Hello all, This is a quick fix to a bug that was just brought to my attention. In version 1.01, character classes would get stuck locked, even when the necessary conditions to unlock them are met. That should be fixed now. Thank you, and I apologize to anyone that experienced this issue. -Grant

Hello All, This is it. I am proud to share with you all Version 1.00 of The Baleful Tower. Its pretty wild for me that this project has finally reached a point where I can reasonably consider it done. Sure, I will definitely take time to support it as needed, but I think Ive included just about everything I can from the notebook of ideas Ive spent the past several years filling. I originally started actively working on this game over four years ago, but I originally began sketching out enemies and thinking about player classes years before then. Since I started active development on The Baleful Tower, back in my childhood bedroom during the COVID-19 pandemic, Ive graduated from college with my Bachelors Degree, I started my first real job and, just within this past month, I started a new job that had me move across the country, leaving my longtime home in the American Midwest for its Southeastern region. And throughout all the major life changes and events that have occurred throughout those years, Ive been picking away bit by bit, some weeks much more actively than others, to try and finish creating what I originally had in mind all those years ago. Im immensely grateful for each and every one of you that has spent your time and money on this little side project of mind. While I am going to focus more on my new job and my next game (Ive been turning an idea over in my head for about a year now, but didnt want to actually start working on it until I finished The Baleful Tower), please reach out if you encounter any issues or need support, and I will be happy to assist. I will still be providing support as needed, but this is the end of the planned content and feature updates. This new update contains the last of the twelve player classes I had originally envisioned: The Kinetic. The Kinetic is kind of like a battlemage that relies on telekinetic abilities. They have no physical weapons to speak of, but can conjure spinning blades, projectiles and shields through the sheer force of their minds. For their three active abilities, they can call forth weights from the sky that fall and crush the enemies before them, repel all nearby enemies in a strong mental blast or pull far away foes towards them, so that they may dispatch them with their strong melee attacks. Their mental control over the material world can also harm foes in a more passive manner, as well, for their Essence grants their attacks the chance to cause their enemies muscles to atrophy, Slowing them for a period of time. I really enjoyed working on this class and playing it in my testing. It was really fun to pull enemies in and then force them away with a Repelling Blast. I hope you will like it as much as I do.
Ive also added the Final Biome, the end of the Baleful Tower. This biome is a combination of all the dangers you have seen before, with the environmental hazards from all nine previous biomes appearing within. It is also home to three powerful exclusive enemies: the Magos, Minotaur and Valkyrie. In addition to these three, I have added three more enemies that may appear in the other biomes: the Chomper, Manticore and what might be the silliest of my creations: the Bowler, who throws their ball in a curved trajectory, and it also makes a strike sound if it hits its target. At Floor 99 resides the Baleful Guardian, the final boss of the Baleful Tower. She is a fearsome adversary that combines attacks from all prior bosses and all playable classes in a deadly fight.
If you manage to defeat the Baleful Guardian, you will find the core of the tower on Floor 100. Destroy it to see the ending movie as well as unlock some new features for subsequent runs. The first of which is the fact that while the Tower may have physical limits on the outside, inside it continues forever. Players may continue beyond the 100th floor, but they will find greater challenges. In particular, they will need to fight more bosses at the end of each biome. For example, in Floor 110, the players will need to defeat the Emperor Penguin as well as a random other boss. At Floor 210, they will fight the Emperor Penguin and two other random bosses. This continues until players are fighting all ten bosses at the end of each biome. If a player has already cleared 100 floors, they may skip straight to that point and start their journey from there. The other fun new feature that gets unlocked upon clearing 100 floors is the Boss Rush Mode. In this, players will fight all the bosses in rapid succession, and, like with the previous new feature, after they fight through all ten, they can keep going and fight two, three, four, etc. at a time.
In addition to all these new features, I have included some more bug fixes and balance tweaks. The full patch notes are listed below. I also would like to take a moment to thank everyone that has helped me during this development process. I would not have been able to make this without your support. In particular, I would like to thank Alex Hahn, Jake Adkins, Shafer Hess, Troy Gayman, Jamison Whitaker, Spencer Seim, J.D. Crites, Jared Botte, Roman Cyliaz, Will Cross, Cal Siers, Rylan Smith, Anthony Geraci, Sunny Judge, Raviteja Vajja, Sadid Khan, Zach Neuhofer, Vidit Pandya, Akul Ghormade, Skyler Brown, Adam Kubicek, Jim Adkins, James Adkins and Annette Adkins. Thank you and enjoy, Grant

• Added the Kinetic Class
• Added Final Biome and Baleful Guardian Boss
• Added 6 new enemy types
  • Chomper
  • Bowler
  • Manticore
  • Magos - Final Biome Exclusive
  • Minotaur - Final Biome Exclusive
  • Valkyrie - Final Biome Exclusive
• Added ending video on 100th Floor
• Added feature that when players continue beyond the 100th floor, they face an additional boss in each type for every loop through the 100 floors. For example, on Floor 110, players will fight the Emperor Penguin and a random other boss. On Floor 210, they will face the Emperor Penguin and two random other bosses. This continues until players fight all ten bosses in every boss fight.
• If a player has cleared a multiple of 100 floors, then they are now able to skip to their highest cleared multiple of 100 and start from there, with an appropriate level set for each of their stats.
  • In online multiplayer, this is determined by the hosting players highest cleared floor
• Added a new Boss Rush Mode that is unlocked after beating the 100th floor for the first time.
  • In online multiplayer, players who have unlocked Boss Rush Mode can host sessions with it enabled
• Added all Bosses to the Bestiary
• Added sound effects for the bosses attacks
• In multiplayer games, if one player is trying to exit the floor, and other players are too far away, in addition to prompting the player to gather their party, all players too far from the exit are now prompted to head towards it.
• Adjusted the goal threshold setting for longer runs that exceed the amount of unique floors to be more reasonable
• Increased Player Ability Strength scaling by 20%
• Tripled the Burrgs possible ranged attack inaccuracy
• Lowered Burrgs starting health
• Increased Skeleton move speed
• Lowered minimum possible Withstand Damage Goal Threshold on Daydream difficulty from 33% of the average max health of all players to 12.5%
• Reduced player roll animation rate scaling per Speed level by 33.3%
• Fixed issue with UI scaling in Mac versions making the Hints Page too big for the screen
• Randomized the starting positions of the Gorgons Statues
• Fixed bug where Fishmongers Shark Fins, Zombie Bards Harp Throw and half of the Crimson Kings
• Firewalls would turn invisible on client in online multiplayer upon their first collision with a wall
• Fixed bug where none of the Zombie buff effects would appear on clients in online multiplayer
• Fixed bug where the client would crash in online multiplayer games on the ending of Rangers Poison Arrows buff
• Fixed issue where Radslug wastes would damage player if their melee weapons collides with it
• Fixed bug where the Saving Game popup would appear at moments where it was not actually performing a save operation
• Fixed bug where Player 1s items would duplicate to Player 2
• Fixed issues with music playing inconsistently on clients in online Multiplayer
• Tried to fix issues with the camera not exiting Spectator Mode in online multiplayer when a player is revived. I am not going to say that this will never happen again, but it should be incredibly rare, and if it does happen, there is another backup where the first time the revived player attempts any action, that the camera should snap back to focus on their character.

Hello All, This update for The Baleful Tower contains the 11th of the planned 12 character classes: the Ranger. The Ranger, as the name would suggest, is another ranged focused class, with some very powerful abilities. The first is Poison Arrows, when activated, all of the Rangers ranged attacks will poison their targets upon collision, in addition to dealing damage. The Ranger also has the ability to place Traps throughout the map, immobilizing enemies that walk into them, and deal damage to their Ensnared captive repeatedly over time. Perhaps most important for the Ranger is the ability to summon their Wolf companion. The Rangers Wolves are incredibly strong, loyal summons that can tear through enemies at close range, while the Ranger lobbies arrows from afar. Unlike the Necromancer, who can summon up to 7 of the Skeletal Warriors, Rangers can only have one Wolf at their side at any given time, however the might of the single Wolf is markedly greater than that of a single Skeletal Warrior. All of these abilities are supplemented by the Rangers Essence: Hunters Resilience. Whenever the Ranger would have normally succumbed to some ailment, such as getting Frozen or Panicked, there is a chance that the Ranger immediately recovers, and this chance increases at higher values of their Essence.
In addition to the new Ranger class, this update also adds in the penultimate biome in The Baleful Tower: the Monochrome Biome. This biome is notably different from the others in its containing more elaborate and mechanical hazards and enemies, with a soundtrack inspired by industrial rock music to match. The first of new enemies that can only be found in the Monochrome Biome is the Rover, a small, tank-like enemy that can shoot a fast, high powered rocket from one side and emit a powerful particle beam attack from the other. There is also the Mecah-Droid, tall mechanical foes, all hard metal and whirring gears, that leap onto their foes, viciously slicing at them with their massive blades. The last of the enemies exclusive to the Monochrome Biome is the Chronomancer, mages whose spell attacks have a chance at Slowing their targets, causing them to move and attack at half speed for some time. This magic that the Chronomancers use exists throughout all the floors in the Monochrome Biome, which are littered with clocks on the ground, spinning at all manner of different speeds, slowing down any intruder who walks over them.
All these mechanical creations are the products of the boss of the Monochrome Biome: The Artificer. The Artificer might first appear unimposing, a relatively small fellow flying around on the hovercraft he fashioned for himself, but from his control console on that craft, he can unleash a litany of deadly attacks onto the players. At any point, a series of rapidly spinning blades might expand out from the base of his craft, dealing repeated damage to all nearby opponents. He might also issue commands to the satellite dishes positioned in the corners of the room, which will then send out a series of drone projectiles that will fly across the map, launching smaller projectiles from their sides at regular intervals. He will also constantly call forth windup soldiers that will chase after the intruding players and explode after a short time, damaging all within the blast radius. As the Artificer sustains damage from the player, he will engage some more countermeasures, such as using some of the Chronomancers magic to create slow zones in the floor, which regularly expand and contract, slowing all players and summons in their radius. Lastly, the Artificer will erect shields that orbit around himself, in hopes of blocking incoming attacks. All of this combines to make the Artificer likely the greatest challenge players might face, so far, in The Baleful Tower.
In addition to these regular updates, Ive added some quality of life improvements, per some greatly appreciated player feedback. The first of which is having the goal for each floor popup over the players head at the beginning of the floor, making it abundantly clear to players who might be in a bit of a rush what the objective is. Ive also made a Hints Page that can be accessed via the Pause or Main Menus. This lists all the controls as well as descriptions for all the items available to purchase at the shop and some general tips about some of the more obtuse mechanics in the game. And lastly, Ive added sound effects that play whenever enemies fire their ranged attacks, in hopes of increasing the sense of immersion and providing some additional player awareness to the combat situation at any given time.
If everything goes as planned, the next update for The Baleful Tower will be the official 1.00 release. I set out over four years ago now, in the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic, to make a game containing all the ideas that I had occasionally jotted down in an old notebook for several years, and have been working on it in some capacity in my spare time ever since. Now, we are getting close to having what I envisioned all those years ago finally existing in a complete package. Im proud of the work I have done so far to get to this point, and I am immeasurably grateful to all of you who have given me your hard earned money in exchange for my work, and I am especially grateful to those who have reached out with feedback and have helped me shape this game into the best version of itself. I cannot wait to have the full picture finally in place in the coming months. Thank you and enjoy, Grant

• Added the Ranger Class
• Added Monochrome Biome and Artificer Boss
• Added 10 new enemy types
  • Kobold
  • Slicer
  • Salamander
  • Troll
  • Frog
  • Harpy
  • Radar
  • Rover - Monochrome Biome Exclusive
  • Mecah-Droid - Monochrome Biome Exclusive
  • Chronomancer - Monochrome Biome Exclusive
• Added new Slow ailment
• Renamed Entangled ailment Ensnared
• Added a Hints pages that display some useful information, accessible via the Pause and Main Menus
• Floor goal now pops up above the players head at the beginning of each floor
• Added sound effects for enemy projectiles
• Lowered unlock threshold values for Pugilist
• Fixed issue where Groovys attack would not cause Summons to dance if they enter the area of effect
• Playing the tutorial now has the player play as any of the unlocked player classes, selected at random
• The Zombie at the end of the tutorial now can be one of any of the classes available in the game, irregardless of the classs unlock status
• Replaced two of the statues in the Gorgon fight with statue versions of the Ranger
• Gorgon projectile explodes into smaller projectiles upon collision now, in addition to after a period of time
• Disabled collision for Statues after Gorgon is defeated
• Fixed a bug where Gorgon would sometimes not die when her health reaches 0

Hello All, This next update for The Baleful Tower features the addition of the 10th playable character class, the Pugilist. The Pugilist is unlocked by killing enemies with melee attacks, which is fitting, since it is very much a melee oriented class. Pugilists specialize in quick melee attacks, allowing them to deal considerable damage in a short period of time. Their abilities consist of Flurry of Blows, a combo of ten rapid strikes, Flaming Fists, which allow all their melee attacks to have a good chance to burn enemies and the Flying Kick, which sends them soaring across the map, damaging all that fall in their wake. In addition, the Pugilist has an incredibly useful essence: whenever they are hit by a melee attack, there is a chance that the Pugilist automatically lands a counter on the attacker. I really had a great time playing this class in my testing prior to release, and I think you all will too.
In addition to the Pugilist, there is now also the new Rock Biome, lorded over by the Gorgon boss on Floor 80. The Rock Biome is home to three powerful exclusive enemies: the Rock and Roller, a tag team partnership between two enemies, the Eye Blight, whose ominous gaze has a chance to Petrify players where they stand, and the Golem, a powerful lumbering melee attack who swings its giant stone fists at players. In addition, there are also seven other new enemies added in this update, such as the Radslug, which leaves behind a toxic trail that players must avoid, the Medic, who instead of attacking the player heals its allies, and Groovy, a sentient disco ball that, when it gets the party started, compels all nearby players to cease fighting and start dancing.
The Rock Biome culminates in a fight with the powerful Gorgon. Like the Eye Blight, the Gorgons gaze can Petrify players, leaving them immobile and vulnerable to incoming attacks. In fact, the 80th floor is filled with previous adventurers who suffered from the Gorgons might. At first, the two dozen statues of different adventurers remain static, potentially obstructing the field of play for the two combatants. But soon after the fighting starts, some of the statues will reanimate and attack the players on behalf of the Gorgon. Similar to the Zombies that populate the Tower after an adventurers death, these statues use the same attacks and abilities that players have turned against the vile creatures theyve encountered on their quest. Unlike those enemies, however, these statues cannot die. Instead, when they have received enough damage, they return to their static state, but they will almost certainly be reactivated soon thereafter. The amount of statues that get activated is inversely proportional to the Gorgons health, to the point that as it gets perilously close to death, all 24 statues will bear their full might on the players. I think this is a really fun and exciting boss fight, and I hope you all enjoy it as much as I do.
As you can see, development of The Baleful Tower is proceeding wonderfully. I really enjoy making this game and getting to share it with you all. Thank you so much for playing it. We are getting close to the end of the features I have planned, and look forward to releasing the official version 1.0 sometime in the future. Enjoy, Grant

• Added the Pugilist Class
• Added Rock Biome and Gorgon Boss
• Added 10 new enemy types
  • Nightclaw
  • Centurion
  • Radslug
  • Groovy
  • Lich
  • Spineback
  • Medic
  • Rock and Roller - Rock Biome Exclusive
  • Eye Blight - Rock Biome Exclusive
  • Golem - Rock Biom Exclusive
• Added new Petrify ailment
• Doubled Rogue Essences impact to triggering Precise Shots
• Doubled Barbarian Essences impact to triggering Brutal Strikes
• Increased Bard Essence impact to Gold collected by a multiple of 5
• Doubled Assassin Essences impact to Critical Hit chance
• Fixed missing melee collider in Blaze enemy
• Fixed Zombie Barbarian only playing animation to catch Spinning Ax on server and not clients
• Fixed Zombie Bard never playing animation to catch Harp Throw
• Zombie Bomb abilities now scale their attack with the Zombies stats
• Fixed inconsistent behavior of Esc key in game
• Fixed bug where some Bestiary kills would not be saved between game sessions

Hello All, This new update adds another exciting new way to play The Baleful Tower, Local Co Op. Now you are able to plug in up to four controllers and ascend the tower as a group. One of my key inspirations for adding any multiplayer mode in the first place was the different cooperative multiplayer games my brothers and I played growing up. Now with this mode, the three of us can do the same with my game and work together to clear the tower of monsters. Or, maybe we will do what my friends did when I had them over to test this mode for the first time and take advantage of the friendly fire settings and use Floor 0 as a Deathmatch Map, where only the survivor continues on to actually ascend the tower.
Ive also added a couple of bug fixes and improved the controller functionality across different menus. Now, in my testing, I experienced some issues with Steam Input when using multiple controllers. If you have issues with the game not recognizing the different gamepads, Steam Input might be the culprit. If you keep having issues, reach out I will try to help troubleshoot. Enjoy, Grant

• Added Local Multiplayer Mode
• Added gamepad support for Online Multiplayer Lobby and Session Selection Menu
• Added a buzzer sound that plays when the player attempts to buy an item, but is unable to
• Added arrows in some UI menus to show which widget (slider, drop down, etc.) is being focused on when using gamepad
• Fixed bug where there was a chance of multiple goals being set on a floor with the last one set being the active one, potentially causing issues with repeated goals in a biome or exit being permanently hidden
• Fixed issues with spectator camera in Online Multiplayer
• Added a brief popup explaining how to change spectator camera when dying in Online Multiplayer
• Added D-Pad support for switching Spectator View in online multiplayer
• Fixed bug where the player would need to press the pause button twice to the game after using the UI button to unpause
• Changed some behind the scenes behavior for setting player character selection data in Online Multiplayer Lobby. This should reduce irregular behavior that occurs when players leave and then rejoin the same session

Hello All, Development of The Baleful Tower is continuing at a steady pace, and I am excited to share the latest update with you all. Let me introduce the Necromancer class, which is unlocked by killing Zombies in the tower. Similar to the Mage, this is a more ranged oriented class with a focus on three powerful abilities. The first is the Life Drain, a melee attack that heals the user for every enemy hit. There is also the Terrifying Leer, a ranged attack that damages and Panics every enemy it passes through, making them run away from players in their abject fear. The centerpiece of the Necromancers toolkit is the ability to summon Skeletal Warriors to fight by their side. The Necromancer can summon up to seven of these fearsome fighters to dispatch the various foes that reside in The Baleful Tower. The Necromancers Essence is the Necrotic Leech, which has a small chance to heal the player every time they kill an enemy. Like all Essences, its potency can be increased and it can be mixed and matched with those of other classes by defeating the Zombies that spawn on the floors where previous adventurers have fallen.
Also new to this update is the Electric Biome, starting at floor 61. This biome contains various electric coils that shoot lightning bolts that will both damage and stun players, if they are not careful. There are also several powerful enemies within this biome, of course. At the end of it, Players can expect to face the Stormhawk, a lightning charged bird of prey whose attacks cover the field of battle, forcing players to be nimble and avoid an onslaught coming from all sides. Only when the Stormhawk gets tired and needs to recharge on the various perches on its floor can the player hope to damage it, by destroying the perch on which it is currently sitting.
There are also fifteen new enemies in this update. My goal with these was to increase the variety of the types of enemies you will encounter. For starters, each biome now has three exclusive enemy types, instead of two. There are also a couple new enemies that attack by emitting a sort of particle beam, be it an icy breath, poison gas or some other material. There are also regular enemies that have circular area of effect attacks centered on their location, similar to the Paladins Blinding Flash ability. But most importantly, there are now enemies that will buff certain stats of their nearby allies. Each biome has one of these three enemies, the Hastener, which increases speed, the Swordbringer, which increases attack, and the Shieldbearer, which increases defense. In addition to these updates, Ive also worked on various minor changes in hopes of correcting balance and improving stability. Im very proud of the work Ive done for this update and think it improves the game considerably. I really hope that you all like it. Below is the full list of changes. Enjoy, Grant

• Added the Necromancer Class
• Added Electric Biome and Stormhawk Boss
• Added 15 new enemy types
  • Frostback - Ice Biome Exclusive
  • Hydrox - Swamp Biome Exclusive
  • Carrot - Plant Biome Exclusive
  • Thermador - Fire Biome Exclusive
  • Lumen - Light Biome Exclusive
  • Corrupted - Dark Biome Exclusive
  • Charger - Electric Biome Exclusive
  • Sparky - Electric Biome Exclusive
  • Diode - Electric Biome Exclusive
  • Hastener - Support Enemy
  • Swordbringer - Support Enemy
  • Shieldbearer - Support Enemy
  • Spore - Standard Enemy
  • Goblin - Standard Enemy
  • Plaguebringer - Standard Enemy
• Added the option to have aiming be toggled by Left Shift key, as opposed to holding it down
• Players now restore 5% of their Max Mana immediately upon transitioning between floors
• Fixed bug where enemies would approach player and then wait to perform their first attack after spawning, rather than attacking as soon as the player is within range
• Added Anti-Cheap Shot Protection to prevent a single attack from killing the player if they have 25% of their health or more
• Changed spawn rate of different enemies
• Game Over Screen in Multiplayer now shows the different players usernames
• Increased potency of Burn and Poison damage by a factor of 4
• Reduced Floor Timer on non Hurry to Exit floors by 15 seconds
• Barbarian Ground Pound Ability now has a 5% chance of Stunning fellow players when Friendly Fire is set to Enhanced
• Fixed some irregular behavior of Blaze animations
• Fixed issue with sounds on the Client for Naturalist Thorn Bomb Ability
• Corrected the spelling of Bestiary in Main Menu
• Various minor balance tweaks
• Improved software stability

Hello All, I apologize for the long period of silence since the last major update. Things have been a bit busy over here. In that time, I graduated college and got a new job that has been keeping me fairly busy and required me to move to a new state. But despite this, I have continued working on The Baleful Tower in my quest to make it the best game it can possibly be. This update is a prime example of me proving myself wrong. Early in the process of making this game, when I sent the first couple development builds to my friends prior to the initial Early Access release, a few of them made negative comments regarding the art and graphics. My response to this was basically to just ignore them, because I liked the look that the 2D, unlit rendering provided. But later, when testing this update, several of my friends mentioned that some of the enemy units and projectiles blended in too much with the color of the floor. Since this was a complaint about the functionality of the game rather than a purely aesthetic critique, I began looking into ways to improve the readability of the game while maintaining the cartoonish art style. So I eventually added a simple cell shader, and after I tested it the first time, I had to admit that all my friends' initial critiques were correct and the game looks much better now. While the changes may be subtle, especially in a side by side comparison, it makes a great difference in motion. Also, in the period after I graduated but before I had my new job lined up, I was working on the game and testing everything, when I came to another realization that ran counter to my initial idea of the game. When I sent the very first build of the game to my friends to test (a build that is drastically different from what you can play today), I included a note in the ReadMe file stating I will not be adding any sort of multiplayer, especially not online multiplayer. You'd have to make a really compelling case to convince me otherwise. I'm talking Grant I'll do all the work myself level of compelling. However, as I continued working on the game that summer on my parents farm, I realized that the best version of this game is one where you can play together with your friends, sort of replicating the experience of playing a game on a 4-player arcade cabinet. And so began a lengthy and challenging process, that admittedly might have been a bit ill-advised, of adding online multiplayer. It was an especially rough process since I did not have multiplayer in mind when making the game originally, so I essentially had to tear the whole thing apart and put the pieces back together within a client server architecture. This was a lengthy process, and I learned an awful lot doing it, in particular that I should probably make all games going forward with multiplayer in mind, even if I just plan on it being single player, just in case I change my mind. But anyways, after a lengthy period of developing, testing and iteration, we now have functional, a four player cooperative online multiplayer mode. And its really fun. I am very excited for you all to try it out. I hope you love it as much as I do. Below is a bulleted list of some of the more specific changes. Enjoy, Grant Patch Notes:

• Added Online Multiplayer
• Redid graphics to use a cell shader instead
• Redid the game balance in order to increase the overall pace of play
  • Increased the attack of all player classes and enemies
  • Reduced max health of enemies
  • Redid the stat scaling of enemies (per floor and biome) and player classes (per level)
  • Increased the movement speed of all player classes
  • Considerably increased the roll animation rate for all player classes
  • Lowered the value of goal thresholds for each floor
  • Reduced the time allotted for each floor
  • Reduced the price of all shop items
  • Increased the frequency and quantity of enemy spawning
  • Altered the mana cost, cooldown time and potency of player abilities
  • Tripled the attack power of the regular bombs bought in shop
  • Reduced the unlock thresholds for all player classes
  • Reduced the duration of all player status ailments
  • Altered the max health of the bosses
  • Barbarian Rage no longer lowers Defense
• Fixed a bug where the character select might occasionally start spinning wildly
• Added support for A and D keys as input in character select and Bestiary
• Extended Zombie line of sight range
• Fixed a bug of erratic behavior for the effects volume slider
• Fixed bug where the shop would block the exit ladder
• Added the Shop to the tutorial
• Added a bell sound that rings at the beginning of floors with a shop
• Redid the Fishmonger enemy behavior. Now it makes quick dashes in a single direction rather than chasing the player
• Fixed some bug that might cause game to hitch up or crash when using the Barbarian Spinning Ax or Bard Harp Throw ability
• Altered the chances of Mindflayer projectile causing status ailments
• Fixed bug where Mindflayer projectiles would be unaffected by Reflective Coating effect
• Player movement when Panicked should be less erratic
• Added a frame rate cap
• Fixed problem where Crimson King would get stuck in a state where he would no longer attack
• Fixed bug where the Zombie Naturalist Vine Strike would stay spawned and keep growing in size after the Zombie is killed
• Fixed issue with normal music failing to resume when transitioning floors with the Bards Music Box playing
• Emperor Penguin now bounces off players when sliding
• Changed the mesh of the Blinding Mine in the Light Biome to better distinguish it from the gold coins
• Added a sound effect that plays when stepping on a Blinding Mine
• Holy Priestess now attacks with the gold ring variation of the Ground Pound attack occasionally if a player is too close to her
• Fixed bug where the second set of vines on the Great Pumpkin might push the player above the field of play

This update should simply fix the issue from the previous version where Achievements did not unlock. Please let me know if it does not work. -Grant

Small update that fixes Great Pumpkin boss fight never starting when playing as Paladin.

• New Playable Class: Paladin
• New Dark Biome
• New Boss: Shadow Tamer and Shadow Beast
• Six New Enemies: Ogre, Skeleton, Elite Goblin, Ringer, Noxian, Prairie Cat
• Added an in game Shop with 11 consumable items that can be used: Health Potion, Mana Potion, Stamina Potion, Big Shot, Big Swing, 3 Random Level Ups, Random Essence, Reflective Coating, Magnetic Field, Life Seed, 3 Bombs
• Added second Beastiary entries for all enemies
• Various balance fixes

Thank you all for buying and playing The Baleful Tower! Over the past couple months, I've been working on a major update, which will be out soon. I have already sent out updates with minor fixes based on your feedback, but this upcoming update will have a lot of new stuff for you all. First of all is the addition of consumable items and a shop that appears at random floors, three times for each Biome. The shop has three random items each time. The different items are

• Big Shot -- Temporarily increases the size of your melee weapon
• Big Swing -- Temporarily increases the size of all your projectiles
• Health Potion -- Restores Health
• Mana Potion -- Restores Mana
• Stamina Potion -- Restores all ability cooldowns
• 3 Random Level Ups -- Using this spawns 3 Random Level Ups to increase player stats/skills
• Random Essence -- Using this spawns a Random Essence, like those the Zombie versions of previous players drop when defeated
• 3 Bombs -- 3 Bombs to use against enemies
• Life Seed -- One time revive that is used immediately upon death
• Magnetic Field -- Nearby items move towards player temporarily
• Reflective Coating -- Temporarily bounce back enemy projectiles