Original Colors

Now that I pretty much got my maze working, I turned the the issue of color. Currently I had the default colors which come with a Java component. Boring. And it does not feel like a roguelike. No. I want this thing to look like Angband.

So I painted the background black. And the walls are painted white. Yeah this looks like a monochrome game or Moria. But it is an improvement over the default colors I had before. Eventually I shall add some colorful colors. For now I am satisfied.

It is definitely time to fix the problems at the edges of the maze. Then perhaps I shall put weapons and armor in the maze. That shall be fun.

Going Retro

I was playing a high level mage in Angband. Then my computer operating system got corrupt. Had to reload my machine from scratch. I lost my game character. Note to self: backup my save files.

When it came to install Angband on my machine again, I decided to try an old version. This was just for memories sake. In fact I tried to start out with Moria. However that did not seem to run on Windows XP.

Instead I chose something like Angband Version 2.5. You might think that is not too ancient as we are only around version 3.1 currently. However it really has been a long time. My version might be 15 or more years old. The thing that impress me is that, although some things are different, even the old Angband is a very mature game.

For now I am playing a Half-Troll Warrior. That's an easy one to not get killed with. Lots of strength and constitution. Thus I have high HP. We shall see how this goes.