Small patch for C: aft rolling out today

Bugfixes

• Fix crafting required counter on subsequent playthroughs
• Provide an exe to launch with for Windows instead of launching the .jar directly

Some changes are landing today that I forgot to push before. Should generally improve stability and fix minor issues.

Bugfixes

• Fix amount of HP for hired allies (will only affect new hires)
• Fix HP recovery in dungeons for all allies including hired monsters
• Fix spell recovery and charge amount display
• Fix hovering over items causing the game to crash
• Fix inconsistencies in item records between UI submenus
• Hired allies no longer start in a send off state when resuming from a save game
• Spells now recover when returning from a dungeon

Changes

• New dice graphics for better legibility in combat
• All resources count as loot according to the counter now per floor
• Items no longer expire into new items, as this was a barely explored feature

Some changes are landing today that I forgot to push before. Should generally improve stability and fix minor issues.

Bugfixes

• Fix amount of HP for hired allies (will only affect new hires)
• Fix HP recovery in dungeons for all allies including hired monsters
• Fix spell recovery and charge amount display
• Fix hovering over items causing the game to crash
• Fix inconsistencies in item records between UI submenus
• Hired allies no longer start in a send off state when resuming from a save game
• Spells now recover when returning from a dungeon

Changes

• New dice graphics for better legibility in combat
• All resources count as loot according to the counter now per floor

Small change today that results in a larger patch size than usual.

Changes

• Google's Noto font has been added for wider unicode support, thus improving the file browser.
• Font glyphs are no longer preloaded, thus improving start-up time. This comes at the cost of memory usage potentially increasing over the play period as more unique glyphs are encountered.

Bugfixes

• File browser now properly highlights which drive you're in
• Action log no longer says a member has joined your party after trading when they really haven't

Small change today that results in a larger patch size than usual.

Changes

• Google's Noto font has been added for wider unicode support, thus improving the file browser.
• Font glyphs are no longer preloaded, thus improving start-up time. This comes at the cost of memory usage potentially increasing over the play period as more unique glyphs are encountered.

Bugfixes

• File browser now properly highlights which drive you're in
• Action log no longer says a member has joined your party after trading when they really haven't

Some balance and bugfixes have been performed.

Changes

• Doors now invoke the lockpick minigame to encourage key usage
• Slow recovery now heals non-active members at a rate of 1/20th of the hp
• Sacrificing to recover in a dungeon will heal all party members to max hp, and will even revive the Adventurer
• Speed stat has been slightly rebalanced in combat to be skewed more in the player's favor
• All party member's share a single set of equipment
• Party select screen in dungeons now shows more character details
• Monster trading dialog now shows the monsters name so you can better decide if you want it.
• Potion drops now heal more mana, as do Heart drops heal more health
• Moved Menu button on the dungeon screen away from the settings button to improve mouse usability.
• Will-o-Wisps, Mimics, and Domimics can no longer be added to the party for balancing purposes, but you can still trade with them.
• It now costs double the monster's asking price for them to join your party. If you intimidate an enemy, they will not join your party. Friendship is rewarded only to those who ask for it.

Bugfixes

• Fix door placement in the dungeon algorithm so they only appear at the end of hallways (this slightly increases dungeon generation time)
• Display proper max hp on level up in dungeons
• Properly remove an entity from the dungeon after trading with them if they replace a member on your party
• Fix item worth in trading with monsters where the item matches what they prefer
• Fix resolution selection dropdown in settings after reloading the game
• Hide stat hover on dead characters
• Fix occasional crash bug on using the Fill Randomly button

Some balance and bugfixes have been performed.

Changes

• Doors now invoke the lockpick minigame to encourage key usage
• Slow recovery now heals non-active members at a rate of 1/20th of the hp
• Sacrificing to recover in a dungeon will heal all party members to max hp, and will even revive the Adventurer
• Speed stat has been slightly rebalanced in combat to be skewed more in the player's favor
• All party member's share a single set of equipment
• Party select screen in dungeons now shows more character details
• Monster trading dialog now shows the monsters name so you can better decide if you want it.
• Potion drops now heal more mana, as do Heart drops heal more health
• Moved Menu button on the dungeon screen away from the settings button to improve mouse usability.
• Will-o-Wisps, Mimics, and Domimics can no longer be added to the party for balancing purposes, but you can still trade with them.
• It now costs double the monster's asking price for them to join your party. If you intimidate an enemy, they will not join your party. Friendship is rewarded only to those who ask for it.

Bugfixes

• Fix door placement in the dungeon algorithm so they only appear at the end of hallways (this slightly increases dungeon generation time)
• Display proper max hp on level up in dungeons
• Properly remove an entity from the dungeon after trading with them if they replace a member on your party
• Fix item worth in trading with monsters where the item matches what they prefer
• Fix resolution selection dropdown in settings after reloading the game
• Hide stat hover on dead characters
• Fix occasional crash bug on using the Fill Randomly button

For those who have noticed, C: aft has launched out of early access finally. After a little hicup, things should be good, stable, and ready to play now. This latest patch to wrap up early access brought a few small bug fixes.

Changes

• There should be no more issues navigating any part of the game with only a keyboard.
• The font used for the filesystem navigator has also been changed to support CJK characters, so you can see file names from other languages
• To help new players, or anyone who's taken a long break from the game, there are now more help dialogs throughout the world navigator to explain features and how to use them.

For those who have noticed, C:\raft has launched out of early access finally. After a little hicup, things should be good, stable, and ready to play now. This latest patch to wrap up early access brought a few small bug fixes.

Changes

• There should be no more issues navigating any part of the game with only a keyboard.
• The font used for the filesystem navigator has also been changed to support CJK characters, so you can see file names from other languages
• To help new players, or anyone who's taken a long break from the game, there are now more help dialogs throughout the world navigator to explain features and how to use them.

Hi there, this update will be short My apologies for not keeping up with this, things have been getting in the way with my life during times where I can usually be productive when it comes to working on this game. The content manager has been put on hold again since it's taking more work than I'd like to put into it. What's there on github does work already for most parts of the system, you'll just have to download the source and run it yourself from a javascript development environment. Since mod support is more of an after thought feature, what's already in place I feel is good enough that I can move forward with other things. That said, there's a few small outstanding bugs that I'll be fixing with some menus that you unlock later in the game. Once those are done, the game will finally be moving out of Early Access. Thank you for the support

Hi there, this update will be short My apologies for not keeping up with this, things have been getting in the way with my life during times where I can usually be productive when it comes to working on this game. The content manager has been put on hold again since it's taking more work than I'd like to put into it. What's there on github does work already for most parts of the system, you'll just have to download the source and run it yourself from a javascript development environment. Since mod support is more of an after thought feature, what's already in place I feel is good enough that I can move forward with other things. That said, there's a few small outstanding bugs that I'll be fixing with some menus that you unlock later in the game. Once those are done, the game will finally be moving out of Early Access. Thank you for the support

I'm sure some of you have noticed, but an update was pushed late last night. This update adds simple mod support to the game! You can install, enable, and change the load order of mods within the game's settings menu. Mods available for installation come from Github's API. To create a mod, simply go to the Github and fork the Assets repository. Any file can be edited or replaced in the Assets folder. As soon as the repository is forked, you'll be able to see and install your mod from the game. If you ever accidentally install a mod that is broken, thus resulting in the game not properly starting up or crashing, you can use the extra command line argument [noparse]--disableMods[/noparse] to disable all your mods and reset the assets directory to its original state. From there you can go through and reenable you mods one by one to find the troublemaker. I'll be adding this as a runtime menu entry on Steam so it'll be easier to remember/fix. Now that modding is supported as part of the game, finishing the Content Manager will be my full focus for this week's development in order to make modding easier and safer. Have fun with the new update!

I'm sure some of you have noticed, but an update was pushed late last night. This update adds simple mod support to the game! You can install, enable, and change the load order of mods within the game's settings menu. Mods available for installation come from Github's API. To create a mod, simply go to the Github and fork the Assets repository. Any file can be edited or replaced in the Assets folder. As soon as the repository is forked, you'll be able to see and install your mod from the game. If you ever accidentally install a mod that is broken, thus resulting in the game not properly starting up or crashing, you can use the extra command line argument [noparse]--disableMods[/noparse] to disable all your mods and reset the assets directory to its original state. From there you can go through and reenable you mods one by one to find the troublemaker. I'll be adding this as a runtime menu entry on Steam so it'll be easier to remember/fix. Now that modding is supported as part of the game, finishing the Content Manager will be my full focus for this week's development in order to make modding easier and safer. Have fun with the new update!

Steam Sale is over, so nows a good time to start talking about the last bits of C:\raft that'll be introduced. Until the game launches out of Early access I'm going to be posting minor status updates on a weekly basis to keep you all informed. This is probably something I should have been doing from the beginning to keep myself motivated instead of developing in bursts. Anyway, thanks to all the new faces in the community and various results from testing, there's going to be a handful of fixes throughout that should make the input in menus more consistent and less buggy. I'm also still making my way through the codebase and cleaning some things up for myself for personal maintenance reasons. For anyone who follows the Github organization, they'll be happy to notice that the game's Assets are available entirely within a repository. This is important for the 2 last things I plan on adding to wrap up the game. Mod support will be added to the game. Any asset in the game can be replaced or modified. To create mods all you'll have to do is fork the assets repository on Github. This keeps the modding community agnostic from the software distribution platform, so users on itch and steam can both benefit from the mods. Anyone will be able to install mods by simply merging branches/forks with Git because the assets directory everyone will have with the install of the game is a fully checked out local instance of the repo. To make things more intuitive to the users, I am working on integrating simple git/mod management into the game itself or with a small external tool specialized for C:\raft. To make mod creating simpler, the Content Manager is still being worked on. There's not a lot left to do for the basic management of content, but I will need to work a bit to add a new app into the Steam store so anyone can get the application through Steam itself or precompiled on itch. It's also available on Github for anyone to work on and contribute to. Now that the Assets folder is also on Github, which is all the application requires to get to work, that should make it even easier for people to test the app on or make mods without even needing an installation of the game. Hope you're as excited for these new tools as I am making them!

Steam Sale is over, so nows a good time to start talking about the last bits of C: aft that'll be introduced. Until the game launches out of Early access I'm going to be posting minor status updates on a weekly basis to keep you all informed. This is probably something I should have been doing from the beginning to keep myself motivated instead of developing in bursts. Anyway, thanks to all the new faces in the community and various results from testing, there's going to be a handful of fixes throughout that should make the input in menus more consistent and less buggy. I'm also still making my way through the codebase and cleaning some things up for myself for personal maintenance reasons. For anyone who follows the Github organization, they'll be happy to notice that the game's Assets are available entirely within a repository. This is important for the 2 last things I plan on adding to wrap up the game. Mod support will be added to the game. Any asset in the game can be replaced or modified. To create mods all you'll have to do is fork the assets repository on Github. This keeps the modding community agnostic from the software distribution platform, so users on itch and steam can both benefit from the mods. Anyone will be able to install mods by simply merging branches/forks with Git because the assets directory everyone will have with the install of the game is a fully checked out local instance of the repo. To make things more intuitive to the users, I am working on integrating simple git/mod management into the game itself or with a small external tool specialized for C: aft. To make mod creating simpler, the Content Manager is still being worked on. There's not a lot left to do for the basic management of content, but I will need to work a bit to add a new app into the Steam store so anyone can get the application through Steam itself or precompiled on itch. It's also available on Github for anyone to work on and contribute to. Now that the Assets folder is also on Github, which is all the application requires to get to work, that should make it even easier for people to test the app on or make mods without even needing an installation of the game. Hope you're as excited for these new tools as I am making them!

Hello again, it's been awhile but there's a new batch of updates coming to the game! It's been about 6 months since anything major happened, and that was primarily due to things with the game in general just winding down. No new features are planned as it's rather bloated already with nothing really perfected. In fact, some things are being stripped as they were never fully realised while others are being rebalanced. The biggest update, however, as some of you have noticed, is the full scale rebranding effort! Back in March I was demoing the game whenever I had the chance to at GDC as I walked around the halls and attended a few meetups. During that time, I had already started the effort to change the name to C: aft and was informing people to look forward to the update soon. Well, that turned into a bigger effort than I was initially thinking it would be. Almost 4 months later the game has been completely rebranded now, with new promotional art, all in-game references updated, and going around to other sites to update references there too where possible. Further more, I wanted it to be more than just a name change. In the process I've been working more on balancing content and combat to make the game more accessible and less frustrating. Also, there is now a tutorial on the first time you enter the main menu to explain what everything is. The biggest change you'll notice is that I've also gone ahead and incorporated a brand new soundtrack provided by IMANKITA to help give the game a better, more unique, more hype sound. And of course there's the usual slew of bug fixes being throw into the mix. These updates will be pushed out incrementally (you've already seen the name change one). As always, please report any bugs you find so I may fix them ASAP for you. This will be the last set of major updates I'll be making before launching out of Early Access. After a little more polish and bug fixing, I'm things will be raring to go. Plans are to launch out of Early Access no later than the 2 year anniversary of launching on Steam. It's been a fun journey taking this joke too far. Also, thank you to all the new faces who found my game during the Steam Summer Sale this year! I hope you're all having fun and are looking forward to seeing what comes next! tl;dr here's a changelog

Changes

• Vitality points are now worth 10 hp each instead of 2
• If things are too hard in boss fights, you can now run away/surrender
• You can open the settings with your mouse by clicking on the settings icon
• New soundtrack provided by IMANKITA
• Some loading save data bugs have been resolved
• Name changed from StoryMode to C: aft
• Lore feature has been removed
• Achievements have been removed
• Other minor fixes made

Notices

Hello again, it's been awhile but there's a new batch of updates coming to the game! It's been about 6 months since anything major happened, and that was primarily due to things with the game in general just winding down. No new features are planned as it's rather bloated already with nothing really perfected. In fact, some things are being stripped as they were never fully realised while others are being rebalanced. The biggest update, however, as some of you have noticed, is the full scale rebranding effort! Back in March I was demoing the game whenever I had the chance to at GDC as I walked around the halls and attended a few meetups. During that time, I had already started the effort to change the name to C:\raft and was informing people to look forward to the update soon. Well, that turned into a bigger effort than I was initially thinking it would be. Almost 4 months later the game has been completely rebranded now, with new promotional art, all in-game references updated, and going around to other sites to update references there too where possible. Further more, I wanted it to be more than just a name change. In the process I've been working more on balancing content and combat to make the game more accessible and less frustrating. Also, there is now a tutorial on the first time you enter the main menu to explain what everything is. The biggest change you'll notice is that I've also gone ahead and incorporated a brand new soundtrack provided by IMANKITA to help give the game a better, more unique, more hype sound. And of course there's the usual slew of bug fixes being throw into the mix. These updates will be pushed out incrementally (you've already seen the name change one). As always, please report any bugs you find so I may fix them ASAP for you. This will be the last set of major updates I'll be making before launching out of Early Access. After a little more polish and bug fixing, I'm things will be raring to go. Plans are to launch out of Early Access no later than the 2 year anniversary of launching on Steam. It's been a fun journey taking this joke too far. Also, thank you to all the new faces who found my game during the Steam Summer Sale this year! I hope you're all having fun and are looking forward to seeing what comes next! tl;dr here's a changelog

Changes

• Vitality points are now worth 10 hp each instead of 2
• If things are too hard in boss fights, you can now run away/surrender
• You can open the settings with your mouse by clicking on the settings icon
• New soundtrack provided by IMANKITA
• Some loading save data bugs have been resolved
• Name changed from StoryMode to C:\raft
• Lore feature has been removed
• Achievements have been removed
• Other minor fixes made

Notices

Hello again! Been quite some time since the last update, so I thought I'd try and throw down something new and special to celebrate the end of 2016. With the forthcoming update, the Daily Dungeon Server has been completely rewritten. So let's go over what this means for the gameplay.

Ghosts

File Uploading

Deploying your own server

General Bugfixes

Github

Future Plans

Last Note

Hello again! Been quite some time since the last update, so I thought I'd try and throw down something new and special to celebrate the end of 2016. With the forthcoming update, the Daily Dungeon Server has been completely rewritten. So let's go over what this means for the gameplay.

Ghosts

File Uploading

Deploying your own server

General Bugfixes

Github

Future Plans

Last Note

It’s crazy thinking about just how much has changed in the past year alone thanks to Steam Early Access.  Some stuff had already changed thanks to the push for Steam Greenlight compared to what the game was when it was exclusively distributed on Desura. Let’s summarize all the big changes from each update

• Items rebalanced so they can be found in any file type
• You may now encounter miniature and jumbo versions of enemies
• More quest types were added
• Character creation and customization with stat point allocation and class based special abilities is now a thing
• All drops are now identified with icons
• HP and Spells regenerate over time
• Floor minimaps have been added to show what you’ve discovered
• Torches are placed randomly to light up rooms
• Pacifist approach added to allow you to defeat enemies by trading items with them
• Added resource harvesting with minigames, so you can get items without fighting enemies
• Party system allows you to recruit a team to adventure dungeons with (befriending enemies with trading adds them to your party)
• Boss fights completely redesigned to take advantage of the party system (it’s now more like traditional JRPGs)
• Daily dungeon now tracks deaths of everyone who plays them and puts down identifying tombstones
• Redesigned settings menu that’s better organized and adds plenty more configurable features.
• Changed all the dungeoning music to be more neutral and jrpg-ish to appeal to a wider audience.
• CRT shader exists for those who want a more old-school appearance
• Main menu completely redesigned and reorganized into a series of functional planets
• Blacksmith exists to permanently improve your equipment
• Persistent parties exist to allow you to recruit party members outside of dungeons
• Persistent party members can be sent off to collect items for you without having to go into dungeons
• New Game+ allows you to continue adventuring and discover more of the world after completing your list of crafts.  The game gets harder yet easier each time.
• Resting is no longer a requirement after you die
• Quests redesigned to have their own dedicated dungeons to help with completing them (can only accept one quest at a time now)
• Tons of new enemies and adjectives
• Improved Day system with lunar cycle and scaling difficulty
• Temporary leveling within dungeons based on XP
• Items can rot and become new items
• Turns can execute at a timed interval instead of being full-wait

Its crazy thinking about just how much has changed in the past year alone thanks to Steam Early Access. Some stuff had already changed thanks to the push for Steam Greenlight compared to what the game was when it was exclusively distributed on Desura. Lets summarize all the big changes from each update

• Items rebalanced so they can be found in any file type
• You may now encounter miniature and jumbo versions of enemies
• More quest types were added
• Character creation and customization with stat point allocation and class based special abilities is now a thing
• All drops are now identified with icons
• HP and Spells regenerate over time
• Floor minimaps have been added to show what youve discovered
• Torches are placed randomly to light up rooms
• Pacifist approach added to allow you to defeat enemies by trading items with them
• Added resource harvesting with minigames, so you can get items without fighting enemies
• Party system allows you to recruit a team to adventure dungeons with (befriending enemies with trading adds them to your party)
• Boss fights completely redesigned to take advantage of the party system (its now more like traditional JRPGs)
• Daily dungeon now tracks deaths of everyone who plays them and puts down identifying tombstones
• Redesigned settings menu thats better organized and adds plenty more configurable features.
• Changed all the dungeoning music to be more neutral and jrpg-ish to appeal to a wider audience.
• CRT shader exists for those who want a more old-school appearance
• Main menu completely redesigned and reorganized into a series of functional planets
• Blacksmith exists to permanently improve your equipment
• Persistent parties exist to allow you to recruit party members outside of dungeons
• Persistent party members can be sent off to collect items for you without having to go into dungeons
• New Game+ allows you to continue adventuring and discover more of the world after completing your list of crafts. The game gets harder yet easier each time.
• Resting is no longer a requirement after you die
• Quests redesigned to have their own dedicated dungeons to help with completing them (can only accept one quest at a time now)
• Tons of new enemies and adjectives
• Improved Day system with lunar cycle and scaling difficulty
• Temporary leveling within dungeons based on XP
• Items can rot and become new items
• Turns can execute at a timed interval instead of being full-wait

It’s been a year since StoryMode entered Early Access on steam, and I swear the game isn’t any less broken than it was when I started.  On the plus side, though, there’s been a lot of new features added since then, and in a lot of ways the game is nothing like it was. It’s probably a good time to update the trailer too, but I’m not good at stuff like that, so whatever. There’s some new features arriving with this update too, and like usual old save data is no longer compatible.  Instead of giving a long write up on what’s changed, I’ll just direct you to some blog posts that I did while the changes were still just ideas fluttering about in my brain. Here’s a summary:

• Turns now execute automatically based on a set interval determined by your difficulty (this can be disabled in the settings)
• Spell casting now cost a turn
• Additional CL-Args exist for launching right into dungeons
• Items rot over time to become new items
• Lunar cycle starts on a different day for everyone now
• Fixed some UI bugs and alignment
• Updated to libgdx 1.9.4
• Improved FOV calculation (more efficient, crashes less)
• Fixed scrolling on some views
• Items are referenced by combined ids instead of full strings in files
• Adjectives and Items are now CSVs instead of JSON files
• Tombstones now properly display a variety of messages
• Save files are now versioned, preventing incompatible saves from showing

Another big update, coming along. Sorry for not posting any updates in June or during the summer sale, I’ve been rather busy the past 2 months and couldn’t put as much time into this as I would have liked (rather I spent my free time trying to de-stress from programming all day by playing other games like FFXIV). Anyway, this update includes the culmination of everything I’ve been working on and talking about in the dev blog for the past two months. Particularly, it includes the following features that I’m going to talk to you in detail about!

Seasons and Lunar Cycles

Sleep is Optional

Redesigned Questing

Leveling in Dungeons

More enemies, More fun

Bug Fixes

• Craft menu doesn’t match up properly (Today and Required were switched)
• Crafting button was missing, so you couldn’t actually craft.
• Fix enemy AI movement for when there are more than 25 enemies on a floor, This has been plaguing the game for months and was nothing more than a spelling error calling dot instead of dst for distance calulations.

Found some bugs shortly after pushing yesterday’s update. I fixed what I saw and made a few cleanups here and there. Something that I forgot to mention in the last update post was the fact that the dungeon generation backend has been completely refactored to allow for different algorithms to be plugged in. Right now it’s still using the classic algorithm based on RoguelikeLib, but I’ll be looking into adding support for Angband and Perlin-nose/Cave style dungeons. As a result of the refactor, some things were temporarily broken with the classic dungeon generation that have been fixed with this patch. In addition to the quick fixes, I’ve added in the CRT filter as a video option that can be toggled on and off. Be careful, as since it does distort the rendering space slightly, mouse-based input may not be pixel perfect towards the edges when it’s turned on. The update has already been pushed out on Steam. Itch.io will be updated shortly. Also of notice, I've created an official dev blog on tumblr that'll feature more kinds of background to the game's development. You'll be able to ask me questions directly and see screenshots and videos of features in development. Steam will continue to receive changelog posts, but anything else will be on the blog.

Big update falls this month in Storymode. As we're approaching the one year mark since I uploaded Storymode to Steam Greenlight, I thought it'd be a good time to change quite a bit with the game's features and presentation. So let's go over the changes in detail (it's gonna be a long one)

Planet Navigation

Blacksmith

Persistent Party

Micromanaging

New Game+

Overlay mini-map

Mac OSX Support

Backend Changes

As always...

Hi everyone, back for yet another update! Sorry for the long-ish period with no new content or word from me. Things have been a bit hectic, but hopefully what'll be dropping in the next day or two will have been worth the wait! So let's talk about these changes

Snazziness

Jazziness

Anything else

Patch has been put out featuring a new settings menu and a slew of bugfixes. Also added a few more tombstone phrases so you can laugh some more at people who died in the daily dungeons. The new settings menu is a priliminary design and will be improved according to user feedback. Additional optional settings for the game have yet to find their way into the new interface, but that'll be adjusted. In the future there will be a networking setting that'll allow you to configure things such as your upstream connections to services like Steam and what you send to daily dungeon servers. Color palettes have been moved into the settings pane instead of being a "hidden" feature along the number row. This means that the number row no longer changes the palette. Color palette settings are also now saved alongside every other setting, so when you start up the game again it'll be in the same palette that you last played in. The general bugfixes include some odd ones with rather obscure execution requirements that'd cause crashing (one only happened if you were playing from save data instead of a new game), so overall the game should be more stable now.

Some reworking has been made to the daily dungeon system. Deaths are now tracked each day for every user who dies in the daily dungeon. When you load up the dungeon, you'll see tombstones on each floor indicating where someone else has died. These tombstones are non-blocking, so you can walk right on through them. Hovering your mouse over the tombstone will show you the name of the user and what they died against. The daily dungeon script which you can host yourself has been updated to include all that's necessary for making a daily dungeon server. The script is a python flask application, but you're free to implement it in whatever language and framework you feel like using, as long as the responses are the same. Because the daily dungeon application has changed, so has the server URL. If you weren't already using a custom daily dungeon server that you intend on updating yourself, you will have to revert your settings to the defaults in order to pick up the new url. This update is a very basic update to the game to show off the new feature. Detail and polish will be made in later updates. I've also updated the game's dependencies on LibGDX and complimentary libraries to the latest versions with this build. I'm still running on the LWJGL2 backend as long as the LWJGL3 one is still in development. Once it's marked stable I'll be looking into adopting it for improved support, stability, and performance. My apologies for any game breaking bugs that are currently out there, I'm trying to fix them up as they appear. Remember, the more logs and reports the better, any bit helps to make a greater game! Thank you

Hello again for yet another monthly update full of new features and bug fixes! Continuing on with the party system introduced with the last update, I've gone ahead and done what I said I was planning to do: Redesign the Boss Fight combat system.

Boss Fight Redesign

Other fixes

Shareware/Demo version

Hello everyone! Merry Christmas, or Merry Dies Natalis of Sol Invictus for you traditionalists, it's time to announce the latest new feature added just in time for the holidays! This time I've added a new feature that will help StoryMode feel more like a traditional RPG and make the game a bit easier, if you become good at utilizing the strategy that is.

Introducing the Party System!

Other fixes

Hello everyone, it's time to announce the latest new feature! This time I've added what every game of this generation has: resource gathering! Now you can fish and mine for bunches of items, which is a great way expand upon the pacifist approach introduced with the previous update.

How does it work?

What if I don't want to play a stupid mini-game?

How do I identify a resource?

Anything else?

A fix has been pushed that should prevent dungeons from crashing on floor change (it was a bug regarding the new torch system) In addition to the bug fix, windowed mode now allows for resizing by dragging the border. Due to texture scaling, it's possible that the game will look pretty dang ugly if you resize it manually. Also, the daily dungeon server is currently down. I'm in the process of finding a new server to host on, something cheaper and smaller in scale because I really don't need much. In fact, with the new update you may manually override the url of the daily dungeon server by changing the value in the settings.json. If you want to have fun and try hosting your own daily dungeon server, here's the script to generate the file. All you need to do is create a http server, then point the url to whatever is the public route to the file generated by the script is located. Setup is really easy and lightweight. I personally just ran NGINX and had the dungeons generating using a cron job on Linux. Good luck and have fun everyone. Even if I don't get around to answering every report personally, thanks you for filing them.

It's been awhile since I went ahead and released an update. This new update fixes a few bugs that were present in the current version and adds a two new features as well. The two big changes that are immediately visible are torches and a pacifist approach to the game.

Torches

Pacifist

Lastest update to StoryMode has just been pushed complete with a whole new slew of features and more than likely a new slew of bugs too! The big new feature that's been in the works and is finally out is...

Improved Character Customization

Other Changes

Thanks for your continued support, reports, and feedback

Several small fixes and updates made it into the game this past week. It's been a rather hectic one with I swear a new update being pushed each day. To highlight what's new and what was done

• In dungeons, you can now select to only sacrifice from the items that you picked up
• Adding that feature led to some refactoring, which broke things, which I then had to fix...which I'm pretty sure I did. Hopefully. I miss things a lot.
• Messed around with FOV a bit but rolled back the changes and instead went for a better system...
• Memory and Performance optimizations have been made so it can run a bit smoother on floors with tons of entities.

Minimaps

Thanks to IndieGala there's been a surge of new bug reports and testers. I appreciate the support you guys are providing me so StoryMode can become a bigger, better game. Over the weekend I patched up a few reported bugs, and I patched up a few more today as well. To summarize some of the changes

• The new collision dynamics has been improved (though is not perfect yet)
• Enemies can now drop more than one item (Especially big enemies)
• Big and small enemies can no longer drop equipment
• Add descend quests
• Fixed some achievements
• Fixed a few crash bugs regarding training

Greetings once more! In the process of fixing up the Boss Battles bug tonight I decided to throw in more features that I had been bouncing around in my head for awhile. To summarize the changes

• You should now be able to engage in Boss Battles once more
• Boss Battles have been rebalanced to only start appearing after the 10th floor of a dungeon
• After the 5th floor, miniature versions of enemies may start popping up. They move in half steps and have half as much defense as usual, but several can appear in a single cell making them capable of mobbing you.
• After the 15th floor, huge versions of enemies may start popping up. They move at the normal rate of 1 tile per step, but they take up the space of 4 tiles and can easily block your path.

Hello there! First I'd like to thank people in the forums for reporting bugs for the game and providing criticism. The game is a lot more stable and less clumsy now because of your help. Launch was a bit bumpy but it should be smooth(er) sailing from now on. For this weekend I went out and redid the item database to follow some new rules. The changes are as follows

• Items now have "types"
• Items can be found in any kind of file, but their chance of being found in a dungeon still depends on the file type
• Details of items can now be collected in the PageFile alongside everything else

Features

• Randomly generated dungeons based on your files
  
• Randomly generated items
  
• BOSS FIGHTS
  
• A cringe worthy story
  
• A not really fresh take on the genre
  
• Randomly generated quests
  
• Being able to play with one hand with a beer in the other
  
• an excessive amount of color!
  
• Randomly generated crafting recipes?
  
• A not try-hard personality

Spoiler Alert Ahead! You have been warned!

• OS: Ubuntu 14.04
• Processor: Intel i3-2350mMemory: 2 GB RAM
• Memory: 2 GB RAM
• Graphics: OpenGL 3.2 compatible graphics card
• Storage: 250 MB available space