For the first time on PureZC, we bring for your enlightenment and edification Zelda Classic Necromancer [v2.55] !
While we had originally planned to release 2.53 (Omnius), and follow up with 2.54, before moving onto 2.55, in the last few months, we have ultimately concluded that some features that we wanted to include in later builds were far more feasible to do in 2.54, and thus we had been slowly rolling them in.
This of course means that 2.54 exceeded our original specification for it, and because of confusion with my old (personal) fork, (2.future) with the canonical 2.54--the two are unrelated--we've bumped up the version number to 2.55, thus to better reflect 13es when compared to 2.50.x, and we've given these new versionf of ZC their own project names.
The new features of 2.55/Necromancer are quite expansive, from a gigantic overhaul of ZScript, and all editors (including Enemy, Item, Weapon, Messages, Shops, and so forth), to subtle improvements such as porting global quest rules to individual flags on items and enemies; and general improvements and refinements to Zuest and quest building, listing everything individually would exceed a single topic post.
Thus, in this thread, we will cover new features and content, a section at a time, while we explore how these changes and new features improve your experience while using ZQuest, and expand the horizon line for what you can do both with the stock editor, and with ZScript expansion.
We will also cover the plans for future features, and our plans, as these topics logically arise.
For the present, you may wish to download and try the latest build. We'll keep this topic freshly updated with new builds as they arrive, and you are of course welcome to view the detailed Changelog for 2.55 on GitHub.
For now, here's what you'll want, to see where this is all going:
Zelda Classic Necromancer [v2.55] [Alpha 1] [p16] [Win-32]
Brought to you by: The ZC Necromancer Team (Alphabetical)
Here are some teaser screenshots!
Enemy Editor
Item Editor
Shop Editor
Combo Editor
Tile Editor