v1.6 (2025-03-30)

• fixed: bug where any damage caused by a monster's action could be avoided if player opened either a character window or settings while the action was animating (thanks @SkittishKavu1)
• fixed: bug where the local map couldn't open by clicking the 'Local Map' action key shortcut (by default, 'M'), if you were holding an item or a spell was highlighted / view description
• fixed: bug where a town door couldn't show its label instantly, when a game was loaded while facing that door, one had to slightly move the mouse to show the label
• fixed: bug where clicking 'reroll' on 'character creation' on 'Skills' page, was causing a crash if there were three (3) skills added (thanks @Asperger Berzerker)
• fixed: bug where starting a new game didn't working normally if it was followed after a loaded game, ending up triggering wrong events etc. The issue is that a few details of previous loaded game were making it into the new game instead of starting anew (thanks @elenda*******)
• fixed: bug where some map names couldn't work well with save system, mostly the ones having a comma. Updated the save system so this wont be a concern anymore and also added additional code to silently convert previous saves to updated format, although minor issues might still persist
• fixed: bug where some wall columns weren't shown on a stairs leading down
• fixed: bug where world map was not showing the visited maps correctly, under certain conditions
• fixed: bug where a banner with an event attached to it, would keep showing its event on click and mouse hovering, even if the banner was hidden by another event
• fixed: bug where items where created with enchantments not allowed for these item types (i.e. 'fire damage' enchantment for gauntlets is not allowed, as per '14.2.2. Named enchantments'). This led to buggy damage calculations. Now, enchanted items created are only using their allowed enchantments. Finally, items in loaded games (created from previous game versions) are checked and deleted if they have non-allowed enchantments (thanks @SkittishKavu1)
• fixed: bug where a few map names were breaching the save/load slot available space, on 'Settings -> Save / Load Game' tab. Now, these map names are properly wrapped in next line
• fixed: bug where the soundtrack on NPC storytellers events was not repeating
• added: abilities are increasing differently between a race (like 'dwarf') and a subrace (like 'stone dwarf'). In short, the changes added to make main races more useful and not being just a subset of their more specialized subraces. Read more in '4.3. Abilities increase per level' (thanks @Acrux (rpghq))
• added: feats in character page 'Feats' requiring a profession (i.e. 'Last Stand' requires a knight profession), are filtered by that profession, not showing in characters of another profession, while also showing with a special 'brown' exclamation, instead of usual 'blue' exclamation for regular non-profession restricted feats. This makes it easy to know which feats 'belong' to what character (thanks @Acrux (rpghq))
• added: a new minimap object called 'Banner', showing up the text banners in a dungeon. This is useful as many events rely to hints coming from banners. In addition, minimap objects 'Town' and 'Tower' were merged to one single tile, namely 'Map'
• added: new feats, 'Sorcerous Revival' (for wizards), 'Beacon of Resilience' (for paladins), 'Sharpshooter' (for rangers)
• added: a 'shrine of soul' in 'Drakenmoor Flatlands', just outside of 'Withered Keep, Courtyard', to help a bit against the soul attacks
• added: new maps 'Withered Keep, Level 1', 'Withered Keep, Level 2' (can be found in new content)
• added: new monsters 'Brimstone Demon', 'Redhorn Demon', 'Hellfire Devil', 'Cactus', 'Needle Cactus' (can be found in new content)
• added: where there's no-lighting (i.e. through torch, spell or item enchantment), the party orientation isn't shown as well, either in minimap/map (instead of a party direction, a question mark is shown) or in compass ('???' are shown), which will add a little more difficulty on dungeon exploration
• added: the concept of magical darkness and also inability for the party to add lighting is now introduced to special dungeons (can be found on new content), adding more difficulty and variation
• added: technique-based weapons (i.e. daggers, short swords) are now using 'technique' to compute their damage as well; this will help professions such as thieves/rangers to deal more damage with their smaller weapons (since they end up with higher technique). Read more in '10.4.2. Damage by Melee weapons'. (thanks @Hallowed Vulpine, @shafkhan2001)
• added: updated the 'strong abilities' for clerics and wizards, now having 'intelligence' and 'technique' instead. This is to help as well these professions to land more hits with their smaller weapons, when they can rely on their spells no more.
• added: default resolution is now set to 'letterbox' (with best / highest resolution) when the game launches for first time. This guarantees that the game will cover most of the desktop window, while respecting the aspect ratio. Previously, it was set to 'fullscreen' which caused distortions / stretching in multiple setups (thanks @Jimbly)
• added: replaced the soundtrack used on companion NPCs and also on story tellers NPCs with a more matching one, should blend nicely with any map soundtrack (thanks @Her Serenity)
• added: a checkbox option to disable 'NPC voices' in settings. By default this is enabled. When disabled, no NPC voices will be heard when entering shops, talking to NPC hirelings etc. Not only that but the delay to start the actual soundtrack will be also reset, meaning the soundtrack will start playing immediately if the option is disabled (thanks @Her Serenity)
• added: a new tower prop in world map, to be used in dungeons like towers, keeps, castles etc.
• added: new town 'Sunglade', with a desert theme that can be travelled through 'Crimson Bay'. This town includes a lot of the missing skill trainers, with a few remaining still for next village/town (can be found in new content)
• added: new overworld map 'Goldenfields', a vast desert north of amphill's monastery, accessed through new town 'Sunglade'
• added: travelling cost through a stable is now reduced about 40% as it was pretty high (travelling from crimson bay to amphill was costing 400g, now it costs 160g). This will make frequent travelling / revisits a lot more affordable as the game is based on this pattern
• added: new terrain type 'sand', along with a few matching plants, used in full desert maps (can be found in new content)
• added: new sprites for holes / pits, opening up the way for more puzzles (can be found in new content)
• added: the location of the next expertise skill trainer is now shown in skill trainer text, at the end of it i.e. 'Next trainer at xxx'. This way you'll know where you have to go to advance on a skill. If there's no such information, then no next expertise skill trainer has developed yet, as the game searches internally to bring that information (thanks @elenda*******)

v1.5 (2025-01-25)

• fixed: bug where items couldn't be placed on / taken from ground if there was a text banner in front of party. In that case, the text banner was taking full control, even when the player didn't clicked on it to read the text, not allowing item handling
• fixed: bug where a non-desired character was sneaking in into some event's content, causing a few options to not show up like ~50% of the time. Now, a proper replacement is done always before before actual parsing, just in case
• fixed: bug where the 'Cursed' condition (mostly caused by 'mummies' in later content) was causing an infinite loop while resting, since being 'Cursed' doesn't allow restoring HP/SP and the game was waiting for that. Now game take this condition feature into consideration, allow full resting (thanks @shafkhan2001)
• fixed: bug where spells adjusting elemental damage by a percentage (like the new 'Thunderclap', providing 150% air damage to target), were showing as single values, without percentage symbol '%'
• fixed: bug where some item details were covering other details (mostly label covering values). Now, the label text shrinks (also showing '..' in the end) appropriately to show the entire value, which is the most important detail
• fixed: bug where the game was crashing on cavern, in the center of 'Dry Plains', if any 'rune with strange glyphs' was placed in a character's hands, leading to a pointer-based crash. Now there are no issues where you put these items, that is, inventory or equipped slots or mouse, all places are considered on item checks
• fixed: bug where rumors were sometimes not showing up through resident events, ending up with no text at all. This was caused by a few unsupported text characters getting in the content. Not only these few characters were removed (and wont ever added again in the content), but the game's engine can now detect these characters and replace them in-play (thanks @HARDENTH60)
• fixed: bug where a missing item in shop, yet created and saved normally, was causing a crash when entering the shop and selecting 'buy'. Now, these items are checked and not considered if they're missing from save.dat (thanks @shafkhan2001)
• fixed: bug where a shop was showing items of wrong / not-allowed types when selecting 'sell'
• fixed: bug where the minimap (up-right) could be toggled while holding an item in mouse and showing item description in same place or when viewing the details of a spell, in the same part (up-right). Now, when you hold an item or viewing a spell, you can't toggle the minimap (up-right)
• fixed: bug where not all magic skills were providing a starting spell on 'character creation', per skills and per profession, leading to magic skills kept hidden in skill selection. On this update, a lot of spells were implemented to fill this magic gap, at least on starting spells (thanks @shafkhan2001)
• fixed: bug where selecting a monster from the list (while in combat) was allowed when a spell was highlighted / viewed already (through clicking the 'eye' button)
• fixed: bug where monsters keep hitting the last remaining party character, even if the entire party (and last remaining character) is already dead
• fixed: bug where plants were placed above water tiles, on the border unreachable sub-maps where these plants are randomply created/placed to give the impression of depth. Mostly noticable on 'Drakenmoor Flatlands' map where the river ends on the right side
• fixed: bug where characters could not be created in 'character creation' page, not showing enough available skills (fewer than 3) for the player to choose from. This was leading to a lot of re-rolls until more/equal than 3 skills were available, a bad experience overall. Now, in such occurence, the system keeps re-rolling internally, until more/equal to 3 available skills are returned, allowing all character builds to continue (thanks @SkittishKavu1)
• fixed: bug where prebuilt characters were showing only 1 or 2 skills (instead of default 3 skills) in 'character creation' page. In addition, the skill selection mechanism was changed, having now a priority on weapon/armor/magic group opf skills first, then misc group of skills. This way, the created characters end up more useful for the early parts of the game (i.e. combat) where misc skills are useful longterm
• fixed: bug where sometimes two selected skills were overriding each other in 'character creation' i.e. choosing bludgeon/survival/explore would only show two (2) skills instead, although allowing you to continue. The issue was mostly a rendering one i.e. the skills were passed correctly to the game in the end (thanks @qwert_44643)
• fixed: bug where the level and skill advancing icons were not removed / re-positioned properly after visiting related character pages
• added: minor improvements on item description block, fixing titles that were too big to fit. In such cases, the string breaks into a multiline string
• added: a simple side quest on amphill that make use of a few misc items that were found on 'cult of wizards, hideout' and left unused (these items are the 'robes' of the cult of wizards). Side quest is simply a fetch / return and provide a few XP in the end
• added: small graphical improvement on a chest, making it look more 'closed' while in closed state
• added: monster 'Ogre' (can be found in new content)
• added: monster 'Giant Rat' (can be found in new content)
• added: monster 'Plague Rat' (can be found in new content)
• added: ladders up / down similar to M&M world of xeen, in addition to stairs. Used in the coming content
• added: a new feature "vines", two of them, to be used in underground dungeons, caverns etc. (can be found in new content)
• added: monster 'Sea Dragon' (a very, very high level monster, that can be dealt through puzzle at that point; can be found in new content)
• added: monster 'Morbid Shifter' (can be found in new content)
• added: spell 'Poison Shield' (earth magic spell, can be used by cleric/paladin)
• added: spell effect durations were increased in most spells, examples are Bless (10 turns), Iron Ward (4 turns) etc. and a couple spells were increased to 100 turns, mostly protective ones. This should make these spells more useful as they wont require frequent re-casting. More in "15.6. List" in RULEBOOK.pdf
• added: minor graphical improvement on 'bolt of judgement' spell (better coloring, closer to camera and not so deattached from party)
• added: improved minimap, adding a few extra symbols like traps, tombs etc. increasing the immersion and make the minimap more intuitive
• added: improved features on 'Iron Garisson' dungeon (added armor stands, add wall torches, improved shackles)
• added: improved graphically the 'potion' item, as shown in dungeon ground. Its now way more graphically consistent with the other inventory items
• added: a 'reload' option is now available in all weapon shops of major cities (Amphill, Crimson Bay). This option checks your inventory items and also equipped items for all characters, for weapons that have 'uses' like bows / crossbows. In case any of them used 1 or more times, they can be reloaded here at half the price of the weapon they're used for. More in "9.4 Reload" in RULEBOOK.pdf (thanks @Jimbly, @Gabriel, @shafkhan2001, @qwert_44643)
• added: now 'view spell' eye symbol shows a black outline when the mouse is hovered above it, indicating a clickable action that shows the spell details (wasn't that obvious before)
• added: a few improved and more graphically consistent cutscenes, replaced older ones
• added: improved and more graphically constistent tombstones, replaced older ones
• added: another side-quest to 'amphill', where the party needs to deal with a few gangs spread around the city. Originally, there was one gang only and no side-quest at all. Now, this has developed to a full side-quest with a lot more battles and one that even has ties to major quest of 'Elder Evil'
• added: updated the 'feed the wyrm' event in 'iron garrison' dungeon, showing now more feeding options, based on how many food units the party has. Also allowing two (2) ways to successfully feed the wyrm. This should make the puzzle more intuitive and logical to solve. Finally, made the 'wyrm' a lot stronger so it wont be easily defeated by fight
• added: in addition to 'rain' weather, there's now also a 'snow' weather, adding a lot to immersion on iced maps that are coming
• added: spell 'Courage' (initiate mental magic spell, can be used by paladin)
• added: spell 'Magic Splash' (initiate water magic spell, can be used by cleric/paladin)
• added: spell 'Protect From Evil' (initiate soul magic spell, can be used by cleric/paladin/wizard; also solves absence of soul spells for Wizard; can help on game's first high level dungeon 'Mad Wizard Mansion' against mummies)
• added: now spells that affect elemental damage on a character's melee/ranged weapons (i.e. 'thunderclap' provides 150% air damage), will cause these items to 'glow' if they're equipped on that character, indicating a temporary enchantment by the spell. This improves the immersion of such spells which, otherwise, may go unnoticed
• added: spell 'Blazing Strike' (initiate fire magic spell, can be used by paladin)
• added: spell 'Chilling Gust' (initiate air magic spell, can be used by cleric)
• added: spell 'Thunderstruck' (initiate energy magic spell, can be used by paladin)
• added: spell 'Earthen Meal' (initiate earth magic spell, can be used by cleric/paladin)
• added: now wall features such as coat of arms, shields and curtains are rendered in center, occupying most of the wall and be more constistent with other features such as shackles, paintings etc.
• added: now in 'character stats' screen, stat affections added in a character from either a spell or item, can be merged under a single stat affection symbol (example the multiple condition immunities from spell 'protect from evil'). In addition, same stat affections i.e. 'Intelligence' modifier coming from different source (i.e. different spells or items) will be shown in their own stat affection symbol. This way, information is both minimized, being more practical and also more distinct against sources
• added: now spells that are too long to be shown in selected magic skills in 'character creation' screen, are shortened by '..'
• added: increased (doubled) the depth of randomly placed plants and trees on the border unreachable sub-maps, to give even more the impression of a seamless map and eliminate cases where the horizon seems a bit empty of anything
• added: a few changes in professions, for balancing: barbarian (changed strong ability Power to Toughness, would cause less power but more tanking / more hp; changed weak ability Personality to Technique instead), cleric (changed his weak ability Power to Toughness, generating fewer hp but increasing in weapon handling/damaging), knight (changed his weak ability Intelligence to Perception). See more in '5.3. Strong / weak abilities' of RULEBOOK.pdf
• added: a few more changes in professions, for balancing: knight (max expertise 'long axe' is grandmaster), ranger (max expertise 'shield' is adept, max expertise 'scaled armor' is adept, max expertise 'plated armor' is none, max expertise 'fitness' is adept, max expertise 'quickhand' is grandmaster), cleric (max expertise 'quickhand' is adept), wizard (max expertise 'quickhand' is adept), stealth (max expertise for all is 'adept', except ranger/thief which is 'grandmaster'). See more in '7.6 List' of RULEBOOK.pdf
• added: profession 'Thief' is now added to available professions. More in '5. Professions' of RULEBOOK.pdf (thanks @qwert_44643)
• added: now professions provide two (2) strong abilities, instead of one, further making each profession distinct by providing extra points on these abilities at character creation, opening a few more skills. In addition, the bonus from strong abilities has now decreased from 7 to 5, since you're getting two anyway and every strong ability will make sure ending to 20+, making a new skill available. In addition, the 'weak ability' is now showing up on 'professions' of character creation, to be sure what is keeping the profession down. See more in '5.3. Strong / weak abilities' of RULEBOOK.pdf
• added: new mechanics 'Feats', which allows further built options for characters, including profession-specific feats. Feats are one-off benefits that can be selected (permanently) every X levels. A new symbol will be shown to notify when a character can select a new feat. In addition, a new page was developed in 'character pages' to handle / show feats per character. Also, a new key shortcut ('F') was added to switch on the 'feats' page, that can also be changed through game's settings. Finally, saves aren't affected at all, they will be updated on the next save. See more in new section '8. Feats' of RULEBOOK.pdf
• added: new feats, 'Rage' (for barbarians), 'Silent Strike' (for thieves), 'Healing Light' (for clerics), 'Last Stand' (for knights)
• added: a lighter-blue color on the introduction's text, making it easier to read (thanks @templar1138)
• added: four new shortcuts (namely 'Target Char #0..3' in settings action mapping page) to target a character (1-4) when a targetable object (i.e. item or spell) has been selected. These four new keys (num 1-4) can be used, instead of mouse click on a portrait, to select the intended character, increasing even more the keyboard integration
• added: now when a character advances a level, a skill level or gains a feat, the character window buttons will also be differently colored (blue), along with the symbols blinking on their portraits, indicating the specific character page where the new features can be seen / gained

v1.41 (2024-10-14)

• fixed: bug where fullscreen mode wasn't working well if the operating system (windows) had set a scaling factor (DPI) other than 100%. Although the game is DPI-aware, a few functions were called in wrong order returning instead a scaled resolution and not the real / native one (thanks @elenda*******, @covr)

v1.4 (2024-10-12)

• fixed: bug where items couldn't be placed on / taken from ground if there was a text banner in front of party. In that case, the text banner was taking full control, even when the player didn't clicked on it to read the text, not allowing item handling
• fixed: bug where the game window's camera perspective was always taking the current desktop resolution to compute its aspect ratio, leading to graphics output with great differences across different setups and also causing issues with cursor mapping. Now, a fixed ratio is always used, regardless the current resolution
• fixed: bug where a leather armor couldn't be equipped by a wizard, even though the character was allowed training in leather armor skill. Turned out that leather armor skill was needed the fix, to disable training for wizards, updated '7.5 List' on RULEBOOK.pdf as well (thanks @Dennis). In addition, a couple other cases were fixed as well (not allowing shield training/use for wizards etc.)
• fixed: bug where a warning shown that a door couldn't be opened during combat, but without actually clicking on lever / keyhole, just by hovering. Now a clicking is required to show that warning during combat, and also cursor is properly set to hand above the door's lever / keyhole area.
• fixed: bug where a character's advanced level caused the affected stats (level, hitpoints) to always showing up (brownish colors), even after player opening his character's stats screen. Issue was only shown when player was opening character's stats through clicking its portrait and 'toggled' again the same character by clicking the portrait again.
• fixed: bug where the racial languages (i.e. dwarvish) were shown in 'Skills' page for choosing, during character creation, although they would still be provided in the end (languages known). This also caused some confusing overwriting in the added skills, at least graphically, since skill insertion order is not preserved. Now, the racially added skills are only shown *after* character creation and not during character creation.
• fixed: bug where quest items could be sold in a general shop, breaking the game in most of times i.e. quests couldn't be completed. Now these items have a flag on them so the shop recognize them and wont show them on 'Sell' page.
• fixed: bug in game's engine (jolt3d!) that was crushing the game if bogus resolutions were given through the settings, for example bigger than desktop ones. Now, the game gracefully exits in such a case, along with an error in log.txt
• fixed: bug in game's engine (jolt3d!) where some animations (i.e. title string in game's menu) or entire content (credits/attributions) weren't working / showing up at all. Reason was that 'scissoring' (the functionality that hide/shows specific regions of pixels) wasn't working well in windowed/letterbox modes
• fixed: bug where 'morning star' and 'flail' weapons weren't usable by 'cleric' profession at all, regardless their 'bludgeon' expertise
• added: a demo is now available in the store, showing the first two areas of the game
• added: additional content for 'Prelude' mode (early access content), 3 maps in total, following the events on 'Tomb of the Dreamer'. Be sure to restart the game as a number of things changed in save.dat file as well. (NOTE: content wasn't the focus on this update)
• added: window builds are now aware of DPI settings (i.e. 125% scaling) and won't be scaled if there's such a settings, not getting pixelated / blurred at all (playing at 100%, not scaled at all)
• added: small graphical improvements (gauntlets / helmets on ground)
• added: ability modifier is now showing up on computed ability scores (through hover/left click) on 'character creation' page
• added: race 'Elf' is now added to available races. In addition, the new language skill 'Elvish' was added, as well as 'Book of Elvish' to get trained on the skill. More in '4. Races' of RULEBOOK.pdf
• added: race 'Half-Elf' is now added to available races. More in '4. Races' of RULEBOOK.pdf
• added: race 'Giant' is now added to available races. In addition, the new language skill 'Giantish' was added, as well as 'Book of Giantish' to get trained on the skill. More in '4. Races' of RULEBOOK.pdf
• added: race 'Gnome' is now added to available races. In addition, the new language skill 'Gnomish' was added, as well as 'Book of Gnomish' to get trained on the skill. More in '4. Races' of RULEBOOK.pdf
• added: a new page in character creation, namely 'Choose a Subrace'. This new page allows the selection of a sub-race, including the base race, from the base race previously selected. Sub-races are further defining a given race with some extra traits, like in D&D.
• added: a new mechanic to increase abilities per advanced level, through racial bonus abilities. This will make sure that chosen races / subraces will end up statistically similar, with the intended characteristics raised up. More in '4.3 Abilities increase per level' of RULEBOOK.pdf
• added: updated the hit points formula for each profession, adding more balance overall and making professions even more distinct in that department, a requirement for the coming professions. More in '5.1. Hit points'
• added: profession 'Barbarian' is now added to available professions. More in '5. Professions' of RULEBOOK.pdf
• added: profession 'Ranger' is now added to available professions. More in '5. Professions' of RULEBOOK.pdf
• added: removed one ability from 'Strong Abilities' (shown in character creation), responsible to raising a bit the ability scores when a character is created. Now only one strong ability and one weak ability is provided per profession (for balance). More in '5.3 Strong / weak abilities' of RULEBOOK.pdf
• added: 'Light' spell now has an effect duration of 100 turns (rather 40), which should allow exploring a good portion of a dungeon and perhaps a round trip, if needed
• added: fixed some color imbalancing in both character creation and character pages in-game. In short, a number of labels were kinda yellowish, now turned completely white for better contrast, everywhere
• added: color highlighting for 'Melee' damage in character pages, based on current melee damage. Melee damage can be modified by various ways (monster actions, spells etc.), so this now shows either white (normal), yellowish (higher) or red (lower), similar to how ability scores behave
• added: an additional entry 'Languages:' on race / subrace description, showing the additional language for the selected race / subrace, which counts as a free skill
• added: removed the 'advancement type' of skills. In short, all skills require 'multiple trainers', each one teaching a specific expertise. Previously, there was one more type, namely 'binary', which allowed skills to be learned instantly to 'Grandmaster' expertise (i.e. languages). More on '7.5. List' of RULEBOOK.pdf
• added: profession 'Paladin' is now added to available professions. A few spells have also been added for this profession (more are coming). More in '5. Professions' of RULEBOOK.pdf
• added: spell 'Valiance' for the profession 'Paladin'. More in '14.6. List' of RULEBOOK.pdf
• added: spell 'Thunderclap' for the profession 'Paladin'. More in '14.6. List' of RULEBOOK.pdf
• added: subrace 'Stone Dwarf' for the base race 'Dwarf'. More in '4. Races' of RULEBOOK.pdf
• added: subrace 'Mystic Elf' for the base race 'Elf'. More in '4. Races' of RULEBOOK.pdf
• added: subrace 'Fire Giant' for the base race 'Giant'. More in '4. Races' of RULEBOOK.pdf
• added: subrace 'Cloud Giant' for the base race 'Giant'. More in '4. Races' of RULEBOOK.pdf
• added: subrace 'Storm Giant' for the base race 'Giant'. More in '4. Races' of RULEBOOK.pdf
• added: subrace 'Earth Giant' for the base race 'Giant'. More in '4. Races' of RULEBOOK.pdf
• added: subrace 'Forest Gnome' for the base race 'Gnome'. More in '4. Races' of RULEBOOK.pdf
• added: subrace 'Sacred Half-Elf' for the base race 'Half-Elf'. More in '4. Races' of RULEBOOK.pdf
• added: subrace 'Tribal Human' for the base race 'Human'. More in '4. Races' of RULEBOOK.pdf
• added: monster 'Mummy'. More in '11.6. List' of RULEBOOK.pdf
• added: animated trap 'Axe blade' that cause physical damage and occupy a full square (like the ones in M&M 3-5)
• added: stable from 'Amphill' leading to 'Crimson Bay' (the second large city) and vice versa. However, you need to complete a quest first before the route becomes available
• added: unique attacking sounds for each monster, with a few shares though, instead of the usual 'grunt', adding more to immersion level
• added: shops are now creating items with more variance, not allowing more than 2 items of the same variance (except on cases where the variants are too few i.e. helmets) and reduced likelikehood of basic/useless items. This also allows the creation of more magical items per variant
• added: pinpoints on local maps can now be added and saved, so player can remember his places of interest. These pinpoins are blinking to look more distinct to the other map symbols and can also be infinite in number. Finally, already placed pinpoints can be removed by clicking them again
• added: shop and skill trainer symbols on local maps are now shown, in front of their doortown where they can be reached, after the party visiting the relevant squares. Each shop / trainer have their own mini symbol on map, making it quite easy to revisit specific shops or a trainer in a town
• added: scrolling (panning) on world map, with either mouse (by clicking on relevant scrolling symbols) or through keyboard (by clicking the relevant scrolling keys). Four (4) new keys were added on 'Action Mapping' (on 'Options', search for 'Map Scroll XXX' actions) to be used on map scrolling and by default are the WASD
• added: more skill trainers in villages and towns. This increased from 2,4 (per village/town) to 4,8 (per village/town), effectively doubling down the available skill trainers per settlement type to cover more ground, especially on upcoming skills. Updated all current settlements to match this change i.e. Silkmoor now has 2 extra skill trainers
• added: for skills that require another skill to be learned first (i.e. 'long blade' requires 'short blade' to be learned), the expertise needed for required skill is now downgraded to 'apprentice' (level 5, 500g) rather 'adept' (level 10, 2000g). This will make the process of learning skills requiring other skills, much faster and cheaper
• added: gaining skill xp process was changed, allowing the entire party to passively gain skill xp, based on their equipped items (hands, chest), when a monster is killed. This fixes a couple of reported issues like training in-frequently used skills like 'leather armor', when a monster had to hit a specific character or when slow-to-act characters never had a chance to attack. This change allows a balanced allocation of skill xp across the party, in a way the regular character xp training does. More in '7.7. Character progression in skills'
• added: item description block feature was overhauled and improved in many ways. More details are now showing (item/spell names) and usability by characters (useful feedback by @elenda*******), useful when buying items from shops. In addition, an item in hand (mouse) can also be shown on shops, providing some kind of comparison against the highlighted shop item. A few more things can still be made though.

v1.3 (2024-06-02)

• fixed: bug when side quest recruitable NPCs (i.e. not hired NPCs, like Lisandro's quest) were replaced in their initial map position, after completing their quest, allowing the side quest to be replayed. Only hired NPCs should do that, when they're dismissed from the party.
• fixed: bug in sound system where sound volume wasn't getting respected some times. The sound volume code was decoupled in more appropriate places to fix that.
• fixed: bug where an elemental symbol was shown from non-elemental damages taken (a case being equipping the 'souldrain' ring that monastery devil is leaving behind). In addition, no elemental symbol was shown on damages caused by a condition (flamed, poisoned).
• fixed: bug with randomisation, shown on previous version (2024-03-20) which caused the creation of the same items and gold pieces in chests and probably in other areas as well. Fixed once and for all.
• fixed: bug in monster system where some non-legit monster entries could be created, potentially causing a number of issues while the game was on. This may also have fixed the known "invinsible monsters" issue and being stuck on 0,0 position (north-west) on open maps i.e. dry plains.
• fixed: bug where the 'Explore' skill was kept increasing on already explored squares. Now, its only increasing on non-explored squares. In addition, the skill is increased only 50% of the time, keeping it in control as its a passive skill.
• fixed: bug where armors using a dynamic ability score to compute i.e. Leather armor (4 + TechniqueMod) or Mage hat (0 + IntelligenceMod) were converted to a protection of < 0, undermining the total protection (by all items) because an ability score was too low. Now, the total protection of the item simply converts to 0 instead of getting negative, simply not providing a protection.
• fixed: bug where characters having the poisoned / flamed conditions would cause an issue on 'full rest', as the game could hang trying to cause both damage (by condition) and also increase their HP (by resting). Now both conditions are considered 'restless' i.e. no hp/sp are gained while having these conditions, so no race condition will ever encountered. In addition, a character with a cursed item that negates hitpoints, won't be able to rest as well.
• fixed: bug where shield/armor skills were trained if the character had a condition that caused an elemental damage (i.e. poisoned/flamed). Now, the type of damage is considered. In addition, no skill training for shield/armor is done if the damage comes from other sources such as cursed items.
• fixed: bug where making the party 'wait here' (through 'Rest' options) would update the last date rested, effectively never triggering 'Exhaustion' condition by excessively passing the time through 'wait here'.
• fixed: bug where party couldn't rest / wait in an area, warning about nearby monsters, although none were showing.
• fixed: bug where the 'necromancer' on dry plains wont show up after midnight. The bug only shows up after you save/load the game, because monster visibility-by-time isn't saved properly and thus, not passed properly also on loading the game. In addition, since saving format was updated slightly, you need to restart with fresh saves since these details are associated with level initialisation (once).
• fixed: bug where the party would be stuck on upper-left square of an open man (i.e. dry plains). This is/was a symptom of another bug, causing sometimes the creation of non-legit monsters at upper-left square of such maps, yet invincible and unmovable, however causing trouble to a party reaching that square.
• fixed: bug where the voice set of new created characters (not prebuilt ones) was not generated correctly, which became apparent when the character died in combat and no sound was heard, in addition of producing some errors in log file. However, to properly fix that, new characters need to be created so voicer set will be computed normally and pass to save.dat file.
• fixed: bug where sometimes an empty hand (non equipped with some item) would show number of charges i.e. like a wand or features like being cursed.
• fixed: bug where the dungeon features (barrels, vazes, banners etc.) weren't shown at all when some criteria were met.
• fixed: bug where walls with updated statuses (shown/hidden) weren't shown correctly after save/load (texcode was not correctly saved), although the walls kept their status mechanically (they were acting as obstacles/not).
• fixed: bug where the exhausted condition was applied way earlier to party's characters, after excessive time without resting (this time is set to 24 hours, see 2.5 Traveling on rulebook) and under certain situations. Bug was found to be in time functionality so the main logic of it was rewritten, fixing a couple of bugs more.
• fixed: bug where some monsters, mostly bosses (ones that have their hp / damage output modified, like the devil in monastery) had their hp / damage amped way more than predefined, under certain situations. In that case, multipliers were working on current values, not the base ones (the correct ones to start with).
• fixed: bug where the hitpoints restored per turn on resting were sometimes zero (0), making resting a way slower process than usual. Restoring computations were fixed for both hp / sp and also balanced against maximum ability levels (see 2.7 Resting on rulebook)
• fixed: bug where a triggered event would still move the monsters in obstacle / minimap level (incorrectly) but would not in rendering / game window level (correctly). This led to all kinds of symptoms i.e. invinsible monsters being obstacles and sometimes attacking the party. Now, triggered events correctly reset / disable monster movement (monsters are not moving when a party lands on a triggered event)
• fixed: bug where the casting of spells that require a target (i.e. Cure) through chargable items (i.e. Wand) were consuming a use / charge before the actual cast (i.e. selecting a target); furthermore, the player could just cancel the spell but with the charge still used. Now, the item is charged a use after the actual spell cast.
• fixed: bug where would be possible for a character to train in more than 8 skills per skill group (i.e. Misc), which would result on overflowing the character's skill window. In fact, there's a hard-limit of 8 skills per group per character (see 7.7 Capped number of skills). In addition, skill trainers wont train you a specific skill of a group where you have already this many of skills.
• fixed: bug where the game was crashing, infrequently, and for apparently no reason. A well hidden bug that couldn't be replicated easily, related to internal XML engine used by game's engine (pugixml), which tried to use objects that were alive no more.
• added: minor fixes to hard mud -> grass transitions which shown some glitches / non-constistent transition previously.
• added: now logo/intro sequence flags are updated into save.dat, after they've been watched and not when the player saves his game. However, the player will get a 'skip this..' opportunity from the first time these sequences are been watched, so they can be skipped.
• added: based on above sound volume issues fix, some misc sounds/music are now respecting the sound volume settings (save.dat), for example logo, title, intro sounds etc.
• added: fixed a minor, hard to see graphical glitch on character block.
• added: additional 64 characters in prebuilt mode in characters creation, reaching 128 total.
• added: characters with a stat/condition affection i.e. "Flamed" condition, wont get damaged all at the same turn. Randomiser is run again for every affected character and 50% of the time will damage him/her. More in rulebook, chapter 10. Conditions.
• added: alt+tab support for Windows, for fullscreen, windowed and letterbox modes. Alt+tab support will be followed on Linux sometime later.
• added: a skill trainer teaching the 'Awareness' skill, on 'Initiate' expertise, in the south-east area of Amphill. Added as an additional opportunity to get a skill that is able to reveal hidden content early on.
• added: spell casting training is now more balanced vs melee training, providing +2 XP skill training on spell casting (instead of +1 XP), due to finite nature of spells. This will help training magic skills more efficiently.
• added: spell slot allocation was improved to allow more spells in early intelligence levels, while getting more balanced in the later intelligence levels. In short, a starting party will be able to cast more spells with the same intelligence points, further fixing some magic skill imbalance issues.
• added: show item details, on character screens and game window, when an item is hold on mouse. In addition, item details are shown on shops as well, when an item is highlighted (selected). Finally, each spell details can be shown when the 'view' icon (an eye), on an opened 'spell window', is clicked.
• added: the ability modifiers are now shown on character 'Stats' page, next to each ability's name, which will help finding out how high/low the particular ability scores are, especially with the addition of item description blocks.
• added: some items such as Leather armor provide a protection based on character's ability score i.e. 4 + TechMod. However, this will quickly cause an imbalance as the character keeps adding more Technique, for example at Technique 100 (+40), this will provide a 4 + 40 = 44 (!) protection for such a simple item. To balance things out on such items, a maximum capped bonus of +15 added (see 13.6 Capped effect by ability bonus).
• added: now spells that use the magic skill expertise for magic output (i.e. Firebolt), will be slighly 'capped' so as to not rival the strongest spells on highest expertise, while being lower expertise spells and having a lot more spell slots this way. Check the new magic outputs per spell on spell list and also read '14.4 Capped effect by expertise' on rulebook.
• added: stone floor tiles, along with the already hard mud and snow mud floor tiles. These tiles will be used on now large / multifloor cities to increase the immersion on such cities.
• added: hourglass info on UI now shows the current time, in hh:mm format, rather the current year, which should be found through 'Rest' anyway. Useful on harsh environments where the time runs way faster.
• added: fixed some graphical glitches on intro sequence and improved it overall.
• added: graphical improvement on the character's inventory page.
• added: graphical improvement on the map, both full and minimap.
• added: graphical improvement on the 'skull & bones' dungeon item.
• added: various graphical improvements and additions on features: shackles, barrels, potions, vases
• added: balancing on shop items and their frequency. Specifcally, added 2 additional pages on 'weapon shops', balancing on their larger number of item types. In addition, dropped a page on most item types such as shields, boots, helmets, rings etc. due to their small number of different types. That led to creation of a lot more magical items, defeating the rarity concept, or a lot of duplicated base items.
• added: slighly increased color contrast on character pages (darkening the character's marbled texture a bit).
• added: a graphical hint / clue (a painting) on a puzzle found on 'Cult of Wizards, Hideout', that some players missed even reaching (moving to a particular square was needed to trigger the event). Missing this event leads to a non-completed map (i.e. not 100%), given the puzzle reveals a small area. This caused some confusion, since players were wondering what they've missed.
• added: extra dialogue and an opportunity for skill learning on 'Retrieve the Bow' quest (thanks @strangecat0)
• added: extra quest on 'cult of wizards, hideout', to return the bones to monastery for proper burial (thanks @strangecat0)

Overview

Features

• Windows / Linux
  
• First person grid-based dungeon crawling experience, as traditional as it gets
  
• Pixelart aesthetic, event cutscenes and a colorfully vibrant world, straight from the 90' golden era
  
• Grid-based animated movement, through mouse and keyboard (with custom key bindings)
  
• Blazingly fast turn-based combat, much like M&M 3-5
  
• Interactable items & objects (ground items, levers, doors, keylocks, text banners, traps etc.)
  
• Various NPCs and voice-overs (greetings, death, refusals etc.)
  
• Recruitable NPC companions (CPU based), each one with specific talents in combat (skill, weapons, spells, quest NPCs etc.)
  
• Skills learning based on usage (skill XP increases by using), expertise level (initiate, adept, master etc.) and requirements (profession, ability scores etc.)
  
• Skill advancing through multiple skill trainers on villages and towns, each one advancing characters to specific expertise (initiate, adept, master etc.)
  
• Spell system based on slot allocation, very similar to D&D mechanics
  
• Spells sorted into specific magic schools / elements ("Fire magic" etc.), sorted by expertise (initiate, adept, master etc.) and cast through staffs, holysymbols, scrolls and wands
  
• Passive / active skill checks, similar to D&D challenge checks
  
• Dynamic itemization, with about ~300 base items and on-demand creation of random items with various enchantments ("of Fire damage" etc.) or uniquely named ("Pyroblade" etc.)
  
• Enchantments to further improve items like "of Fire damage" and "of Titan", allowing more strategic decisions on party equipment and leading to tens of thousand items
  
• Shops dealing with various trades (weapons, magic, books, general store, stable etc.)
  
• Create new characters or choose prebuilt ones, through a very fast and intuitive character generation system
  
• Local / world / mini map, with local and world completion %
  
• Unlimited saves with screenshot thumbnail, world completion % etc.

Early access content (the "Prelude")

• Game's rulebook contains most of the following details
  
• 7 maps (about ~3 hours gameplay, straight from full release content)
  
• 6 quests (major and side quests)
  
• 30 skills (from "Long blade" and "Fire magic" practitioners to D&D environmental like skills like "Fitness" and "Survival")
  
• 20 spells (sorted into 5 levels of expertises like initiate, adept, master etc. and 7 elements like Fire, Air etc.)
  
• 300 base items (from "Short sword" and "Long sword +1" to "Lightning Bow +2" and "Master Scroll of Firebolt")
  
• 50 item enchantments (from "of Fire damage" and "of Cavalier" to uniquely named ones like "Pyroblade")
  
• 15 monsters (from "Skeleton" and "Goblin" to menacing "Devil", each one with custom actions similar to D&D)
  
• 8 conditions (from "Poisoned" to "Cursed" and "Maddened")

World

• OS: Ubuntu 16.04
• Processor: Intel CeleronMemory: 1 GB RAM
• Memory: 1 GB RAM
• Graphics: Desktop resolution 800x600 or higher. Graphic cards with OpenGL v2.0 (2004) or higher
• Storage: 30 MB available space

• OS: Ubuntu 20.04
• Processor: Intel Core i3Memory: 2 GB RAM
• Memory: 2 GB RAM