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Well, You Sure Conquested Those Wizardlands

August 2, 2012 by Nicholas Vining

The feedback from CotW has been overwhelmingly positive, and in some cases stark raving bonkers. We also didn’t expect to break the Steam Top 10 yesterday; we ended up at #8, failing to defeat our hated nemesis, Skyrim. Not bad for DLC for a 1 year old indie game that’s about Drunken Wizards. We are thrilled that everybody is enjoying it, and we encourage you to keep enjoying it. (Enjoy responsibly, lest you end up like the Wizardkings themselves.)

Some minor service announcements:

  • A hotfix for some of the save game compatibility issues with 1.0.11 save games (and below) has been posted to our forums.
  • We have two critical bugs that we’re trying to fix as soon as possible. First is a crash upon entering/leaving mysterious portals (the ones from Diggle Gods, *not* the Wizardlands) and entering the pocket dimension (from Wizardlands.) In the mean time, we strongly suggest avoiding Mysterious Portals, no matter how tempting they may appear, as they may occasionally corrupt your saves. (This is actually good advice for surviving the Dungeons in General)
  • Second, users with non-ASCII user names on Windows may not be able to save the game at all. (This happens with Polish and Korean versions of Windows.) We’re trying to reproduce this and resolve it ASAP.
  • There will probably be a minor “first round of seriously patching” patch in about a week. We’ve fixed a number of the worst issues (a handful of crashes, some severe bugs with encrusting instability) and have sorted out some gameplay stuff, and we’ll keep putting up fires as we spot them.
  • HIB users: you should be getting your builds either tomorrow or Monday. Desura users, you should be up to date; we have now finally sorted out the issues with selling the final two expansion packs on Desura as well, so we will hopefully be up and running sometime next week over there. We’ll let you know when this happens. HIB customers, we hope to have the ability for you to buy our expansions directly from us any day now as well through our new Humble Store.

As always, we thank you for our patronage and are thrilled to see everybody enjoying yourselves and discovering new things. Watching the forums exploding in laughter and death is one of the best parts of the job.

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Dredmor Patch 1.1.1

August 1, 2012 by Daniel Jacobsen

EDIT: The traditional Gaslamp Games “we broke your saves” 0-day hotfix can be found here. — Nicholas

As is the Gaslamp Games tradition honoured by our ancestors, with the release of an expansion (maybe you’ve heard of it? Wizardlands?) we are also adding and fixing a bunch of stuff in the core Dungeons of Dredmor game.

The patch will go live alongside Conquest of the Wizardlands, which will be launching very very very soon.

Edit: As for 10:55am on August 1st, The Patch is Live!

Some choice highlights:

  • Two new skills and weapon types have appeared: Daggers and Polearms!
  • Larger UI controls are now on a per-element basis, rather than a global setting.
  • Minibosses has been added!
  • Nerfed Promethean Magic again!  We can’t send eagles to attack your abdomen so this is the best we can do.
  • Oh, and we added a Raven.  I guess we could have used that, but it get its own bullet point.
  • Added a Pocket Dimension for all your storage needs!  Requires finding a suitable set of Wizard’s keys.
  • Total rewrite of savegame system.  Saved games are now stored in directories, and mods are now embedded in those saved games.  Now, when your Steam Workshop mods update, it won’t update in the game you have been playing (which was a bad idea).
  • Mods published to the Steam Workshop are now automatically tagged to describe their content (new rooms, skills, monsters, et cetera).
Full changelog after the break.
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A Dredmor Patch And A Very Special Dredmor Sale

June 5, 2012 by David Baumgart

As if today wasn’t exciting enough, we’re also releasing patch 1.0.11 for Dungeons of Dredmor – and we’ve put the game on sale for a fairly mad 70% off!

Brax is not pleased with this sale.

Buy Dungeons of Dredmor at 70% off! And the Realm of the Diggle Gods expansion, or the whole collection, or just pay 70% off nothing for the just-released free expansion pack (Which Must Be Named.)

There are also piles of mods available right now in the Steam Workshop for Dungeons of Dredmor!

Patch Notes Follow

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Dredmor 1.0.10 Status; The Future

April 4, 2012 by Nicholas Vining

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.)

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Patch 1.0.10 Slowly Trickling Out; New Distributor

March 30, 2012 by Nicholas Vining

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!

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On Testing

March 22, 2012 by Nicholas Vining

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.

What's this? I don't know. Look over there!

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Dredmor Patch Status

March 20, 2012 by Nicholas Vining

For those of you who aren’t hanging out in our forums (and why not?) Dredmor Patch 1.0.10 release candidate #7 has now been put up. So we’ve gone through seven of these now. So far things seem to be much more stable than 1.0.9, and I’m happy. I’m hoping that as soon as the testing Squad gives me the word, we can have this up on Steam, Desura, and the Humble Bundle download page by the end of the week.

Full changelog, and some Odin teasing, below.

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An update on updates, Workshops and workshops.

March 16, 2012 by Daniel Jacobsen

Communication is starting to get tough.  We want to tell you guys about the brand new patch that has a bunch of awesome things in it, but it’s not quite ready.  I can tell you about one thing that we haven’t told you yet though, regarding mods.  I also want to talk about our lack of communication regarding the state of Odin.

First, Mods.  We want to give the mod community a chance to get these fantastic creations in the hands of more people, get more feedback happening, more collaboration, and more generally awesome stuff coming out for people to play with.  To do this, we are piloting a project with Valve and the Steam Workshop platform.  Users will be able to search for mods, comment on them, rate and share them.  The forum will still be here and we will do everything we can to make sure that the mods are available for non-steam users as well, but they have built this fantastic tool, it would be a shame not to use it to let people share content more easily.  Details on how you guys can access the tools for this below.

We also want to tell you all about our new project: the real name of Project Odin, some screen shots that we have been working on, and answer any questions you might have about how it’s not a tower defence game.  The reason we haven’t done this quite yet is that we need to make sure we’re doing things right: registering trademarks, copyrighting what we can, and all that other stuff that keeps games from being duplicated before they’re finished.  It’s lame, I know.  It’s also a big enough problem that it deserves a bit of our time.  We didn’t do a lot of this stuff before Dredmor’s release, and we were lucky that it wasn’t a problem.  I’d rather that we didn’t have to be lucky again.  We are all really excited about this project, and it’s killing us to have to wait to tell you.  Trust me, game development is way easier when you get to talk about it.

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