Oct 23, 2014

Dungeon of the ENDLESS™ - .Steph(✿◠‿◠)

Hey guys,

To celebrate the release of Dungeon of the Endless next week (October 27th), we are releasing the game soundtrack for free on FlyByNo's Bandcamp page. You may also name your price and support the artist, who also worked on the soundtrack of Endless Legend and Endless Space!

The full soundtrack includes these original songs:

Dungeon of the Endless (Main Title)
Skulk Around
Wrecking Bad
Ground Mist
An Outmoded Voice
The Wild Underground Plains
Celluloid
Crystal Quest
Turtle Mode Engaged
Found a Thing!
Wacky Ruins
Lady Shaft
Haphazardly
Alien Pollen
Elevator Song
Game Over
The Surface (End Title)

DotE's soundtrack on Bandcamp available here for free or name your price: here

Enjoy!
~Amplitude Studios

Oct 23, 2014

Soundtrack Available on Bandcamp

Dungeon of the ENDLESS™ - Steph(✿◠‿◠)

Dungeon of the Endless (Main Title)
Skulk Around
Wrecking Bad
Ground Mist
An Outmoded Voice
The Wild Underground Plains
Celluloid
Crystal Quest
Turtle Mode Engaged
Found a Thing!
Wacky Ruins
Lady Shaft
Haphazardly
Alien Pollen
Elevator Song
Game Over
The Surface (End Title)

DotE's soundtrack on Bandcamp available here for free or name your price: here

Enjoy!
~Amplitude Studios

Oct 16, 2014

Dungeon of the Endless leaving early access later this month

Dungeon of the ENDLESS™

Another game is about to burst forth, all slimy and wriggling, from the womb of early access. Too graphic an analogy? Sorry. Another game is about to, er, be released, all digital and like a functional software product, from the pre-release designation of early access. Dungeon of the Endless is the game, and its release date has been set for 27 October.

"DotE was launched on Steam Early Access on December 11th, 2013," writes Amplitude Studios in an update, "and has been greatly improved thanks to your feedback, suggestions, design discussions, bug reports, but also forum contests, brainstorms, surveys, GAMES2GETHER votes and so on. With your awesome participation, we were able to create unique content for the game such as heroes, spaceships, modules, events or Steam achievements. Thank you all for participating in this Early Access."

This is the next part of Amplitude's unusual semi-crossover series; the last part being the recently released Endless Legend. Dungeon of the Endless is a prequel of sorts—not that the connection has much impact on the game's genre blending mix of roguelike and tower defence.

To mark the occassion, the developers have released this video—half of which is a pretty looking pixel short; the other half a scrolling list of names.

Oct 15, 2014

Release Date Announced

Dungeon of the ENDLESS™ - .Steph(✿◠‿◠)

Hey everyone,

In case you missed the our stream yesterday, we would like to announce that Dungeon of the Endless will be complete and leave Early Access on October 27th!

DotE was launched on Steam Early Access on December 11th, 2013 and has been greatly improved thanks to your feedback, suggestions, design discussions, bug reports, but also forum contests, brainstorms, surveys, GAMES2GETHER votes and so on. With your awesome participation, we were able to create unique content for the game such as heroes, spaceships, modules, events or Steam achievements. Thank you all for participating in this Early Access. Here's a trailer we made for you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGJuViaIdfA
Founder and Pixel pack players usernames in the credits have been extracted from the official Amplitude forum users database, with a DotE Steam CD key redeemed

NEW FEATURES

New features in Dungeon of the Endless include:

Interweaving Storylines: The dungeons aren’t the only things that are endless in Dungeon of the Endless. It offers overlapping and even intimate relationships between characters that are always fun and often surprising.
New Spaceships: The player will be able to unlock new spaceships (aka game modes), such as the Sanitary pod, which offers increased difficulty levels of play.
The Jungle levels: The experience is now complete as players will be able to go up to the twelfth and final floor before reaching the surface.
A Journal and an Album: Track your scores with the Journal and follow your game progress in the Album, displaying pictures and hints on the secrets around Auriga and its new visitors.
Cooperative Multiplayer: For gamers who like to play with others, the two to four player cooperative enables players to strategise best routes, work together to share resources, and team up to kick all sorts of alien ass.

/// Please note that you will be able to test these changes in a test branch we will release sometime this week.

SCREENSHOTS

~Amplitude Studios

Oct 15, 2014

Release Date Announced

Dungeon of the ENDLESS™ - Steph(✿◠‿◠)

NEW FEATURES

New features in Dungeon of the Endless include:

Interweaving Storylines: The dungeons aren’t the only things that are endless in Dungeon of the Endless. It offers overlapping and even intimate relationships between characters that are always fun and often surprising.
New Spaceships: The player will be able to unlock new spaceships (aka game modes), such as the Sanitary pod, which offers increased difficulty levels of play.
The Jungle levels: The experience is now complete as players will be able to go up to the twelfth and final floor before reaching the surface.
A Journal and an Album: Track your scores with the Journal and follow your game progress in the Album, displaying pictures and hints on the secrets around Auriga and its new visitors.
Cooperative Multiplayer: For gamers who like to play with others, the two to four player cooperative enables players to strategise best routes, work together to share resources, and team up to kick all sorts of alien ass.

/// Please note that you will be able to test these changes in a test branch we will release sometime this week.

SCREENSHOTS

~Amplitude Studios

Sep 12, 2014

[0.9.22] Tactical Update

Dungeon of the ENDLESS™ - Saylawl

Hello everyone,

This time, it's for real! The official public update 0.9 is here. Thanks to our courageous players who tested the branch version to help us to finalise it :) So we added the 2 last heroes, a mob and an event but also the much-awaited tactical map, the backpack and other improvements requested by the community.

Content

Added 2 new heroes:
- Mizi Kurtiz, the G2G hero and her dark companion
- Kreyang, the EL Founder pack Drakken hero
Added 1 new event: the EMP, which temporarily deactivates modules of random rooms [G2G] Thanks Stealth_Hawk
Added 1 new mob: the Hurna Debuffer (and its elite form) which reduces the attack power of heroes in the room
Added “almost-HD” portraits for the heroes HUD
Improved environments by adding props, animations and FXs
Added situational dialogues (different for each heroes)
Added new tutorial (select in the menu to test it) [WIP]
Added 2 special skills for prisoners and crew members

Improvements

Added a tactical map: mouse wheel down to zoom out, then click or mouse wheel up over a room to zoom in. You can move and (un)power rooms in this mode
Improved the Crystal phase:
- The rooms are no longer unpowered
- The Crystal can’t be put back in the first room
- All the doors of the floor are opened!
- You have to decide when you leave the floor: all your crew have to be in the exit, otherwise you lose them!
Added a backpack in the Inventory panel: all items in this bag will be kept between floors
Added remote powering: auto-power several rooms at the same time by clicking on a remote room as long as you have enough Dust
Improved Merchants: each one now has a currency between Food, Industry, Science and Dust for sell and buy
Added a “multi-doors” bonus: get a score bonus when you open doors in an “action phase”
Added a pause button on the bottom right widget
Improved several animations on monsters & heroes
Heroes found in the dungeon can now have a higher level (with cost slightly increased)
Added hero refund: if you dismiss a hero, you get a certain amount of food based on his level
Added a special portrait when a hero dies
Improved Heroes HUD: reorganised the buttons to avoid misclicks, improved wounded feedback
Improved GUI (log, hero panel, FIDS, dialogue, transition screens…)
Unlocked Deena by default
Changed low health feedback to be sooner and more visible
Improved Auto-Powered FX and environment FXs
Added new FXs for each module upgrade

Balancing

Increased the level up cost of first hero levels, slightly reduced the last ones (global cost is increased)
Increased number of new heroes in the floor
Reduced heal cost in the Infirmary Pod
Reduced Shop cost (build & research)
Tweaked item costs (for drugs) and effects (for devices)
Increased Lure activation delay
Reduced the power and the number of the anti-minor modules mobs
Increased power of Kamikazes, but they also hurt other creatures
Changed Holohero module behaviour: it no longer attracts mobs of other rooms
Increased Holohero module defence

Bug fix (since branch 0.9.20)

Kreyang is available for Endless Legend Founder Pack owners
Level up stats preview is displayed
Green colour is correct in the tactical map (shows rooms with modules inside)
Heroes selection marker is correct in the tactical map
Several panels are now hidden in the tactical map (dialogs, crystal button...)
Mouse wheel can be used in the Inventory
System menu is fixed
Lighting glitch in the Sewers environment is fixed
Hero sprites glitches during attack have been fixed
Kamikazes Elite behaviour is fixed

Amplitude Studios

Sep 12, 2014

[0.9.22] Tactical Update

Dungeon of the ENDLESS™ - Saylawl/Gladeel

Content

Added 2 new heroes:
- Mizi Kurtiz, the G2G hero and her dark companion
- Kreyang, the EL Founder pack Drakken hero
Added 1 new event: the EMP, which temporarily deactivates modules of random rooms [G2G] Thanks Stealth_Hawk
Added 1 new mob: the Hurna Debuffer (and its elite form) which reduces the attack power of heroes in the room
Added “almost-HD” portraits for the heroes HUD
Improved environments by adding props, animations and FXs
Added situational dialogues (different for each heroes)
Added new tutorial (select in the menu to test it) [WIP]
Added 2 special skills for prisoners and crew members

Improvements

Added a tactical map: mouse wheel down to zoom out, then click or mouse wheel up over a room to zoom in. You can move and (un)power rooms in this mode
Improved the Crystal phase:
- The rooms are no longer unpowered
- The Crystal can’t be put back in the first room
- All the doors of the floor are opened!
- You have to decide when you leave the floor: all your crew have to be in the exit, otherwise you lose them!
Added a backpack in the Inventory panel: all items in this bag will be kept between floors
Added remote powering: auto-power several rooms at the same time by clicking on a remote room as long as you have enough Dust
Improved Merchants: each one now has a currency between Food, Industry, Science and Dust for sell and buy
Added a “multi-doors” bonus: get a score bonus when you open doors in an “action phase”
Added a pause button on the bottom right widget
Improved several animations on monsters & heroes
Heroes found in the dungeon can now have a higher level (with cost slightly increased)
Added hero refund: if you dismiss a hero, you get a certain amount of food based on his level
Added a special portrait when a hero dies
Improved Heroes HUD: reorganised the buttons to avoid misclicks, improved wounded feedback
Improved GUI (log, hero panel, FIDS, dialogue, transition screens…)
Unlocked Deena by default
Changed low health feedback to be sooner and more visible
Improved Auto-Powered FX and environment FXs
Added new FXs for each module upgrade

Balancing

Increased the level up cost of first hero levels, slightly reduced the last ones (global cost is increased)
Increased number of new heroes in the floor
Reduced heal cost in the Infirmary Pod
Reduced Shop cost (build & research)
Tweaked item costs (for drugs) and effects (for devices)
Increased Lure activation delay
Reduced the power and the number of the anti-minor modules mobs
Increased power of Kamikazes, but they also hurt other creatures
Changed Holohero module behaviour: it no longer attracts mobs of other rooms
Increased Holohero module defence

Bug fix (since branch 0.9.20)

Kreyang is available for Endless Legend Founder Pack owners
Level up stats preview is displayed
Green colour is correct in the tactical map (shows rooms with modules inside)
Heroes selection marker is correct in the tactical map
Several panels are now hidden in the tactical map (dialogs, crystal button...)
Mouse wheel can be used in the Inventory
System menu is fixed
Lighting glitch in the Sewers environment is fixed
Hero sprites glitches during attack have been fixed
Kamikazes Elite behaviour is fixed

Amplitude Studios

Aug 6, 2014

Progress Report

Dungeon of the ENDLESS™ - Steph'nie

Hey everyone,

We wanted to share with you the latest progress report with the development of Dungeon of the Endless. Indeed, we have been super proud to reach the Beta recently and would like to reassure some of you, longing for the next update!

We have been rather quiet for mainly two simple reasons: some of us have been away or will be soon going on holiday, but also to show and talk about our games at Gamescom (Germany) and Unite (USA). This requires a lot of organisation on our side and we're just working really hard to get a game build ready (it's always nice to show a new version of the game at an event!). Secondly, as you all know, we've recently reached the Beta and have started the implementation of some heavy features:

Co-op multiplayer mode: after several gameplay iterations, we're starting to have something that is quite enjoyable! We're currently fixing several bugs before we can release it in a public update. We still have several improvements we'd like to implement as well but yeah, we're getting there
Tactical map: AT LAST. And it's working too, but we're still working on the visuals
Improved Crystal phase: we're testing several changes with the VIPs
A score journal: work in progress
Several improvements: we've implemented several small improvements requested by the community (but we'll let you know in due time!)
The remaining promised game content: we're not going to shed a tear, but we've added the last heroes and environment for the release
Balancing: singleplayer and multiplayer, but also spaceship wise (we should be working on that in the long run, until the release)

Tl;dr: there's still a lot to come but you'll have to wait a little before you can try out the new additions/changes.

Stay tuned however: we might have cool surprises for you. :)

~Amplitude Studios

Aug 6, 2014

Progress Report

Dungeon of the ENDLESS™ - Steph(✿◠‿◠)

Co-op multiplayer mode: after several gameplay iterations, we're starting to have something that is quite enjoyable! We're currently fixing several bugs before we can release it in a public update. We still have several improvements we'd like to implement as well but yeah, we're getting there
Tactical map: AT LAST. And it's working too, but we're still working on the visuals
Improved Crystal phase: we're testing several changes with the VIPs
A score journal: work in progress
Several improvements: we've implemented several small improvements requested by the community (but we'll let you know in due time!)
The remaining promised game content: we're not going to shed a tear, but we've added the last heroes and environment for the release
Balancing: singleplayer and multiplayer, but also spaceship wise (we should be working on that in the long run, until the release)

Tl;dr: there's still a lot to come but you'll have to wait a little before you can try out the new additions/changes.

Stay tuned however: we might have cool surprises for you. :)

~Amplitude Studios

Jul 7, 2014

Spaceship Creation Competition

Dungeon of the ENDLESS™ - Steph'nie

Hi everyone,

Are you ready for a new creation competition? In the latest update, we implemented a new game option: spaceships that you can actually unlock! They bring new game modes with special gameplay effects, new starting configuration and visuals for even more diversity and more fun of course.

Today, we want to call on your creativity to create an extraordinary new spaceship for Dungeon of the Endless!

The creation contest will be divided in 2 parts:

The gameplay (rules, stats, etc.)
The packaging (visual, name, description, etc.)

PART 1 - GAMEPLAY

The Brief

In order to propose an interesting variety of challenge for the player, here is a quick reminder of the spaceship in game and a glimpse of the others which are planned for the release . The aim is to find ideas not too similar to the already existing ones:

The Infirmary: no end turn auto heal, more HP, drugs
The Armoury: 4 heroes at start, no free hero, no offence module
The Drill: no production module at start, endless floors
The Library: focus on research / modules, heroes "lethal as canaries"
The Refreezerator: 1 hero in the entire game, but undying… or nearly!

The Entries

There are different properties to define in the gameplay aspect of your spaceship:

Code name: the final name will be given in Part 2
Special gameplay rules: see below
Number of heroes at start (1 to 4)

If it's relevant:

Global statistics modifiers (attack power, health, defence, etc. of heroes / mobs / modules)
Starting modules (and unavailable modules)
Starting items (and unavailable modules)
Starting FIDS and FIS incomes

The special gameplay rules are obviously the most important part of the entry. The idea is to find a way to use the current features and elements already available in the game and rearranged them to create a new way to play it. Try to keep it simple! A good concept can be summarised in one sentence.

IMPORTANT
/!\ Entries need to be posted in this thread: http://forums.amplitude-studios.com/showthread.php?33511-Spaceship-Creation-Contest

We will select 3 of your proposals then organise a GAMES2GETHER vote! You may submit several entries but are limited to three! Also make sure you keep all your entries in one post!

Please note however that Amplitude reserves the right to modify the 3 proposals and will work with the winner to finalise the design and adapt it to development constraints.

Deadline

We will be closing the thread on July 15th, at midday (Paris time!).

Prize

Winners of Part 1 et Part 2 will:

Get their names in the game credits
Win a cool Dungeon of the Endless T-shirt and buttons
Three Steam copies of the Dungeon of the Endless - Founder Pack: so you can play with your friends once the multiplayer is released!

Best of luck to all of you!
~Amplitude Studios