[quote]Songbringer has had a private, closed beta in progress since February 2016. Backers of the Kickstarter and others that have preordered have been sent keys to unlock the beta version. Anyone can obtain a key immediately by preordering the $32 version at http://songbringer.com/preorder or by raffling points gained by watching the live stream http://twitch.tv/wizard_fu[/quote]
-=: Beta Version 0.9.J :=-
[NEW] Gear menu: can move cursor to map and browse information about each location
[NEW] Can teleport straight from the map menu by double tapping the A button
[NEW] World seed VELLE starts with a certain someone as player two
[NEW] Hidden guitar player NPC
[NEW] New item: victor's emblem
[NEW] New sword-fighting enemy
[NEW] New story elements with Velle and Captain Tusk
[NEW] Can hold B button (or equivalent) to skip dialog
[NEW] 100% map and items is now possible
[NEW] Log.txt lists unattained items and unexplored rooms during the ending to help with debugging 100% runs
[NEW] Hyper tophat accelerates faster and does double damage to help with swordless runs
[+++] Demon's teeth are more reddish to more intuitively represent health / courage
[+++] Gear menu's "hold to equip" now stays on the screen for a moment when tapping a button
[+++] Gear menu automatically re-sorts items so current equipment is on top and in order
[+++] 10 diamond item is now blue instead of red to distinguish it from health / courage
[+++] Reduced the price of the hyper tophat to 333 diamonds
[+++] Bosses cut short the taunt phase if damaged
[+++] Blob boss has a little more hp
[+++] Fire boss more intelligent and less cheese-able
[+++] Wider walkway into ice boss room
[+++] Ice boss has two extra hittable zones
[+++] Hidden boss less cheese-able
[+++] Final boss has another phase
[+++] There is now a trick to beating the final boss
[+++] Final boss no longer has pet ice dragons
[FIX] Fixed lightning boss not appearing during an important story element
[FIX] Fixed ice boss from occluding ground pixels
[FIX] Fixed dungeons with tunnels getting flooded with keys and failing to generate
[FIX] Fixed some visual glitches transitioning between foggy areas
[FIX] Fixed transition between background gradients outside tower
[FIX] Ground blocks no longer blink transitioning north / south to some areas
[FIX] Fixed a few black pixels sometimes visible on ground to north of areas on overworld
[FIX] Fixed some secret bombable walls accidentally being spirit walls
[ 2017-05-02 07:19:25 CET ] [ Original post ]
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- Songbringer - The Trial of Ren
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.
Links
Twitter @wizard_fu
Twitch (daily live stream)
Youtube Channel
Facebook Page
Official Website
Kickstarter (successfully funded)
Press Kit
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