alphaman-src VS OneMoreLevel

> I’m not old enough to know how much that affected full computers

I recently helped someone open source a roguelike they wrote in the 90s - https://github.com/superjamie/alphaman-src

The source is terse as you describe, some parts are written in assembly, and strings are actually one big string with functions that extract substrings. There isn't a clear PRINT statement in the whole program.

All of this because he wanted the source to fit on one floppy.

I realise this is the hard way, but my long-term intention is to reimplement Alphaman from the original source, so I figured start with the existing software interfaces.

It is not a technical issue. I draw four maps with REXPaint, which is quite handy. I use two Godot scripts (FileIOHelper.gd and DungeonPrefab.gd) to read a txt file and output terrain data. I can flip the map horizontally and/or vertically if necessary. Problem is, in my mind, ninjas should enclose on all sides and our ninja slayer keeps dodging attacks until the time is right. He fights back with lightning speed and covers narrow corridors and chock points with soul fragments (yellow question marks). But the game does not play like that. I need more time to find a solution.

This week I have raised the difficulty of a few dungeons. I have also added more colors based on players' feedback which greatly improves game experience (see demo above). Therefore I published a nightly release on GitHub and itch.io. I picked all the colors ([grey](f8f9fa-e9ecef-dee2e6-ced4da-adb5bd-6c757d-495057-343a40-212529), green and orange) from Coolors. Below are their hash values.

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