Ziggurat
Ziggurat available now!
It's also available on the Humble Store, in case you prefer it that way.
We're working into giving players who purchased the game in Early Access a gift for your support, in the form of a free game.
Don't forget to comment on the forums your impressions, as we plan on adding more content and updates to the game in the near future :)
Update #17: Final touches prior to release!
- New hand and wand models for each character.
- Improved character selection screen, now it should be easier to use and understand.
- Minor grammar fixes on some perk texts
- Fixed some issues with icons of the last weapon batch
- Reduced amount of health Poloko recovers when spawning minions
- Increased gamepad dead zone on menu.
- Improved shift key detection on key customization dialog.
- Reduced King Blob health
- Mana pouch bars are sized relative to each other (up to a point)
- When damaged, you can see the direction where the damage comes from.
- Changed Skull of Xanatos' alternate attack model, so there is a more obvious difference.
- Increased visual size of Armor blast attack.
- Reduced chance of barrels dropping acid when broken.
- Game ending will change depending on player performance (number of rooms cleared)
- The Secret room cutscene will be enabled only once.
- Added an option to reduce HUD size.
We'll also be resetting the leaderboards soon.
Update #16: Balancing and bugfixes
- Fixed checkbox telling on what difficulty you've won the game with each character being shown when the character is still locked.
- Mitigated some FPS spikes that were introduced in Update #14.
- Fixed wand card descriptions.
- Added Hungarian language
- Improved state effect shaders so it doesn't look weird when enemies are moving.
- Cockatrice: Increased threat value to better reflect their performance
- Slime / Green slime: Reduced threat value to better reflect their performance
- Necromancer: Reduced threat value to better reflect their performance
- Flying armor: Reduced damage inflicted by fire
- King Blob: Reduced damage inflicted by area attack and big projectiles.
- Examiner Cepheus: Increased health
- Scarab Staff: Reduced mana usage
- Staff of Atlantis: Increased mana usage
- Viper fangs: Reduced mana usage
- Dark Cannon: Reduced fire rate and damage
- Porcupine bomb: Reduced fire rate, Increased mana usage, reduced number of spikes per grenade
- Dragon's Bile: Increased mana usage
- Mana Burst: Reverted to triple mana usage
- Enraged: You no longer lose health when selecting this perk.
- High Stakes: Increased chance of success.
- Bloodlust: Reduced a bit effectiveness.
Update #15: New boss and wands!
- New Level 1 Boss: King Blob (name's not necessarily final). It'll probably need a bit more balancing, it's probably easier than the other L1 bosses right now.
- Each character has now a slightly different wand (still weaker than most standard weapons).
- Added sounds to the alternate fires of some weapons
- Your current health / mana numbers are shown in the character details screen
- Fixed some issues with water reflections that were introduced in the previous update.
- Added a warning when trying to start a new game, and there's a saved game.
- Other minor bugfixes
Update #14: Alternate fire, bugfixes and improved performance!
* NOTE * You'll probably have to rebind or revert the Zoom key, otherwise it will share the same action as the secondary fire.
- All weapons have now a secondary fire mode (Right click by default). It's usually a stronger variation of the attack, or a special shot that induces state effects.
- Some changes that should improve performance, specially on bigger levels. This may have caused some bugs here and there, please report if you find anything.
- A small improvement in water rendering performance on high levels of detail.
- Minimap icons are now properly shown when Rotate map is enabled.
- Added models, sounds and effects for the weapons added in the last update
- Bosses can now be poisoned.
- Increased poison damage over time
- Shrines won't be activated if you can't pay the price, instead of punishing you.
- Reduced number of Kobolds spawned by Poloko.
- Drops, weapons, etc shouldn't slide that much, so they won't fall into lava in Challenge rooms.
- Shielded Skeletons aren't allowed to be Green champions.
- Reduced a bit the damage hitbox for Shielded skeletons.
With this update, we think the game is mostly feature complete, and will focus on balance and general polish for a few weeks before release.
Next week we'll be attending Madrid Games Week http://www.madridgamesweek.com/ and show the game there, so if you happen to be on Madrid by 17-19th, don't forget to pass by and say hi!
Update #13: Lots of new content, balancing and bugfixes!
- Two new enemies: Slime and Green Slime
- 7 new weapons. Most of them are still in the works and haven't been properly balanced. Feel free to comment on the forums :)
- 5 new perks. Their card hasn't been drawn yet.
- Changed the way perks are selected on level up, now you may have to choose between two upgradeable perks.
- The mouse should be trapped while playing on windowed mode (only on Windows)
- Enemies on obelisk rooms can drop health items as in normal rooms (but not experience)
- Obelisks have less health on higher levels
- Fixed some ragdoll physics weirdness
- Should have improved performance a bit on specific situations
- Mouse buttons can be remapped
- Fixed some pending achievement issues
- Balanced enemies:
Carrots: Reduced threat value
Mini Golems: Increased threat value
Skeletons: Increased threat value, Reduced fire rate
Skeleton sentries: Increased threat value, Reduced fire rate
Shield skeletons: Increased attack area and speed (still easy to dodge, but not as easy as before).
Armor and Flying armors: Attacks at point blank aren't instantaneous.
Demons: Reduced their homing attacks tracking power.
Cockatrices: Reduced a bit hit damage. - Fire Mortar: Increased damage area.
- Fixed some issues with obelisk particles
- Now weapons are shown on the character details screen
- New corridor variations
Also we've made a new trailer in the store page, check it out!
Update #12: Minor bugfixes
- Fixed Save & Quit not properly storing the current level.
- Reduced a bit the chances of bad effects in shrines.
Update #11: New enemy, balancing, bugfixes!
- New high level enemy: Bone summoner, very dangerous. Probably too dangerous right now, be warned!
- Added a hint when you approach a shrine so you know what's going to happen
- Permanent shrine effects are shown on the player details screen
- Done some changes to character classes for better balance and differentiation
- State effects: Removed Burn state effect, adjusted some other weapons.
- Added a more visible indication that a drop is going to disappear
- Added an option to disable game tips (still not fully functional)
- Fixed some Amulet HUD bugs
- Improved sounds and visuals of many weapons
- Fixed some issues with the new achievements
- Changed how Regeneration perk works.
- Added lots of new shrine effects
- The number of kills required to unlock an entry in the bestiary is shown.
- Removed autosave and added a "Save & Quit" option between levels.
- Removed Attract mode.
- Increased drop rate when breaking decorations
- Challenge rooms with moving platforms have now more stones and logs in the lava so it's easier to go back to the start.
Update #10: Bugfixes & minor balance changes
- New room type: Shrine rooms. On these rooms, you may pray the gods for assistance, and offer a health / mana sacrifice.
- Added state effects, such as freeze, poison, fire, etc. to some weapons.
- New perks and amulets
- Flying enemies now use pathfinding, they shouldn't get stuck that usually.
- Increased the amount of perks initially unlocked.
- Added more achievements.
- Reduced a bit New Game+ difficulty
- Changed "New Game+" to Hard, to better reflect its actual meaning.
- Improved visuals of Skeletons.
- Amulets have now its own 3D model.
- Changed amulet icons on the HUD so they are similar to the weapon icons.
- Improved boss intros with particle effects and sounds.
- Added a few new rooms.
- Fixed minor issues with the amulet HUD
- Added new Lore texts
Update #9: Bugfixes & minor balance changes
- Fixed "Out of breath" & "Adrenaline rush" room modifier texts being mixed up.
- Fixed "Red/Blue/Green crystal" room modifier effect not working properly
- Fixed "Doppleganger" room modifier effect not working properly
- Fixed "Hatchery" room modifier effect causing for some enemies to stay out of attack distance.
- Fixed pathfinding issues that caused FPS drops on the new bridge rooms
- Sprint can be cancelled by pressing A/D (or equivalent)
- Fixed character selection screen not working properly
- Improved Shielded Skeleton graphics
- Serpent Staff - Reduced a bit projectile speed, Increased a bit shot spread
- Fire Mortar - Increased shot range
- Skull of Xanatos - Decreased mana usage
- Skeleton - Increased a bit threat value to match its actual performance
- Red skeleton - Increased a bit threat value to match its actual performance
- Shielded skeleton - His attack is now a bit faster (still easy to dodge if you have the space).