Striving for Light (tuxdb.com)

Striving for Light is a rogue-lite ARPG where you utilise a unique infinite expanding skilltree to fight your way through the darkness, striving for light.

All about exploration

Dive into a dark, mysterious world full of dangers
Everything is hand drawn
Explore a big variety of random generated maps
Unique soundtracks for each environment
Level up and utilise a unique random generated and infinite expanding skill tree
Unlock new skills and weapons
Endless progression system

Skill system

Each run gives you a new unique skill tree to explore
Dynamic expanding skilltree depending on your skill pathway
Infinite skilltree for infinite progression
Collect skillgems and shape your skill tree

Combat system

Dynamically switch between melee and ranged weapons during fights
Dual resource system to manage melee and ranged attacks
Challenging enemies and boss encounters
Dodge enemy attacks

Weapons & Loot

Collect light shards to unlock weaons and skills
Hunt for your perfect weapon and skill combination
Weapons with unique mechanics for various different playstyles
Loot is hiding in every corner waiting to be uncovered
Find shards which grant additional skill points

Story & NPCs

Uncover a dark and mysterious story
Town hub as a place to return and prepare for the next journey
NPCs for unlocking new skills and weapons

Pathfinder Hotfix 0.6.1.0b

Improvements

Added tutorial hint for the pathfinder for first map activation
New maps are now unlocked after defeating the gatekeeper at floor 5 (was floor 6 before)
Weapon tooltips now have a 1/s suffix for better explaining the attack speed rating

Balancing:

Incereased sting weapon damage to 12 (was 10)
Incereased spear weapon damage to 14 (was 10)
Incereased sword of the phoenix weapon damage to 11 (was 10)
Increased detection range for corrupted light void map boss
Slightly reduced enemy amount scaling on endgame maps

Bugfixes:

Fixed a crash which could occur when loading a save game
Fixed infinite damage scaling of enemy projectiles when map modifiers are active
Fixed translations for various map shards
Fixed melee weapon tooltips displaying wrong damage numbers
Fixed a bug which caused multiple damage instances being applied to the player when walking into multiple overlapping snail trails.

If you encounter crashes of bugs please let us know!

Thanks to everyone providing helpful feedback, which is what drives the development forward! You are invited to join our discord and participate in the ongoing development of Striving for Light!
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[ 2022-09-03 11:49:34 CET ] [Original Post]