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Winter Wrap-Up

December 17, 2011 by Nicholas Vining

First off: we are amazingly honored to find ourselves on some “best of 2011” lists. In particular, IndieGames has declared Dungeons of Dredmor to be their sixth best independent game of 2011, against some very stiff competition (and, amazingly, beating out Bastion, a game we really enjoyed.) Even more mindboggling is the fact that we’ve been nominated as one of the five best RPGs for the PC for 2011 over at the IGN Network – next to Bastion, the Witcher 2, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, and a little game called Skyrim that nobody’s ever heard of. This is basically like being nominated for an Oscar – you may not win, because you’re up against a ringer – but hey, you’re still Oscar-nominated!

We’re also in IndieDB’s “Top 100 Indie Games of 2011” – vote for us here – and we’re still neck in neck with ToME 4 over at the ASCII Dreams Roguelike blog, where the battle between a commercial roguelike and one of the best new free traditional roguelikes of this year has caused no end of controversy. (I say this not having played ToME, but I’m making it my business to do so over the holidays.) Feel free to vote for us at these things if you think we deserve your voting love.

In non horn-tooting news:

Monday, we released patch 1.0.8, shortly followed by patch 1.0.8b, and patch 1.0.8c (fixing the invasion of the Giant Pink Scorpion Diggles on OS X.) Thursday, after some hiccups, we got the Realm of the Diggle Gods up on Steam, and we’re delighted that the feedback has been universally positive. Everybody is having fun, and everybody seems to think it’s worth $2.99. Friday, just to put the icing on the cake, I successfully defended my Master’s Thesis in Computer Science, which I have been quietly writing in the background while all of this development has been going on. Finishing that project, however, has meant that I am a little behind on Support Things this week; under normal circumstances, we would probably have been a little better organized.

Accordingly, here is a run-down of where we currently are on All of The Things.

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Patch 1.0.8 is up; the DLC is not.

December 12, 2011 by Nicholas Vining

Patch 1.0.8 has now hit The Steam. We’ll be pushing patches out to the Humble Indie Bundle download-page and to Desura shortly. There are a few crashes that slipped by us – most notably, one crash in the crafting system, one crash drinking the new Diggle Nog, and one crash with the new vending machine looting; we’ll be mopping those up and putting out a hotfix tonight. We’re also not sure what’s going on with OS X yet, other than “a very bad thing”, but we’re trying to get this sorted out as well. Our current theory is that Dredmor is being haunted by the vengeful ghost of Steve Jobs, who was never keen on having games for OS X anyway.

… so, yeah. Hang tight, we’ll get this sorted, and in the mean time don’t drink the Diggle Nog. (This is good advice for life.)

DLC: We’re still waiting on a release date from Valve for this, but it is done. Unfortunately, the media seems to be running with the idea that it is out today as well. It’s not. It’ll be a bit; everything gets very silly at Christmas.

There has also been a request for a Changelog: we’ve posted it below.

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Realm of the Diggle Gods! Roadmap Post! and More…

December 6, 2011 by Nicholas Vining

Diggles for The Diggle God! And don't ask where that throne's been either.
Praise be to Krong, for you have participated in the Ancient Krongian ritual of the Humble Indie Bundle, and lo, the Children and the Internets are saved from poverty (to the tune of a cool $778,000.00-ish.) Lo, we hath generated over $200,000.00 for the Charities, and hath contributed to a project with many fine indie developers, some of whom are now labouring over games based on Prison Architecture. Of this, Krong mightily approves – and we have many new Dredmor players besides! All praise to Krong, et cetera.

So what else doth he have in store for you?

– 1.0.7: Now that the Humble Bundle is over, Krong is free from the chains of his period of exclusivity and is eager to spread the gospel of a new patch, with a female hero and mod support and all manner of good and crafty things besides.

But lo,

– 1.0.8: is just about done, and should be out either Thursday or Friday. So he shalt simply wait until then, and pass the savings on via Steam and Desura (and yea, to the Humble Bundle customers besides.) All praise to Krong, for he doth not force you to run the auto-updater more so than usual.

and yea:

– Linux Humble Bundle users: let it be known, Krong feels your pain from his throne covered in the flesh of the finest penguins. We hath addressed your issues, and lo, we hath rolled our fixes into Dredmor patch 1.0.8 – for it is good patch, and it doth fix the random crashes and the general instability.

Last but not least, there is an expansion. It is spoken of in the words of the great prophecy, wherein dwarves with giant beards do toil over the finest of new levels and features. Soon! Soon a sign shall come to the Youtubes, in the form of a great Trailer, and the chosen of Krong shalt follow the hyperlink to the trailer wherein all his mysteries shalt be revealed, including a release date which is much, MUCH closer than you think.

And yea, the name of the expansion shalt be:

The Realm of the Diggle Gods.

That is all. As you were.

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Dungeons of Dredmor: Now in the Humble Indie Bundle!

November 29, 2011 by Nicholas Vining

We’re a little late posting about this one, but let’s make it official: Dungeons of Dredmor has just been added to the Humble Introversion Bundle. Pay what you want to get four great games by legendary software developers Introversion – Uplink! Darwinia! DEFCON! Multiwinia! – and if you beat the average, not only will you get your very own, DRM-free copy of Dungeons of Dredmor PLUS a Steam key if you want it, but you’ll also get Aquaria AND Crayon Physics. Your money gets split however you want it to split – you can send all your money to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, or to Child’s Play, or to us, or you can split it however you wish. Both charities are amazing and deserve some of your money.

As an added bonus: because they’re awesome and have donated enormous amounts of money to children/The Internet, we’re letting the Humble Indie Bundle customers preview Dungeons of Dredmor build 1.0.7 a little bit before everybody else. Note that this is for the direct download version only; the Steam version is still 1.0.6. We’ll be updating the Steam build as soon as our exclusivity period ends, … although depending on our schedule, and how many bugs show up in 1.0.7 that missed our QA process, we may just put up 1.0.8 instead.

What are you waiting for? Go, and think of the Children and/or Internet!

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We’re Having a Sale!

November 23, 2011 by Nicholas Vining

Yes, folks, it’s Autumn Sale time at Uncle Gabe’s Crazy Discount Warehouse. For the next week, you can get Dungeons of Dredmor at a whopping 50% off – that’s $2.49, less than the cost of a latte!

What are you waiting for? Go! Go buy all the games!

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Desura Now Available for Linux

November 17, 2011 by Nicholas Vining

Good news, everybody! The official Linux client for Desura is now out of beta and can be grabbed from Desura’s website.

This might be a good time to buy yourself some Dredmor for Linux if you haven’t done so yet. (And get yourself a shirt to wear while you play it.)

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Get Your Dredmor Shirts Here!

November 15, 2011 by Nicholas Vining

The battle for supremacy between Good and Evil has now spread from your computer… onto your chest.

Yes! Dungeons of Dredmor shirts are now available, from the good people at TopatoCo. Choose from one of four scintillating designs, covered in David’s lavish artwork, and printed on high quality shirts of Tee. Show your Diggle Hate! Encrust yourself with the rune of the Lutefisk God! Show the world that you need more mana, and must drink more booze – perfect for those wizardly pub crawls.

But wait, there’s more. You can *also* buy yourself a swanky pack of Dredmor stickers – five stickers, for six dollars.

Brax says: Buy Things Today!

(For those inquiring about stuffed Diggles: this is a trial run. If we sell enough shirts, stickers, and other flippantry, who knows? Anything is possible.)

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64-Bit Linux Crash Hotfix

October 17, 2011 by Nicholas Vining

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.

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