We promised you stable updates? Get it! One huge update, like Millenis's blue eyes, is already ready and waiting for you to download it! In this patch, our team:

Slightly dressed up beech― Bjorn:
― The card "Spirit Absorption" now has the correct description: "Burns";
― The "Scourge of a Lycan" card is now "Ethereal";
― Bjorn's starting health increased to 80 units;
― Increased the regeneration of the perk "Turnskin" to 5 units;
― Parts of the "Lunar Druid" set no longer give extra cards to the deck;
― Added some new potions for Bjorn, they will replace those that were previously;
― Most part of references to "energy" are replaced by analogs suitable for Bjorn;
(Submit reports so we can find any remaining mentions and fix them!)
― "Orc's Helmet" on Bjorn are displayed correctly;
― "Sadist Boots" on Bjorn are displayed correctly;
― Bjorn and Percival now drop different versions of the trophy "Blue Fire";
― Fixed animation of hitting Percival without a shield;

We took up the re-education of the blueeyed Millenis:
― Fixed description of Millenis' attack in 4th form;
― Millennis no longer attacks Mortis;
― After removing the marks, Millenis has no immunity to effects and double damage;
― Millennis no longer inflicts bleed through dodge in 1st form;
― Reduced the number of "bad cards" that Millenis mixes;
― Balanced indicators of health and armor of Millennis in the 4th form;
― Increased the time for reading Mortis' dialogues during the battle with Millennis in the 4th form;
― Added counter for the Millenis card burn buff;
― Added new music to the final part of the fight with Millennis;
― Added new voice acting for Millenis attacks;
― Added new effects in the battle with Millenis;
― The potential damage in the final fight with Millenis is now displayed correctly;
― Fixed localization of the battle with Millenis;
― Fixed animations of Millenis and Mortis during the final battle;

Tweaked the Midian map:
― Added a new merchant. Found in any biome under the "question mark" tag. Sells rare items, but he himself appears on the map quite seldom;
― "Bonfires", "merchants" and "question marks" on the map are now much more common; (Do you feel the difference? Looking forward to your comments!)
― Increased the chance of a merchant, chest or event appearing under the question mark on the map;

Balance and events are a little hooked:
― Grimoire "Grimoire of Mite" now burns condition cards in the deck AFTER hand filling;
― Sigismund's "Vessel of Deception" now reduces any damage to 1 unit. (including bleeding);
― If a card with the properties of healing and attack at the same time kills the enemy, then the units of health are accrued correctly;
― The maximum health indicator from the "Spiritual Protection" card is no longer saved between battles;
― The calculation of the damage from the "Strong bite" card is displayed correctly;
― "Healing Potion" event. Now Percival can buy a potion from goblins for health units until he runs out of health;
― In the "Oath of Fealty" event, a bug with healing has been fixed;
― Burned cards in the deck and the counter of burned cards are now displayed correctly;
― Fixed display of the cards in the window with information about character buffs;
― Added new sounds of a won battle;
― Added new sounds for rewards;
― The game no longer freezes when restarting some battles;
― Fixed a bug with the lack of travel notes in the game;

We made nice small edits:
― Fixed inconsistencies in subtitles for videos;
― Fixed syntax errors in event's texts;
― Added new travel notes for Björn and Percival;
― Added new music effects;
― Added visual and animation of the screen after death;
― Fixed the problem of getting armor by Percival after the opponent's turn;
― Potions and items of another class no longer appear in the store;
― After getting a level, items are displayed correctly;
― The "Caution" card can no longer discard itself;
― The damage from the "Satisfy Hunger" card is displayed correctly;
― Now you can not change "Karma" by restarting the event;
― Improvement "Camper" now does not heal again;
― Card "Ecstasy" now burns bad cards correctly;

We look forward to your reporting, Discord comments, and thumbs up on Steam reviews!

P.S.: According to Mortis, we will see even more interesting content very soon!

your active RedBoon team

This week you helped us catch most of the bugs that appeared after the update. We've researched, found and fixed everything, so get the hotfix!

Gloomy Bjorn. Fixes:
― The cost of the "Instinct" card has been increased to 5 notches.
― The cost of the "Fusion" card has been reduced. Now burns out when used.
― Changed the "Lunar druid" perk. Now, when receiving damage from the curse of the lycan, it grants 1 strength, 1 spirit.
― Added description for the starting perk "Turnskin". The "Composure" card is now unique to this perk.
― The "Composure" card no longer appears in random rewards.
― "Full-height shield" will no longer be available for purchase.
― Added new travel notes.
― Now set bonuses are displayed on all items from sets.
― Fixed dialogue with Mortis before the fight with Gruttal and Moggot.
― Fixed Inquiline travel notes for Bjorn.
― Card "Gamble" now gives the correct number of cards.
― Fixed work of the "Blood Flow" card.
― When playing instinctive cards, the correct number of cards are offered to choose from.

Good soul Percival. Fixes:
― Fixed travel notes about orcs.
― The "Battering Ram" card when used removes the block from the character.

Beauty Millennis. Fixes:
― Reduced damage from the "Bite" ability.
― Reduced damage from "Claws" ability.

Other fixes:
― Mortis. Added animations when choosing a map in a fight with Millennis.
― Berserker warchief. The base damage from abilities has been reduced, the "force acceleration" remains the same.
― Event "Patrol". The provocateur unit was replaced by the archer unit.
― Event "Unknown Idol". The battle can now be ended.
― Elite battle "Squad of gnomes". Slightly weakened.
― Fixed the description of the item "Mirror Sword".
― Now Bjorn is available to all players after killing Sigismund.
― After killing Millennis, the "black screen" no longer appears.
― Sound no longer disappears when minimizing the game.
― Fixed a bug with playing the sound of the battle on the map or in the event
― When playing as Bjorn, Percival cards are not dropped in rewards.
― Fixed animation of the message "Power balance changed".
― Fixed the description of the "Difficulty setting" screen.
― The game no longer freezes when minimized during loading.
― Fixed animation for summoning wolves.


Friends, we are back in the ranks and from next week we will resume regular patches with new content. We plan to supply you with updates every two weeks! Yes, this is not as often as before, because there are fewer of us, but we still want to constantly delight you with new patches and our work!

Your small but strong RedBoon team

Are you ready? Finally, we all waited for this moment! The update is assembled, packaged and waiting for you to install it! In this patch, we have collected all our labors over the past 4 months, seasoned them with love to our work and a sense of responsibility to you. It's time to dive into the updated and prettier world of Knock on the coffin lid:

Meet a new hero in the KOTCL universe:
― Added a new character - Bjorn.
Available 4 classes (perks), a personal set of things for the hero, a new type of weapon (dual weapons), 10+ new items, more than 70 new cards for the new hero.

Content update:
― Added new travel notes;
― Added full professional voice acting for travel notes;
― Many game events and backgrounds are voiced and animated;
― Added story cutscenes for Percival;
― Added Millenis animations;
― Added animation for summoning some units;
― Added animated intentions for double actions (buff + attack, debuff + attack, etc.);
― Added animation for the simultaneous improvement of all cards in the deck;
― Added filters to the deck view panel in battle and on the map;
― Added a glossary, it includes descriptions of all enemies, objects and cards that the user will meet in the process of passing the game (in the future, it is planned to add events and travel notes to the glossary). The information section on enemies will indicate where they meet, their skills and a brief description. The glossary has filters for easy searching and sorting.

Balance and game mechanics:
― Changed the fight with Millenis;
― Added balance panel. The player will have access to improvements that will affect the degree of difficulty of the game and the number of points that can be obtained during the game session.
― Cards that give both a block and an attack now give a block before an attack;
― Balanced many bosses and common opponents;
― Added "Karma" mechanic. Now all your decisions will have consequences.

Bugs and technical fixes:
― Changed fonts and size of labels on cards;
― Changed the font size in the descriptions of buffs, items and UI;
― Fixed errors in the texts of travel notes;
― Fixed a bug with the inscription "All cards are improved";
― Now you can not choose the option of interacting with an idol for which there is not enough gold;
― Fixed a fight with the Ritualist, now the explosion occurs at the right moment;
― Fixed the order of turn of the summoned enemies;
― Fixed "Flash amulet", now correctly applies Weakness to enemies with Nimble;
― Fixed calculation of damage in intent when using The snout item;
― Fixed Wolves (undead), now they do not die from thorns when respawning;
― Now the game does not freeze when burning several cards at once;
― Fixed work of "Barbed set" with "Poisonous armor";
― Fixed a problem with the disappearance of two-handed weapons on the character;
― Optimized loading and memory usage of the game;
― Now the game is paused if you open the menu;
― Changed the game settings panel;
― Added hints for effects to the perk selection panel;
― When minimizing the deck, you can now view the statuses of the hero and enemies;

Well, actually, that's all that we managed to do during our absence ... or not all? We'll find out soon ;)

In the meantime, we say thank you for believing in us and supporting us all this time, and wish you a great game! Time to knock on the coffin lid again!

your intriguing RedBoon team

Friends, if you are reading this, then changes are coming! Since Knock of the coffin lid appeared in Early Access a year ago, we have added a lot of new content to the game, refined some of the mechanics and worked on the audiovisual part of the project. KOTCL has grown a lot and prettier, the current result already resembles what the team intends to show you in the final.

In the coming days, we are planning to release a huge patch that we have been working on over the past months. It will bring the game even closer to the version that you want to present to the audience at the time of release. (how are we waiting for it!)

With the release of the new patch, the price of the game will change, but for now you still have the opportunity to purchase the game at the old price.

Your hardworking team RedBoon

We are back after 3 months of silence, full of energy, ready to bombard you with updates and new content soon!

And now let's discard unnecessary emotions and tell us where we still disappeared from January to March: you will not believe it - our thinned team worked on the game without raising our heads, and during this time we managed to finish Bjorn, yes, very soon you will be able to fully play as a new character! Created video cutscenes, the very ones that were so lacking in the game, finished work with the voice acting, redid the final battles, and added the difficulty balance system that many asked for.

So? Intrigued? But that's not all. Follow our publications not to miss information about new patch release and other things ;)

Your RedBoon Team

Let's talk a little about the main problem - the balance in Knock on the coffin lid. As soon as the game became available on Steam, there was feedback from users who were dissatisfied with the game design and in-game balance. These were not just messages from people who decided to throw out their negative in our community, not at all. We got worthwhile, motivated feedback from people who understood what they were talking about and really wanted to help us make the game even better. Thanks to such feedback, we managed to solve some of the problems, but, unfortunately, these changes did not affect the whole picture, and the game remained unbalanced.

After leaving lead game designer, we decided to change the concept and approach the issue from a different angle. Nobody knows the game as well as its dedicated players (and the developers, of course), so we decided to collect as much of your feedback on KOTCL under this post as possible. Of course, we understand that in this way we voluntarily open a portal to ... the other world;) But we are ready to re-read the mountains of your constructive and unconstructive comments, evaluate all the proposed ideas (and sometimes you have brilliant one), amend them with our edits and form a roadmap along which we can move together towards the release.

Now you have a chance to become a part of the RedBoon team and influence the future of the project. For doing this, just share your ideas for the development of the game or worthwhile comments in the comments. It doesn't matter if you wrote to us before or not, be sure to duplicate your old comments and generate new ones. The more constructiveness there is in your proposals, the more actively you throw ideas, the higher the likelihood that we will indicate your name in the credits for the game and will please you with other pleasant bonuses.

P.S.: If suddenly you have unspoken thoughts, but you do not want to put them on public in comments, you can send an email to us at pr@redboon.net

We are waiting for your best ideas in the comments!

We are looking for audio professionals and volunteers to help complete our first project, a roguelike game - Knock on the coffin lid.
If your whole life is about sound, or rather working with sound, then most likely you are the one for whom there is a place in the RedBoon team.

Our game has been available on Steam for a long time as an Early Access project, but in order to get one step higher and get close to the release, we need to close all our voice acting issues.

In addition to the gameplay, we have a beautiful and cool video. In order not to be unfounded, we will show a piece of the video that we made, but without the sounds, the video is rather dead than alive, despite all the efforts of our artists.

Video (Attention! There are some spoilers)

In addition to dubbing the video, RedBoon has a lot of open tasks for game sounds and music. This means that we are looking forward to those who want to be part of a dedicated team or collaborate with us on specific issues to help our game Knock on the coffin lid come out fully.

Most likely you are not familiar with us yet. Let us introduce ourselves. Knock on the coffin lid is a roguelike card game with its own world and style, the atmosphere of the canon fantasy of the Middle Ages and an unobtrusive but addictive storyline from a young Krasnodar development team - RedBoon.

Like all teams, young and ambitious, we decided to embrace the immensity to do: fast, cool on enthusiasm. But as you might guess, making a game with a roster of young and enterprising developers is a risk. But making the game a roster of young developers in 2020 is a risk multiplied by two. Therefore, despite a good idea and a good start, we quickly ran into difficulties. In the spring of 2020, RedBoon left some of its employees, but we did not give up, continued to work and in September Knock on the coffin lid became one of the winners of the Indie CUP, the largest competition for indie games in Eastern Europe, in the Critics Choice nomination.

In December 2020, we planned to launch a full release of KOTCL. But the spring outflow of staff and the departure of the game designer in November greatly slowed down our development, as a result we got the classic situation "expectation vs. reality".

Our story may seem sad, and it really would be if we gave up, but those who remained in the team decided to continue working and look for any opportunities to finish it and give the promised game to those who believe in us and support us.

So, moving away from the lyrics, we need a fighter in the team who will close our tasks by sounds. Will become a part of the team, maybe for a while, and will bring us closer to the release of our complex but cool and worthwhile project Knock on the coffin lid.

For communication:
Email: pr@redboon.net
Discord

Friends, this year was difficult for everyone, but for our small studio it was absolutely fatal: in the spring, one of the founders - art director Alexander Shatokhin, left the project. And now another founder - game designer Vadim Bgatsev, has left the project. It is difficult for a small studio to compete for employee with the giants of the Russian industry. After the breakup of the team, funding was almost terminated. This sequence of events will significantly slow down the pace of development, as the team is severely curtailed.

We managed to lay the foundation for the game, make a huge number of developments, participate in the Indie Cup and win the Critics' Choice nomination - this is a huge achievement.

Your support is invaluable, thank you for staying with us. Hopefully, having found funding and rebuilding the team, we will continue to develop the project at the same pace. The project is not closed, we will make every effort to finish what we started. Thank you guys for supporting us!

your RedBoon team.

The week is behind us, and we've brought a small, penultimate update this year with revised armor and sabatons:

Content updates:
― Fixed freezes when killing an enemy with effects;
― Vassal's armor gives block correctly now;
― The "Juggernaut" talent in contact with goblins works correctly now;
― SteelBoots give +15 HP when equipped;
― Optimization of memory;

Thank you for supporting the project, giving feedback and making us better every day.

your RedBoon Team

Here comes another weekly update! This time we have done a bit of work on the sounds and graphics, so your hikes are now even more colourful. We haven't forgotten about bugs either, by the way, every time there are less and less of them, all thanks to you ... and to us :)

Content updates:
― Added effects and animations for the appearance of characters (Wolf, Goblins, Demon of illusions,Mite) on the battlefield;
― Added sounds for Wolves and Mite;
― Added sounds of calling Goblins and illusions from the Demon of Illusions;

Bugs and technical fixes:
― Shield Ichor is now removed correctly;
― Fixed display of the effect from the "Accumulated Power" card;
― Fixed inaccuracies in the description of maps and effects;

We hope that Knock on the coffin lid continues to inspire you to take on new combat adventures!

your indispensable RedBoon team