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

Update 0.8.5.0

New Features:

New training dummies have been added to Ankerath.

This training dummies always have the same HP Pool as regular enemies of your current difficulty setting. So the HP pool dynamically grows with your enemy strength making it the perfect dummy to test build changes before going back into a map. Once a training dummy HP pool is depleated it will immediatly get refilled.
Re-designed damage numbers. We completely redesigned the damage number animation to make damage numbers feel as responsive as possible and more satisfying to look at. So the new animation is designed to reflect the damage inpact. Also the damage numbers have got a complete new color code with gradual tint shift from pure white - yellow - golden depending on the damage amount. The previous color code was just to diverse with a more rainbow disco feel.
Re-designed tooltips for skills, maps, map mods, shards and consumable items. The previous tooltip design can be dated back to our pre-early access days over a year ago so it definately needed a long awaited redesign. Here is how the new tooltip design looks like.

Improvements

New multi threaded physics model for improved performance
If new difficulty tiers are unlocked a new run now always defaults at difficulty tier 1 and has to be increased by the player

Bugfixes:

Fixed the cursor hotspot offset for the software cursor
Fixed crashes for new players that did not have any savefiles
Fixed crash/ missing placement preview on placing skill gems with new multi threaded physics model (v.0.8.5.0a)

Information about the upcoming 24h streamer race on 24th June at:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1646790/view/3653029068484924458?l=english

You are invited to join our official discord to connect with the community and discuss and prepare your builds for the upcoming Rush Event.
Join the official discord!

[ 2023-06-21 07:29:35 CET ] [Original Post]