Hi folks! I haven’t written one of these in a while. We’ve been busy with some… really exciting stuff related to modding that we should be able to announce soon.
But in the meantime I wanted to showcase two excellent modders’ works, lccorp2 and FaxCelestis.
Radiant Wizard by lccorp2“You have immersed yourself in the energies of all things luminous to gain great power, at the cost of your physical body deteriorating.”
Two quick things, because… well, we’ve been working hard lately, and we want you to know that!
First: the Indie Megabooth at PAX East was, by all accounts, an epically awesome thing. So obviously the only reasonable thing for me to do was talk to the great guys over at Fire Hose Games about getting in on the party for PAX Prime! It’s still super early to tell what exactly is going down, but chances are very good that we’ll be there, showing off one or two of a few of our super secret projects. I’ll fill you in when I know a bit more about what’s going on. Also, they probably won’t be super secret for that much longer, we just have an over-abundance of scheming to catch up on.
Secondly, it’s official, we now have Top Men working on secret Dredmor toys. The first prototypes of the plush diggle are currently being developed by our people on the inside at ShouldBee.com, but as soon as we have some pictures for you guys we’ll let you know.
Here's a picture of the cause of most of David's spelling errors.
Dungeons of Dredmor has now been updated across all distributions and all platforms: Steam, the Humble Download Page, Desura, and GameFly (our bonus new distributor!) So far, the only problem we are aware of is that the skills for Realm of the Diggle Gods are not installing correctly in the GameFly build only; we are looking into this with Gamefly, and hope to have it resolved as soon as possible. There have also been reports of some people being able to wear cheese as armour, but that’s neither here nor there.
The full change log for the patch is reproduced under the cut. If you have any feedback on the new patch – balance changes and complaints, bug reports, praise, suggestions, or simply wish to enjoy the complementary Lutefisk samples, please don’t hesitate to let us know on our forums.
So what do we do for an encore? Stand by for … three announcements.
In the mean time, why not buy some shirts? (Or, for that matter, stickers.)
… we’ll just leave these here.
Choose Your Skills - anywhere you like, feel free.
Oh, it's just so little!
In 2012 … Evil Has A Whole New Dimension
The stars are right, and you know what that means: It is the privilege and pleasure of Gaslamp Games to announce Dungeons of Dredmor II 3D, a sequel to the rather strange 2011 Indie Roguelike hit Dungeons of Dredmor (called Indie Game of the Year by the madmen of PC Gamer Magazine).
Suddenly, a pre-alpha screenshot appears! Click to view full size.
A first look at the dungeon. Using lots of placeholder assets for now, so please pardon the mess.
Like any respectable developer, Gaslamp Games acknowledges that once you’ve got something good, the only rational course of action is to beat yearly sequels out of the IP. Given that we could afford to hire some more artists and rustle up some Maya licenses, the obvious move was to take Dungeons of Dredmor in an entire new direction where we can explore additional, ahem, depths of gameplay yet unseen.
Dungeons of Dredmor II 3D Features
As an independent studio, Gaslamp Games is uniquely poised to create revolutionary new gameplay features that would be stifled in the publisher-dominated game industry. New features include:
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Dredmor 2 will be launching on all fine Social Gaming Platforms near you. Have your credit cards ready.
Patch 1.0.10 is slowly making its way through the various distribution channels. Desura has it up, and hopefully the Humble Bundle webstore will have it up shortly. We’ve run into a slight hiccup with Steam – I have to get the previously packaged off of our old build machine and onto our new build machine, which has involved (amongst other things) rebuilding its RAID array. Hopefully that will be up around Tuesday.
We are also pleased to announce that Dungeons of Dredmor is now available on GameFly! You can pick up Dredmor and Realm of the Diggle Gods as a complete package for a mere $3.75 – go buy some Dredmor today!
Yet more strange icons? What could it possibly mean!
When I started working on 1.0.10 at the start of this year, one of the things I asked myself was how to improve our patching process – or how to stop horribly game-breaking patches from happening ever again. First, let us review the Dredmor patch history:
0.9 -> 1.0.0 – The Greatest Crashing Beta Test Ever of 2011.
1.0.0 – Dredmor released with mysterious audio crashing problems, exposed by a change to the audio code at the last minute.
1.0.1 – Fixed the audio crash.
1.0.2 – Fixed the audio crash which was exposed by the fix for the first audio crash.
1.0.3 – Zillions of bugfixes.
1.0.4 – A hastily released patch after 1.0.3 broke save game compatibility with 1.0.2, and the laser-like glare of the Eye of Sauron turned upon me. (And I wept.)
1.0.5 – Was reasonably boring and nothing happened.
1.0.6 – Broke achievements; was hotfixed. (Some people consider this version a “classic” Dredmor for some reason.)
1.0.7 – Humble Bundle build; added Linux support and, also, bonus crashing.
1.0.8 – Diggle Gods build. Included things like “the n-Dimensional Lathe, a giant, crashing, unexploded bomb”, things not giving people the correct stats, crashing mysterious portals, eleventy billion broken tutorials…
1.0.9 – Patch for everything that went wrong with the Diggle Gods build. Added crashing bookcases, crashing savegames, save game corruption, and stuff not loading in the mod launcher. This also marked the start of the attempts at fixing the “belt eating problem.”
1.0.9 REV B – patch for all of these things, some of which actually stayed patch.
One of the conclusions that I reached was that a lot of the really bad problems (save game compatibility; n-dimensional lathe; hideous random audio crashes) were things that showed up when we had a thoroughly tested build, made one small change to it, and then put up the build with that one small change (which, consequently, was the change that broke everything.) As a result, we decided to instigate a new policy: any time we make any change to a Dredmor release candidate, no matter how small, the patch goes out for testing and is banged upon for at least 48 hours (preferably 72) before we ship it. Dredmor 1.0.10 is the first build we’re shipping with this new policy; we hope it works out well for all parties concerned, but it does mean that deadlines are a little hit or miss.
As always, thanks for your patience! We will try to keep the forums updated on where we stand in the QA process. If you want to grab patch RC7 and try it out, OS X and Windows versions are now available in our forums.
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