When playtesting NetHack heavily, I observed that most of the time
it wasn't placing much strain on my wrists, but Sokoban was an
exception: travel, farmove, etc. can normally be used to avoid the
need to spam keys, but they don't work while pushing a boulder, and
the boulders often need to be pushed along precise routes, so you
have to tap out every movement. This becomes particularly straining
when pushing in the last few boulders, as you have to push them a
long way along the goal corridor.
This commit adds rolling boulder traps to Sokoban that will
automatically roll boulders along the goal corridor, meaning that
you don't have to push them there manually. This considerably
reduces the number of keystrokes needed to solve Sokoban, without
making any significant change to the difficulty of the levels.
Some of the designs had to change slightly in order to make room
for them, but not in a way that meaningfully changes the solution.
Makes Sokoban far less tedious when you don't have to worry about
monsters randomly popping up in the trap hallway while you're pushing
the boulder.
Adds a new exclusion zone for monster generation, and the goodpos
routine avoids the zones when GP_AVOID_MONPOS is used.
and actually do so in the lua files.
Before this, it was not possible to specify (for example) "scroll of
teleportation" in des.object() because there is actually no object
defined in objects.h named "scroll of teleportation", so
find_objtype() failed to find it. Instead, one had to request
"teleportation", but that is ambiguous, and find_objtype() would find
the first defined item with that name instead (ring of teleportation).
In cases of ambiguity, I referred to the des files from 3.6.6 (before
the lua conversion).
Game is playable, and should compile on linux and Windows.
Assumes you have a lua 5.3 library available.
Removes level compiler and associated files.
Replaces special level des-files with lua scripts.
Exposes some NetHack internals to lua:
- des-table with commands to create special levels
- nh-table with NetHack core commands
- nhc-table with some constants
- u-table with some player-specific data (u-struct)
- selection userdata
Adds some rudimentary tests.
Adds new extended command #wizloadlua to run a specific script,
and #wizloaddes to run a specific level-creation script.
nhlib.lua is loaded for every lua script.
Download and untar lua:
mkdir lib
cd lib
curl -R -O http://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.3.5.tar.gz
tar zxf lua-5.3.5.tar.gz
Then make nethack normally.
