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Cauldron is an upgrade-heavy, minigame-centric, turn-based RPG. Play minigames to strengthen your party, then win battles to uncover more map, more heroes, more minigames, more everything! If your favorite plant is an upgrade tree, then this game is for you!

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Dev Diary #9: Less than a week to go!!

May 15

Hey Everyone!

Less than a week to go! I still can't believe we're almost there. These last couple weeks I've been hard at work polishing up as much as I can before release, and Jared has been updating those last minute art assets. A lot has changed since I posted last, so I'll put a list below of the big stuff. If you want to join us for the release hype, check in on our discord below!

[discord.gg]

Big numbers!

One of the bigger updates has been balancing the minigame progress, especially after completing a few game modes. The Fishing and Mining games were lagging a bit in super-duper late game. Our beloved underwater friend, Henry, needed a little more oomph, so I gave him a bonus upgrade to help him keep up! (see below)

Some Updates

Since we’re almost at the finish line, there have been quite a few updates and fixes since last time, and there are still tweaks and polish being completed for launch. Here’s a list:

THE ENDING! The true ending is now playable for those of you who have completed at least 2 game modes (full-release content).
New art! Check out the new character sprites! We're still missing a bunch of the side profile/attack animations, so some characters might look a little weird when battling. Those should be coming very soon!
New music! (post-demo content) Check out Frog town and Battle town! We're still tweaking these a bit.
Completed map! Well, maybe not totally completed, but very close! (also post-demo content)
Tweaked late-game scaling for all minigames! I put caps on certain upgrades that don't really help with endgame once you buy a bunch of them, and I made a few upgrades scale more easily. This should help some of the balancing for of max high scores for some minigames (especially Fishing and Rock Digging), and will also help with some frame rate issues.
With the better minigame scaling (and because of some other feedback), I decided to increase cauldron requirement scaling accordingly. Tougher Enemies and EVIL have changed the most, so hopefully those will still be beatable (I didn't change EVIL as much as Tougher Enemies, though).
Ice fishing has been reworked! Now, there are "bonus fish" in each of the levels that essentially work as powerups. The amount of these fish increases with each loss, along with added hook weight.
Added battle maps for Battletown and the fighting pits
Added some new character portraits for the town leaders
Fish now telegraph their next move. They'll turn in the direction they're going to move for about half a second before shooting forward.
Changed Nyx's sprite! This one was kind of half changed in the last update, since we were testing out a few ideas. Now it should be consistent!
Added a new meta-upgrade for Fishing to make Henry a little more impactful as the game goes on
Fixed Cart game blorb's not bouncing correctly when they get too big
Fixed some lag caused by the Ice game's bonus block upgrade
Fixed an issue with REALLY large numbers in the ice game not calculating correctly
Fixed the fighting pit NPC so you can actually see it! The menu should work now as well!
Fixed some other menus
Changed some of the hidden villager objects
Fixed a bug with the new ice fishing bonus fish
Fixed some of the cart game attacks not changing color when they're upgraded to have a different element
Fixed the prior battle position not working for some characters
Added some more character portraits
Fixed random bugs and visual stuff
Fixed a bug with the Chinese translation crashing the game
Added new music to Magetown
Fixed Fump's location for the swamp puzzles
Added an arrow to indicate where Henry is going to be in the fishing game as you get close
A bunch of other small things!
Fixed the ghosts having 950% dodge rate...
Fixed the ending not showing up when starting it with the effects level all the way down
Fixed the alert not showing up above the Magetown leader's head when finishing her quest
Fixed apple game's idle AI to not ignore golden+apples
SSP blast meta upgrade now works on set bombs

And as always keep posting your feedback. and I'll see you on release day!

Thank you for reading!
Pete

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2619650/Cauldron/

Cauldron

Gamespeed in Overworld feels too slow

I love the game and am looking forward to buying the full retail release, but my only complaint is that moving around the overworld feels really slow. is there a setting I'm missing to speed up the overworld like there is for the battle screens?

bw1132

1 hour ago

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Dev Diary #8: We have a release date!

Apr 30

Hey Everyone!

I’m very excited to share that we officially have a release date: May 21st!
Tell you friends, tell your parents, tell your dog!

Some info:

Wishlist and share: Any help we can get with spreading the word about Cauldron is worth a lot to us! If you enjoyed the demo and want to support the release, tell a friend!
Demo plans: The Demo will be still be available after release, and all progression carries over to the full game!
Beta Testing: Starting next week we’ll begin a closed beta, so if you want to help out with testing and bug spotting, please join the Discord!
Press, streamers and content creators: If you want to review or create content about the Cauldron release don’t hesitate to reach out to us! Either join the discord or send an email to: http://press@caketowninteractive.com

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Completing the map:

We've finally finished the map! Check out Jared Zankowski's amazing work, from his drawing board sketch to his final creation! He's really brought the world of Cauldron to life! (minor spoilers below!)

From Sketch:

To final product:

And as always, stay tuned for more updates, and keep posting your feedback!

Thank you for reading!
Pete

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2619650/Cauldron/

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Dev Diary #7: Almost there! Beta Testing starting soon!

Apr 22

Hey Everyone!

We're slowly getting closer to release, and I wanted to keep you guys in the loop with everything going on!

Some Small Demo Updates:

Added scientific notation, handy for those big numbers!
Added battle tips that show before battle starts.
Bugfix: Fixed a late-game battle slow down whenever Cleanse would use her new ability to return status effects to enemies. This should happen a lot faster now!

The “Final Push” and Beta Testing!
We're locking down an official launch date (spoiler alert: it's pretty soon!), so keep an eye out here for updates! We're going to have a closed beta build available soon, shooting for May 2nd-ish, that we would love to get the expert eyes of our community on. If you feel like roasting us and helping make Cauldron better, join the Discord to know more!

https://discord.gg/KwV9zsnFjq

The map is almost complete!
We're reaching a huge milestone: finishing the map! Beta Testers will be the first to see the newly completed map! Check out some of the new biomes:

And as always, stay tuned for more updates, and keep posting your feedback!

Thank you for reading!
Pete

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2619650/Cauldron/

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WE HAVE A RELEASE DATE! - 21st of May

We are finally on the home stretch for Cauldron. After years of development we are ready to share Cauldron with the world. Peter has done an amazing job and we can't be more proud of his accomplishments, Cauldron is a gem! Hop on our discord and join us for the last two weeks leading up to the release. We will share some sneak peeks and more information over there! See you there. :) Discord ...

Sirrebirre

May 16 @ 5:29am

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Ice fishing...?

Am I doing something wrong, or is it just... too long? I know you get a bonus for every failed attempt, but if I was to try in earnest each time, I'd frankly feel like I just wasted a lot of it if I failed just a few times. But I'm actually meaning to ask if that is just me, or if I'm missing something... Other than this, the game is super fun so far! I wishlisted it too!...

Umbaupause

May 8 @ 7:44pm

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Missing dash from minecart

Not sure what happened, but I can no longer activate the dash in the minecart minigame and the gauge is gone. I have several of each upgrade in the dash tree.

simmons86

May 5 @ 3:47am

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Wow.

I gotta say I'm really impressed. This demo is a LOT OF GAMEPLAY! Like damn! I'm enjoying almost everything so far. The only thing that I'm not a huge fan is the combat which feels a bit complex for my tastes but luckily the auto-combat sorta eases you into it. Though I think maybe one step further where pre-suggested parties, builds, etc could be built in so those of us who just wanna play for the mini-games and story can just let the game do the combat for us including the party set up, etc. Perhaps eve...

flamedance58

May 18 @ 8:26am

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