Patch Notes v0.0.2a
- Leaderboards Added – Leaderboards for Highest Stage reached have been added. You can find their window button in the bottom left hand corner.
Tutorial/FAQ – Window Faction should now properly function.
Arcanist (And other areas where bonus exp shows up) Now has a minimum of 10% EXP when awarding EXP. (This isn’t from enemies, just from the Arcanist rewards and bonus EXP drops like the bonus in Curse Eater, when you see it in Daily/Weekly quests etc).

- Store Item – Potion Bundle: Now grants 50 Health Potions and Rage Potions. (up from 25 each)
- Store Item – Time Displacement has been removed.
- Store Item – Small Ingredient has been removed.
- Store Item – Lost In Time Added. This will instantly reward you with 10% of your currently stored Knowledge Points and 20% of your currently stored Monster Population.
- Store Item – Master of Time Added: On Time Shift gain a buff that lasts for 10 minutes that increases the Spawn speed of enemies by 2x. This is a permanent addition and will happen each time you Time Shift after purchasing this.
- Store Item – Weekly Pack Now gives 10% HP/DMG (up from 5%). It also now gives +10% permanent Liquid Gold drop amounts and +10% permanent Arcane Scrap drop amounts. (The variable liquid gold and arcane scrap amounts were removed and replaced with these bonuses so that you didn’t need to wait to be at certain stages to use the item). These bonuses stack each week and with other sources. The parts for this change before this point work retroactively for if you have previously purchased this pack. ie. If you have purchased this pack previously you will get updated hp/dmg and the LG & AS %s The amount of Cursed Amulets have been raised to 1000. The amount of Ingredients has been raised to 16 in this pack.

Patch Notes v0.0.2
- New PERMANENT System!: Window Factions – The majority of windows now have a bar at the bottom that represents the Window Faction. Using the window can increase your reputation with the window’s Faction and leveling up with them will grant you PERMANENT rewards that DO NOT RESET on Time Shift. Hovering over the bar at the bottom will give more specifics on exactly what you need to do in order to gain reputation with the Faction. -All windows will currently go to lvl 25. We'll raise this after we get the balancing tuned.
Arcanist – Increases Arcane Scrap drop amounts per level.
Liquid Gold – Increases Liquid Gold drop amounts per level.
Fairy Runes – Adds a Rune to a random Boon (what you spend your runes in) per level. This randoms each time you Time Shift.
Dragon Eggs – Chance on Time Shift to not reset current buffs!
Curse Eater – Increases the rewards from her Treasure Pouches per level.
Skills – Get a free extra skill point per level of the window faction.
Alchemy – Get an extra minute on your buffs per level.

- Skills: Skills can no longer be seen prior to unlocking them. They now show a lock icon when locked.
- Alchemy: Alchemy window has gotten a small graphic update.
- Alchemy: Alchemy window now shows what amount of time each color ingredient gives.
- Store Item: Auto Move Reduction now specifies that it’s permanent.
- Store Item: Small Ingredient & Large Ingredient now give only Yellow quality ingredient (best quality/time).
- Arcanist: If your bar reaches 100% he will now level instead of requiring 1 more Adding of Scrap. He realized that was just silly of him.
- Store Item: Time Displacement now correctly ‘stores’ your knowledge points after using it.
- Stats Page: Certain Stats have had added hoverable text for deeper explanations such as Spirits and Multistrike. These have a giant orange asterisk next to them (*).
- Tutorial/FAQ tab added for Window Faction
- Weekly Claim: Timer should now display correctly.
- Daily/Weekly Quest: Dragon Egg Daily & Weekly quest amount needed lowered to 6 & 60 respectively.
- Time Shift: You can no longer Time Shift under Stage 50 – Mostly a change to help newer players know when to Time Shift for the first time with the Tutorial message.
- Stats Page: Stats tab added for total Window Faction Bonuses.
-Patch Notes: In-game patch notes now have a scroll bar.
-Various Typos and bugs fixed

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-Mage DPS can now be found in bottom center of screen below indicators.
-Added descriptions for windows with ‘coming soon’ on them.
-Clarified some windows about time shifting mechanics
-Cursed Amulet indicator now lights up when you have 200 amulets.
-Added a Total value in each of the -Runes (T:xx%). We will add it to the others in the future.
-Missions should now be working as intended again.
-AutoMove toggle now disappears correctly when off.
-Sigil Activator Weekly Quest has been removed and replaced with gaining Mage Levels.
-Skills Tree: Skills are no longer clickable when covered.
-Various typos fixed

We’re still making significant changes, improvements and balancing changes to the game as we head towards launch time. We had a small round of some player testing and based on feedback we have made one major change.




We’ve decided to include a loose prestige. I say “loose” because we haven’t removed anything from the core game so you’ll still be able to push really hard like you would’ve before but due to the feedback we have gotten we want to include the system. The majority of the playtesters feel they’re conditioned in the idle/incremental games to want to rebirth/prestige as soon as they slow down so they were instantly looking to do so in a lot of cases. Some of them enjoy the prestiging mechanic. Others enjoyed pushing and liked going as long as they could without prestiging. We hope with the looser prestige we’ll be able to satisfy both of these types of needs without excluding either.

The prestige system itself won’t be limited, but it will be valuable to keep pushing overall than to ‘spam’ prestige. You’ll still be able to farm prestiging, but you’ll find you shouldn’t need to prestige as often as many games.

The prestige will consist of two parts:
You’ll gain Knowledge Points for every Mage (Player) level you get to for the first time. These will permanently increase your experience gains for each subsequent prestige, easing each playthrough through experience. This only increases from the first time you reach the level so for example you reach Mage level 200 in your first prestige, you would get 200 knowledge points when you prestige. You wouldn’t gain another potential knowledge point again until you made it to Mage level 201. This is the “push” reward. You get this reward for advancing.

The second part is the Monster Population. For every stage you pass you’ll gain a monster population point and then when you rebirth that will give you a bonus to your health and damage permanently. This will be the more farmable prestige currency if that’s what you enjoy.

Overall you’ll likely need to prestige occasionally but between the other sources of progression we feel you’ll still be able to adequately push between prestiges. You’ll also have other sources of permanent bonuses such as the trophies that stay between prestiges as well.




One of the cooler things we got to add over the past week is animations for the mages. I’ve been working hard on adding animations for each of the mages. It’s really cool to see them get such a personality brought to life. For those curious about the technical aspects of it I used a program called Dragon Bones which is a free open source program to animate all the Mages. It’s pretty cool!


Here’s an example of one of the mage animations. (It’s a lot smoother that this). This is the Ember Dancer – The fire shield mage.




Also animated is a little pet. Hopefully there are some fellow tabletop nerds out there that will like this little guy. A cute floating Beholder to potentially play with your mage.




As we get closer to the date we’ll update the steam store page with new videos, screenshots and more! I’ll make another post here when we do for those interested in seeing the new screenies before the game releases.


As always you’re welcome to leave feedback in the forums or join us in the discord at https://discord.gg/Khm9UUm

Dev Blog #2

One aspect I’m particularly happy with myself is that we’re moving into more story elements and almost a more RP setup for the windows and introductions. We even updated the Steam store page with a whole new text set that matches it.

The mages came to us and explained that they don’t care about armor, they’re mages, and they really don’t want to be lugging all this heavy armor around. So after much negotiations with the mages we’ve decided to take out the armor system.



In reality what it was providing was another source of permanent stat gain which you already have several in the game so far. We went through several iterations and types of the armor system from crafting, to random drops, to purchasing, to combining to level up etc, but none really complimented the current systems and feeling of what you needed in the game. For a game of this scale the gear itself was going to have to rise at such a minute ratio that it seemed unrewarding and we really didn’t want that for you guys.

Instead we’re replacing the system with two new systems. One is already in the game now for launch, the other might not make it in until shortly after launch. I’ll talk about both of them though so you know what you have to look forward to.

First is the Arcanist. Instead of just a permanent set of endless choice of stats from an arbitrary gear system, here, you’ll apply Arcane Scrap to the Arcanist and at benchmarks he’ll give you rewards. These rewards will be for other systems in the game. This will provide you with a combination of short term and long term gains that should feel more fun and goal oriented over what the gear system was doing.



At the end of each bar you get a bonus extra reward and every ten bars you’ll get a big extra reward (x5 of a reward). This means constantly as you progress through the game you’ll always be getting something to help you progress. This being a non-rebirth game, it’s important for us that you still feel the progression and not the frustration of not rebirthing. If you’re even stuck on Arcane Scrap you can still find Wisps that will give you 1% of the Arcanist bar so you’ll always get to keep moving in that window.

The second system we’re planning to add is the Guild Hall! The mages were appreciative that we weren’t going to make them lug around ten pieces of equipment at all times so they volunteered to Research some valuable information for us… for a fee of course.



The guild hall is currently planned to be a timed research system with slots. I can’t go into too much of the details of the system because it might change before we finalize it, but in order to still provide the long term bonus feeling that the armor provided we wanted to implement a research tree so over time you could build up bonuses for your playstyle that you like. (Such as potentially increasing offline gains or the like).




-LM

PS: Feel free to join the discord at https://discord.gg/Khm9UUm !

We don't want to announce too many of the mechanical changes just yet as we want you guys to have a ton to explore on launch day. As we get closer we might start slowly revealing the new systems. There are quite a few fun ones in the mix!


I personally wasn't satisfied with how bare bones the windows were feeling, they weren't leaving me with that Magician feel, so I took the time to update their appearance while still trying to keep them clean. Now they're surrounded by book pages to give it a bit more of a Mage and Research feeling. I also took the transparency of the interior of the window down a little so you could see what was going on in your main game.

Here you'll see on the top one of the screenshots that we posted on the game's reveal and on the bottom you'll see one of the current game's screenshots. Definitely more Magey indeed!