Feb 16

Version 0.4 - released! Lots of new music + visual updates + bugfixes + etc

Innkeeper's Basement - Rebel Egg Games

Hello adventurers!

We're excited to announce some much-needed hotfixes and the introduction of new main music, along with unique tracks for each dungeon. The new music is now free of licensing restrictions, eliminating the need for streamer mode!!! We invite you to listen to the new tracks and share your feedback on whether you prefer them to the old ones. 😊

In addition to the musical updates, we've made enhancements to the game mechanics, including a new upgrade to the card animation system. This enhancement ensures that the game operates more logically, preventing any unintended advantages from fast-paced card usage. As our game is strategy-turn-based, it's important to maintain a level playing field for all players while ensuring that every player has ample time to strategize and make their moves without feeling rushed.

We've updated illustrations for 53 older cards to ensure they are more cohesive with the illustrations we have created later.

Furthermore, we've implemented several small quality-of-life improvements to our interface to enhance your gaming experience.

Following this update, we anticipate a period of radio silence for a few months as we shift our focus to other projects. Rest assured, we will return with the final update this year.

Now without further ado, here is the changelog:

Changelog 0.4:

Mechanics:

Updated animation system: Cards are now logically distributed in your hand at the start of the draw phase, preventing the possibility of drawing multiple cards to the same slot during gameplay. Previously, playing a drawn card while the game was still drawing could result in drawing a different card to the same slot, effectively allowing players to draw two cards instead of one.
Three times more gold piles in Golden Lands!
Purple pill has been added to ‘Pill Master’ base deck, ‘Bag of Pills’ card drop and ‘Drug Dealing’ passive ability drop.
‘Devil’s Mound’ can now be unlocked using cards with 'Unholy' in their tags, instead of ‘Devil’s cards’ which were not clearly listed by any tag.
Players can no longer use hotkeys to play cards while any other window is open.

UX:

New sound effects for Dodge and Immunity effects in game.
‘Unlocked Only’ is now enabled by default in Grimoire.
Fullscreen is now enabled by default.
The Karma store now will be visible to the player, after obtaining the first Karma point. Furthermore, a new tutorial step has been added to provide detailed information about the Karma store to the new players.
Game log is now visible in the summary window.
The summary window has been updated to display the title of the current dungeon.
The game now sums up damage done to the player at the end of each turn, instead of displaying each number separately. This functionality also applies to picking up gold with the 'Goblin' passive.
We’ve added a 1-second delay before displaying the summary window to the player.
We've implemented several upgrades to the in-game log to enhance usability, including smooth scrolling, the ability to close the log by clicking outside the window, and a darker background for improved visibility.
We've enhanced the events window interface to scale appropriately for five or more options, ensuring all options are displayed.
The preset selection bar can now be scrolled vertically only.
We've added a 'Save Changes' popup window that appears when a player attempts to leave the Grimoire with unsaved changes.
The game now saves empty hand slots, preventing players from exploiting game restart to their advantage.
Search is no longer case-sensitive.
Search now supports Polish language.
All bestiary unit names now fit correctly within their title spaces.
We've corrected the warrior passive ability description from 'each enemy he kills' to 'each enemy that dies' to be more accurate.
The store now correctly displays the doubled amount of gold for selling cards if you play as a 'Goblin'.

UI:

New Cards Illustrations for:
3D Printer;
All Out Attack;
Annihilation;
Armament;
Black Pill;
Blue Pill;
Red Pill;
Green Pill;
White Pill;
Rainbow Pill;
Blood to Stone;
Bomb;
BullsEye;
Bun;
Concentration;
Curse of Alcoholism;
Curse of Fatigue;
Curse of Pain;
Demonic Body;
Demonic Explosion;
Demonic Sacrifice;
Demonic Strike;
Demonic Visions;
Double Attack;
Energy Bolt;
Fast Breathing;
Final Effort;
Fire Ball;
Fire Bolt;
Fire Storm;
Fish;
Hazardous Draw;
Heal;
Holy Smite;
Kick;
Life Drain;
Magic Missiles;
Mana Breathing;
Meditation;
Mind Awakening;
Overpowering Strike;
Palm Strike;
Piercing Strike;
Quick Slash;
Rage;
Raging Quadblow;
Raging Triblow;
Repair Armor;
Sacrificial Toss;
SingOooLarity;
Sonic Blow;
Steel Body;
Whirlwind;
We've added two new arrows at the bottom of the Grimoire/Bestiary book, and also updated the graphic for the cursor arrow.
Updated the bestiary book sprites to match those of the grimoire.

Content:

New Steam Achievements - for unlocking ‘Omega World’ and ‘Devil’s Mound’; for completing ‘The First Doors’, ‘Omega World’ and ‘Devil’s Mound’.
Karma tokens - now karma tokens can be found in dungeons that permanently increase karma points you have. This change will make failed runs able to still make “some” progress in the game.

Balance:

‘Priest’ now targets mixed cards with both mana and stamina costs simultaneously, excluding cards with only mana or stamina but also with a health cost.

Other:

We’ve changed the Main Music theme.
New Music themes added to each dungeon.
Streamer mode is no longer necessary and has been removed.
Improvements to Polish translation (still marked as prototype; we are not happy with it).
Improvements to wording both in Polish and English.

Bugfixes:

Fixed an issue where excessive use of Song of Pain cards could prevent the drawing of cards.
The death warning tutorial step now correctly displays the white border on a tile with a skull icon.
Fixed an issue where quest collectibles (like Dungeon Key) would disappear after resuming the game.
Fixed an issue with Moonlight Sonata causing units that couldn't be moved to move.
Fixed an issue where using AoE cards consecutively could sometimes prevent visual effects (VFX) from appearing.
Alt + Enter to enable fullscreen mode now saves correctly and no longer resets when transitioning from the menu to the game.
Switching between presets in Grimoire no longer results in the disappearance of one wisdom point.
Fixed an issue where exiting the game while in the chest or store window resulted in a game crash upon continuing the run.
Players can no longer unlock the Volcano by repeatedly entering the game with fire tag cards in their deck.
Players can no longer unlock 'Gnome', 'Discord' and 'Devil's Mound' simply by finishing a dungeon with an empty deck. All of these unlocks now require at least one card in the deck upon finishing.
Players can no longer unlock the 'Ogre' simply by rejoining the game when playing as a 'God'.
The 'Cursed One' unlock counter now functions correctly and resets upon discovering a tile with a game object.
Fixed an issue where enemies killed with poison damage or the 'Song of Pain' card while the player was on a different level were not disappearing upon death.
Fixed an issue with cards overlapping the edit preset window in the Grimoire.
Fixed an issue with the 'Rainbow Pill' card animation, where the card didn't disappear after being used.
Fixed an issue where after reaching the first tier of sanity, players could encounter cards where health cost was changed into mana or stamina cost, resulting in duplicated resource pools.
The 'Curse of Forchan' now consistently displays the correct number of cards it will destroy.
Fixed an issue where turn skipping and card draw could cause the hand slot to become blocked, preventing players from using cards in that slot.
Fixed an issue where the 'Reptilian' unit passive ability was not always triggering correctly due to players fast-passing turns.
Quest log timers now update correctly upon re-entering the game, rather than after playing the first turn in a re-joined session.
Fixed an issue where exiting the game while in the in-game arena caused the table to disappear upon re-entering the game.
The 'Invisibility Potion' effect no longer disappears for ongoing effects upon rejoining the game.
Fixed an issue where tiles in the arena were not displaying the correct number of enemies until after the player's first turn upon rejoining the game.
Fixed an issue where Unit’s that can burn cards with their passive ability, were causing cards zoom in the Character Selection to not work for cards affected with their abilities in previous run.
‘Nidhogg’s Head’ now correctly displays its Immune status.
Pressing Esc while simultaneously closing the store window with X no longer causes visual bugs to appear.
Opening the Grimoire in the Character Creation window no longer resets your settings to default.
Fixed an issue with 'Mimiceon' not always counting the number of mimics correctly, which resulted in the need to kill one additional enemy after a mimic before winning the dungeon.
Fixed an issue where players could sometimes see visual effects from the level they just left displayed above the level they just entered.
Fixed an issue where card rarity crystals from cards bought in the store were displayed on top of cards in the new store, but in the same slot as the purchased cards.
The game no longer sends 'You used X' messages in the console upon rejoining the game with ongoing card/item effects such as invisibility potion or others.
The Karma store now correctly displays your current statistics in item descriptions.
Abilities like those of the 'Ant Queen' and 'Necromancer' (and others similar) now correctly activate every x turns upon discovery, instead of turning off after the first use of their abilities.
Fixed an issue with mimics turning back into chests upon rejoining the session.
Fixed an issue with the table disappearing upon rejoining the game if the player was on the final level of Undercity before rejoining.
Fixed an issue where console messages were printed in an incorrect order, resulting in enemies kicking the dead body of a player before a message about players death.
'Larvae' and all other units spawned with other units' abilities are now correctly counted in the 'Noob' passive ability, without the need to attack them or reset the game.
The game no longer prints the 'Coroutine couldn't be started because the game object 'TileFloor(Clone)' is inactive!' console error when the Devourer eats a larva egg on a different level than the player's current level.
‘Larva eggs’, ‘Slimes’ and all other units with similar abilities now spawn their brood directly on the tile they were occupying.
Fixed an issue where 'Larva eggs' spawned with dungeon passive ability were not affected by the 'hide enemies' button.
Fixed an issue where the 'Undead Lord' was not dropping a chest upon death.
Using 'Weaken' on units with 0 damage no longer changes their damage to 1.
Dead 'Larvae' no longer move after being devoured by the 'Devourer'.
The game log no longer describes names of units that are not yet discovered but have resistance.
Using 'Song of Speed' on the 75 sanity level no longer causes the card to have an additional 1 health cost.
Using the up and down arrows in the in-game log no longer allows infinite scrolling.
Opening the store before opening any other window no longer causes some cards to appear dimmed upon opening the deck window.
Fixed an issue with cards sometimes displaying an additional 1 mana/stamina cost.
The game now correctly displays the costs of 'Redeemer's Blast', 'Second Wind', and 'Touch of
Perfection' cards based on current health when the cards are displayed in the loot bag or store.

Known issues:

Achievements do not work via proton on Linux.