• Centaurs can now shoot arrows
  
• Monsters can be damaged by centaur arrows if they get in between you and the centaur
  
• The combat log is now much faster and is capable of more things
  
• A bonfire may spawn in large dark rooms
  
• Slash animation for ASCII monster graphics mode
  
• 1 new dungeon track and battle variant
  
• 2 new secret achievements

• Changed kestrel back to kestral
  
• Tweaked the appearance of wall-torch sparks
  
• Made the xeroid do slightly less damage

• Rings of protection made it easier to be hit instead of harder, this also means that cursed rings actually helped you
  
• Centaur monster bits weren't properly adjusting the players crit rate
  
• A possible crash involving the dragon and the functions it calls each time it takes a step

• Sped up floor generation time by optimizing the flood-fill algorithm
  
• Optimized the wall collision shapes -adds a little bit of time to floor generation but should allow for higher fps on low end hardware

• The monsters and items showing up on the title screen -I didn't realize how big of a lag spike they were causing when they are being loaded in

• When two light sources are next to each other the tiles they are lighting up will flicker

Version 2.4 is here! I've wanted to have enemies fire projectiles for a while now but knew it would require rewriting how projectiles and enemy combat rolls work. But that's all done now which means were a little bit closer to having enemies that fight each other which is another feature I've been wanting to add. You can already sort of have that happen now though if you manage to put another monster between you and a centaur. Centaurs only carry a few arrows though and some don't have any so you don't have to worry about centaurs mag dumping you from out the darkness.
The bonfires are mostly a bonus. Later on they will serve a dungeon design purpose of letting the player see areas of dark rooms that are far away but I had them working now so I figured they should go in since I think they're pretty comfy.

As always please let me know if you come across any bugs or crashes! And if you're enjoying the game to write a short review since that really helps! Thanks!

• 1 secret achievement

• A crash that would occur if you threw a ring

Small update to get that fix out. I also am taking the opportunity to put in an achievement I forgot to with the last release. Thanks for letting me know about the bug!

• Monster bits can now be hacked off of monsters and attached to your armor
  
  • Each monster has a unique bit with a unique ability
    
  • Attaching two of the same kind of monster bit will increase your AC by 1
    
  • Some bits have a ability that requires the them to be charged. Bits can only be charged when attached to the armor you are currently wearing
    
  • Monsters have a chance to damage them so you will have to decide if its worth exposing them to use them or not
    
  • Some have secret effects that are not listed in their descriptions
• 1 new potion -potion of intoxication that the player starts with, temporarily increases strength and reduces damage
  
• Completely reworked the player inventory
  
• If an item has a description, it can be viewed by pressing the ? button on the inventory.
  
• Items with charged effects can be activated by pressing the * button on the inventory.
  
• Nymphs will no longer disappear after stealing your magic items, instead they will run away
  
• New screen wipe when starting the game
  
• EASY MODDING OF THE PLAYER MAP SPRITE - just drag and drop any image called player.png or player.jpg into your user directory. Make sure the file name is all lower case letters.
  
  • Windows: %APPDATA%\Godot\app_userdata\ROGUE-FP
    
  • GNU/Linux: ~/.local/share/godot/app_userdata/ROGUE-FP

• Orcs will no longer sit contently on their pile of gold while you wail on them from a distance until they die.
  
• Venus Flytraps no longer soak up the dungeon sun while you wail on them from a distance until they die.
  
• A bug where if you escaped the venus flytrap by teleporting, you would still be held by it.
  
• A bug that caused monsters to think about waking up every time the player took a step in the room they are in. Monsters are much sleepier now.
  
• The wall shader being bugged for some people. -Though I can't say for sure if it's fixed because I couldn't replicate it on any of my test machines. Nevertheless , that shader has been simplified and optimized.
  
• Some monster navigation issues.
  
• Aquators no longer deal +-0 damage.
  
• Items can now be dropped properly again
  
• Player will properly get their light radius back when the blind status effect goes away
  
• Leprechauns now drop gold when killed

• Tweaked gas spore explosion sound effect
  
• Increased gas spore explosion damage
  
• Log box is a little bit more opaque to make the text more legible
  
• Control focus color now matches the ROGUE-FP logo

• Monsters that are poisoned from rattler venom turn back to their normal color after a hit/miss animation despite still being poisoned
  
• Controller issues with the new inventory -description/activate buttons can't be pressed, the mouse must be used.
  
• Killing a monster in a hallway with the wand of draining wall cause the message log to spam “you defeated the monster” over and over. This is because the wand deals damage 1 point at a time, even after a monster is already dead.

Since I use GNU/Linux for development I don't often do a lot of testing on windows. Its extremely rare that something will cause the engine to crash on windows but not on GNU/Linux.
But for this release I DID do some testing. And while I haven't found any OS specific crashes, praise be to the lord of the Dungeons, there DOES seem to be a couple weird issues on the windows side.

First, the Godot engine doesn't seem to work well with Windows' UI scaling. For example, if you have a 4k monitor and have your UI scaling set to 150%, the engine will scale the entire game window up and will think that you have a 1440p monitor instead. This is a tricky issue to solve but I'll do what I can. Users with UI scaling set to 100% should have no issues however.

Second, if you have an AMD gpu and in your Adrenaline settings you have your color correction set to “vivid gaming”, then I would say that ROGUE-FP actually looks worse with that setting on. There's much less contrast on the textures and the bloom outlines on torches are overly bright. I would recommend setting your color correction to “normal” if you wish to see how ROGUE-FP is intended too look.



Version 2.3 is finally out!
Only now are we just starting to scratch the surface of what I have planned for ROGUE-FP. In this update the player can now take advantage of the bits you've been hacking off of monsters. The inventory UI has been redone so that items can now have sub-inventories. This needed to be done so that armor can now hold the monster bits you've been hacking off.
Each monster has its own bit and each bit has its own ability. ABILITIES ALSO STACK. So for example if you have two bat ears attached to your armor, the radius for detecting walls will be double compared to if you had just one attached. Same goes for three.Right now monster bits can only have one ability but I may change that in the future as more features are added to the game and new features end up outpacing new monsters being added.

Players can now finally change the default @ symbol sprite for the player character. This was something I wanted for a long time but only knew of relatively complicated method of doing this. However I found a much simpler method a couple of weeks ago that works much better for both of us. Like I listed above you just need to drop a file named player.png or player.jpg into the games user directory and it should load it up when the game starts. If the file name is correct but there is an error loading the image then the game will let you know when you actually get past the main menu and into the game.

One thing to note though is that most images will probably only look good on the texture graphics mode. Since the ASCII mode and hybrid mode are so dark, the camera has to crank up the exposure to make things visible. If you want to use a custom player sprite in those modes you may need to darken it in GIMP or Photoshop first to have it look right.


This was a pretty big update so please let me know if you find any bugs or crashes. Also if you enjoy the game please consider writing a short review! It really helps! THANKS!

• A crash that could occur when the game rolls for a random wandering monster

Small update to fix that crash. It was more likely to happen early on in classic mode whereas in normal mode it could only happen very late it your run. Thanks to the player who let me know about it!

As a side note, version 2.3 is starting to take shape. The main feature will be extra abilities you can use or stat increases you can get by attaching the hacked off monster pieces to your armor. I'd like to have each monster have its own unique ability that it can give you but some monsters abilities may be the same if it starts taking me a while to implement them all.

As always, please let me know if you find any more bugs! Thanks!

• A crash that would occur if you closed the new options menu by pressing the escape key instead of clicking the save and apply button

Another small update to fix a crash that slipped by me. Let me know if you find any bugs or crashes yourself!
Thanks!

• Circular rooms
  
• Adjusted the distance between rooms
  
• Polished up the options menu a bit

• A logic error that would cause a crash on floor 19
  
• Explosion sound effect is now correctly adjusted with the sfx volume

Another small update put out on short notice to fix crash on floor 19.

I already has circular rooms working so I figured I'd include them as well! Functionally they're the same as any other room for now but I think they do have a unique sort of feel.
As always please let me know if you come across any bugs or crashes! Thanks!

• Fixed bug where if you closed the inventory with the escape key then pressing escape again would not bring up the pause menu
  
• A short fluff line is displayed when you first first enter the dungeon or load a save

Just wanted to get that fix out quick.
Let me know if you guys find any more bugs! Thanks!

• New Flying Monster: Gas Spore
  
• 2 new music tracks and their battle variations
  
• Gradient lighting effect around the player
  
• Chance for a bloody piece to be hacked off a monster in battle -this is only a visual effect, for now!
  
• Status effect icons now flash as to be more noticeable
  
• Low ambient background noise -hopefully this gives the dungeons a bit more atmosphere
  
• Wall tiles with torches hung on them have a slight lighting effect
  
• Tweaked the leveling curve to deal with the extra monsters
  
• Random fluff line will display in the log when interacting with a tombstone

• The music track that would play when you entered a room chock full of monsters -I rewrote how the game handles music so this track will be gone for a little while.

• when loading a save, the items that are in the room you start in might not be visible, all the rest should be fine though

Finally version 2.2 is here! This also happens to be an anniversary update as ROGUE-FP was released on March 30th last year!
The first flying enemy, the gas spore, is in. The gas spore acts like a floating mine. It will float around the map and if a player unwittingly walks under it it will descend and explode if it touches anything. But if you know its going for you it is possible to kite it into other monsters and have it kill them instead. Or sometimes a couple of them might just bump into each other and explode off in the distance. Such is the life of a gas spore.

Some work got done on the lighting and audio of the dungeon as well. Tiles around the player are lit brighter than tiles farther out. I'd eventually like to have the color of the players light reflect how enchanted your gear is or if certain magic effects are active.

For the next update I plan on working on more monsters, more lighting effects, and more variation in the dungeon generation.

As always please let me know if you run into any bugs.
Thanks and Happy Easter!

• A more learn-as-you-play type tutorial -can be disabled in the options
  
• Some attack animations -I plan on adding a couple more
  
• A map brightness slider in the options
  
• Color in the minimap -specifically for items and stairs to make them more visible
  
• CRT shader -can be enabled in the options
  
• Tombstone -gives you a helpful item on the floor you last died on, provided you died past a certain
  level

Fixed in this update:

• Crash that could occur when throwing non-weapon items at monsters
  
• Bug causing monster fire particles to load the entire monster atlas
  
• Bug that caused stairs to rehide themselves in darkrooms after the player leaves

This update mostly consists of nice-to-haves. The age of manuals is long over so I figured a more gradual tutorial was necessary. Along with that is a map brightness slider since it can get quite dark with the hybrid art-style enabled, even more so for the players who have to use the GLES2 driver, so hopefully this helps. Same with the bit of color on the minimap. Hopefully it will be a lot easier to see whats around you now.

The crt shader is mostly there as a novelty. I recommend trying it with the regular textures art-style selected if you want to see how it looks. The tombstone also makes a late return simply because I ran out of time for the last update. So I'm glad to say its back. As a side note, I also added a small semi-secret graphical effect to the game that I think you guys will like.
That's all for now, I'm still working on flying enemies and more music for the next update. They WILL be there!


As always please let me know if you come across any bugs or crashes! Thanks for playing!