Cloakers, Finally managed to squeeze in this update before the weekend! it consists of bug fixes, visual improvements, and optimizations, all based on your feedback over the past few days since free 2 play transition.

• Fixed the freeze spell infinite money glitch when landing killing blow on an enemy. Freeze spell can no longer be spammed as it was unhealthy for the game. A minimum cooldown of 4 seconds has been added on top of the shots needed to recharge this spell. The cost has also been increased to 1700.
• Fixed a bug where some players were getting stuck underneath the boss room for the 2nd boss-fight.
• Improved and enabled smoother interactions with the Elder shop.
• Pixel art for the 4th boss has been improved. The skulls from his land piece attacks are now outlined in red to make them more visible and easier to dodge (used to blend with the bckground).
• Enemy positions at the start of the 2nd level have been readjusted to provide more room early on.
• The game timer should now display correctly at the end of the level.
• Minor tweaks to the UI
• Added the Elder shop to the Boss Rush mode, which was previously missing due to a spawning issue.

That's it for now. Currently working on more UI improvements and enhancements to the end level. As always, I will be on the lookout for your feedback on Discord and will continue to adjust and update the game accordingly. Please feel free to join as we build an active community!

[ 2024-08-03 00:06:38 CET ] [ Original post ]

Cloakers,

Super excited to announce that the Game is in its best ever shape to date and is now free-to-play with tons of updates!

For the past two years, Cloaks and Capes has been a paid game, and I sincerely appreciate the support from everyone who has purchased and played it. After careful consideration, Ive decided to make it free-to-play to expand our player base and reach as many people as possible with these many updates. I believe this will make C&C more enjoyable and accessible than ever before, with:

• Level Reworks,
• New Enemies,
• Corruption Blocks (new in-game elements),
• Bug Fixes,
• Overall Refinements to every aspect of the game, and more!

The past few days have been hellish for me as Ive been updating the game non-stop to ensure it is as stable and enjoyable as possible. As always, I will be on the lookout for your feedback on Discord and will continue to adjust and update the game accordingly. Please feel free to join as we build an active community!
Thanks again, and happy gaming! With best regards, ~Sole Developer of Cloaks and Capes

[ 2024-07-27 14:24:08 CET ] [ Original post ]

Announcement to all Cloakers,

Game is in its best ever shape to date and will be free in a week or so. DO NOT BUY THE GAME AND PLAY IT WHEN IT'S FREE IN A WEEK BY ~24th July. For the past two years, Cloaks and Capes has been a paid game, and I deeply appreciate the support from everyone who has purchased and played it. After careful consideration, Ive decided to make Cloaks and Capes free-to-play to expand our player base and reach as many people as possible with this one update. I believe that this will make Cloaks and Capes more enjoyable and accessible than ever before with:

• Level Reworks,
• New Enemies,
• Corruption Blocks (new in-game elements),
• Overall Refinements to every aspect of the game, and more!

Please note: If you are considering buying the game, I urge you to wait just a little longer until it becomes free in a week. As always, I will be on the lookout for your feedback on Discord and will continue to adjust and update the game accordingly.

[ 2024-07-17 20:14:39 CET ] [ Original post ]

Greetings everyone,

Winter Sale

You can now pick up Cloaks and Capes for 52% less which is a historical low for the game

Hardcore Mode Changes

For all of you hardcore enthusiasts I have remodeled the enemies for this mode with lots of rebalancing to stages and made it a little bit more hardcore, try it out once you finish the game in normal or easy mode please let me know of any bugs or suggestions and as always, i'll try my best to deliver. Cheers!

[ 2022-12-22 17:00:40 CET ] [ Original post ]

Greetings Cloakers

Autumn Sale 33% Off

Discount will run for 1 week along the seasonal sale and the game will most likely get a regional price increase after the sale ends.

Free Boss Rush DLC

That's right, grab the free dlc and see how far you can get down the chain of 9 elderish bosses with rage inducing phases, you will get to scale up or down their health multiplier according to your liking as in this picture and to fight them in a back-to-back fashion!

Fixes and Balancing

As per usual im carefully monitoring your feedbacks and I hope this covers most of your requests

• Ero the englightened(1st boss) nerfed, health and rage phase difficulty drastically reduced,
• Walk of shame nerfed, arrows spawn-rate decreased and space between them increased
• Some activatable traps in first stage are either removed/scaled down or repositioned
• Reminder to buy powerups when gold reaches 800 threshold
• Tezkraml (7th boss) health increased
• Ordur (4th boss) rage phase nerfed, half moon attack phase duraton reduced, impact upon falling to the ground duration reduced
• Cloaker reaches overheat and berserks faster now even in normal mode
• Fixed a bug where essa (3rd boss) didnt give a powerup scroll upon being killed and her rage phase nerfed
• Some in-game tips re-written
• Smoother camera
• More minor changes to all stages

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1637950/cloaks_and_capes/ To all Cloakers about to take the son spirit from the elder and revive a beloved one, I salute you!

[ 2022-11-22 18:01:31 CET ] [ Original post ]

Halloween-Theme

• Find and eat all pumpkins for a movement speed boost
• Cloaker and his son are well-dressed for the occasion
• Scarier in-game music
• Main menu redone to suit the theme
• Embrace 200% experience gain
• New kill effect animation
• Cast pumpkin-head fireballs

New Legendary Powerup Get the new game-breaking end-game powerup "not just a spirit" which awakens Cloaker son's spirit and makes him annihilate almost everyone that stands in your path (older save files might over-write this powerup in the shop) Fixes

• Fixed spikes not appearing properly on-screen matching background color
• Fixed portal collision being too small

Thats it for this update cloakers, hope you enjoy and happy Halloween!

[ 2022-10-25 17:33:18 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello!, as per players request I added

• A cool animation between shooting pattern transfers and outliners on the current shooting pattern
• Intro hint as to how to setup controller or steamdeck
• Some nerfs to Ero (first boss)
• Son spirit outliner
• Fixed a bug where some people get outside of death trio (5th boss) boundaries upon dying with revive powerup being enabled

Thats it, now working on Halloween theme, thanks for the feedback, keep it coming and enjoy!

[ 2022-10-22 00:53:13 CET ] [ Original post ]

Controller Support

Cloakers.. the anticipated controller support is finally up for almost all controller types including steam deck. Please head to Library-->C&Capes-->"controller layout" below play next to "discussions" to further configure your controller preferences or to check the default action mappings.

Fixes And Balancing

• fixed a bug where in hardcore mode heart vases dont break
• fixed 2 achievements not working properly ("a father's rejoice" and "feels stronger now" achievements)
• protector circle knights move speed reduced
• many fixes to Tezkraml (7th boss) where the hands impact waves would just fall and more
• drunk pattern firing buffed, more dps
• Essa, lady of chaos (3rd boss) inverse bullets phase duration reduced and her health decreased

In The Making

• Halloween theme
• "Not just a spirit" expensive end-game powerup
• Boss-rush DLC

Join the community discord and let me know of anything:

https://discord.gg/59FszrBmkT

[ 2022-10-19 14:28:40 CET ] [ Original post ]

Greetings all cloakers and thanks for the feedback. your suggestions should be fully implemented by now, and this includes: [olist]

2k, 4k wide screen supports

activatable traps nerfed, activated upwards speed reduced

lowered boss health on easy mode

main screen background visiblity being reduced to make UI pop more

cloaker son opacity reduced to make him resemble more a spirit

game intro more cinematic

some in-game tips remade [/olist]

In the making

[olist]

Working on that steam controller support, should be up soon!

Working on an expensive powerup reserved for endgame players with excess of gold (people suffering from succes)

Working on the Halloween theme and much more! [/olist]

Join the discord and let me know of anything: https://discord.gg/59FszrBmkT

[ 2022-10-17 02:51:22 CET ] [ Original post ]

Release Trailer

[previewyoutube=uJoFZ3luCmY;leftthumb][/previewyoutube]

Cloaks and Capes is OUT!

Calling to all cloakers out there, and after 3 amazing years of relentless work, I finally present to you my solo developed game, Cloaks and Capes for those of you seeking a fast-paced dark roguelite that has you going all out to resurrect cloaker's son while gathering Powerups, leveling up and gaining extra hearts as you take down gnarly bosses and explore 9 different captivating stages with similar unholy astmospheres

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1637950/cloaks_and_capes/

I can only hope you'll love it and notice all the heart that went into making it

Adding to game's launch, I'm happy to announce 21 of its Original soundtrack is out aswell!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2145540/Cloaks_and_Capes_Soundtrack/

the full game features x9 demo content and alot of fixes such as to the camera shake

[ 2022-10-14 13:01:18 CET ] [ Original post ]

2nd and last stream for this amazing fest and for the release day on Oct 14th!
You're most welcome to come watch and chat as I do speedruns, give tips, and share my experience developing the game!

[ 2022-10-04 08:59:07 CET ] [ Original post ]

As Steam next fest ends, my game release date comes closer and closer!
You're most welcome to come watch and chat as I do speedruns, give tips, and share my experience developing the game in my second next fest livestream!

[ 2022-10-01 23:51:40 CET ] [ Original post ]

You're most welcome to come watch and chat as I do speedruns, give tips, and share my experience developing the game!

[ 2022-10-01 23:18:21 CET ] [ Original post ]

New Trailer and Screenshots

Almost all of C&C old content is flushed and rebuilt, Trailer, Screenshots, GIfs, Cover art and Descriptions!

Original Soundtrack Page

OST page set and 20 of C&C finest morbid and ambient soundtracks are up for Wishlist and will be released as soon as game launches

Release date

Release date of the action roguelite shooter is set to October 14th 2022 so almost 30 days from now, Remember the date Cloakers!

Steam Next Fest

Announcing that the demo has received major critical updates and will be present in the festival beginning October 1st including the new Powerup system and the easy normal hardcore settings Thats it for now Cloakers, Hope u like the new changes [previewyoutube=VZPEGJiuoVU;leftthumb][/previewyoutube]

[ 2022-09-15 14:20:03 CET ] [ Original post ]

Halloween theme

[olist]

In-game music is scarier

New death effect when killing an enemy

Gain a satisfying speed boost upon killing an enemy [/olist]

Fixes

[olist]

Fixed game crashing upon pressing restart button through pause menu

Fixed hearts not regenerating upon restarting the level

Fixed game not loading properly when going back to main menu [/olist] Thats it for now, Thanks for playing and enjoy!

[ 2021-10-30 20:57:27 CET ] [ Original post ]

Gameplay Updates

[olist]

Orange outline is now an indicator of dash ability being up

Game's intro is 10 times better with more cinematic effects

Dash speed is slower but has longer duration to match cloakers speed for smoother movement

The mini boss mage has increased scale and is now bigger and easier to hit with cooler sound effects

Ero, The enlightened boss has significantly less hp and spawns less blue ghosts to lower his difficulty

Blue ghost has less hp and lower slow effect when attacking

Great threat spawns easier monsters

Better looking particle effect on death screen

Upper floating platform is easier to land onto now

Monsters turn grey when they die to distinguish from other alive monsters [/olist]

Fixes

[olist]

Fixed blur lasting for almost 14 seconds in the beginning

You can now skip the elder using 'space' along with 'enter' as proposed by many except for the "Here is your son's spirit" line

Fixed a bug where you could dash past the elder and ignore him completely

Fixed playtime not displaying properly

Fixed a certain spot in the beginning where you are safe from the storm that the storm doesn't touch

Fixed a bug when being hit by an arrow in Walk of shame

Powerups section in options has better visuals [/olist] Thanks for playing, Your feedback was much appreciated, Enjoy!

[ 2021-10-27 23:23:06 CET ] [ Original post ]

Come watch as i do speedruns, Give tips, and share my experience developing the game, Please do Wishlist and join the Discord![previewyoutube=JphCTqXWi_c;full][/previewyoutube]

[ 2021-10-04 18:30:51 CET ] [ Original post ]