the last player input was received or the game was initially started. Null, until the game is started.

The current player X position.

The current player Y position.

Returns the maximum height of any level.

Returns the maximum width of any level.

Returns the unique index of the first message in the MessageLog. When messages drop out of the list due to the size of the MessageLog, this index is incremented by one. We do not actually store indexes with each message because they are one-to-one with the list.

Returns the map sector.

Returns the last level column of the playable area that is visible in the viewport.

Returns the first level column of the playable area that is visible in the viewport.

Returns the first level column that is visible in the viewport.

Returns the map sector.

Returns the last level row of the playable area that is visible in the viewport.

Returns the first level row of the playable area that is visible in the viewport.

Returns the first level row that is visible in the viewport.

Returns the primary realm that the player studies.

Returns the current race of the character. Will be null before the player is birthed.

Returns the race the character was first assigned at birth.

The current contents of the game screen.

Returns the secondary realm that the player studies.

Returns true, if the parent is requesting the game to shut down immediately. Returns false, by default.

Represents the order in which spells that have been learned. When a spell is learned, it is added to this list. It is not removed, if the spell is forgotten, so that when the player regains the necessary experience, the same spell is relearned.

Represents the spells that belong to both books that the player has access to.

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Returns true, when the GetItem/SelectItem is rendering the equipment list, instead of the inventory list (when the ViewingItemList is true).

Returns true, when the player is selecting an item and the inventory/equipment list is being rendered.

Returns true, if the player can cast spells and/or read books. True, for character classes that can choose either a primary and/or secondary realm.

Returns the one-in-probability that found gold is great.