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 0.9.12.2

New Features

360 Movement Support

The input system for controllers has received support for 360 character movement. This will make character movement feel even more responsive. Also the deadzone for character movement on controller has been reduced which also should lead improved responsiveness.

Rift Rework

We finally found the issue why enemy HP in rifts did not scale as intended, leading to way to easy enemy encounters no matter what rift level you are running. With this update enemies will be scaling as intended.

As this patch features some major changes to rifts the rift leaderboard will be reset.

Rift Changes and Improvements

Rift enemies now scale as intended
Rift bosses now have much lower shield charges
The maximum rift time has been increased to 10 minutes
The amount of enemy per rift floor has been increased and is now scaling with the current rift level. This will move the focus from running to find enemies to actual fighting enemies :)
The scaling of the required amount of defeated enemies has been reduced so that you now have to defeat less enemies for a rift.
Added a notification message when the rift collapsed due to running out of time.

Major Changes and Improvements

Improve auto effect transparency scaling: The maximum transparency setting has been lowered slightly to maintain a bit more visibility of player effects on high character levels.

Bugfixes

Fixed wrong initialised remaining time UI in rifts
Fixed camera zoom on controller by using the RT/LT buttons not working in the skilltree
Fixed effect screen position of glare in the select skillgem UI
Fixed glitches in enemy movement for idle transition
Fixed allignment of rift timer progress bars
Fixed snail boss AoE effect spawn angles
Fixed cyclic might interrupting on controller thumbstick attacks
Fixed cyclic might following the wrong player character in coop mode
Fixed not updating attack direction when using thumbstick on controller (v.0.9.12.2b)

[ 2025-03-05 07:57:20 CET ] [Original Post]