Hi everyone!

We hope you have a well-earned break and time to catch up with friends and family during the festive season. We bear gifts from the latest update - 0.121.9:

• New Portal
  
• Fixed visual damage effect to be much more noticeable.
  
• Ice Phoenix Defeat Animation
  
• Chakram Visual Effects
  
• Consumables appear much more consistently in shops.
  
• There is a lot of secret stuff for a subsequent update set that we can't reveal just yet.

• New track for Bronze Knight
  
• Fixed issue with the intro version of music tracks not playing.

• There's a new gift to the left of the starting area (even if you have claimed the one before the update)
  
• Aura of Worlds is now on sale with 20% off + the discount in early access.
  
• Fireworks replace the Christmas decorations
  
• During the festive season, all XP gained is increased by 12%!

• Fixed issue with Anchor, negating shield jumping.
  
• Fixed a rare solvability issue with one of the entrance templates in the Celestial Catacombs
  
• Rebalanced Blaze Bat
  
• Fixed issue with BlazeStar sometimes not being stunned on being hit by a melee attack twice
  
• Concealed reaction icons when not required.
  
• Fixed various glitches with displaying fog of war

We wish you all the best for 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣4️⃣ 🌠 !

Greetings Adventurers!

There's been quite a number of changes to make Your travels more...interesting:

• Gnarled Gardens: Added multiple terrain variations, sprites, and set pieces.
  
• Celestial Catacombs: Added multiple terrain variations, sprites and set pieces.
  
• Various new and reworked animations:
  
• Randomized Hub Worlds

• You can level up most perks for stronger effects! For example:
  
  • Weight lifter II, allows all held objects to be weightless.
    
  • Vampirism II, causes defeated foes to drop more health orbs.
    
  • This trend applies to almost every rune type added to the game.
• Runes are now much more common and more evenly distributed across the worlds!
  

• New track for Hazard level theme (by Mat Dwyer)
  Here's a preview.[drive.google.com]
  
• Rebalanced Necromancer theme.

They may not be as fast as their crossbow-wielding brethren, but they make up for it with accuracy.

• Faster loading times.
  
• Significant Optimization as we continue to port the game to Nintendo Switch.
  
• Projectiles fired from dying enemies can cause friendly fire.
  
• While the Hunter is in a temporarily weakened state, it deals less damage (based on feedback from the Cursed Chest mechanic)
  
• Enemy health scaling, when jumping between worlds, has been increased.
  
• Numerous surprises...

NOTE: We will be merging other smaller updates with this announcement, so stay tuned!

• We've been doing some redecorating around the hub world🍂🎃!
  
• Rebalanced special tile distribution in Grotto of Guidance and Celestial Catacombs*
  
• Check the top left of the hub for some goodies.
  
• All XP you gain during a run increases by 12% during Halloween (and up to the 6th of November). You'll need it because:
  
• Undead enemies rise more frequently during this season!

Greetings Adventurers!

We've been remastering the early gameplay and visuals,
This is in response to feedback from testers that the first area needed to be more on par with the latter areas of the game, especially regarding variety.

• Objects lodged in stone, double slab pieces, and transition tiles to mix things up.
  
• Windows - 7 variants!
  
• New statues, etchings and other decorative objects
  
• Scaffolding Towers (see below)
  
• Bronze blocks and shrines (rare)
  
• New platform types
  
• And more...

• Liquid hazard pools merge better with rooms and are more extensive.
  
• Enemy distribution now draws from a much wider pool of enemies with reworked probabilities.

We've updated the graphics of the 2nd tutorial to reflect the grotto's theme and have reworked parts of it to be more intuitive.
We've added more explicit instructions for players who got confused during the blink ability section toward the end.

While lacking the venom of its counterpart, the acid beetle in the gardens, living in the Grotto has given them keener senses to hunt in the shadows. If You see something fluorescent and pink glowing in the dark, that's probably its jaws, so beware!

With better animation:
Rarely, you'll find this guy, who will goad You into taking his contents. There are multiple interactions based on Your choices, but if You want his loot, You'll just have to reach in and bear the consequences! Accepting the challenge will net You multiple items: power runes, gold, and health, but You must endure the curse for the current level and the next..
The old design clashed in some environments, and new players generally found the old design too tame and hard to see. So we've redesigned them from scratch:

• Crossbow knockback has been buffed by 25%.
  
• Fixed weird one-block tall floating cave stone islands in Grotto of Guidance.
  
• The cast projectiles from Enthrall and Sphere of Influence Powers now move much faster.
  
• The hunter behaves differently on the last level of being cursed.
  
• More rendering optimizations.
  
• Numerous smaller balance changes.
  
• Much more

• Improved telegraphing with dragon traps, golden fists and chandeliers.
  
• Added more interactions to cursed chests.
  
• The Hunter's spawn position has been adjusted for each area.
  
• If the player is cursed, the Hunter can spawn during rush levels to.
  
• Fixed glitch where scaffolding towers were only partially supported.
  
• Scaffolding towers can no longer spawn on slab tiles.
  
• Fixed rare pathfinding generation glitch with pre-made templates.
  
• Fixed bug where The Hunter would disappear on the second level of being cursed.
  
• Changed Grenade bounce physics for throwing at point blank range.
  
• Added glitter effect to some light beams in the Grotto.

Steam Event

• +12% XP during Steam's summer sale.
  
• Added gift bag on the left of hub.
  
• Added beachball

• Updated .Net framework used by the project from 4.5 to 4.7.1
  
• Multiple Optimizations from the Switch version ported over, especially with regards to:
  
  • Rendering
    
  • Object activation and deactivation.
    
  • Physics of background objects.
• Swapped out SpriteFontPlus libraries with FontStashSharp for updated text rendering and to enable more seemless transitioning between MonoGame (used for PC) and FNA (used for Switch) ports of the game.
  
• New animations on destroying lanterns and creating fire brands.
  
• Fixed items from chests held in terrain, getting stuck in solid tiles.
  
• Aquatic enemy pools now have an uncommon chance to appear in the Grotto's generation again.
  
• Extended Spring event and fixed glitch with dynamic grass in the hub.
  
• Fixed some issues with generating aquatic pools in the Grotto of Guidance (0.115.14.5)
  
• Skeletal Snakes have a chance to appear at the end of the grotto (0.115.14.5)
  
• Some ground work for terrain decorations for next update (0.115.14.5)
  
• Fixed issue with detection enemy telegraphs not being shown.

NOTE: We've been working on a lot more in the background; we look forward to showing You in the next update...

• Added start and dissolve animation to several energy projectiles
  
• Terrain caching has been heavily optimized, leading to faster loading times.
  
• Ice Phoenix fight has been updated to be more challenging:
  
  • She now has more intelligent target tracking during various attack phases.
    
  • A few of her abilities (such as summoning minions) trigger faster as the fight progresses.
• Additional level generation safeguards have been implemented.

• Fixed spear shadow trail not displaying (though we have an updated animation coming later).
  
• Giant golden fist traps could previously push around flame throwers in the air.
  
• Fixed several glitches associated with recreating previously generated worlds from world property caches.
  
• Reduced Shotbow damage slightly.
  
• Removed spike pit generation from ceiling gas level theme in the Grotto.
  
• Enthrall projectiles are slightly faster.

Note: The price of the game will rise in the near future as we draw closer to release

Have Fun & Happy Easter!

Hi folks,

We've been testing the game on the Steam Deck and preparing the game for porting to Nintendo Switch. In the process, we found ways we could substantially optimize the game. For example, we noticed that the frame rate would flicker on certain devices when exploring a new part of the map and clearing away the fog of war, so we've been reworking the caching algorithm to run much faster.

• Fixed issue with screen scaling cropping off the left side of the screen.
  
• Controller support activates automatically on Linux
  
• Weapon select wheel will not show consumables tabs when there is zero quantity left (outside of tutorial)
  
• A much smoother experience (partly from the abovementioned optimizations).

Thank You to Flqtline and Dannz0r for sharing their experiences, screenshots, and test data for the Steam deck.

• Fixed input and texture glitch in fullscreen mode on a widescreen monitor.
  
• Adjusted attack patterns of Golem and fixed bug where it could re-perform the stomp attack multiple times in succession.
  
• Rush themes such as lava ascent, poison gas, and avalanche move slightly faster (red explosive crystals are more common during avalanches).
  
• Added additional lines of attack dialogue to Necromancer.
  
• You can now destroy flamethrower traps in Mantle's Edge with explosives.
  
• Ice Mage and Golems are now more resilient to damage.
  
• Area/run health scaling increased slightly.

Enjoy!

• Different types of these can be encountered late-game, providing a new challenge to even skilled players.
  
• They currently have a shockwave and ranged attack, with the latter varying according to the biome that they're situated.
  

• New Dialogue System This currently applies to the Necromancer's attack dialogue but will be rolled out to more situations. You can also add player speech bubbles to Your screenshots with ~.
  
• New crate destruction animations that vary with biome.
  
• Hazard chase level themes (toxic breeze, rising lava, avalanche) now start sooner.
  
• Stunning and throwing explosive flyers now cause them to detonate on impact.
  
• Several more

• We've been doing some redecorating for the hub world.
  
• Spring breeze also applies to the shifting winds themes of Gnarled Gardens.
  
• New moon variants.
  
• Check the bag at the top-left of the hub
  
• 13% in-game XP bonus.
  
• Taking part in the Steam Sale, the game is on Sale with 20% off
  in addition to the heavy discount in early access.

• Clockwork turrets (particularly ceiling variants) are now lighter.
  
• Fixed rare dead-end glitch with level generation.

NOTE: the price will rise in near future as the game approaches full release.

• Fixed potential crash where spring version of hub would not load for Mac/Linux (due to it being uploaded to the wrong but similarly named subdirectory directory).
  
• Ice Golem now has its own demise animation.
  
• Golems drop money on death.
  
• Fixed visual tilesheet bug with avalanche.

Have fun!

Hi folks, we hope things are going wonderfully for you with the dawn of the New Lunar Year!

• You will have an extra 12% XP in each run through the rogue-lite (until the end of February)
  
• Check the gift 🧧 at the top left of the hub (if you've previously claimed the present, it will have been refilled as of the 22nd of January).
  
• Some additional environmental background parallax refinements, most noticeably in the Hub.
  
• We've put up other themed decorations, celebrating the year of the rabbit.
  
• The game is currently on sale by 20% (in addition to the Early Access discount).
  

• Some additional sprite and visual enhancement work.
  
• Further testing and integration work to improve the experience for Steam Deck players.
  
• Some more behind-the-scenes work to refactor and reorganize the code base to streamline updates.
  
• Here's a preview of an upcoming opponent...
  
• We will be merging some more updates and patches with this announcement, so watch this space...

We wish you a prosperous and peaceful new year ahead! 恭喜发财!

Hi everyone!

We hope you're getting a well-earned break and time to catch up with friends and family during the festive season. We have some gifts for you with the latest update - 0.112.X:

• Aura of Worlds is now on sale with 20% off + the discount in early access.
  
• New Year's decorations
  
• There's a new gift under the Christmas tree to the left of the starting area (even if you have claimed the previous three)
  
• During the festive season, all XP gained is increased by 12%!

Include...

• Improvement to Steam Deck support: We've been making changes to the game to better support the device. One of which has been making the game start in full-screen by default.
  
• Spin Turtles continue to spin with low friction when stunned and thrown, allowing you to bowl opponents away.
  
• We've been adding more ice decorations to Cold Crust Caverns, with more to come
  
• New item pickup animation:
  

Enemy health now scale up according to the areas you complete (this was nescessary due to powercreep from gathering resources in each area sometimes making latter biomes easier than intended):

• Grotto of Guidance + 5%
  
• Gnarled Gardens +12%
  
• Celestial Catacombs +12%

• Rebalanced the critiical hits system
  
• Nerfed the recovery rune from 35% recovery to 18% on normal/easy difficulty.
  
• Fixed glitch with crystal blades that gave a very high crit rate under certain conditions.

• Additional narrative context,
  
• Decorations set up for New Year celebrations.

• Enemy damage now scales according to the areas you complete.
  
• Adjusted health scaling of gardens and catacombs from 15%->12%
  
• Fixed text on having insufficient funds when trying to buy an item.

We hope you have a wonderful 2023 ahead!