Jun 6, 2012
Dungeons Of Dredmor: The Game With No Name
Dungeons of Dredmor - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alec Meer)

I might also call it 'Dungeons of Dredmor: Squirrels

Suicidally deciding to launch during E3 – don’t they realise we have to post all the trailers, until such time as we are dead?> – is a free expansion for the lovely (if divisive) Dungeons of Dredmor. Despite the devs coming up with all manner of “new items, enemies, rooms, skills, and things to generally make your life Better and/or More Full of Death”, the one thing they couldn’t force their tired brains to do was devise a title for the new content. Hence, it is simply “You Have To Name The Expansion Pack.” I’m going to call mine Dungeons of Dredmor: George Osborne Is A Pasty-Faced Spawn Of An Earwig With A Weeping Sore Where His Soul Should Be. How about you? (more…)

Jun 5, 2012
Dungeons of Dredmor Workshop Now Available
Dungeons of Dredmor - Valve
The time to create and use all new horrifying traps, dazzling spells, and weapons of diabolical ferocity is upon us: the Dungeons of Dredmor Steam Workshop is now open for business.

Create and share all new monsters, items, skills, spells and dungeon rooms! Ever wanted an acid fireball? How about a skill that summons Diggle mages? A staff that explodes when you throw it and turns everyone who it kills into zombies? Easy. A trap that can only be disarmed by feeding it 10 gallons of Slivovitz plum brandy? A magical pear that summons a magical orange that summons a magical apple that summons the original magical pear? That's more like it.

The Steam Workshop makes it easy to find, play, and share quality custom content created by other fans. Simply head over to the Steam Workshop page, find a mod that you would like to play, and hit "Subscribe". The mod will be downloaded to just the right spot, and upon loading Dredmor you simply hit the "Mod" button on the launcher and pick which ones you want to load.

Or, if you want to try your hand at your own creations, head over to Dredmod.com and take a look at some tutorials on how to craft your own! We've included information on how to make and upload a mod, as well as some of the code that you can use to create completely unique content.

And while you're at it, check out the brand new DLC we launched today - it's totally free, and full of some of our all-time favorite fan-made content!

If you needed more reason to get excited about Dungeons of Dredmor, you can pick it up for a steal at 70% off when you buy before June 11th.

Jun 5, 2012
Dungeons of Dremor Update Released
Dungeons of Dredmor - Valve
CHANGELOG

CORE: Astrology has been revised to make it a more appealing skill line.
CORE: Fleshsmithing has been re-arranged and re-balanced. New skill
order: Zombyfycation, Knit Tissue, Fleshbore, Meatshield, Corpus Burst, Miasmatic Putrefaction.
CORE: Zombyfycation is now an area-effect spell.
CORE: Tinkering, smithing, alchemy and wand lore have now been extended by one skill point (via crafting, naturally.) You can now gain more exciting, passive bonuses. Everyone loves passive bonuses.
CORE: Wands are generally better. Many effects now scale to your wandcrafting power.
TRAPS: Caltrops added to the game. Why? Because your hatred tastes like the finest chocolate, that's why.
FIXED: Achievements.
ADDED: More achievements. (They're probably broken.)
FIXED: Older, Mac OS X based machines with the Radeon x1660 Graphics Card will now run Dredmor correctly. (Also, they're a lot faster too.)
FIXED: Removed the Mushroom Shuffler. You don't need to know what this is; just be thankful that we removed it.
FIXED: Wand lore will no longer show up on artifacts.
FIXED: Quest monsters will no longer spawn in walls.
FIXED: Other things will no longer spawn in walls. Mainly, this applies to quest monsters.
FIXED: The random zoo crash. We think.
FIXED: Some issues where shopkeepers will refuse to appear in the right area.
FIXED: Bolt machines. (We're not sure what we fixed; the notes just say "Bolt Machines." So that's fixed.)
FIXED: Crossbows now correctly reduce the # of attacks on attack buffs.
FIXED: The "affectCorpses" flag now works correctly on most spells.
FIXED: Unarmed attacks will now trigger even if you have a crossbow.
Boo-yah.
ROTDG: Piracy is now significantly more ... interesting.
ROTDG: Fixed percentages on "No, Now You Are The Demons"
FIXED: Do not let the user load save games with mods, if they do not have those mods enabled.
FIXED: Booze, food, consume buffs.
FIXED: A Zillion Crash Bugs.
FIXED: Ten Zillion XML Errors. (Thanks to Todd Moon for his excellent XML Validator, which taught us how to repair our own game. Also, how to
love.)
FIXED: Dodging a monster attack will no longer trigger an onHit effect (Blobs of Corruption; Hungry and Thirsty Diggles; etc.)
FIXED: Monsters stepping on blink traps will no longer apply the blink curse to the player.
FIXED: Crafting UI will now refresh automatically when you open it.

AND...

STEAM WORKSHOP: It's On!
EXPANSION PACK: You Have To Name the Expansion Pack is released! Enjoy the sweet, sweet taste of Nameable, Free, DLC!

Jun 5, 2012
Daily Deal - Q.U.B.E., 50% off!
Q.U.B.E. - Valve
Today's Deal: Save 50% off Q.U.B.E.!

Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are!

May 14, 2012
Vessel Update Released
Vessel - Valve
- fixed black screen artifacts when external gpu utilities enable forced anti-aliasing.
- GUI icons will now show keyboard visuals if controller is plugged in but not being used.
- In fullscreen mode, mouse now locks to display
- In fullscreen mode, screensaver is disabled.
- added config options to force resolutions and enable supersampling

May 1, 2012
More Like Dungeons Of DredMOD
Dungeons of Dredmor - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Adam Smith)

The end is nigh brows

I’d gladly welcome another expansion pack for Dungeons of Dredmor and I gladly shall when the next one arrives in the near future. To add to the glad, it’ll be free as well, having been constructed with “the cooperation of a handful of the Dredmor community’s top modders”. It’s not slight and full details of the contents are below. Not content with welcoming the mod community into their home, Gaslamp Games are also serving tea and biscuits, or at least that’s how I interpret the news that modding will now be integrated with the Steam Workshop. Mods for all, mods of all stripes, and also biscuits for those who would like them.

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Apr 19, 2012
Technically Leaking: Vessel’s Fantastic Fluids
Vessel - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Adam Smith)

I don't think I'll ever get tired of this picture

From the first video I saw, Vessel occupied a special place in my thoughts. The area it resides in is a large theme park grafted onto my occipital lobe. All of the rides and attractions that have sprouted there are based on interesting use of technology in games. Some are impressive structures of light and fury, while others are more subtle. Vessel’s contribution is a cavernous chamber, lit by lava and fluorescent goo that drips, splashes and streams. There are log flumes within and water slides, everything liquid that can be imagined in fact. Now that Vessel has been released from the faucet, Strange Loop Games have deemed fit to share some early experiments and tech demos showing how their marvelous physics evolved.

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Mar 21, 2012
Vessel Update Released
Vessel - Valve
Vessel v1.06
- Added a keyconfig option. Open 'keyconfig.ini' in the Vessel folder using a text editor to customize the keys.
- Fixed a problem with the ending not displaying the correct result (an important asset could go missing in certain circumstances)
- Removed some exploits for getting extra protoplasm
- Fixed a crash in the orchard level at the end of chapter 2 when loading a save game
- Fixed an exploit on the first orchard puzzle
- Added a missing wall allowing an exploit in factory chaser puzzle
- Altered a factory puzzle that was too easy if you got the chaser seed then backtracked.
- Fixed a wall you could fall through off a ladder in factory
- Fixed an elevator not working well if you recall from the top in factory
- Can no longer grab the big tree
- Can no longer grab seed jar bubbles out of the samplers
- Damage screen was showing at bad times
- Player emotes during intro now when door closes
- 'Finishing the Accelerator' journal entry now appears even if you don't go up and look at the chalkboard immediately.
- Fixed a crash in the factory when using seeds by the spinning fan puzzle

Mar 6, 2012
Wot I Think: Vessel
Vessel - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Adam Smith)

I’ve been charmed by physics puzzler Vessel ever since I first saw its liquids in action, sloshing, spilling and trickling around as gravity intends. I wanted to be set loose in its steampunk world, to jump in puddles and catch raindrops in a bucket. Vessel had different ideas. It would let me play, but it also wanted me to think and it wanted me to think hard. Here’s wot I think about that.>

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Mar 1, 2012
Now Available - Vessel, 10% off!
Vessel - Valve
Vessel is now available on Steam and is 10% off until March 8th at 10AM Pacific Time!

Living liquid machines have overrun this world of unstoppable progress, and it is the role of their inventor, Arkwright, to stop the chaos they are causing. Vessel is a game about a man with the power to bring ordinary matter to life, and all the consequences that ensue.

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