Genre: Simulator, Strategy, Indie, Card & Board Game
Spellcaster University
Update 0.99 - Sly Disciple
A smaller update, but one that will still allow you to improve your teachers and offers you some new features of UI. But in the meantime, in the shadows, we are working towards the advent of 1.0...
Thank you again for your support. We're approaching the end of early access, and the game has come a long way in a year and a half, thanks to your feedback !
New: display of the number of identical cards played at the time of selection (probably the feature we have been asked for most since the beginning of the early access!), will only be accurate on new games.
New: end game info panel.
New: 5 new cards to specialize your teachers (one per magic school).
New: buffs logo for elves, deep-ones and half-orcs.
New: more events.
Balance : Sign of the Very Old Ones is much less effective (60% less).
Balance : Impact of the deep-one on the progress of the evil is much less effective (60% less).
Fix: fix a bug when the old teacher archetype clean a wall.
Fix: no more artifact placement sound at game loading.
Fix: global statistics are now well recorded at the end of a campaign.
Fix: end-of-game achievements are enabled.
Fix: student blocking on the cloud map fixed.
Fix: typos.
Fix: students no longer get stuck in the crypt.
Update 0.98 - Vengeful Archimage
A new update with new content and gameplay additions ! We also integrate the Steam cloud. We've always tried to ensure backward compatibility of savegames, but adding the Steam Cloud can eventually lead to some problems. We have tried to anticipate all possible scenarios, but if this update should cause you to lose access to your savegames, do not hesitate to report it here https://github.com/JulienNigon/SpellcasterUniversity-Bug-Report/issues. We will do our best to help you recover them.
:fatpegasus: New: 8 new musics :fatpegasus: New: 25 new futures: 5 per magical people (deep-ones, elves, vampires, werewolves and half-orcs) :fatpegasus: New: 7 new traits for teachers (former adventurer, love his job, learned...) :fatpegasus: New: Steam Cloud for saved games :fatpegasus: New: Levels of reputations with the factions granting you various bonuses and maluses. :fatpegasus: New: Manywings artifact, a weird creature very useful for alchemy. *** * Balance: event of the visit to the peasants rebalanced. * Balance: "Skull" artifact is half as effective now. * Balance: conditions to obtain a ghoul modified (because similar to the marionetist). * Balance: the acceleration factor of the evil beyond the normal time of a gameis increased from 280% to 380%. This means that if your game lasted twice as long as the "normal" time, the evil is moving at 380% of its normal speed. *** * Fix: the "Demanding" trait now works correctly. * Fix: the curves in the statistics book no longer go completely out of whack when a save is resumed. * Fix: it is no longer possible to accumulate several pieces of equipment on the same location (e.g. several staffs, several medallions, etc...) * Fix: when loading a save the students appear directly with their equipment. * Fix: the thaumaturges do not make any more mana with each recruitment of a new student. * Fix: the belvedere can be placed in mirror. * Fix: typos and ressources logo not showing when needed.
Update 0.97 Demonic Arcanist
A new alternative way to win for the last level, giving you more options. It is essentially based on being a generalist in your mana production, and on having a bit of luck. We will pay attention to your feedback to balance it in the next patches. We also added a whole set of statistics and logos for futures. We hope you'll like it!
:cutedragon: New: new alternative ending.
:cutedragon: New: new global statistics panel (in main menu). WARNING : The stats are only recorded since this update.
:cutedragon: New: new logo for all the futures.
Balance: delaying the progress of evil by visiting zombies is a bit more expensive.
Balance: strong acceleration of the Dark Lord's speed of arrival when the "normal" time of the game is exceeded. It is always possible to delay it greatly, but this will complicate infinite strategies.
Fix: less stressful sound for the volume control bars.
Fix: the advance of the forces of evil can no longer be negative.
Fix: correction of the transmutation mode (abnormal behavior of decks on several consecutive games).
Fix: buying a crypt from zombies now consumes mana correctly.
Fix: multiple objectives are correctly loaded and validated at the beginning of a new game.
Fix: Fairy Dragon now count as a dragon for quest purpose.
Fix: no more characters stuck in the pit of the assassins' arena.
Fix: displaying high level pieces of equipment no longer bugs in the stats book.
fix: text and zoom on card selection bug when hand too big.
Meta: uploading assets for the future "Donjon Project"
Stability patch 0.961
And here's another fix! Several crashes have been fixed. All the saves should be backwards compatible, so don't hesitate to open again your saved games that were possibly unstable. This is especially true if you had a crystal ball in your magic school: it was quite buggy...
Thanks for your support, we'll see you soon for the next content update!
Patch for MacOS
We have just deployed a patch that should considerably improve the management of saved games for MacOS users. Options and challenges should also be saved correctly from now on.
Sorry for these bugs and a big thank you for your patience. :cutedragon:
Update - 0.96 Wind Master
It took a while. It was the first stage of the roadmap and we are still a bit late, but here is a new content update! It focuses on new non-human students and the items that go with it. Don't be surprised if you don't come across them directly in your new games, they are rare until you have the artifacts that attract them.
New artifacts are not detailed in this changelog, we let you discover them by yourself...
New: Students could now be Elf. New: Students could now be Half-orc. New: Students could now be Deep-one. New: 9 new artefacts (often related to new students types). New: 3 new objects to wear for your students. New: 3 new recruitment cards (elf, half-orc, deep-one). New: tooltips with information on the potential regions in which the university could be established. New: MacOS 64 bit support.
Balance: natural dissipation rate of aberrations halved.
Fix: werewolf hair are now correctly colored. Fix: choirboy, undertaker and knight assistant are correctly labelled as instantaneous. Fix: global performance improvement on interface elements Fix: it is now possible to manually save in all levels, including the forest or the lake. Fix: the shadow-weaving spider works (at last) correctly. Fix: Inquisitor future no more affected by elementalism. Fix: Exorcist future has been purified and will not cause any more crashes.
Meta: collectable steam cards now available.
Thanks for your support <3
Stream - Games made in France event
Today, from 2:10pm to 2:40pm (CET) the Spellcaster University dev team will be live with MisterMV and Maghla, as part of the Games made in France event! The stream will be in French.
Updated roadmap
Hello to all the directors of magic schools. Here is a new roadmap for Spellcaster University. We've been overhauling a lot of things. We've been giving a lot of thought to the pace and replayability of the game over the past few months and our internal testing is quite encouraging. As usual, if our players come up with some great ideas, we might be able to adjust our schedule to make room for them! This means that these dates are not static (those who remember our first roadmap are fully aware of this ;) ). The next update is coming very very soon. Some pictures of what's waiting for you:
New update 0.95 - chinese available and promotion
We are very pleased to announce that Spellcaster University is now available in Chinese (simplified and traditional), thanks to our partner WhisperGames. To celebrate this, the game will be on promotion for one week. And more translations will follow!
The addition of these languages is accompanied by a series of patches. It is mainly a technical update (patches and engine improvements). The next one (which will arrive this autumn) is already dense in content, with 10 new artefacts and equipment and three new races for your students.
Thank you for your support!
Changelog
New: simplified chinese available
New: traditional chinese available
New: particle effect when playing a card giving mana.
Balance: the gain offered by the various learning artifacts has been standardized (which actually increases the effectiveness of some of them, such as the hourglass).
Balance: Ingredient cards no longer provide prestige, unlike other cards, when played.
Fix: removal of a bug causing slowdowns and sometimes crashes on the desert and turtle maps.
Fix: correct arrangement of buffs when a character has a lot of them.
Fix: removed a visual bug that made it look like arcane magic was always forbidden.
Fix: voice is now played as intended in french cinematic.
Fix: Tree Protector future no more affectnegative mana gain.
Fix: Runomancer future no more affectnegative mana gain.
Fix: The artifacts are no longer affected by the pedagogy of a potential teacher.
Fix: removed character stuck in village map.
Fix: fix an instability created by the Observatory.
Fix: Library artefact renamed Bookshelf (to avoid Library artefact to have the same name as the... Library room)
Fix: The transmutation challenge now correctly increases the effectiveness of the potions.
Meta: rewriting and cleaning of a specific part of the game for a big addition to the gameplay. Warm up your wands! But I won't say any more for now.
Postponement of update and promotion
Hello everyone. We announced on some networks the release of a new update today, including Chinese translations, as well as a promotion. Unfortunately due to a technical problem we have to postpone it for a few hours. The update and promotion will take place in 9 hours (at 10:00 am PST and 01:00 am in Beijing). Sorry for the wait. See you soon!
