Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! The long requested bows and arrows have arrived! (Along with ranged attacks in general). I'm happy to announce InDev 28 Unstable 3 has been released. This patch completely and fundamentally overhauled the entire combat system, mainly to add in ranged attacks. Now your villagers can equip bows and arrows, some of your golems can fire magic projectiles, and fire elementals can throw fireballs across your walls! Check out the change log for all the juicy details. :) You can report bugs over at the official website's Support and Bugs Forum, or on the Steam Discussion Board. :)
InDev 28 Unstable 3 Change Log
Mob Ranged Attacks
- The entire combat AI was rewritten from scratch, allowing the use of ranged attacks and opening up development for future weapon and mob types to utilize the new system.
- Bowyers can now manufacture bows and quivers.
- Added bows and quivers to the game, as well as a dedicated inventory slot for them. Villagers can equip and use them to shoot at monsters from across long distances and over walls.
- Fire Elementals now can shoot fireballs.
- Crystal Golems and max level Wood and Stone Golems can now shoot magic missiles.
- Shields have been added to the game with a chance to block, when a block is successful 100% of the damage is diverted to the shield's durability instead of the mob.
- Toolsmiths can manufacture iron shields.
- Farms can now use dirty water for crops.
- Farmers can now harvest dirty water for their farms.
- Changed priority of clean water in farms to very low, preventing wasting clean water on farms unless all other sources are full.
- Domesticated animals can now be attacked by monsters.
- Doggos are not as brave and will flee combat more often.
- Arrow Bundles renamed to Ballistae Bolts Bundles so they will not be confused with the new Quivers.
- Rewrote the entire missile system to complement the new mob range attack AI.
- Made several minor tweaks to the AI.
- Critical building repair AI now kicks in at half health, rather than a third health.
- Added a bunch of fan made maps to the Developer's Choice map pack.
- Fixed a rare bug that could cause a building to be "destroyed" twice if it takes damage from two sources in the same update tick.
- When a doggo is killed or teleported to Limbo, his previous owner correctly unassigns himself as owner.
- Fixed spells confusing/panicking mobs even when they don't successfully cast.
- Fixed bug where you could still pull things out of limbo via the Cullis Gate.
- Fixed crash when trying to build or destroy roads off the map.
InDev 28 Unstable 2 Change Log
Golem Combobulators
- All Golem Combobulators have been completely redrawn, and rebalanced. They all can now be upgraded 3 times, with the final stage allowing you to pick a magic element to apply to the golems.
- Crystal Golem Combobulator has been added, this comboboulator's golem stats are similar to the stone golems, but do magic damage.
- Corrected Cullis Gate construction outline graphics.
- Adjusted the pool color in Essence Collectors.
- New Building: "The Doggo House", a very small, cheap house that houses Doggos.
- Villagers will only try to claim a home if the homes total available slots, less the villagers already en route, is higher than 1. This prevents large groups of villagers trying to claim a home with only a few slots left in it.
- Fixed abandoned recombobulator image in map editor GUI.
- Fixed a few minor problem panel issues.
- Fixed a very rare crash bug that was corrupting profiles. (Note: This was implemented into InDev 27e as well)
- Doggo Ghosts can now be properly resurrected.
- Fire elementals no longer die walking on frozen tiles.
- Fixed 4k texture loading problem for some older GPUs.
- Fixed the map editor GUI while in debug mode.
InDev 28 Unstable 1 Change Log
Doggos
- A new, and the first animal mob has been added. The doggo! Wild doggos will very rarely spawn on the map and occasionally make their way into your village
- The chance of a wild doggo on the map visiting the village will increase during the daytime, when they are hungry or thirsty and when it is raining or snowing.
- When a wild doggo visits a village, they may interact with villagers and become domesticated, take an owner and take a name, becoming part of your village.
- Domesticated doggos will follow their owner around, and occasionally help with minor work tasks, like harvesting wild food or taking resources on the ground back to storage buildings.
- Doggos, like villagers, also need to eat, drink and have a home.
- Doggos are stronger than their same level villager counterparts, but are also a lot more brave. Keep an eye on them so they don't get themselves killed in a fight.
- The map tile loader has been completely rewritten from scratch.
- Tons of code cleanup in the spells, mobs and object modules, streamlining the coding process to add new.
- Spawner buildings are now purple on the minimap.
- Reorganized the defense tab into 3 sub categories.
- Readded Ancient Radiance Pools and Cullis Gates to the map editor.
- Main menu's drifting can now be disabled manually in settings.properties.
- You can now hide the place camp panel in sandbox mode without placing the camp.
- Resources are now white on the minimap.
- Mobs can now drink from the lake and ocean when desperate, but will catch dysentery.
- Added a very rare random chance of an eclipse, causing nighttime behavior during midday.
- Added a purple crystal tileset to be used in future biomes.
- New resource artwork for Crylithium added.
- Improved the construction phase artwork for all walls.
- Lowered volume of the villager birth/nomad joined and village death melodies.
- Spells no longer cost influence to cast if they fail to cast.
- Varied the random standing coordinates when harvesting a bit.
Known Issues that will be resolved before the stable build
- None.
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Follow @RaymondDoerr on TwitterGame Concept
Retro-Pixel Castles is at heart a godlike village simulator, but it also throws in plenty of familiar game play mechanics from classic 90s era real-time strategy games like Warcraft, along with some tower defense and survival elements in an attempt to create a new kind of village simulator. The goal is to try to bridge the gap between the depth and complexity of traditional village simulators, the fun of godlikes and the simplicity of real-time strategy.Key Features
You can't win!The problem nearly all village simulators tend to face is you seem to eventually reach a point where you can't lose the game. You become so skilled at knowing exactly what to do and in exactly what order, the game loses all of it's appeal and you eventually run off to play something else. That's not the case with Retro-Pixel Castles, it aims to make a game you can't win. Every game day, the game gets progressively harder. In RPC you will eventually lose. The goal isn't to win, that's not possible, the goal is to see how long you can survive!
Build a village, and die trying!
A major part of the game is village management, and trying to discover new and creative ways to use the tools at your disposal to keep yourself alive as long as possible.
Several Game Modes
Currently, the game offers two main game modes. Survival and Peaceful, Survival is the game the way it was meant to be played, as a brutal survival style village sim. Peaceful on the other hand has nearly no monsters, and plays out much like a traditional village simulator with some godlike and RTS elements sprinkled on top. More game modes are planned like the upcoming Sandbox mode where you basically are given unlimited resources and access to play around with the engine.
Godlike Elements
Not only can you manage your village, but you also have many godlike abilities at your disposal. You can alter the terrain, blast enemies from afar, heal your villagers and speed up resource growth.
Unlock Content Through Gameplay (Coming soon!)
In RPC, you will find yourself in a harsh and unforgiving environment, constantly trying to find new ways to keep your little villagers alive for just a few more days. As you play, you'll unlock more content, like additional buildings, items and units you can use in your next attempt to see if you can survive even longer than the last!
Even though you can't beat this game, you most certainly can make progress in it! Every round you play you'll gain experience, unlocks, and other interesting goodies that will expand the game.
Tons of map set themes!
Every set of maps will follow a certain theme (Forest, Desert, Underground, etc). Most of the current screenshots only feature a few of these map sets. But many, many more are planned.
The Soundtrack!
A full original soundtrack, made by Bibiki Garcia that blends orchestral instruments in a way fans of old 1990s era PC gaming will love and remember!
DRM-FREE
SixtyGig Games is a DRM free independent game developer! Retro-Pixel Castles will not now or ever in the future have any sort of DRM! Piracy protection only hurts you guys, the loyal paying players. So you rest assured knowing that once you buy yourself a copy of Retro-Pixel Castles you'll never again have to concern yourself with nagging questions about if you can continue playing the game down the road due to something like always-online logins, lost registration codes or because you bought a new computer and you're only licensed to put the game on one. All I ask from you is to be reasonable and responsible, you can buy the game and play it as much as you like, wherever you like. Just tell your friends to support my DRM-Free philosophy and buy their own copy! Free Content Patches, no paid-DLC100% FREE CONTENT PATCHES/DLC!
I don't believe in paying for Downloaded Content. If you buy Retro-Pixel Castles you will have access to the entire game and all the content I'll ever create for this it, forever! I believe DLC is greedy, and you deserve to have the full gaming experience from day 1, right out of the (figurative) box!Have a say!
Your feedback is extremely important. You can reply here or head on over to the Official Website and help shape the direction of development! :)- OS: Most 64 Bit Linux Distros (Must support Java)
- Processor: Intel i5 or equivalent (Dual Core with Hyper-Threading)Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD 4400 or equivalent. 1280x720 resolution or higher.
- Storage: 1 GB available spaceAdditional Notes: OracleJDK or OpenJDK 8 Required (OpenJDK bundled with product)
- OS: Most 64 Bit Linux Distros (Must support Java)
- Processor: Intel i5 or equivalent (Quad Core)Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Most Dedicated GPUs. 1G+ VRAM / OpenGL 1.3+
- Storage: 1 GB available space
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