Switching from ASCII to tiled bitmaps.

What's New:

• Permanently switched graphics from ASCII to tiles, replicating most ASCII effects in tile form (damage splash, blood).

• Renderer migrated from SDL1 to SDL2, no longer using unstable custom OpenGL code

• New intro level

• Enhanced ending level providing proper closure to the story

• Improved music in several places

• More responsive movement when rapidly changing direction

• Small level changes (lighting, tweaks to story)

• Primitive inventory system (mostly to make Torches for dark places at this time)

• Ability to travel back and forth between levels a la Hexen hubs - useful to grab health or scrap

• Beta option to use mouse aiming (still limited to 8 directions, obviously)

• Game no longer pauses on player thoughts or NPC quips; other minor cosmetic improvements

Known Issues:

• Inability to switch back to ASCII mode at this time (too many rendering pipeline changes). NOTE: old ASCII version is now available in "beta" branch with password "asciigraphics"; however, it also lacks all the non-graphics updates that made it into the bitmap version.

• Unresolved water warping effect picked up during SDL2 migration

• Video resolution options are not there at the moment; game defaults to desktop resolution

• "Previous weapon", "Next weapon", "Next Inventory Item" keys are missing, thus complicating the mapping of controller buttons to keyboard

(Possible) Future Plans:

• Random campaign generation with achievements for passing the first 2,4,8,16, etc levels without dying.