Looking for a programmer to create a new DCSS Revenant unique during the next 2 weeks

RoGGa · January 27, 2025, 5:41pm

The next CCTT (Crawl Cosplay Trunk Tournament) will likely take place in March 2025.
For it, I’d like to create 1 or 2 new DCSS Uniques (or modify existing Uniques) based on the new additions in trunk.
If you can program DCSS PRs, please let me know if you’d like to be involved in this.
Cheers,
RoGGa

RoGGa · January 27, 2025, 6:32pm

I’ve started posting ideas in the CC Discord’s #cc_tournaments text channel:

RoGGa · February 17, 2025, 5:37pm

For the CCTT (Crawl Cosplay Trunk Tournament) starting on Friday (most likely), I’m looking for a Crawl programmer to make a new Revenant crawl Unique during the next 2 weeks.

My guess is that it would be fairly easy to do since there is DracoOmega’s Wiglaf commit to use as a template:

github.com/crawl/crawl

Wiglaf has returned for his hat (and brought a very big gun)

committed 10:50PM - 07 May 24 UTC

DracoOmega

+139 -7

Along with the return of playable mountain dwarves, it seemed like a good joke t…o bring back an iconic mountain dwarf unique at the same time, just so long as there was something interesting for Wiglaf to *do* and I think I may have found that. Wiglaf can now cast Hellfire Mortar, a thematically appropriate (and hopefully fun) spell. They've lapsed a little in their worship of Okawaru, losing Haste to keep them from overlapping with modern Donald too much (but still know Might). They always spawn with a good randart hat and since, well, everyone knows Joseph *took* that hat, they alternate with him as a unique pair. A tiny bit of their dialogue was restored from the old days, but after trimming out the cliche drunkenness and vague racism, the vast majority of it is new. I did my best to manage scottish eye dialect in a similar style; not sure if I have gone overboard or not. Implementation note: it's impossible in a conventional way for a monster to have a hat and a shield at the same time, even using the 'usual' hack used for Nikola's gloves. So I have shoved Wiglaf's hat into his jewelry slot, which I dislike rather a lot. But I'm reasonably sure that it works properly.

Looking forward to working with who ever has the time and knowledge!
You can either post your interest here or in our CC discord: Crawl Cosplay

Cheers,
RoGGa :-D

RoGGa · February 18, 2025, 11:38am

DracoOmega has an idea for a Revenant DCSS Unique that they think of implementing in “less than a week”…so the programmer search is on hold until then.