Anyone remember Darklands? Great game. Anyway here's a shot of our new hero beating up a Blobby.
Apparently we like making a ton of work for ourselves. Lots of new stuff coming along in the next patch and the talented Mr. Chris Triolo is doing some lovely new sprites for us starting with our female hero up there. Methinks we’ll be seeing more from him in coming months.
Now back to the pixel-mines to hack new UI elements from the treacherous deeps.
As you may have heard, the cat is officially out of the bag: we are going to be offering a paid expansion for Dredmor. While rumors about the possible inclusion of eyebrow-wigs are totally unfounded, evidently… um, this is something people are interested in! We’ll do some testing involving cubes with eyebrows in physics puzzles and see what happens. The Expansion is planned to be released before the end of the year.
As far as actual content, there will definitely be:
One of the exciting things that is coming out of the expansion is that we are finally implementing our mod system in all its splendour and using it to implement the expansion, which means that all of the things mentioned in the above list you will be able to tinker with to your heart’s content. We are really looking forward to seeing what you guys come up with in this regard, and hope you’ll share your creations with us! The mod patch, which will also include our fantastic red haired heroine, should be ready for your perusal sometime next month.
There is a crash in the current 64-bit Linux build of Dungeons of Dredmor. We’ve tracked it down and fixed it for you.
Desura users: we have sent an update to Desura, and it should be downloadable at some point today.
Steam users: just grab a new binary from us here.
What’s coming to Dredmor in the near future? I’ll leave the answer to that question to frivolous hearsay and idle speculation. (Please, if you so desire, commence!)
Dungeons of Dredmor is now available for Windows and 32-bit/64-bit Linux on Desura! Yes, that’s right, we’re on the best thing to come out of Australia since Mann Co. Buy it now, play it on Windows, and enjoy the Linux version as soon as the Desura client for Linux is out of beta testing. (They tell me that this should be any day now.)
Better yet, we’ll sweeten the pot! Click this button, and get Dungeons of Dredmor for 10% off – this week only! That’s right – you can go out and buy yourself Dungeons of Dredmor for only $4.49.
As we noted in the previous blog update, we now have Linux binaries. In fact, we snuck them into the Steam distribution, so that those of you who bought the game from us on Steam can install it and run it natively on Linux. The port is done! It’s up to date. The distribution methods, though, are a bit arcane… so pay attention! There will be a quiz.
There will be two – at least! – separate channels for purchasing a Linux build of Dungeons of Dredmor that do not require fiddling about with WINE. This option is only suggested if you bought the game on Steam for Windows, and want to run it under Linux. If you have *not* purchased the game, we recommend you wait until we have a better distributor for your needs. That said, the following is a crash course in how to build it.
1. Install WINE. Install Steam under WINE. Install Dredmor, from Steam, under WINE.
2. Find where Steam has hidden Dredmor on your computer. In general, it will be somewhere like Steam/steamapps/common/Dungeons of Dredmor
3. Copy all that stuff out onto your Linux box in the location of your choice.
4. From that directory, run chmod +x Dredmor* {amd64,x86}/*
5. Run Dredmor.
6. Note that Diggles are not like penguins, and will not give you free software and/or herring. In fact, they want to kill you.
Linux is still somewhat in beta, as it hasn’t gotten much testing. Please let us know how it goes.
We’ve uploaded Dredmor 1.0.6 to Steam, and it’s all yours to enjoy. Let us know if anything asplodes.
EDIT: Changelog copied and pasted from the changelog below. I’m sure some other stuff snuck in, too, but we’ll see. For the guy who keeps asking us to support 150% DPI fonts – we had a fix in, but it turns out it broke all of Windows XP and I had to take it out this morning. So we’re still working on your problem. 🙂
Here’s how it works:
Let’s say the deadline is November 8, 2011 — this gives you lots of time to confound your friends by dressing up for Halloween as something they’ve probably never heard of.
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