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Actors
Actors can be static or dynamic.
Static actors are immutable while dynamic have a link to their status. Both react to the player's actions. For instance a floor or an opened door will let the player pass, while a table or a monster will block him. Dynamic actors can also have a behavior which can evolute by itself each turn, driven by a finite state machine.
There can be 128 actors of 128 different kinds in a single level. Actor #0 is always the player.
As there are immutable, many instances of a static actor can be represented by a single ID, while each instance of a dynamic actor require a unique ID.
In memory, tiles contain the actor ID, which serves as an offset to render the tile, compute its behavior, and so on.
Level generation
Read this page for a presentation of the general principle concerning the random level generation.
The level configuration is given by the level.conf file.
LEVELS.CONF
Description of the levels for the random builder. All values are 8-bit integers.
[NB_LEVELS]
# level conf * NB_LEVELS
[NUMBER]
[SIZE]
# number of actors of each types * NB_ACTORS_MAX (128)
[NB_ACTORS]
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[NB_ACTORS]
STATES
State of the levels
"LVLS"
CURRENT_LEVEL 1 byte
NB_LEVELS 1 byte
# level state * NB_LEVELS
"LVL"
VISITED 1 byte
PLAYER_TILE 1 byte
LAYOUT 4096 bytes
"ACTS"
# actor state * NB_LEVELS
"ACT"
STATE sizeof(actor_t)