Once again, thanks to players who've let us know about bugs in our Discord following the 0.4 release - LOTS of minor issues have been fixed with your help! Originally Feartress was released as a 0.1 alpha on the web, with just one 8x8 map to be played. Players could replay and explore different strategies to improve their completion time.
We evolved the game to include 13 worlds with progressively stronger enemies, and carrying items through to new worlds is a big help in defeating them. Recently we added your total world completion time to the map screen.
But what if you want to see how good you are at clearing each world without relying on your carefully curated loadout? Well, now you can test yourself in our latest update!

Time Trial

This new mode is available for any world you've already completed. Select it via the main menu:
You start the world from scratch with no items, but what's that?! A bunch of chests with useful gear waiting to be opened!
The chests contain a mix of equippable items (including a legendary!) and consumables - use them wisely to defeat the corner tiles as quickly as possible. Some additional help includes:

• Access to all books
• x3 item sell value
• x10 gold from combat
• +2 enemy loot rating

We look forward to hearing what you think about the new mode!

Additional keyboard shortcuts

We're happy with the shortcuts we added to the game, but the more we tried using them, the more we wanted to add - so we did! For example, you can upgrade and perform building actions from the build menu, all with the keyboard.
Other new shortcuts exist, such as for selecting dialogue and attacking, feel free to try them out yourself!

Updated main menu

The main menu has undergone a minor refresh, eagle eyed/eared players may be able to spot the differences.

What's next?

For now, we will continue to listen to feedback on Discord and fix any bugs that crop up. The two of us are hoping the game can gain more traction before we devote significant time to figuring out what direction to take the game (in terms of new maps and story). We'd also like to add translations at some point, as our web version had a lot of Japanese and Chinese players. Thanks for reading to end, hope you enjoy the update! - cooljingle

[ 2023-03-29 23:21:11 CET ] [ Original post ]