Features & Changes

• Damage numbers can now be turned on via the "Gameplay" menu
  
• 3 vision effects are now available in the "Gameplay" menu, these make the tiles 1) Rise / Fall, 2) Grow / Shrink, and 3) Fade In / Out
  
• One more normal difficulty dungeon is always available now after the Ice Rift is complete
  

Features & Changes

• Dungeons now appear in multiple difficulties, more difficult dungeons yield more magical items at a rate of 15%, 35%, and 50% at each bonus difficulty level
  
• Drastically reduced delay between actor actions, this speeds up watching enemies go through combat one after another
  
• Added new "Gameplay" settings off the "Home" menu, within it you can further adjust the game speed (movement and combat) from 100% to 150% speed
  
• Speed up the animations for singularity and shield other
  

Major Changes

• New "Gauntlet" game mode, a hardcore game mode of just pure dungeon crawl
  
• Added local "Hall of Fame" high score board for Gauntlet, Story (Normal), and Story (Hard) game modes
  
• Quest destinations are now automatically made available via the travel map, there is no need to visit the Inn to inspect and accept quests
  
• Level cap effectively removed
  
• Story mode progression is now based on dungeon count instead of player XP, it's far easier to balance and ensure players don't level up too fast and miss any content
  
• "Magic plasma" style environments are procedurally colored and available in Gauntlet games
  
• Sticky Blobs are now called Acid Blobs, and their replicating goo now deals damage instead of haulting movement
  
• All Kickstarter backers which have been animated in the game now appear as random NPCs in Gauntlet mode
  
• New audio settings UI with music and sound effects volume sliders
  

Minor Changes

• Portals to Guild Wizard boss rooms now have plasma effects, unique colors, and a stone dragon skull overlooking the doorway
  
• Added custom mouse cursor artwork
  
• Vendors now appear in level chains that have only 2 level instances
  
• Tutorial tips on/off menu is now in the Home->Settings menu and is no longer a debug only setting.
  
• The spell tree is now accessible from the paper doll so you can upgrade spells while in a dungeon
  
• Game stats and hall of fame UIs are now automatically presented when completing story mode or upon permadeath
  
• Experience bar now set to full when at max level
  
• Tempest is now limited to 3 live eggs total and only tosses 1 at a time
  
• Increased the egg hatch time
  
• Tweaked secondary tooltip selection logic to prefer weapons matching the same handedness (1h vs 1h and 2h vs 2h)
  
• Wandering merchants no longer ever refill their inventory and their loot quality has been decreased some
  
• Waypoints are no longer usable, but give give players a tutorial when clicked on the first time
  
• Overseer wall now does damage
  
• AI now better selects randomly between multiple targets for attacks or movement decisions
  
• Removed the difficuly settings on quests, they are all generated at a balanced difficulty rank now through the whole storyline
  

Fixes

• Fix vampire style enchantments generating at 0 health returned to the user
  
• Shields that have enchnatments that give xp when you are damaged no longer do so if the shield blocked all the incoming damage
  
• Fixed enemy health bar incorrectly showing empty in some rare cases
  
• Fixed a case of not being able to load a portion of some old save game levels
  
• Fixed Skeleton Lord raising dead skeletons in locations that were blocked by something else
  
• Fixed boss death ceremony camera zooms going to the wrong location when the boss was killed with something that moved him around like singularity or quake
  
• Fix Shield Others effects sometimes not showing up from Guardians
  
• Fixed NPC conversations happening in dungeons when the entire party is not on the screen
  

1. Fury - teleports enemies near targets
   
2. Tempest - lobs eggs that can hatch into monsters or electric fields
   
3. Guardian - shields other enemies
   
4. Gryphon - causes ice slicks that all actors slide on
   
5. Malignancy - 2 moves per turn and explodes when next to targets
   
6. Sticky Blob - upon death leaves expanding goo that halts movement for a couple of turns
   
7. Aberration - causes hallucinations for a few turns (see monsters that aren't real)
   
8. Mystic - heals other enemies
   
9. Hellion - summons flying spectral axes which can melee or hurl themselves across the room and explode
   
10. Dominator - causes a rock cave in that knocks actors around
    
11. Skeleton Lord - enemies that die nearby can be raised as a skeleton
    
12. Greedling - treasure goblin that teleports in and has great loot if you can kill him before he escapes
    
13. Yeti - charges when clear straight line from a distance and causes knockback on contact
    
14. Sasquatch - freezes targets (the old Yeti ability, so not technically new maybe)
    
15. Mudslinger - lobs mud missiles that obscure the screen
    

Major Changes

• 14 new enemies: Fury, Tempest, Guardian, Gryphon, Malignancy, Sticky Blob, Aberration, Mystic, Hellion, Dominator, Skeleton Lord, Greedling, Sasquatch, Mudslinger
  
• Entire game is now playable from start to finish
  
• New "Lava" background environment
  
• Added Maugris boss
  
• Added Hosperak boss with unique background environment of the "Master Rift"
  
• New battle arenas for all 8 bosses
  
• All Guild Wizard bosses can now teleport, throw a ball of energy, and get 2 actions per turn
  
• Added end game cinematic scene and music
  
• New music for the 7 Guild Wizard bosses including new victory music after you beat them
  
• New music for Hosperak battle
  

Minor Changes

• Shield now cheaper but protects less
  
• Sentinel defense decreased by 50%
  
• Health affix group is now "health minor" and is no longer allowed on body armor
  
• Added health major affixes that have 2x the benefit but are only allowed on body armor
  
• Decreased the material cost of many spells
  
• Decreased singularity damage amount
  
• Shield now prevents all forms of knockback
  
• Tweaked the colors for all elemental rifts
  
• Elemental rifts now contain only monsters from that elemental school
  
• Added new portals for the master rifts based on the plasma orb effect
  
• Animated title screen
  
• Spectral axe now has more health
  
• Decrease transmute chance for Anomaly
  
• Wizard/Hosperak bosses now drop materials when damaged 60% of the time
  
• Golems now have 2 moves per turn
  
• Drastically less overall spell points are now awarded
  
• Malignancy now has a 20% change to melee attack instead of blow up
  
• Followers defense reduced 50%
  
• Ice guild wizard attack strength reduced 25%
  
• Lance and sword damage decreased slightly
  
• Eggs now more likely to hatch monsters
  
• Mystic heal amount increased and can now be cast on and from champions
  

Fixes

• Fixed being able to place spell runes in the enchantment shrine
  
• Fixed spectral axes not dying when their boss owner (or boss ultimate owner) died
  
• Fixed Tempest eggs not being destroyed if their owner (or ultimate owner) was a boss when the boss died
  
• Fixed infinite loop crash in the Fury "Advance Skill" logic
  
• Fixed Maugris quest closing logic so that it is closed when you enter the master rift
  
• Fixed blue materials setting a minimap floor color
  
• Fixed AIs always attacking the same target when there was another possible target at same range
  
• Fixed forgestone UI sizing
  
• Fixed spectral axe not attacking
  
• Fixed save game corruption when you got over 128 properties
  

Company

• Submitted for consideration to be included in the IndieMegabooth at PAX Prime and IndieCade 2016, wish us luck!
  

Major Changes

• Disturblings now appear in the game and can now cloak themselves and others. Cloaked enemies have a light source and no other visuals, don't make footstep noise, and don't put the game into stepped combat mode. A cloaked enemy that does any action or is attacked is revealed. Items that detect hidden have a chance to reveal cloaked enemies
  
• You can now teleport to any previously discovered exit or waypoint via the full map UI
  
• Upgrading the Blacksmith, Armory, and Jewler now require an item resource found in the world in addition to a gold payment
  
• Followers can now die, when they died they turn into a ball of light that followers the player. After a certain number of turns or using a healing shrine they will be revived automatically.
  
• Mouse hovering over enemies and objects is now done with polygon accuracy and ignores when over transparent pixels in those triangles
  
• New more stylized in game fonts for everything
  
• Gold, keys, and materials are now auto picked up by the player and any followers
  

Minor Changes

• Detect hidden is now done with a radius of 3 instead of 1
  
• Secondary tooltips now come up a fraction of a second after the primary tooltip, this visual cue helps your brain quickly understand which tooltip is for the target item and which tooltip is the comparison tooltip
  
• Secondary tooltip inventory slots are now outlined using the color of the secondary tooltip border to help visually connect the two
  
• New artwork for freeze crystals
  
• Exploding barrels now do effects at all possible target locations
  
• Fixed exploding barrels being ultra deadly to players
  
• Thieflings can no longer steal from your equipped weapons
  
• Theiflings now have less extra actions per turn (1 extra now) when have stolen goods in their bag
  
• Yeti's will no longer try to freeze you if you've been frozen with 4 turns
  
• Harpies will no longer try to silence you if you've been silenced within 2 turns
  
• Malevolence damage reduced
  
• Followers are now healed when the player drinks a health potion
  
• Added in world text for healing via potion
  
• Added tutorial with dialog when the first follower heal occurs
  
• Shield now protects you from yeti freeze
  
• Lowered xp and defense modifier boots from 50% to 20%
  
• Overseer now casts wall a lot less
  
• Better enemy selection so that you see less repeats and instead see stuff you haven't seen in a while
  
• Champions now summon one less wave of monsters
  
• Tweaked champion scared health thresholds
  
• Blob replication chanced reduced to 50% from 75% on damaged
  
• All healing shrines now refill over time
  
• Health potions can now drop, they have a very low chance to drop most of the time, but if you are low on health and have no more health potions left they chance increased a small amount to try and help you out
  
• Reduced the ceiling drop rate of vendor upgrade resources
  
• New game trailer with updated content
  

Major Changes

• New artwork for the opening Wayside Inn scene
  
• Harpy now has the ability to silence targets for 10 turns. Silenced targets cannot equip or cast magic spells.
  
• Overseer enemy now has an ability to smack the ground and raise stalagmites surrounding the target
  
• Yeti breath attack now freezes the player for 1 turn and yeti now has two moves per normal turn
  
• Disturbing now has a bite attack and a magic attack that can turn other enemies invisible
  
• Disturblings now have a 50% chance of starting out invisible when spawned
  

Minor Changes

• Follower can no longer switch weapons and attack on the same turn
  
• Turns are now longer skipped just by opening your inventory, however if you modify any equipped items it
• will* use a turn when you return to the game field and in world text will appear on your character saying "Equipped"
  
• Item buy prices are now displayed in red if you can't afford to buy the item
  
• Quests can now be abandoned from the Quest UI off the Town Inn or Backpack UI if the quest is not for the current level and is not a main storyline quest
  
• Banish is now an instant skill and works on multiple targets at once within a radius
  
• Increased the healing amount from the regroup skill and reduced the cost
  
• Fixed comparision selection logic for bows and chakrams to prefer other bows and chakrams before comparing with other ranged weapons (daggers)
  
• New art for town intro cinematic taken from in game and character art
  
• Added 5 new shields to the game and replaced art on a few of the existing shields
  
• Bosses now teleport when they become trapped and have nowhere to move
  
• Increased potions in town at supply shop to 4
  
• Decreased potion cost
  
• Added healing shrines that refill in the boss rooms
  
• Champions and Boss quality monsters now summon one more wave of minions
  
• Followers now avoid traps and hazards
  
• Malevolence fireball now has a lower burn chance and burns for only 2 turns instead of 3
  
• Wandering merchants will now always appear somewhere on the next to last level in a dungeon chain (beyond the starter dungeon)
  
• After defeating a Guild Wizard boss, the entire player party is now healed and negative status effects are removed
  
• Leveling up will now also remove negative modifiers
  
• Healing shrines now also remove negative modifiers on your player
  
• Bosses and champions now become scared for less turns (down to 5 from 10) at most health threshold events
  
• Decreased the credit from item sales for vendor upgrade by -10%
  
• Force magic weapon drop in first dungeon after 10 hostile kills with follower and is a chakram or bow
  
• Combat affixes for fast and element immunity no longer appear on bosses until 25% through the game
  
• Reduced duration of Fire Giant flame from 4-6 to 2-3 turns
  
• Malevolence damage reduced
  
• Sentinal range reduced by 1
  
• Thiefling scared for +2 more turns to a total of 5 turns (keeping in mind they have 3 actions per 1 player turn)
  
• Wandering Merchant always now has at least 3 health potions
  
• Stalagmite spell range increased by 1
  
• Thieflings are no longer allowed to be champions or quest bosses for now (too deadly until tech can be added to tone their summons back)
  
• There is now a short cinematic animation when you return to town after completing an elemental rift where the camera zooms to the gem and the Guild Wizard sigil appears around the gem
  
• Slightly reduced the sizes of medium and large dungeon levels
  
• Reduced upgrade cost of vendors by 25%
  
• Skip turn visual feedback is now in world text that appears on the player
  

Major Changes

• All 18 spells across 6 schools of magic are now implemented
  
• There is now a set of gems in town that fill up over time, when each elemental dungeon is available a gem lights up, and once the boss is defeated his sigil wraps the gem.
  
• New Spell: Force of Nature, Launch a directed ball of energy that strikes enemies within X tiles dealing Y as it travels a maximum distance of Z tiles.
  
• New Spell: Shield, creates a damage absorbing barrier around the caster and blocks some special attacks
  
• New Spell: Ignite, Creates a circle of expanding flame from the caster
  
• New spell: Anomaly, Summons a cosmic anomaly that follows you and transmutes enemies into various objects
  
• New spell: Boulder, Throw a massive boulder dealing earth damage with a high chance to knock the target back one tile
  
• Freeze now summons a small group of clouds that rise up from the ground, snow down, and attempt to freeze any targets below them.
  
• Second pass at all dialog is now integrated across all mainline quests
  
• The cast of characters for town structures and all quests have been updated to the new story dialog
  

Minor Changes

• Fireball no longer has a chance to burn the target if the completely blocked the fireball attack
  
• Fixed Albatross doing double damage with its electric field skill (disabled "combat at target" flag in the skill like the players is)
  
• Shield now takes 15 elements to cast
  
• Stalagmites, Electric Fields, and Sentinels are now saved and therefore exist between save games and level transitions
  
• Stalagmites now last for more turns as the spell levels up
  
• Steal can now only be executed against players and no longer against followers or summoned sentinel actors
  
• Sentinel now tries to summon itself near to the enemy that is furthest away from you
  
• Sentinel is now limited to 5 total, when summoning the 6th sentinel, the oldest one will be destroyed
  
• Pallom is now found in the first dungeon and returns to Antarit with you
  
• Pallom now inhabits the vault in town
  
• Alnar now inhabits the supply depot in town
  
• The first spell now drops on the last level of the first intro dungeon
  
• The player is now automatically transported to the first dungeon after reading the scroll in the Wayside Inn, a portal no longer appears that the player has to walk through