Dungeons of Dredmor - Valve
CHANGELOG:

- FIXED: n-dimensional lathe was, in fact, a giant game-crashing exploding bomb
- FIXED: wandcrafting recipes being lost after load/save
- FIXED: crafting tool output not displaying
- FIXED: some crossbows not working [RotDG]
- FIXED: some mittens not working [RotDG]
- FIXED: Axe of Dinglenit was worth 0 zorkmids [RotDG]
- FIXED: Gloriously Regal Belt using description from Bullet Belt
- FIXED: That blasted lever room will only show up once per level. It was getting to be a bit of an issue.
- FIXED: "Cat Ears" helmet was using the wrong art [RotDG]
- FIXED: "Runes" showing up in gem transmutation
- FIXED: Diggle plague just being all kinds of nasty
- FIXED: Chest/helm tooltips switched on character panel
- FIXED: Skills that give primary stats, wouldn't give the correct stats
- FIXED: Mustache Fighting League room would fill with infinite mustaches
- FIXED: very rarely, scripts would spawn an entire horde of monsters off of the bottom of the map.
- FIXED: tutorials showing up twice
- FIXED: took out more broken tutorials
- FIXED: game crashing at start new game screen on Mac OS X 10.5.8.
(Probably.)
- FIXED: Heal-over-Time (HoT) effects being resisted (Fairywodger; Knit Tissue; etc.)
- FIXED: Mysterious portal crashes. [RotDG]
- FIXED: Steam achievements now trigger for expansion skills.
- FIXED: mods will now correctly load rooms.xml and text.xml
- FIXED: last skills in modded-in-skill-tree would crash the game
- FIXED: the amazing exponentially-multiplying Diggle Egg Stacking bug.
- Minor tweaks, balances, etc.
- Corrupted Shrines are now mildly more interesting.
- Better decor on Diggle God Shrines. [RotDG]

Dungeons of Dredmor: Realm of the Diggle Gods - Valve
Dungeons of Dredmor Realm of the Diggle Gods DLC is Now Available on Steam!

In the lowest layers of the Dungeons of Dredmor, deeper than any man or woman has ever previously explored, lies the Realm of the Diggle Gods: giant, muscular things, created by the First Diggle in days of old, throbbing with potent gristly muscle and waiting to lay waste to any adventurer who dares to cross their path.

Dungeons of Dredmor - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Adam Smith)

I'm thinking of an alternative and more terrifying ending for Ring right now

It was announced in the recently expired month of November and now, on what should be the day before release, Dungeons of Dredmor’s first expansion has been trailerised. As well as containing graphic closeups of the most formidable eyebrows in gaming, the video provides details on the contents of Realm of the Diggle Gods. New enemies, areas and equipment are present, as one would expect, but did you expect a Werediggle skill line? I didn’t because my imagination is clearly limited and limp. How about eye lasers and the ability to create a character who is a “Vampiric Pirate Hunter-Vegan that dabbles in Demonology”? Oh, and belts! Sounds good. Watch below.

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Dungeons of Dredmor - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alec Meer)

Good to see the devs are as inept at playing it as I am

Not all dungeons require a cross-country trek or a cheeky spot of fast-travel to access. Dungeons of Dredmor was a light but appropriately vicious roguelike which charmed both John and I earlier this year, and creators Gaslamp Games have not left it to fester away on a darkened corner of Steam. As well as a steady trickle of patches, they’ve announced some real-money DLC is incoming, as well as a new patch which, among other things, doubles the number of avatar genders on offer. I did some pretty impressive maths to arrive at that conclusion, let me tell you. (more…)

Dungeons of Dredmor - Valve
CHANGELOG for 1.0.6:
FIXED: Map zoom is now saved between gameplay sessions
FIXED: a broken room defintion that would always lead to a gargoyle trap spawning behind a food dispenser.
FIXED: Items held in the player’s hand are no longer lost on save/load.
FIXED: Rod charging no longer prevents priming items after use.
FIXED: The game now realizes that you are in a shop after you load the game… and are in a shop.
FIXED: Food vending machines now have correct tooltips.
FIXED: Items from the ground can no longer be used as active skills.
FIXED: Overridden equipment during the start of the character creation process will give you permanent Mystery Bonuses.
FIXED: Monsters will now check to make sure the player isn’t standing on a corpse before they bring it back to life.
FIXED: After you steal things from Brax, you can now use them as items.
FIXED: The DIGEST button will now halt if you see an enemy or get attacked by one.
FIXED: Uberchest lock state no longer resets after save and load.
FIXED: Blink Batties now Blink. (So does Lord D.)
FIXED: Various broken Steam achievements (Monsters with Omelettes, The Critic, anything else with a counter)
FIXED: digging ray crash.
FIXED: misaligned close button in Quest window.
FIXED: Unarmed damage bonuses are no longer applied to range attacks, or thrown attacks.
FIXED: Unskilled weapon wielding penalties no longer affect thrown, or crossbow, attacks.
FIXED: Unarmed bonuses now apply even if you wield a crossbow.
FIXED: Vandalized Dredmor Statues now save their obstruction state correctly.
FIXED: WASD now breaks statues, lets you run into some other things and use them
GAMEPLAY: The resistance statistic now gives you a roll to block corruption attacks.
GAMEPLAY: Mace and Axe skill trees have been revamped and enhanced.
GAMEPLAY: Lord Dredmor can no longer be stunned or charmed.
GAMEPLAY: Reworked Necronomiconomics.
GAMEPLAY: Smithing is now a Warrior archetype.
GAMEPLAY: Sneakiness has a -20 modifier.
GAMEPLAY: Elemental Weapons now have some Elemental Resistances. Or something.
GAMEPLAY: Added a bunch more items, including a keytar.
GAMEPLAY: Some crafts are now unhidden by default.
GAMEPLAY: Added the Mosolov Cocktail! Don’t drink it all at once.
GAMEPLAY: The 2X bottom bar is now implemented. We’ll do the rest next patch.
COSMETIC: Monster spellcasting now shows up on the text ticker.
COSMETIC: More minimap icons!
INTERNAL: Hidden Fun Stuff to make it so we can turn on the mod support without breaking everybody’s save games. (That said, we have to put it in the patch before the mod support so that… well, so that it doesn’t break everybody’s save games.)
INTERNAL: Hidden Fun Stuff, related to the Other Hidden Fun Stuff.
Dungeons of Dredmor - Valve
  • FIXED: Game not correctly processing some right clicking mouse clicks.
  • FIXED: Lag due to blood splatters.
  • FIXED: Dual wielding was not working, in particular the last skill.
  • FIXED: Shield bearer skills were not correctly granting passive attributes.
  • FIXED: A number of screwed up achievements in the "skill set" categories.
  • FIXED: Warrior health (and other things) were not being calculated correctly.
  • FIXED: various spells not working due to having incorrectly set sight buffs.
  • FIXED: primary skill buffs were not passing their bonuses through to secondary skill calculations.
  • FIXED: Item duplication bug when hitting "0".
  • FIXED: incorrect item values for Cybertronic Amulet.
  • FIXED: incorrect item values for Dark Orb.
  • FIXED: being able to save and quit the game after your death.
  • FIXED: nightmare curse not actually putting monsters to sleep (or correctly triggering the DOT)
  • FIXED: narcosomantic induction not always putting monsters to sleep.
  • FIXED: SHIFT-Click mode, when turned on, doesn’t correctly handle SHIFT-Clicking as regular clicking.
  • FIXED: unliving walls do not become permanent blockers after saving and re-loading the game.
  • FIXED: stacked necronomiconomics penalties prevent the player from disabling his other buffs.
  • FIXED: right-clicking, off turn, causes left-clicking behaviours..
  • FIXED: infinitely long Diggle health bars.
  • FIXED: monsters not dying when affected by buffs that reduce their HP (acid burn, etc.)
  • FIXED: monsters who are stunned or asleep can no longer dodge, block, or counter-attack.
  • FIXED: blank pedestal spawning in the Tomb of the Unknown Hero.
  • FIXED: certain weapon powers from Krong never activated
  • FIXED: various ways in which the player could abuse the shopping system
  • FIXED: some items becoming stackable after you put them in crafting tools.
  • FIXED: potion stacking stops working after you save, reload, and put it in a craft tool.
  • FIXED: vampirism causing haywire (or crit buffs); normal spellcasting NOT haywiring
  • FIXED: bad text in wand, potions tutorials
  • FIXED: KRONG text no longer mentions crafting skill
  • FIXED: starting part of Monster Zoo music wasn't playing
  • FIXED: This Translation Is All Wrong! wasn't clearing damage effects on weapons, causing massive damage stacks
  • FIXED: a number of spells were not correctly applying blasting damage (Thor's Fulminaric Bolt, for instance.)
  • FIXED: Vampires are no longer told to "eat food to regain health."
    (Now they must dreeenk blaht.)
  • FIXED: double "bad weapon" penalties.
  • FIXED: a bunch of monster inheritance issues.
  • FIXED: crash on fullscreen with OS X 10.7
  • FIXED: crash while SHIFT-clicking with an object that you have just auto-looted, with auto-loot enabled.
  • FIXED: various other issues with the auto-loot.
  • FIXED: Various issues with WASD move-to-open.
  • FIXED: Lutefisk cube behaviour is now consistent with regards to stacks versus individual units.
  • FIXED: game crash when using non-standard characters in character names.
  • FIXED: empty tiles appearing in room definitions.
  • FIXED: dual wield and counter chance..
  • FIXED: mysteriously appearing broken doors.
  • FIXED: buffs that cannot be dismissed.
  • FIXED: auto-looting for lockpicks.
  • FIXED: multiple on-hit triggers on corpses.
  • FIXED: items get deleted when clicking in inventory and holding down CTRL.
  • FIXED: don't let the game run in resolutions with y resolution < 600.
  • FIXED: Dying at the hands of Lord Dredmor no longer gives you the "Thrusty" achievement.
  • FIXED: the Thrusty achievement now works.
  • FIXED: Mark of Chthon and Magic Steel now correctly buff in a way that scales with magic power.
  • FIXED: traps triggered by monsters applying buffs to the players.
  • FIXED: pets give you XP when you kill them.
  • FIXED: curses on monster stacks cause madness.
  • FIXED: game launcher uses 100% CPU
  • FIXED: Fine Bronze Cuirass has incorrect stats.
  • FIXED: issues with ALT-TAB and SDL causing certain things (quicksell, stack split) to stop working after leaving and returning to the game.
  • FIXED: bolt recovery now works for crossbow users on all hits, not just death.
  • FIXED: thrown item recovery now works for all thrown items on all hits, not just death.
  • NERF: Using a wand now disables invisibility effects.
  • NERF: The Obvious Fireball has been Nerfed more obviously than the last un-obvious Nerf.
  • NERF: This Translation Is All Wrong! now enacts a Terrible Price.
    Also, we got to make another Marcus Brody joke.
  • NERF: added some more resistances throughout levels to require you to use at least two spells to beat the game.
  • NERF: Hand of Belimawr is no longer stackable.
  • NERF: Alchemy, in various small, cruel ways.
  • NERF: "This Translation is All Wrong" saps magic from items, occasionally.
  • BUFF: Psionics gets magic resistance.
  • GAMEPLAY: Nerfed, then buffed, Vampirism. It's sort of about the same, really.
  • GAMEPLAY: More fire resistance on Level 9 monsters.
  • GAMEPLAY: Black Pearls can now be ground into chalk. Interestingly, this is not a flight of fancy but is based on Science.
  • GAMEPLAY: Heavy armour gives greater magic penalties, but offers more piercing resistance.
  • GAMEPLAY: Heavy armour also reduces nimbleness.
  • GAMEPLAY: the Jingly Jangly Staff of Crystals now requires alchemy instead of smithing.
  • GAMEPLAY: Lutefisk balancing changes.
  • GAMEPLAY: Tinkerers can now make Black Powder.
  • GAMEPLAY: Robots now do electrical damage. Because, you know, they're robots.
  • GAMEPLAY: Blobbies now leave Acid Pools.
  • UI: Kill the Tutorial Pop-up at the start of the game if you've seen it once.
  • Monsters have an expanded vocabulary.
  • The Bony Wand is now not quite as awful.
  • Lord Dredmor is now nastier.
  • Added a new, fun monster to Level 10.
  • Added craftable thrown weapons.
  • Added slightly more informative vending machine tool text.
  • Game renders all text using UTF-8 internally, for the Japanese Translation teams. (Ganbatte!)
  • Upped Pyrokinesis damage.
  • Made acid traps marginally less deadly.
  • Fixed zorkmid scaling drop rate.
  • Changed graveyard text so people no longer think their scores are negative.
  • Weapon and armour stats have been given some more love.
  • Elven Ingot Grinder is now affected by alchemy, not smithing or tinkering.
  • Alchemists now start with an Ingot Grinder, giving them more rubbish than any other class.
  • Adjacent monsters now display health bars consistently.
  • Trap outlines are now drawn on top of walls when they are obscured.
  • ALT-click will now split stacks in the inventory.
  • Added a new minimap interface, and some minimap icons for Lutefisk Shrines, quest statues, Anvils, etc.
  • Added some more rooms of Fun.
  • Added some rings and amulets that give Necromantic Resistance, for those days when you need Necromantic Resistance.
  • Pet AI improvements; your Moustache Golem now longer has the intelligence of a protozoa. (We're now at "easily frightened wombat")
  • Added more achievements.
  • New throwing item recipes.
  • Added a reward for clearing a Monster Zoo.
  • Autoloot toggle moved to config screen.
  • Added "DIGEST" button for automatic digestion of foods.
  • New "Random Skills" icon.
Dungeons of Dredmor - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (RPS)

Intrigued by Alec’s review, John got hold of Dungeons Of Dredmor too, and found himself finally clicking with a roguelike. Alec and John sat down at either end of the RPS banquet table to discuss the game, and their experiences while playing it.>

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Dungeons of Dredmor - Valve
  • Fixes save compatibility with previous versions of Dredmor.
Dungeons of Dredmor - Valve
  • Fixed: crash that occurred when moving up stairs or down stairs, involving summoned pets
  • Fixed: shopkeepers doing odd things when picking up and dropping items after load/save, including crashing.
  • Fixed: crash when using invalid missile sprites, which probably never happens, but oh well.
  • Fixed: crash that just sort of happened randomly to a bunch of people, but it's fixed now.
  • Fixed: merchandise flag not cleared when you go downstairs
  • Fixed: backwards conditional logic on ranged monster attacks means that monsters were not consistently casting spells; fixing this makes the Dungeon 95.2% nastier.
  • Fixed: Current Active Skill crossing over between new games
  • Fixed: small sconce appearing where a small sconce should not appear in the bath level
  • Fixed: knightly leap now operates in all correct chess positions.
  • Fixed: shops spilling out of their rooms.
  • Fixed: broken berserk description.
  • Fixed: negative resistances meant that a monster would always damage you for that amount
  • Fixed: ranged weapon resistances were operating using percentages, not flat values
  • Fixed: perception skill should not promise that you can see through walls when, in fact, it will not let you see through walls.
  • Fixed: doors with wrong orientation connecting rooms.
  • Fixed: Anvils of Krong spawning in hallways for no good reason
  • Fixed: crash when killing Brax and then going back to loot the store.
  • Fixed: auto-fill eats items if you have multiples.
  • Fixed: BBQs/minifridges now maintain state across saved games.
  • Fixed: Staff of fruit stops producing fruit after you use it on an Anvil of Krong.
  • Fixed: contents of Monster Zoo are still visible even after closing a door.
  • Fixed: Dread Collectors (and probably some other stuff) spawning in walls.
  • Tweaked values of Berserk skill.
  • Tweaked "Duck and Cover" armour values.
  • Tweaked Perception to be more useful.
  • Nerfed "Obvious Fireball." Obviously.
  • Reduced Dread Collector Spawn Rate a notch.
  • Ammo recovery rates for thrown weaponry and crossbow bolts now much higher.
  • A lot more filthy, awful tweaking.
  • Permadeath now deletes your save game files on your death, as opposed to when you load the game.
  • Added, and clarified, the warning text on the "Just Quit" button.
  • Added toggle that reverses behaviour of CLICK and SHIFT-CLICK on items.
  • Added the Auto-Looter 9000, by BraxCo.
  • Added yet more warning text to the "Just Quit" button.
  • Added automatic save support; the game will now automatically save before going up and down stairs. (Note: your autosave will be deleted if you die in the case of permadeath; the auto-save is also only accessible if Crash Recovery Mode is active.)
  • Added support for total music disabling (via Steam parameter "-nomusic".)
  • Added fifty-three new achievements.
  • Added some new crafting stuff.
  • Added steak grilling.
  • Added interface for key configuration.
  • Added a Quick Sell interface for rapidly selling your loot to Brax.
  • Added a credit for freesound.org (Thanks!)
  • Rewrote the save game format so we can add items without breaking everything.
  • Steam Overlay now works; run the game with "-opengl" as a parameter in the Steam Advanced settings to try this. (This is experimental.)
  • WASD can now open doors and attack monsters. This is a toggleable behaviour.
  • Smooth scaling is now saved between playthroughs.
  • Added an XML based, human-readable configuration file to hold all the new options.
  • Fun with Aqua Vitae.
Dungeons of Dredmor - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alec Meer)

Indie roguelike Dungeons of Dredmor arrived on Steam late last week, quickly summoning a swarm of interest around it despite coming pretty much out of nowhere. More proof, perhaps, that big publishers’ claims that the age of turn-based gaming is done and dusted are wanton foolishness.

Anyway! I’ve been playing Dredmor pretty much constantly since release. I couldn’t pretend to have beaten it – and it’s very possible I’ll never be able to – but here’s what I make of it.>
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