Despite the blackout in Ukraine, we managed to update the game. And we have new fixes and features for you!
Bug report - now you can send us a bug report, along with information about crashes and game saves. That way we can more effectively fix the game.
Balance fixes - the game has become easier. Now difficult opponents are encountered much later in the game.
Magic Table - now available at the beginning of the game. Allows you to Ascend cards of magic, creatures and equipment.
Ascension adds new features to your cards.
Mode to choose the need to draw. Now there are two choices at the beginning of the game:
Don't draw. You don't have to draw new cards to use them.
The magic of drawing. New cards have to be drawn. You get a bonus +50% experience in the game.
And other fixes:
Ally behavior fix - now you can attack enemies from the same faction as your ally.
Fix cards with magic reflection - now they reflect magic.
Small interface and text fixes.
Bugreports, draw mode and various fixes
You now can report bugs directly from game! Just press "Report a bug" or F2 button. This will send us logs and relevant information needed to replicate your bug and fix it.
Draw mode! Now when starting a new game you can choose if you want to redraw all your cards. Those who do will get more experience. Those who don't want to draw that much now will have the option to skip it.
Balance fixes! Basically the game is easyer now.
Lots of minor bug fixes.
Whew! We fixed purchases!
Let us tell a little about how purchases work in the game. There are only three places where you can buy something.
Purchase 1. You can unlock an additional character when you start a new game.
Purchase 2 You can buy x2 boosts for experience, gold and essence. They will remain in effect until the character you are playing dies. Boosts are sold by the Goblin Merchant at the Bar "Drunken Rat"
Purchase 3 You can open the option of using the original images on the cards, without having to draw them. For those who don't want to draw at all. You can open in the "Image Archive" in the Drawing Editor at the bottom right.
The last important thing to talk about purchases. By buying something in the game, you help us with the development of Sketch Crawler, because we won't last long without money and the project would have to stop. Once it happened with Sketch Tales when we ran out of money and had to freeze it until better times.
Tell us what you think about purchases. Maybe you have some interesting ideas about it.
Purchases don't work in the game
Unfortunately, you can' t buy anything in the game right now. We are working on this and we will definitely write when we fix it.
Widescreen support
Now the game can be comfortably played on super wide monitros! Tested it on 32:9 aspect ratio, and also on 4:3, everything looks good. Have fun!
Sketch Crawler comes out in Early Access on November 15!
Yay, we're releasing Early Access! After a long 4 years of development and experimentation the game became something solid and playable, which we are happy to share with you. Sketch Crawler has evolved significantly, compared to the demo it added a lot of new mechanics, cards, locations, creatures and so on.
What awaits you in the early access?
The game is fully playable to the very end. It uses procedural level generation, has 4 main locations, 300+ characters and 300+ magic cards. There are also options to draw any card or item in the game, and even re-sound the characters.
What's next
Although the game is already passable, it's still not complete. We will continue to develop the game by adding new card mechanics, locations, quests, and characters. We also plan to add a user-generated content sharing system.
Please write us, what do you think about Sketch Crawler? How would you like to see it? What should we focus our attention on?
Thanks for playing!
Sketch Crawler Demo longplay
Big update v0.2!
Welcome, travelers!
It's that exciting moment of big update!
We completely redesigned the tutorial to make it easier and clearer.
Changed rest mechanics. Now, if there are no enemies nearby, it will restore health, mana and reshuffle cards when you press "R". This greatly simplifies understanding and playing the game.
A lot of work has been done on the balance of cards, creatures, and colorbuffs.
Fixed a lot of bugs
AI Update
creatures can dodge player casts
react better to player casts
react to artifacts
rest when there are no enemies and health is less than 100%
cease to cast a second cast on themselves if they have already had that cast
AI go into a panic attack not at 100% chance
ADDED
timed furniture cards that can be used to block the passageways
many new cards for furniture, walls etc
FIXES.
Removed timer for reshuffle cards, now this function is performed by Rest
Improved level generation - bad levels are cut off
Fixed loss of a player card if you ran away in an ally
Hidden player card in the collection
After game over, player goes straight to the starting room
Player receives experience if an ally killed the enemy
Added clear descriptions if the player can not use the card due to lack of mana, limits on cast, lack of free space, etc.
Nullified the player's progression when he enters a new dungeon
Added ability to redraw all the same cards that are already redrawn
NPC characters no longer block the passageways
Removed additional dungeons with quest obstacles
Removed damage dealt when chasing player on next level.
Improved card randomness in sealed decks, now a maximum of three creatures and at least one damaging card
Improved variety of random cards
Save the state of laying creatures, when you pass to another level
On the cards taken out of the dungeon added an star after the name. These cards are lost when you lose and are returned after defeating megabosses (such as Evil Sketch or Bumblebopsy)
No quest cards show up during FUSE
Improved description of effects on cards
Enjoy the game and thanks for being with us!
Early Access Spring 2022
Welcome, travelers!
We're happy to announce that Sketch Crawler is coming out early access in Spring 2022.
There will be lots of new, fun, and exciting things to come.
