sCthangband

The Angband Variant

History

In 2000, I downloaded the Angband variant Cthangband out of curiosity. I felt that it was good, but there were certain things I felt could be improved. As the code in the places I was interested in was fairly easy to understand, I set about making the improvements I felt it required.

As the months passed, I found that it became more and more distinct from the base game in look and feel, and to some extent in gameplay, and so I finally decided to release it as a separate variant.

Downloads

Features

• Fractional weapon speed
• A lower chance of being killed by an irate spirit
• Room illumination based on geography rather than history.
• A more flexible point-based interface for all character generation, including rolling.
• In-game spoilers for objects, monsters and other effects.
• "Fake" inscriptions to display more of the things the player knows about items.
• Context-sensitive help (primarily for interfaces with multiple windows).
• Brief "autohaggle" interface.
• A reasonably configurable colourful monster recall feature.
• A display of the amount of time the last action took on the main screen, and an indication of the amount of time many actions will take.
• Two medium sized piles of similar objects are automatically turned into a large pile and a small pile.
• Indicate which squares the player has checked for traps at some point in the past.
• Allow the display in an extra window (in ports where such exist) to be chosen based on the player's choices and on events within the game.
• The small scale map (obtained with 'M') is as large as is possible within the window boundaries.
• The path a missile or spell will take is drawn on the screen during targetting.
• Various extra things can be controlled through text files, including the whole of a type ofobject's name, the random powers of normal artefacts and the thingswhich happen when a monster of a specific type dies.
• Artefacts with the same base type and equal rarity and depth are as likely to be generated as each other.
• The player is allowed to modify an existing inscription rather than always having to write it out again.

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