DROD: Gunthro and the Epic Blunder (tuxdb.com)

DROD: Gunthro and the Epic Blunder

Caravel Games Developer

Caravel Games Publisher

2016-09-23 Release

Indie Strategy SingleplayerTags

Game News Posts: 9

🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse

Very Positive (121 reviews)

http://www.caravelgames.com

Steam Store

The Game includes VR Support

Public Linux Depots:

DROD (Core Engine) - Linux [12.84 M]

Available DLCs:

DROD: King Dugan's Dungeon
DROD: Journey to Rooted Hold
DROD: The City Beneath
DROD: Smitemaster's Selection Expansions 1+2
DROD: Smitemaster's Selection Expansions 3+4
DROD: Smitemaster's Selection Expansions 5+6
DROD: Smitemaster's Selection Expansions 7+8
DROD: Smitemaster's Selection Expansions 9+10
DROD: Smitemaster's Selection Expansions 11+12
DROD: Smitemaster's Selection Expansion 13 - Treacle Stew

The Descent of King Hesper

The Descent of King Hesper is a newly-released quality hold (expansion) for DROD that you can play now for free. It is the culmination of ten years of work by 45 architects, testers, writers, spriters, and programmers from the Caravel community who wanted to share their creation with the world. It is similar in style to the official holds, starting at beginner-level difficulty, exploring game elements one at a time, and ramping up to expert-level puzzles. There are lots of bonus puzzles and secret areas to find along the way. This hold is absolutely massive -- nearly 2,500 rooms and 150 levels! Best of all, you can download it from the Caravel Forum for free. Anyone looking for more high quality DROD content before the next official Caravel release should do themselves a favor and check out The Descent of King Hesper. Happy DRODing!

[ 2025-02-16 20:11:54 CET ] [ Original post ]

5.1.1.539 patch

This is an update to the DROD game engine. This version features many game logic and cosmetic/rendering bug fixes, plus performance and stability improvements, and an SDL2 library version upgrade. The full change log is here.

[ 2023-09-07 13:35:10 CET ] [ Original post ]

Treacle Stew

Treacle Stew, a fiendishly clever new Smitemaster's Selection expansion pack has been released! Features many insidious gel-based puzzles and a brand new story following DROD: The Second Sky. You can get Treacle Stew at the Steam store page here.

[ 2022-12-13 17:26:22 CET ] [ Original post ]

DROD Travelogue Soundtracks now available!

The DROD Travelogue soundtracks are now available for purchase on Steam! The City Beneath Soundtrack Gunthro and the Epic Blunder Soundtrack The Second Sky Soundtrack 90 tracks! Over four hours of music! View the details for each at the above links.

[ 2020-11-06 23:28:58 CET ] [ Original post ]

Smitemaster's Selection CaravelNet DLC fixes

Smitemaster's Selection DLC updates have been deployed to address CaravelNet functionality issues. The holds Beethro's Teacher and Complex Complex have been updated to the latest version available on CaravelNet. The Choice has also been synced to the current version on CaravelNet. CaravelNet functionality should now be active and working properly for these three DLC holds.

[ 2020-10-22 14:36:09 CET ] [ Original post ]

DROD: The Original Trilogy is released as DLC!

You can now pick up a copy of the original DROD trilogy as DLC for "Gunthro":

King Dugan's Dungeon
Journey to Rooted Hold
The City Beneath

The titles are available either separately or as a bundle. Each title has its own set of achievements and has been upgraded to make use of features in the new version 5.0 game engine. The best things come to those who wait. Thanks for your patience while we worked to make these releases shine!

[ 2016-11-22 01:35:20 CET ] [ Original post ]

DROD: The Original Trilogy is released as DLC!

You can now pick up a copy of the original DROD trilogy as DLC for "Gunthro":

King Dugan's Dungeon
Journey to Rooted Hold
The City Beneath

[ 2016-11-22 01:35:20 CET ] [ Original post ]

Critical DROD level editor fix

A critical level editor bug was observed in DROD:GatEB on Steam. This issue causes odd room placement errors in the game's level editor. It exists for anyone playing the game before this announcement went up on 9/25. We patched this issue in the game engine as soon as we learned of it. However, in order to fix the issue on your end, you will need to reset your local player data files once by doing the following: [olist]

Export your player progress (optional): Go to the Main Menu, click "Change Player", then click "Export" to save your player game progress to a file on disk.

Delete the game's local data files: Exit the game. Go to "C:UsersDocumentsCaraveldrod-5_0" (on Windows) and delete the five "*.dat" files in this folder.

Start the game. If using Steam auto-cloud sync, select to use local (not remote) files.

Re-import your player progress (optional): Re-import any custom holds you had installed, then click "Import" on the player creation screen and select your exported .player file to import your progress back into the game. [/olist] Linux and OS X patches uploading soon. Our sincere apologies for the inconvenience.

[ 2016-09-25 18:38:04 CET ] [ Original post ]

Critical DROD level editor fix

Export your player progress (optional): Go to the Main Menu, click "Change Player", then click "Export" to save your player game progress to a file on disk.

Delete the game's local data files: Exit the game. Go to "C:\Users\\Documents\Caravel\drod-5_0\" (on Windows) and delete the five "*.dat" files in this folder.

Start the game. If using Steam auto-cloud sync, select to use local (not remote) files.

[ 2016-09-25 18:35:47 CET ] [ Original post ]

"Deadly Rooms of Death" (DROD) is a turn-based strategy and tactics puzzle game series. It is a 2D top-down puzzle adventure that focuses on pure gameplay mechanics, best described succinctly as "chess in a Zelda-like environment." The DROD series began over a decade ago and has enthralled thousands of players.

Swordplay and puzzles combine in this thinking man's dungeon crawl. It's simple to learn, with just a handful of commands to master. This game's rogue-like exterior belies clever puzzle design and unique play mechanics that provide amazing depth. Each room is a hand-crafted puzzle that you solve by clearing out all the monsters with your Really Big Sword without letting any reach and kill you. Monster types each have their own AI, with deterministic movement patterns. Puzzle elements and terrain types help and hinder you in solving each puzzle. You start by learning basic mechanics and fighting techniques, and then the difficulty steadily ramps up as each room you face presents a fresh challenge with a logical solution. This game features a novel play style, with story- and puzzle-driven voiced dialogue delivered inline with hardcore puzzle solving that involves a mix of strategy, tactics, lateral thinking and lynchpins. As developers, our goal is to present you with a novel experience where game mechanics are paramount. DROD will give you that "just one more room" feeling.

This game is the entry-point title in the ongoing DROD franchise. "Gunthro" is designed as an beginner-level offering to the DROD world, with both new players and veterans in mind. The level layout is has multiple hub areas to explore as you progress. The game starts easy, has a smooth learning curve and an integrated online hints system. You should be pleased by the puzzle designs that went into this game, making for a delightful blend of fun and challenge. A level editor and enthusiastic player community make this a game you can relish for years.

Main game features

Over 300 puzzle rooms across 25 levels, each organized around different combinations of puzzle elements.
Over 25,000 usermade rooms available for download!
Dozens of secret areas and optional extra challenge levels that lie in store for the more curious and adventuresome, uncovered in a variety of ways.
Varied elements and monster types like rock golems, giant serpents, wraithwings, and evil eyes, each with a distinctive AI behavior and requiring different strategies and tactics to conquer.
Hours of contextual music composed by synthpop artist Jon Sonnenberg of Travelogue.
New and upgraded in-game artwork, including three all-new terrain styles, with real-time lighting and a range of environmental effects.
Full-featured level/campaign editor, with custom scripting engine and modding capabilities
Active and friendly player community
Hi-score competition and hints system via our CaravelNet service

The story:

In this game, Beethro Budkin recounts an epic tale of adventure to his precocious nephews about his grandfather, Gunthro Budkin, and his exploits in the dangerous nation of Rasarus. Gunthro is a third-generation smitemaster and a rather ugly man. Smitemasters are hard-bitten, muscled veteran dungeon exterminators that slay hideous beasties in dark places for a living. You know Gunthro will get the job done, and you'll happily pay him to clear your basement of giant man-eating dungeon roaches.

When the Rasarun king is slain by an officer of Tueno, Gunthro is recruited by Rasarus to defend his country and reclaim its honor. However, as Gunthro searches deeper, he will find that things are not quite as they seem.

Experience the unique turn-based puzzle dungeon adventure of DROD!

MINIMAL SETUPOS: Ubuntu 12.04. Fedora 17 or compatible
Processor: 32/64-bitMemory: 1 GB RAM
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: 64 MB
Storage: 512 MB available space
RECOMMENDED SETUPMemory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: 256 MBNetwork: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 1 GB available space

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