Adikted Design Goals

• Portability: Adikted is designed to be portable across DOS, Win32 and Linux. I use the S-Lang libraries for screen handling, and hope to have some mouse functionality later on.
• Ease of use: Hopefully, Adikted will be very easy to use, with little technical knowledge required. There are several files used by Dungeon Keeper, but the user doesn't need to know about what each one does.
• Detail: Although Adikted can automatically fill in most files, eventually an expert mode will be incorporated, to allow tweaking of dungeons ad infinitum. The editor will remember which squares have been altered deliberately, and not touch them when filling in the files.
• Verification: There are some rules governing what makes a dungeon valid - each keeper should only have one dungeon heart, for instance. As far as possible, Adikted should check that any dungeon it saves will be playable. By fiddling with graphical details, dungeons can be deliberately constructed to confuse the game, and I believe this to be unavoidable. My intention is to stop anyone from accidentally "breaking" a dungeon.
• Documentation: As well as usage documents, I intend to provide full technical documentation, both for the editor itself and the Dungeon Keeper level files. These web pages will provide the basis for the documentation.

Please send any comments to skeet@pobox.com
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