Progress has been slow these last weeks, but it is happening nevertheless! I added shortcuts to open menus to do actions without going through Inventory > Item > Item-specific action. Some players (hello VedVid!) requested that a while ago, and it makes perfect sense, so here we are:

• The quaff menu opened with ‘q’ to avoid ‘i’ > potion > drink:

  

• The throw menu opened with ‘t’ to avoid ‘i’ > potion or bomb > throw

  

• The cast menu opened with ‘c’ to avoid ‘i’ > spell > cast

  

I’ve also genericized the handling of these menus. Previously the API was featuring one open/close pair of methods for every menu. Now there’s a generic open/close pair, that takes the menu identifier to consider as a parameter. Clearer and less verbose.

I’ve also been working on the class choosing screen. In Dungeon Mercenary, a class is just specific starting equipment, to allow you to test a build (hello +1 quietus dagger and +1 paralysis dagger!) without having to go through an immense number of games to get a combo that interests you. I’ll post another week on that when it’s more polished.

Finally, I’ve started to extract open source libraries out of Dungeon Mercenary. With that I pursue two goals:

• Provide a library for “libgdx + roguelike” games

• Provide a framework for 2D grid games, for my later games

Here are the libs, that will grow overtime:

• hgamesgdx (libgdx dependent)

• hgamesrhogue (no UI dependency, but roguelike-specific).

❤ to gamers