"This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill -- the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe." - Morpheus
[NEW] Jib pathfinds [NEW] New tophat and blink sounds - custom crafted with more attention to detail and variation [NEW] Icy items can freeze water, creating bridges [NEW] New types of blocks: the ghost pillar, the altar, the bones, the defensive tower [NEW] Elemental bombs use an AOE effect so the fire bomb can light fires, the ice bomb can freeze water, etc. [NEW] Blinks use an AOE effect too, so the fear blink can scare foes, the lightning blink one becomes like Thor, etc. [+++] Ghost sword hit and move boxes are optimized so it can scooch between cracks but still hit enemies just right [+++] Blinks look cooler [+++] Tophat sound rolls off with distance [+++] Can now blink nearer to stuff (if the full blink distance is not possible, the furthest possible successful point is used) [+++] Temporarily disabled the double tap to blink (in order to see what it's like using it exclusively via an equipped button) [+++] Map has a little more contrast and doors are bigger to make them easier to see [+++] Drobth Boss hammer always does maximum damage and can affect pillars and other inanimate objects [+++] Music fades between areas sounds more natural [FIX] Fixed Brutus sometimes appearing out of thin air [FIX] Zero doesn't appear if you've used the compass to a previous dungeon [FIX] Can't have difficult double spider sack rooms in easier dungeons

[ 2016-05-23 07:25:46 CET ] [ Original post ]

Songbringer: Procedural Action Adventure

Explore 308 million procedurally-generated worlds. Take the nanosword, awaken sleeping evil and quell the nightmare before it happens.

You play the role of protagonist and accidental hero, Roq Epimetheos. With a propensity for partying and making music, he cruises the galaxy with his skybot Jib aboard the ship Songbringer, searching for verdant planets absent the presence of galactic police.

When Roq finds the nanosword hidden in a cave on Ekzerra, he unwittingly awakens an ancient evil. The sword is pretty fraggin' sweet though. It... hums.

Jib, the Skybot

Jib's story is quite long. He began life as a human boy on the skycity planet Yuerder. Growing up, he took an interest in programming artificial intelligence, eventually making a career for himself. On his deathbed, he illegally transferred his consciousness into a skybot, destroying the consciousness link thereby preventing overwrite.

7500 years later our story begins...

Jib scans the bodies of your fallen foes, sometimes uncovering valuable loot. He can also gain the ability to stun foes. Jib is automatically controlled by AI, or player two can play Jib in local co-op mode.

Lacking the ability to grow one as a human, Jib is obsessed with mustaches.

Procedural

You choose a 6-letter world seed when beginning a quest. This seed is used to procedurally generate the planet, overworld, secrets and dungeons.

Entering the same world seed will always generate the same world. Thus lore and competition can be shared with others.

Play a new seed and surprise yourself with a new world. Or enter a seed you are familiar with for a speed run.

Open / Non-linear

The generated overworld is open and non-linear. Head in any compass direction you like or play dungeons out of order.

Of the nine dungeons Roq and Jib can uncover in each world:

• Some are thematic, containing puzzles and items integral to completing the world.
  
• Some are secret, hidden side quests in which abilities can be gained.
  
• Some are tough as nails with overwhelmingly difficult foes, mobs and bosses.

Secrets of the Cacti

Everywhere one looks, there is much that is not seen. Concealed treasures abound. By eating cacti, Roq gains psychedelic powers and is able to perceive the secrets that lurk in plain sight.

Some items Roq discovers can be combined to create distinct artifacts. Find a blink orb and a fire cube? Take these to the droidsmith aboard Songbringer to craft a fire orb enabling Roq to teleport forward a few steps while turning into a fireball.

Being a Zelda-inspired game, Songbringer features no experience points (no XP). Progress is made by crushing mobs, vanquishing bosses and claiming lost technological devices.

Leaderboard

On completing a quest, several factors are quantified to produce an overall score:

• Time to complete
  
• Percentage of map uncovered
  
• Percentage of items obtained
  
• Game mode: regular vs permadeath

Your score can be saved to a global leaderboard sorted by world seed. This leaderboard cycles through seeds by popularity and freshness. You can manually override to view a particular seed.

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