By the way I just noticed the README specifies the coding style in .custom.emacs

(defconst ivan-style
 '((c-offsets-alist . ((substatement-open . 0)
			(label . /)
			(access-label . /)
			(case-label . 1)
			(statement-case-intro . 1)
			(brace-list-open . 0)
			(statement-cont . c-lineup-math)
			(inline-open . 0)
			(member-init-intro . 0)
			(arglist-close . 0)
			(substatement . 2)
			(defun-block-intro . 2)
			(statement-block-intro . 2)
			(statement-case-open . *))))
 "The Standard IVAN Programming Style")

(add-hook 'c-mode-common-hook 'ivan-mode-common-hook)
(autoload 'c++-mode "cc-mode" "Major mode for editing C++ code." t)

(defun ivan-mode-common-hook ()
 ;; add style and set it for the current buffer
 (c-add-style "IVAN" ivan-style t))

For a long time I thought I had enner figured out. Just detect material, teleport, and zap. Ended in death the last several times I've gotten that far

I'm on it! Something I can finally contribute

Looks good to me, thanks for doing that Warheck!

If only our SEO were better. The wiki comes up for a lot of searches but not the forum or github

If somebody wants to setup the Google groups thing then I can configure an email address @attnam.com to forward to it

Is J_Kahvi still on IRC at all? Maybe somebody could ask him

I signed up for Google Apps before they started charging for it So I still have like 30+ free email addresses @attnam.com

But if I set it up, who's going to check those emails? Forward it to the google groups thing? Or I could forward it to my personal email, I doubt many requests will actually come in and if they do I can post them on the forum

Some more updates from zenith
- random movement algorithm for monsters is improved. Instead of just wandering around aimlessly they'll continue in one direction until obstructed (with occasional random turns)
- there were some questions that for some reason you were not able to Escape out of, e.g. scroll of detect material. Now almost all questions are escapable. The one exception I believe is wishes spawned by genies or fountains since if you escape you won't get that wish back

Clawzfire (on Github, I don't remember who that is on here) has started work on making the folder structure of the installed files more standard

Are there any C++ coding standards already out there?

PHP has PSRs: www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-1/

Hmm... these messages are pretty ambiguous though. IVAN does have other similar messages that it's up to the user to really figure out what they mean (or check the wiki)

I feel like there have been a lot of Github updates that most people on the forum have missed so I wanted to give some recognition

We have two awesome newer members who have helped a lot in making some major improvements.

murlock helped port the entire thing to SDL 2.

And zenith aka emlai has
* fixed compilation warnings
* fixed some bugs
* improved the repository and build system
* made smarter 'open', 'close', and 'use' behavior. So now if you walk towards a closed door, it will attempt to open it automatically. If you are near several doors but only one is closed, and you press the 'o'pen key, it will know which one you are trying to open

And of course Warheck has been continuing with the fire subsystem and helping to review and approve the contributions from other developers

So let's have a round of applause for them - even though the forum is kind of dead lately, the game has been progressing even better than before!