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Everwarder is a 2D roguelite tower defense. Protect the crystal against expanding darkness and enemies that emerge from it. Explore procedurally generated worlds and keep up with constantly rising difficulty by acquiring powerful artifacts, evolve units, progress in upgrade tree and more.

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[MAJOR UPDATE] Skill Tree & Playtests 🎮

Nov 3, 2023

Hello Warders.

Thank y’all for playing Everwarder and sharing your opinions at PGA2023. We gathered lots of amazing feedback which helped us in developing more features and polish existing ones. But what are new features if players can’t test it? That’s why we want to announce playtests coming this weekend!

From 3.11.2023 to 10.11.2023 we decided to give you whole week to have some fun and share your feedback with us. Since last open demo Everwarder has changed a lot, that’s why we listed the changes to the game below.

🎮 Gameplay changes

CHANGED main currency from 1 to 4 types of shards: common, rare, epic and rainbow
NEW Added ores containing shards. They work like normal darkness cell, but are undiggable until proper tier of skill tree is unlocked. Common requires T1 skill tree, rare T2 and so on.
NEW Added unclearable darkness
NEW Added biome system and one new biome. There will be biome specific enemies later on.
NEW Added darkness to map (M key)

🎉 Skill tree – it’s finally here!

NEW Increasing Skill Tree tier unlocks new skills including new crystal level, raising already unlocked skills level cap and gives the ability to mine new ores.
CHANGED - structures like shop, upgrade chamber and altar are unlockable by progressing in Skill Tree

Enemies

CHANGED enemy spawn logic – now enemies spawn from destroyed darkness cells, not from everywhere. This change will allow you to moderate enemies horde.
PREVIOUSLY enemies were being spawned by "director" from random bordering darkness cell every X seconds. Every second "director" received X credits, which it used to spawn enemies. More credits = stronger enemies.
CURRENTLY system works so that this "director" gets X credits only when darkness cell is cleared and can spawn enemies only where the cell was cleared. Thus handing to the player control over the enemy flow size.

Portal

CHANGED – only one portal spawns per level
CHANGED – portals are activatable on finding. Requirement to power energy relays has been removed

Crystals

We completely reworked whole system in a way, that you won't feel bored at any given moment of the run. Depending on generated level, there was possibility for stagnation. With current system when you feel safe on one side of your base, you can move crystals to the other and boost darkness destruction speed, but not in a game-breaking way 😉

NEW You can move them around like units, unless crystal is not connected to two other crystals at the same time
NEW Crystal "power" system - Each crystal has certain amount of power, which affects how much damage it deals to darkness cells. Each subsequent crystal will be weaker.
NEW Main crystals is a source of power. Each crystal that's connected to it will have max power.
NEW Crystals with high power will highlight with particles and deal 1.5x damage to darkness cells. This should speed up early game.
NEW Crystals with 0 power can't be connected to any further

Beacons – new structures

Beacons glow showing direction to the Portal
Beacons reset crystals power to 9

Structures

CHANGED Structure generation system - Before there was a fixed amount of structures that would spawn randomly. Now "nodes" are getting spawned (with a certain minimum distance between) and then each node turns into a random structure(or required one e.g. portal) or stays empty.
This new system will work no matter how big the size of the map is and therefore is much better then previous one
Added more map decorations

Tutorial changes

NEW Tutorial – based on your PGA feedback we wholly revamped the tutorial. Tell us if you feel that something was not explained enough
NEW Added menu with all discovered mini tutorials. Accessible from pause menu.
NEW Added sign flicker until read
NEW Added unit evolve tutorial part to initial tutorial, moved pattern tutorial into separate one which triggers after any new unit tier was unlocked

🛠️ Technical

Added VSync option in settings
Added “Evolve” button in Limbo
Added right click cancelations for different actions
Added leave building mode on [Esc] press
Fixed structures spawning inside of unreachable zones.
Fixed structures failing to generate.
Fixed stats displaying as upgrade even if they decrease.
Added New main menu and gameplay music
Added new SFX
Fixed wrong hover popup and artifact popup positions on different resolutions
Fixed main menu buttons getting out of screen
Fixed wrong UI scaling
Fixed milky colors on HDR displays

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Have fun guys,
Everwarder Team

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I'm liking this...

I'm liking this... I do like the 'Minesweeper fog 'disappear and it does affect how I place crystals, well done perhaps a small quality of life improvement is the also have a slight highlight of the tile under beneath the crystal because I do tend to point my mouse directly at it then the tile beneath it to up grade the crystal another way might be to increase the hover box maybe? R-R let's go,

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Neutral

Sep 5, 2023 @ 7:46am

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Devlog #2 and Poznań Game Arena

Oct 4, 2023

Hello Warders.

we are dropping devlog with lots of new features, crucial mechanics changes and great news. Upcoming weekend Everwarder will be featured at Poznań Game Arena in Poland.

📣 Poznań Game Arena 📣

Great news for everyone who’s going to visit Poznań Game Arena. You will be able to test the game with new changes at our booth. Not sure if you should go? There will be prizes to be won, so come, visit us at hall 5A, play the game and share your ideas with us!

⚙️ Update ⚙️

New stuff:

Now crystals with 1 neighbor can be moved and connected to other crystals. This change will provide you with new gameplay options.
Increased initial unit tier to 2. Now newly unlocked unit in Limbo will be of tier 2 right away.
Added unclearable darkness regions and their random generation. They have dark purple color and cannot be destroyed, therefore giving more "shape" to the world and forcing the player to act accordingly.
Added darkness to map
Added menu with all discovered mini tutorials. You can access them from pause menu.
Added beacons glow to make them easier to spot

Reworks/rebalancing:

Reworked enemy spawning logicCore logic stays the same. “Director” uses credits to spawn enemies, which means the more credits “director” has, the stronger are enemies
Old system: enemies were being spawned by "director" from random bordering darkness cell every X seconds. Every second "director" received X credits, which it used to spawn enemies.
New system: Now when darkness cell is cleared "director" gets X credits. When darkness cell is cleared, the “director” will spawn enemies based on credits amount. This change will allow players to control enemy flow size.
Rebalanced enemy health in accordance to new spawning system.
Huge rebalancing of artifact system
- Decreased the gap between artifact rarities
- Now common artifacts are 2.5x more powerful
- Decreased artifact prices in shops
Improved structure generation consistency.
Crystals can only attack cells within their line of sight.
Optimized unit targeting.
Added lighter background to buttons and sliders in options in main menu.
Changed color design of options menu.

Fixes:

Huge optimizations for enemies, UI and physics.
Much smoother darkness expansion.
Fixed structures spawning inside of unreachable zones.
Fixed structures failing to generate.
Fixed stats displaying as upgrade even if they decrease.
Fixed main lag issue on 15+ minutes. The problem was with the way enemies interact with each other(e.g. healing/buffing nearby enemies). After moving from colliders to manual search for enemies within certain range FPS almost quadrupled.
Fixed world sometimes failing to generate due to invalid structure placement.
Other minor bug fixes

Everwarder

Devlog #1

Sep 21, 2023

Hello Warders.

Lots of feedback from y'all came after the demo, so we made crucial changes into the game. We are glad, that you shared your opinions with us. It helps making the game the way we all want to play it.

What is different after the open demo version:

Added new crystal "power" system. - Each crystal has certain amount of power, which affects how much damage it deals to darkness cells. Each next crystal will have one power point less then previous one.
Main crystals is a source of power. - Each crystal that's connected to it will have max power.
Crystals with high power will highlight with particles and deal 1.5x damage to darkness cells. This should speed up early game.
Crystals with 0 power can't be connected to any further.
Beacons are changed to be connectable with crystals. They serve as sources of power, similar to main crystal, but give less starting power.
Now beacons aren't required for activating portal. Their main purpose is to help find the portal (particles will show the direction where portal is) and provide power to crystals to explore further parts of the map.
Changed beacons to spawn closer to center.
New structure generation system. Before there was a fixed amount of structures that would spawn randomly. Now "nodes" are getting spawned(with a certain minimum distance between) and then each node turns into a random structure(or required one e.g. portal) or stays empty. This new system will work no matter how big the size of the map is and therefore is much better then previous one.
Added new SFX.
Some balance changes.
And of course bugfixes

Want to talk to us?

[discord.gg]We have new Social Media Channels where we will post work in progress, news about the game and other cool stuff so check it out and give us a follow.

Facebook[www.facebook.com]
Instagram[www.instagram.com]
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That's all for now,
Everwarder Team

Everwarder

Sometimes instructions are a bit vague

One specific instance that was worst for me was after the basic instructions and you enter a portal, I'm placed on a map with the instructions "Find the portal" For me that sounded like "Look around, there's another portal here", and that's what I tried to do. Then I noticed enemies approaching, and started making defenses too late. I figured that if there was to be combat there'd be something saying to prepare to fight, not just something so vague. TLDR: The instructions "Find the portal" made me think ...

Killer Goblin

Sep 5, 2023 @ 8:18am

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Hello and good day, I would like to ask what is the best email to send business proposals about your game?

Pit Pit

Aug 27, 2023 @ 7:41pm

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