More bugfixes! On all platforms this time.

• BUG: Game becomes unresponsive when playing a single player mode after playing a two-player mode
  
• BUG: Backing out of pause menus (pause, level-up, spellbook, etc.) in 2p reverts the players' stats, equipment, spells, etc. to what they were before pausing, making it impossible to equip spells or properly level up.

Just a couple quick fixes! Windows only for now but should be on Mac and Linux by tomorrow at the latest.

• CRASH: Crash when spawning encyclopedia pages in Seeded Runs
  
• CRASH: When casting the teleport spell
  
• BUG: Rerolling floors in non-Daily Run-runs does not actually change the floor's seed
  
• BUG: Framerate option can still load as 50 from the previous version
  
• BUG: Forgot to disable some debug keys
  
• BUG: Shopkeeper's specialties display the wrong price

Long time no update! I've been mostly plugging away on UFO 50 in these intervening months (Go wishlist it!!), but I've still been making progress on CK when time permits - in between moving to a new apartment and doing contract work.

Here we have at last; one feature in particular that I have dreamt of for years: shadow-casting lights and line-of-sight based fog-of-war!

At long-last, things can truly lurk unseen around corners and behind closed doors! This is a pretty significant change to a long-standing gameplay mechanic, but hopefully it will be a welcome one. In all other regards lighting still works the same way; lightsources, once encountered, remain visible thereafter. It's still useful to toss torches ahead of yourself to get the ley of the land, but this change also has the effect of making the Wanderer's class ability, lanterns, and equipment that grants telepathy suddenly much more valuable.

The other main thing you'll notice is that the title menu looks...completely different!

I called myself clever with the previous version, trying to do something unique with a menu based on quadrants but it turns out there's a reason most games have a menu in a nested list format and that's because it's intuitive and easy to navigate. Lesson learned: don't reinvent a wheel unless it's really central to your whole deal. As it turns out, title menus are in fact: not central to CK's whole deal. So something more typical is warranted (and welcome).

Along with the new menu however, come some other new features:

Seeded Runs are a new kind of game mode where you can enter the seed yourself and play it as many times as you like. Unlike most of the other game modes, however, Seeded Runs never save (not even a little bit).

Daily runs have also been updated to allow you to try them as many times as you want, though only the first run counts for earning coins. Currently the Daily Run and Seeded Runs are pretty similar in that they allow you to play the same seed as many times as you want, but I plan to eventually add twists to Daily Runs like "all corpses explode", "you hate all weapons", or "all damage is 2" etc.

There have also been a smattering of other tweaks, bugfixes, and general housekeeping too so check out the changelog for a full list.

Just a horde of bugfixes.

• Minor visual change to class abilities in the character select ui

• Crash: Crash upon spawning grumbul soldiers
  
• Crash: Crash upon descending to the anticropolis via the unlocked shortcut
  
• Crash: "equip_weapon <unknown_object>.isBasic" crash
  
• Crash: Several crashes related to audio emitters
  
• Crash: When a humanoid corpse has a helmet but no armor
  
• Crash: "obj_corpse_dog" crash
  
• Crash: Casting "Break" on an enemy after hitting them
  
• Crash: Pressing confirm on the tinkerbot repair menu while having no valid metal objects to use
  
• Crash: When equipping tomes sometimes
  
• Crash: checking for "has_leg"
  
• Crash: When making soup
  
• Bug: Tinkerbot repair item qualities are not shown
  
• Bug: Rats are broken
  
• Bug: Balls of mucus blow up when you try to roll them gently
  
• Bug: Throwing boulders and creatures with trajectory does not show their predicted path

An update!

No new content or anything particularly fancy, but this is one I've been working on for a while; Finally upgrading to the newest version of Game Maker Studio instead of using the pre-2.3x version that is - at this point - over two years out of date.

It was one of those situations where upgrading to the more recent tools fully broke the game, but continuing to use the older engine was gradually accumulating its own slew of problems, to the point where at last it became imperative to make the jump regardless of the cost in time and effort. So for the past few months that's what I've been doing! I wish I had more content for you but alas, it's mostly just the invisible kind of progress; rewriting old bits of code that have obsolesced or depreciated into non-functionality.

In any case, the upgrade has gone relatively smoothly and has also given me access to a huge number of new engine features that I'm eager to use, which should help hasten along the rest of the game just that much faster.

I did also manage to fix a bunch of crashes and bugs -- including one elusive crash in particular that had been hounding the game for years! And now that the engine update is mostly out of the way (I'm sure there are still some issues here and there that need addressing, but hopefully nothing too major) I'll be refocusing my efforts fully back onto finishing and releasing the Deep Dark.

• Updated to Game Maker Studio version 2.3x
  
• Lava no longer generates in the Grumbul Tank fight
  
• Grumbul Tank arrows no longer destroy or interact with the wooden platforms when first fired
  
• Striking the Grumbul Tank's turret with aimed stab no longer causes knockback from striking the tank's armor
  
• Made hitting the Grumbul Tank's weak points slightly more forgiving

• Crash: Crash if limb is lost during taunt animation
  
• Crash: Crash upon trying to rebind game controls
  
• Crash: Crash upon stowing hated daggers
  
• Crash: Crash upon throwing a potion of smiting
  
• Crash: Various other crashes
  
• Bug: Typo in "diseased" status effect message text
  
• Bug: Certain Encyclopedia entries don't work properly
  
• Bug: Grumbul Tank's arrows behave strangely when passing thru the wooden platforms
  
• Misc: Owlmen can kick again

Happy Thanksgiving! Have an update.

• You can now toggle on and off the different tiers of weapon skills via the "traits" menu
  
• Added ability to ban spells in VS mode

• Claw arm now replaces third combo attack with grab move, like other prosthetic arms
  
• Increased VS mode win condition from "first to 3 kills" to "first to 5 kills"
  
• Removed fishanha ability to crit
  
• Made the timing of humanoids' three-hit attack pattern much more forgiving
  
• Altered the ability of Powered Arms: They now shoot lasers and slightly auto-target nearby enemies
  
• In Co-op, the "telepathic" status effect now only highlights enemies on the affected character's split-screen
  
• Slight minor alterations and improvements to the UI here and there
  
• Increased cooldown time between Ogo attacks
  
• Eeols now take extra damage from Push and Break cast by swallowed creatures
  
• Normal Bear has a new, better death animation
  
• Dead players appear as ghosts now on the level generation screen in Co-op
  
• You can now blast through the fragile ice passages in the AC with Breakthrough

• Crash: Various menu-related crashes in Co-op
  
• Crash: Crash upon loading a game throwing a "boon_list" error message
  
• Crash: Various other crashes
  
• Bug: Casting Shadow Cloak to dismiss it will still siphon dark charges from the environment
  
• Bug: Can siphon dark charges from frozen corpses indefinitely
  
• Bug: Eeols can detect humanoid targets through walls
  
• Bug: Fixed several issues with prosthetic limbs
  
• Bug: Claw arms don't animate properly
  
• Bug: Sometimes reloading a game after dying results in a stage of solid blocks
  
• Bug: Bear doesn't awaken in co-op as long as the screen is split
  
• Bug: HP for ghost players in co-op sometimes displays as a non-zero value
  
• Bug: Ghost players can still be controlled and partially seen during level generation
  
• Misc: Improved performance of reaper's lingering slices