Alright I'm having to make a difficult decision here. The more I work on sound effects the more I realize how insane of a task it actually is. There's tons of enemies that need hit, death, and attack sounds (especially for bosses), tons of items, props, player specific sound effects etc. The list is well into the hundreds, and I am by no means a competent sound designer. I have no idea what I'm doing really and some sounds have taken upwards of 30-40 minutes to get to the point that I'm satisfied with it. I just cannot dedicate this much time into Bounty Below. It's gotten me thinking about that as a whole as well. While the release certainly alleviated some of dread I felt working on Bounty Below for a while, all of that energy has faded away now. It's incredibly difficult to force myself to continue working on Bounty Below when, as I've stated a few times in the past, it was never a game I was too passionate about to begin with. I'm choosing to end things here unfortunately. I wish I could find the drive to polish it up more, but it just doesn't feel worth it anymore. Sound effects would certainly help the feel of dungeons, but there are way deeper fundamental flaws getting in the way of that goal anyways so why waste hours and weeks of development time when I could be spending it making something much better? I'm proud of myself for pushing the game to a point where I'm satisfied with its release, and hopefully you aren't too disappointed with things as they are. I'm very excited to work on some of the ideas I've had on my mind for the 5+ years I've been stuck working on Bounty Below, and I hope you'll enjoy them when they're ready! Thank you so much for the support you've given me! If you'd like to follow my progress for all future projects the best place to do so is my Discord! And the second best place would be my Twitter!

There's been a handful of updates scattered across the days since release, so let's talk about them!

-October 16th 2021-

1.0.2

• When loading the game your dungeon character always spawns at the start of the floor in case you manage to get yourself stuck out of bounds
• Fixed a bug that deleted your plasma whip balls if you swapped to another plasma whip

1.0.3

• Fixed a bug that previously made dungeon ore find 100 times higher than it should have been

1.0.4

• Adjusted the balance from the 1.0.1 patch thanks to player feedback

1.0.5

• Adjusted rock HP in light of the new balance changes that made it fall behind

-October 17th 2021-

1.0.6

• Continued balancing
• Added an "Are you sure?" prompt to exiting the game and to rebirthing from ascension

1.0.7

• Added item storage on the tree of life upgrade tree to allow you to store an additional set of items to swap between for your character
• Prevented a potential softlocking issue with the eternal egg upgrade
• Made preexisting tooltips more descriptive

-October 19th 2021-

1.0.8

• Added tooltips to the overhead ore display
• Made crafting take additional ore find into account when pricing the cost of items at your tier preventing crafting items at insanely high tiers relative to where you're at in the game
• Added new toggle buttons for buying units at 10x, 25x, and 100x
• Buffed unit crits
• Buffed chests
• Added information to the gilded units section of the shop tab
• swapped ring and tome of patience sub weapon power (as was originally intended)
• Fixed a bug with some familiar spawning items in dungeons not properly unfamiliarizing when you swap items
• Made it much harder to warp out of bounds with Blink
• Fixed a bug that would cause you to instantly ascend without letting you spend your souls if you clicked the button two times on the same frame (...)

-October 20th 2021-

1.0.9

• Added dungeon item descriptions
• Made unlockable dungeon characters easier to unlock
• Buffed the flame slide ability
• Fixed a bug causing plasma whip to bounce out of bounds when standing against the wall
• Corrected a mislabeled Diety of luck item description

-An addendum-

Hopefully this is the final of the balance patches needed to be done for the idle portion of the game! I know it's annoying easily destroying rocks and progressing at your current tier and then when you wake up there's an update that strips that away from you. If anyone finds themselves in a position where they genuinely can't progress because they saved in an area that's no longer acceptable with their current damage - Feel free to join the Discord and DM me! I'll gladly doctor your save file to fix the issue.

• Major balance pass for idle progression
• Fixed an issue that caused 0 ore to be too expensive
• You'll now find at least one chest on nearly every dungeon floor
• Rebalanced weaker dungeon item modifiers (especially ones found on earlier levels)
• Fixed some saving/loading issues with dungeons
• Fixed items overlapping one another in dungeons which made it impossible to interact with one of the two
• Fixed some input issues with dungeons
• Fixed a niche softlock case for dungeons where previously you could fly to an upgrade shrine, reroll or annul your flight modifier, and be unable to return to the side of the map with the exit
• Slightly adjusted the positioning of the crafting timing bar to more accurately display the sweet spot