Death Road to Canada
11/26 Testing Branch (Win/Mac/Linux)
INSTRUCTIONS
IMPORTANT NOTE: The testing branch and the retail version use different save files! Testing Branch saves also get cleared out on occasion.
HOW TO INSTALL: Right click Death Road to Canada on Steam. Go to Properties. Go to Betas. Select Testbranch, no password necessary.
CHANGES
- Rare City Encounter: Sewer Rodent
- Rare City Encounter: Department of Motor Vehicles
- New rooms added for above encounters
- New weapon: Sai
- New Special Character
11/22 Testing Branch (Windows)
INSTRUCTIONS
IMPORTANT NOTE: The testing branch and the retail version use different save files! Testing Branch saves also get cleared out on occasion.
HOW TO INSTALL: Right click Death Road to Canada on Steam. Go to Properties. Go to Betas. Select Testbranch, no password necessary.
CHANGES
- Rare Event: Chainsaw Hand Replacement
- New weapon: Chainsaw Hand
- New weapon: Double Barrel Shotgun
- Text skip for mobile on touch
- Mobile adjustments for some narrow screen sizes
- Grim Reaper no longer drops his Scythe
- ZP skulls will now drop down from the ceiling when you first go in the room
11/21 Testing Branch (Windows)
Coming up: 2-3 new characters, a rare trading camp in addition to some new regular trading camps, a couple of new weapons, and two new rare city encounters.
INSTRUCTIONS
IMPORTANT NOTE: The testing branch and the retail version use different save files! Testing Branch saves also get cleared out on occasion.
HOW TO INSTALL: Right click Death Road to Canada on Steam. Go to Properties. Go to Betas. Select Testbranch, no password necessary.
CHANGES
- New rare event: Cursed Treasure. Permanently screw up a character in exchange for getting a pirate cutlass or other melee weapons. Or just accept a Goblin Gift Basket or the Dingusnomicon.
- New rank of Rare Finder, which will let you get up to 4 rare events per game and very slightly increases their chance (currently to 4/55 or so)
- ZP skulls added! Floating skulls can show up as loot. Touch them to get them to stop laughing at you for a moment and also get a Zombo Point.
- H*td*g Car and H*td*g Heaven now censored.
- H*td*g alternatives added.
- Removed the break chances when using the shotguns as melee weapons.
- Added two new weapons, though they're not accessible yet.
10/28 EYEBALL Update - Part One
Death Road to Canada is now out for Android! Get it here: Death Road to Canada for Android
Enjoy trying to survive the new horrors of health food stores, futuristic toilets with unknown functions, and Cnomey's Gnome Challenge Conducts. Read on for more details and our plans for both the next update and the next part of EYEBALL!
Two EYEBALL Two Part Update
The EYEBALL Update is split up into two parts. The first part focuses on a batch of new road events. The second part will come out in about a few weeks, and include extra content such as some characters, new rare trading camps, and more. I will update this post when that is out.
Future Plans
In November, the rest of the EYEBALL content we've been working on should be tested and launched. After that is out, we're going to switch over to working on big feature requests. This means less of a focus on content. We will be continuing to work on content ideas from the Trello, but at a slower rate.
We will also be working on prototypes and maybe a followup finally. This ties into big features, as many are ones we should figure out in a prototype and then try to move into Death Road.
The FEMUR update will contain a few new locations, and then a grab bag of other additions. It will be a small update, though the work we do in the background should clear the way for the next big feature in a future update.
Update Changes
EDIT Oct 29 2:19 PM
- Shut off the swap button to exit menus feature
New Events
- Rare Event: Toilet of the Past's Future, shown above
- Rare Event: Gnome Challenge Mode
- Even in the zombocalypse I have to wait in a line??!
- The perfect rock for throwing at a zombie
- Drag racing like in my fast car movies
- Using a radio station to send out a message of hope
- Tracking down a mysterious signal
- Junk Repair that can give you different weapons based on mechanical skill
- Disgusting health food store... disgusting
- The Swole-O-Flex, a new revolution in personal fitness and strength ***NO REFUNDS***
- 2 new walking events
- Jack-o-lanterns may show up on Halloween!
Tweaks and Fixes
- .nodropweapon added and applied to TLB, LNK, Horse, DSYP. This will cause those characters to never automatically drop their current weapon. I can add this to more characters on request, or even stuff like Specialist.
- A secret cheevo should be attainable again
- Trash can lids are no longer indestructible
- Custom game modes no longer destroy the pause screen
- Removed infinite health from some throwables that weren't supposed to have that
- That one umbrella check event will now check for number of umbrellas.
- The SWAP button will now back out of some menus
- Joystick buttons only show up in tutorial if one is active
- Tutorial Replay now boots you to the title screen, to prevent some problems. Replay text updated to reflect this.
- Heart graphic glitch fixed.
Changes for the previous early update in September
System Changes
- Trying out a new, smaller font size.
- AI tweak to let the AI not drop certain items. This applies to most of the items the AI will not use. The result is that you can now have the AI carry grenades for you and they shouldn't dump them to the floor for a femur.
- Dogs and other animals will no longer dump their items for another item, unless they drop the item by trying to attack something.
- Game now may open URLs
- Twitter Chicken added to Unlock Town
- Twitter Chicken can give you over the maximum of ZP
- Warning built into Twitter Chicken to spend excess ZP over maximum
- Zombo Points Full indicator can now show up if you go over the maximum ZP
New Upgrades
- Series of upgrades to make rare locations and events more frequent.
- Series of upgrades to make rare traders less rare. In addition, they're now a little more common even without the upgrades.
- Unomey gets some more phrases due to new upgrades.
Tweaks
- The CYOA text heal now acts just like the blurb heal
- Events that gave you a choice of 3 characters will now give you a choice of all characters in your party, if your group is full.
- Almost all recruit "who do you ditch" when group is full events have been changed to give you a choice of 4 people, rather than 3 or ditch no one.
- Rare Trader camp generation tweaked. You now get up to 2 rolls in a game to find one, but the chance of failure has risen from 40% to 60%.
- City Seeker buffed. Now gives a 50% chance to find something rare in a city, and also removes the chance of failure of a rare trading camp to generate.
- Gourmand now also gives you +1 max health.
- Unomey shows up earlier. You only have to get one unlock or two upgrades now, down from 2 unlocks only.
- Unomey's ZP gain upgrade series is cheaper, and shows up earlier.
- That early dirt road zombie siege got a 10% reduction in difficulty.
- Solo dogs can now recruit the Pet Store dogs for free.
- Giga Guy is now more expensive, 20 food instead of 10.
- Anime Girl explosion no longer hurts teammates.
- Hay bale is now very flammable.
- Demon event drops weapons to trunk before transformation, so no more losing weapons
- Trash cans more rare at rest stops
- Trash cans have a 20% chance to show up in many kitchen types
- Trash can tweaks
- Tweaks to give ESCAPE more functionality in menus
- You can now hit ESCAPE twice to cancel exiting the game
Fixes
- Woof no longer gets that bugged out book item on "death"
- Woof dying no longer clears the special character off your controlled player character.
- If someone's turned into a dog, they'll drop their weapon inventory to the trunk if in the car, to the floor if they're in a location.
- If someone's turned into a dog and they have no drop weapons in the B and C slots, these weapons will be deleted.
- Game now supports more than 127 special characters
- Traders that don't give a positive Cool it!!! result will no longer show the flashing !!!
- Phoenix explosion will no longer damage teammates.
- Possible fix for weird gas detour values, where you'd lose all your gas but it would show you gaining gas.
- Fixed a bug where it would mention your car if you got a superdog right after you lost your car.
- More functionality for pressing ESC in menus
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If you like what we're doing, give us a review on Steam and tell your friends about the game! Expect the next part of the update in a few weeks.
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10/27 Testing Branch (Win, Linux, Mac)
The EYEBALL update will include all the changes on Testbranch, the mini-update we launched early in September, and an upcoming extra shot of content about 2 weeks after the first part of the update is out.
Changes:
- Fixed a bug involving going between the starting character select and Unlocks Town a few times.
- Fix for the heart graphic glitch??????????????!!??
- Possible quick extra fixes for minor things
EDIT 3:49 PM:
- Fixed the Radio Station event not giving gas if you siphoned the generator
10/24 Testing Branch (Windows, Mac, Linux)
This includes a new Halloween thing. Linux and Mac versions also coming soon, if nothing game-breaking crops up in this testbranch.
Death Road for Android comes out on Thursday!
EDIT 10/25: Now up for Linux and Mac
Changes:
- Game version changed to EYEBALL
- .nodropweapon added and applied to TLB, LNK, Horse, DSYP. This will cause those characters to never automatically drop their current weapon. I can add this to more characters on request, or even stuff like Specialist.
- New Swole-o-Flex common event added. A new revolution in personal fitness and strength.
- Gnome Conduct Challenge rare event added.
- Two new walking events added.
- Jack O' Lanterns will replace trash cans on Halloween
- Removed infinite health from some throwables that weren't supposed to have that
- That one umbrella check event will now check for number of umbrellas, I may have to add a "driving rain" event in the future that partially ignores umbrellas
- The SWAP button will now back out of some menus
- Joystick buttons only show up in tutorial if one is active
- Tutorial Replay now boots you to the title screen, to prevent some problems. Replay text updated to reflect this.
10/21 Testing Branch (Windows)
I'm going to try to get these and maybe some quick new Halloween things out ASAP for the EYEBALL update. Then I'm likely doing another bit of content a couple weeks after Halloween. This means EYEBALL will be two updates spaced out, adding to the quick mini-update from a month ago.
Also, Android version is out on the 26th!
Changes:
- 8 new events, 7 common and 1 rare. Includes futuristic toilet event.
- Secret "I ruined my ending" ending (and secret cheevo) should now be atainable again.
- Trash can lids no longer indestructible
- Various fixes, such as custom game modes no longer destroying the pause screen.
- Lots of behind the scenes stuff for Android support and other future port work.
- More work on new city generator, though this will most likely be moved to the next update.
- Work on currently hidden upcoming features like golden skulls you can touch for a Zombo Point
9/24 DUODENUM Update (Windows)
If there are any big problems with this, or the new font, post your feedback here. I'm able to revert it back if necessary.
If there's no major problems, we will also do Mac and Linux versions.
Changes:
System Changes
- Trying out a new, smaller font size.
- AI tweak to let the AI not drop certain items. This applies to most of the items the AI will not use. The result is that you can now have the AI carry grenades for you and they shouldn't dump them to the floor for a femur.
- Dogs and other animals will no longer dump their items for another item, unless they drop the item by trying to attack something.
- Game now may open URLs
- Twitter Chicken added to Unlock Town
- Twitter Chicken can give you over the maximum of ZP
- Warning built into Twitter Chicken to spend excess ZP over maximum
- Zombo Points Full indicator can now show up if you go over the maximum ZP
New Upgrades
- Series of upgrades to make rare locations and events more frequent.
- Series of upgrades to make rare traders less rare. In addition, they're now a little more common even without the upgrades.
- Unomey gets some more phrases due to new upgrades.
Tweaks
- The CYOA text heal now acts just like the blurb heal
- Events that gave you a choice of 3 characters will now give you a choice of all characters in your party, if your group is full.
- Almost all recruit "who do you ditch" when group is full events have been changed to give you a choice of 4 people, rather than 3 or ditch no one.
- Rare Trader camp generation tweaked. You now get up to 2 rolls in a game to find one, but the chance of failure has risen from 40% to 60%.
- City Seeker buffed. Now gives a 50% chance to find something rare in a city, and also removes the chance of failure of a rare trading camp to generate.
- Gourmand now also gives you +1 max health.
- Unomey shows up earlier. You only have to get one unlock or two upgrades now, down from 2 unlocks only.
- Unomey's ZP gain upgrade series is cheaper, and shows up earlier.
- That early dirt road zombie siege got a 10% reduction in difficulty.
- Solo dogs can now recruit the Pet Store dogs for free.
- Giga Guy is now more expensive, 20 food instead of 10.
- Anime Girl explosion no longer hurts teammates.
- Hay bale is now very flammable.
- Demon event drops weapons to trunk before transformation, so no more losing weapons
- Trash cans more rare at rest stops
- Trash cans have a 20% chance to show up in many kitchen types
- Trash can tweaks
- Tweaks to give ESCAPE more functionality in menus
- You can now hit ESCAPE twice to cancel exiting the game
Fixes
- Woof no longer gets that bugged out book item on "death"
- Woof dying no longer clears the special character off your controlled player character.
- If someone's turned into a dog, they'll drop their weapon inventory to the trunk if in the car, to the floor if they're in a location.
- If someone's turned into a dog and they have no drop weapons in the B and C slots, these weapons will be deleted.
- Game now supports more than 127 special characters
- Traders that don't give a positive Cool it!!! result will no longer show the flashing !!!
- Phoenix explosion will no longer damage teammates.
- Possible fix for weird gas detour values, where you'd lose all your gas but it would show you gaining gas.
- Fixed a bug where it would mention your car if you got a superdog right after you lost your car.
- Finally fixed the ending epilogues always using male pronouns.
- Tweaks to give ESCAPE more functionality in menus
- Some secret stuff that doesn't affect PC version much, but is important for porting work
9/22 Testing Branch (Windows)
Until then, I'd really like to get a build up that adds better Twitter links and tests some SECRET WORK for a new platform that I can't announce yet.
Changes:
- Twitter Chicken added to Unlock Town
- Twitter Chicken can give you over the maximum of ZP
- Warning built into Twitter Chicken to spend excess ZP over maximum
- Zombo Points Full indicator can now show up if you go over the maximum ZP
- Demon event drops weapons to trunk before transformation, so no more losing weapons
- Trash cans more rare at rest stops
- Trash cans have a 20% chance to show up in many kitchen types
- Trash can tweaks
- Tweaks to give ESCAPE more functionality in menus
- You can now hit ESCAPE twice to cancel exiting the game
- Removed Free ZP Robot for now
- Removed new city generator testing for now
- Secret stuff that doesn't affect the PC version much but has to be in, anyway
EDIT 9/24 4 AM: Tiny changes to the twitter chicken.
8/29/17 Testing Branch (WINDOWS)
To encourage testing, the Zombo Points giver is in. Also, there will likely be a testing branch save wipe in the next big testing branch, likely in a week or two.
INSTRUCTIONS
IMPORTANT NOTE: The testing branch and the retail version use different save files! Testing Branch saves also get cleared out on occasion.
HOW TO INSTALL: Right click Death Road to Canada on Steam. Go to Properties. Go to Betas. Select Testbranch, no password necessary.
CHANGES
Big Changes
- Trying out a new, smaller font size.
- Trying out a new city generator. An option to test this currently replaces the start of game hint.
- AI tweak to let the AI not drop certain items. This applies to most of the items the AI will not use. The result is that you can now have the AI carry grenades for you and they shouldn't dump them to the floor for a femur.
- Dogs and other animals will no longer dump their items for another item, unless they drop the item by trying to attack something.
New Upgrades
- Series of upgrades to make rare locations and events more frequent.
- Series of upgrades to make rare traders less rare. In addition, they're now a little more common even without the upgrades.
- Unomey gets some more phrases due to new upgrades.
Tweaks
- The CYOA text heal now acts just like the blurb heal
- Events that gave you a choice of 3 characters will now give you a choice of all characters in your party, if your group is full.
- Almost all recruit "who do you ditch" when group is full events have been changed to give you a choice of 4 people, rather than 3 or ditch no one.
- Rare Trader camp generation tweaked. You now get up to 2 rolls in a game to find one, but the chance of failure has risen from 40% to 60%.
- City Seeker buffed. Now gives a 50% chance to find something rare in a city, and also removes the chance of failure of a rare trading camp to generate.
- Gourmand now also gives you +1 max health.
- Unomey shows up earlier. You only have to get one unlock or two upgrades now, down from 2 unlocks only.
- Unomey's ZP gain upgrade series is cheaper, and shows up earlier.
- That early dirt road zombie siege got a 10% reduction in difficulty.
- Solo dogs can now recruit the Pet Store dogs for free.
- Giga Guy is now more expensive, 20 food instead of 10.
- Anime Girl explosion no longer hurts teammates.
- Hay bale is now very flammable.
Fixes
- Woof no longer gets that bugged out book item on "death"
- Woof dying no longer clears the special character off your controlled player character.
- If someone's turned into a dog, they'll drop their weapon inventory to the trunk if in the car, to the floor if they're in a location.
- If someone's turned into a dog and they have no drop weapons in the B and C slots, these weapons will be deleted.
- Game now supports more than 127 special characters
- Traders that don't give a positive Cool it!!! result will no longer show the flashing !!!
- Phoenix explosion will no longer damage teammates.
- Possible fix for weird gas detour values, where you'd lose all your gas but it would show you gaining gas.
- Fixed a bug where it would mention your car if you got a superdog right after you lost your car.
- Finally fixed the ending epilogues always using male pronouns.