Hello everyone!

Since our last update, we've made various improvements to the Dargroth dungeon.
We want to share our development progress with you, so we're glad to introduce the Spark in the Dark update (0.014).

We've added a name for the hero, which is set at the start of the game. The name is used in-game and also displayed in the history of the best heroes.
Updated the character selection and dungeon difficulty level screen.

Based on the outcomes of their adventure, a hero can receive a title, such as Master of Secret Paths or Monster Slayer.

Updated and expanded the passage history in the list of the best heroes.

Added a description of skills in the character window.

We've added side dodges for the hero and updated the back jump.

Introduced the ability "Counter attack" for the Warrior class. They can deliver a powerful blow after receiving an attack in block.

Improved shield combat and block. Added new hero reactions when receiving a strong attack in block.

Combat sounds have been refined and updated.

Added a quiver. Now you can see how many arrows you have left in your inventory.

• Hunters and thieves can find the skill book "Shadow Shooter" which grants the skill to shoot with lethal efficiency from a concealed state.
  
• Improved crossbow firing. Broadened the firing angle for hitting enemies above and below.
• Updated inventory arrow images.

Now in the dungeon, you can encounter little spiders. They dwell in places where spider eggs are laid. A spider can be easily crushed, but sometimes they are poisonous.

Improved centipede generation. Now they can appear in many different places.
Spiders and centipedes can also be found in crevices.

Sometimes you can encounter powerful Undeads – they are bulkier than usual and possess greater strength. Their number depends on the difficulty level of the game.

• Some locations and environmental objects have been updated.
  
• Improved activation of the Astral Collider and the statue of the Ancient Warrior.
  
• Added hero's lines in some locations.

Technical improvements:

• Most localizations have been updated and supplemented.
  
• Added another level of camera zoom.
  
• Added an option "Disable chromatic aberration" in the game settings.
  
• Minor improvements in gamepad support. The interface now displays correct button names depending on the device.

Alongside these, many more minor improvements and fixes have been made, including based on your feedback.

Thank you for your ideas and support!


We wish you thrilling adventures in the darkness of Dargroth!💀

Hello everyone!

To mark our participation in the Steam Scream: The Revenge festival we are happy to share the new update with you. It includes various fixes & minor improvements which we made for the past month.

• Added new set of weapon inspired by nodachi and katana (two-hand sword, one-hand sword, dagger)
  
• Sometimes you can find scolopendra in the holes.
  
• Updated Spanish & some other languages.

Added the "Halloween Horrors" mode, which will be available during the festival Steam Scream (October 26 - November 2).

* The "Grim Tales" series of stories will be added to the game this coming weekend.

Thank you all for your feedback, ideas, and support!
Wish you exciting adventures in the Dungeon! 💀

Hello, everyone!

We've just released a small yet crucial patch that addresses an issue with in-game interactions that occurred after extended gameplay.
It was a stubborn bug that we've been working hard to resolve, and we appreciate your patience!

In addition to fixing this problem, the patch includes some minor improvements and fixes.

+ Updated Portuguese localization.

Your feedback is helping us enhance the game. Thank you for your support!

Hello adventurers!

Since the last update, we've made many of various innovations and improvements in the Spark in the Dark dungeon.
The time has come to release the updated Spark in the Dark demo (0.013).

Here are the key changes you can expect in this update:

Now, the hero can make journal entries during a rest.
Journal entries reflect what has happened to the hero. They take into account battles with monsters, injuries received, visits to various locations, finding artifacts, etc. Each playthrough results in a unique journal.
Quest elements are highlighted in the journal and are then marked as completed after being fulfilled.
The journal will continue to evolve in the future, covering more and more events and situations.

A system for tracking the number of days the hero has spent in the dungeon has also been introduced. The current day is displayed in the hero's window, as well as on the death and level completion screens.

We have revamped and improved almost all the armors in the game, as well as created new ones. The armors are now more intricately detailed and realistic. We have also enhanced the lore aspect, and the armors now come with updated descriptions.

You will be able to find talismans and amulets in the Dungeon. Besides increasing various characteristics, they can also impact some of the hero's abilities.

Added new hammers and axes, as well as some other weapons. Previously, their variety was minimal, now it's better :)

Added unique weapons of the Ancients, as well as updated some existing weapons.

Despite the current focus of Dungeon construction on floors 2 and 3, we occasionally make improvements to floor 1 of Dargrot. We have added several new locations and interactions, as well as selectively updated some existing ones.

Added new secret places.

Temporary effects on the hero (buffs/debuffs) are now displayed at the bottom of the main screen. This way, it's easy to see how much time is left for a particular effect—be it poison, bleeding, or an elixir effect—and there's no need to constantly press TAB to check it.

Added the "Secret Traps" skill book that the Thief can find and study. This allows them to disarm traps in chests. The variety of traps found on chests will be increased.

The flying creature has received updated behavior and can now be shot down with a crossbow.

ALSO:

• Improved procedural item generation
  
• Added new sounds
  
• New hero lines
  
• New and updated books and notes
  
• New achievements

Additionally, numerous smaller improvements and fixes have been made along the way, taking into account your feedback.

Thank you all for your feedback, ideas, and support!

Wish you exciting adventures in the Dungeon! 💀

Hello everyone!

Here we have gathered the main improvements we have made in the Dargroth Dungeon over the past few months.

These enhancements (along with some others currently in progress) will be available in the Spark in the Dark demo update, which we plan to release in September.

We have revamped and improved almost all the armors in the game, as well as created new ones. The armors are now more intricately detailed and realistic. We have also enhanced the lore aspect, and the armors now come with updated descriptions.

You will be able to find talismans and amulets in the Dungeon. Besides increasing various characteristics, they can also impact some of the hero's abilities.

We have added new hammers, axes, and some other weapons. Previously, their variety was minimal, but now it has been improved.

Despite the current focus of Dungeon construction on floors 2 and 3, we occasionally make improvements to floor 1 of Dargrot. We have added several new locations and interactions, as well as selectively updated some existing ones.

Added the "Secret Traps" skill book that the Thief can find and study. This allows them to disarm traps in chests. The variety of traps found on chests will be increased.

Additionally, numerous smaller improvements and fixes have been made along the way, taking into account your feedback.

Thank you all for your feedback, ideas, and support!

Hello everyone!

The new patch adds Italian and German translations to the game.

Also:

• Updated textures and pictures of ancient shields.
  
• Added one more note which you can find in the dungeon.
  
• Slightly increased a duration of lanterns so they will shine a bit more longer. The number of generated lanterns depends on game difficulty (but not much).
  
• Metal shields cannot be damaged.
  
• Fixed a list of available display resolutions in Settings.
  
• Several fixes and minor improvements.

Thank you for your feedback, it helps us make the game better!
We are continuing to work on new features and will keep you posted.

Hello adventurers!

We have made some features & improvements to Spark in the Dark for the past few months which we want to share with you.

Here are the main changes which wait for you in this patch.

The studied creatures are stored in the bestiary forever.
Also, a 3D bestiary has appeared in the main menu, where you can always see the monsters you know and their abilities.

In a defensive stance with a shield, the hero's movement speed depends on the type of shield.
With a heavy shield, he is slower, and with a light one, he moves more quickly.

• The lantern has a chance to be damaged when the hero falls on his back. The chance of damage depends on the difficulty level. A damaged lamp shines worse.
  
• The stamina cost of jumping depends in part on your armor skill.
  
• Tiredness is added for picking with a crowbar, depending on the complexity of the lock being opened.
  
• Added perk "Child of Shadows" for the thief. This reduces the effect of Darkness by 25%.
  
• Several new hero phrases have been added.

Generation of buffs on crossbows, for example Powerful arcs give +15% damage.
So now some crossbows with bonuses.
Sometimes you can find reinforced arrows that are guaranteed to deal critical damage.

The inventory displays which arrow the crossbow is loaded with.

Updated some monster animations and added new ones.
Minor adjustments to some skills.
For example, Spider Bite now causes the victim to slow rather than bleed as before.

Now this kind of rest is harmoniously connected with the mechanics of Darkness.
When resting in an unsafe place, there is a chance to get a nightmare if the bed is in a dark place without light (Darkness consumes you).
If you sleep in the light, then there will be no nightmares, but the monster can disturb in both cases, depending on the number of living creatures on the level.


Generation of new additional notes in the pockets of the dead.
Notes can contain interesting stories, useful information.

Some books now contain illustrations.

• Some stationary lamps can sometimes explode when turned on, depending on the difficulty level. The dungeon is many centuries old and it was strange that previously all the lamps were turned on perfectly :-]
  
• Updated some locations.
  
• You can now see the raid statistics in the list of the best heroes.
  
• Highlighting of monsters in red when receiving damage is now an option in the settings.
  
• Added Turkish translation and updated existing localizations.
  
• Added 2 new achievements.
  
• Several new sounds have been added.

A lot of fixes, minor improvements, balancing, including those based on your feedback.

Thank you for your feedback, ideas and support!

Wish you exciting adventures in the Dungeon! 💀

Hello!

We've made various improvements to Spark in the Dark over the past few months and would like to share them with you.

We also plan to release an updated demo in mid-February that will contain these improvements.

The studied creatures are stored in the bestiary forever.
Also, a 3D bestiary has appeared in the main menu, where you can always see the monsters you know and their abilities.

In a defensive stance with a shield, the hero's movement speed depends on the type of shield.
With a heavy shield, he is slower, and with a light one, he moves more quickly.

• The lantern has a chance to be damaged when the hero falls on his back. The chance of damage depends on the difficulty level. A damaged lamp shines worse.
  
• The stamina cost of jumping depends in part on your armor skill.
  
• Tiredness is added for picking with a crowbar, depending on the complexity of the lock being opened.
  
• Added perk "Child of Shadows" for the thief. This reduces the effect of Darkness by 25%.
  
• Several new hero phrases have been added.

Generation of buffs on crossbows, for example Powerful arcs give +15% damage.
So now some crossbows with bonuses.
Sometimes you can find reinforced arrows that are guaranteed to deal critical damage.

The inventory displays which arrow the crossbow is loaded with.

Updated some monster animations and added new ones.
Minor adjustments to some skills.
For example, Spider Bite now causes the victim to slow rather than bleed as before.

Now this kind of rest is harmoniously connected with the mechanics of Darkness.
When resting in an unsafe place, there is a chance to get a nightmare if the bed is in a dark place without light (Darkness consumes you).
If you sleep in the light, then there will be no nightmares, but the monster can disturb in both cases, depending on the number of living creatures on the level.


Generation of new additional notes in the pockets of the dead.
Notes can contain interesting stories, useful information.

Some books now contain illustrations.

• Some stationary lamps can sometimes explode when turned on, depending on the difficulty level. The dungeon is many centuries old and it was strange that previously all the lamps were turned on perfectly :-]
  
• In the list of the best heroes, you can now see the raid statistics.
  
• Highlighting of monsters in red when receiving damage is now an option in the settings.
  
• Added Turkish translation and updated existing localizations.
  
• Added 2 new achievements.
  
• Several new sounds have been added.

A lot of fixes, minor improvements, balancing, including those based on your feedback.

Thank you for your feedback, ideas and support!

P.S. Also, work is continuously being done on the deep tiers of the dark Dungeon.
Ancient halls and corridors, mechanisms and objects are being built, new monsters are being created, ancient texts are being written.

Hello adventurers!

Over the past few months, we have made many different improvements and innovations to Spark in the Dark. And now we want to share with you a fresh demo.

New features and improvements are waiting for you.

You can find rare artifacts called Dreamcatchers in the Dungeon. Having such an artifact, your hero, in case of death, is reborn at the place of the last rest, and the stone disappears.

This will increase the survivability of the hero, and protect against accidental deaths a bit), at the same time, it will keep the game hardcore, because the number of "lives" is limited.

The number of such stones in the Dungeon depends on the complexity of the game. There are 5 on initial difficulty, 3 on standard, and 1 on nightmare.

In the Dungeon, you can find special rare books, reading which gives the hero a new skill / ability.

You can find books that give the ability to improve sharpening or poisoning weapons. A thief can find a book on setting up poison traps and learn how to disarm them. The number of books will increase.

We have made various improvements to the game related to weapons and the combat system.

Added new weapons.
Legacy weapons are better balanced, descriptions have been updated to better match the lore.
Updated all weapon and shield images to better quality.

Improved weapon generation system on levels. For example, in each raid, a different sword may be lying in the same place (or not lying).

Added "One-Handed Weapon" and "Two-Handed Weapon" skills. They are growing when using the corresponding type of weapon.

• Added the ability to poison arrows.
  
• Added sounds when arrows hit wood, stone, metal, monsters.
  
• The crossbow can be worn simultaneously with two-handed weapons.

Added new animations and abilities to the monsters.
Spiders can now effectively bite the victim, the undead can kick, and Morroch can deliver a powerful kick from which the hero will fall on his back.

Improvements in the artificial intelligence of monsters.

Updated some locations and environments.

Added a set of new sounds that were previously missing :)

For example, now you will hear how the lamps light up and break, how the crowbar creaks when the chest is opened, and how the hero screams when he falls into the abyss.
And also, those terrible voices in the head, which the adept of the Four Towers, who stabbed himself in madness, wrote about in his diary!

Updated some windows and dialogs. When viewing equipment, a "live" character is now displayed.

A new book about Starstones has been added.

Added French translation. Bienvenue au Donjon !

Added partly support of gamepads.

A lot of improvements, fixes, improvements, balancing, including those based on your feedback.

Thank you for your feedback, we really appreciate it!
Wish you interesting adventures in the Dungeon! 💀