Today: The Leveler

Today's task was refactoring the level up logic out of the UI widget where it was and into a separate class (I have named it Leveler) that contains all the logic and none of the state.

This is required so that the Leveler can be called from a different place to the UI. This new place is an automated character builder that can be parameterised with various strategies for developing a character and then asked to churn out a given player character (class/race/gender/etc) at a given level, applying the parameterised build at each level.

The automated character builder is required for a few reasons. I want to be able to automate various builds across all the different character classes and then run them through a "scorer" to determine their relative power, and also run them in a party through a simulated adventure.

As a bonus the code is now a lot more testable, not that I have time to write much in the way of tests.

The lesson here, children: don't put your business logic in your UI code.

In Which Progress is Slow

Balancing work proceeds slowly. I am still developing tools to measure it. Ideally I want the ability to a complete simulative walkthrough of the game, tracking average foes and loot as they are encountered.

In Real Life, the wife and I have moved house (from a small apartment to a large house), and I can officially announce that she's knocked up with our first child. So various the burderns of admin continue to steal my time away. Never the less, work will continue! :-)