The 7/10/2024 update of Interdict is now available! https://ferretdev.itch.io/interdict

This is a small update that addresses some bugs and balance issues reported since the 6/28 release, as well as adding some quality of life changes. The list is fairly extensive and covered in detail in the change log included with the download, but here are some of the highlights:

• Enemies that spawn on a dungeon floor can now be from a small range of levels, capped at Danger Level, rather than always being at the Danger Level. This should give a bit more room for error and recovery from mistakes, particularly in the early going.
• Reduced the diminishing returns on Evade: they now do not kick in until relatively high amounts of Evade, making lower amounts more useful than before.
• Escaping combat with a mobile enemy group will now reposition that group, preventing rare cases of getting “trapped” between a monster and another monster or a dead-end.
• Characters who swap positions due to one of them dying will revert back to their previous positions when they are revived.

Barring any emergency bug fixes, the next build is planned to be a meatier one. You can join the FerretDev.Org Discord to hear my ramblings about what’s coming up next in almost real time. You’ll also be able to talk with other Demon and Interdict players there, so feel free to stop by.

Cheers, and good luck on your adventures!

The 6/28/2024 update of Interdict is live! https://ferretdev.itch.io/interdict

The main focus of this build is a significant rebalancing of the attribute requirements for skills, weapons, and armors. For skills in particular, this rebalancing resulted in the reduction or complete removal of attribute requirements, which should provide many new options for how to develop your characters and parties.

Several new skills were also added, bringing the total available to over 130. The screenshot above shows the Retrage spell from the Psionics: Predictive Healing skill, which centers on healing spells that trigger when certain conditions are met, but this is only one of the new skills added to find in your future playthroughs. Additional items were added as well: new weapons, new armor types, and new relics are waiting to be discovered and incorporated into your party builds.

I hope you enjoy the new build, and good luck on your adventures! Remember too that the FerretDev.Org Discord is available if you’d like to chat with other Demon and Interdict players and stay up to date on what’s coming next. Cheers!

A new Interdict update has been released at https://ferretdev.itch.io/interdict! This update focuses on quality of life features, including:

• Keyboard and controller input can now be remapped in the System menu.
• Interdict now offers multiple save slots, allowing up to 10 in progress games at a time.
• The automap functionality has been improved: a radius around you will be mapped as you walk, and a certain spell can be used to map an even wider area

Additionally, Necropolis has been improved a bit, with more interesting room layouts and pared down enemy lists that give each sector a more defined identity. Finally, the new build also includes a fair number of balance adjustments and bug fixes.

I hope you enjoy the new build, and good luck on your adventure! Also, don’t forget you can visit the Ferretdev.Org Discord to chat with other Demon and Interdict players, and get information about what’s coming up next. Cheers!

Hey folks. Interdict just received a new, fairly beefy update. Two months in the making, it adds a whole lot of new things including:

• Necropolis, the second dungeon! Necropolis adds four new dungeon floors to explore, allowing the party to reach Level 17 and much more deeply explore Interdict’s mechanics.
• Tanking mechanics: it is now possible for allies to protect each other from enemy attacks using certain skills.
• Encounters with a strange merchant who offers valuable goodies in exchange for your precious Cells and Scrap.
• 18 new monster species, which add an additional 500 or so new possible monsters that can be generated.
• Over 20 new skills to use in customizing your party.
• Linux support! From here onwards, Linux builds should be available at releases alongside the Windows builds. Thanks to Tchey of Jeux1d100.net for the debugging and testing help to get the Linux builds working!

You can download Interdict at ferretdev.itch.io/interdict. There is also the Ferretdev.Org Discord where you can chat with other players and receive frequent updates about development progress and what’s coming up next.

I hope you enjoy the new update, and I wish good luck on your adventures! Cheers!

Assuming nothing crazy happens here in the last stretch, I plan to release the first public version of my next project, Interdict: The Post-Empyrean Age, within a couple of weeks.

To give you a little idea what it is like, here is a tiny teaser in the form of the message displayed when starting a new game.

Interdict is primarily a dungeon crawler in the vein of the older Wizardry and Might and Magic titles, but it has a very generous amount of roguelike DNA. As the new game message shown above states, it features a very large degree of procedural generation, and a form of permadeath (in this case, “permawipe” might be a better name, since the defeat condition here is all of your party members being dead at the same time.) It is also entirely turn-based, both when exploring the dungeon, and while in combat.

When the first public release is ready, I will post here again with a link to the itch.io page. Going forward from that point, I will be using itch.io for further Interdict updates. The first public release is relatively small, taking roughly 3-6 hours to complete a run of the available content, but is enough to demonstrate what the game is like and hopefully show what is fun and interesting about it.

Like I did with Demon, I plan to work on and update Interdict for a good, long time, so it will continue to grow, improve, and receive additional content. I’m not silly enough to promise up front that I will stick with it most of a decade like Demon ended up getting. But, so long as I and at least some other folks remain interested, I plan to work on it for quite awhile.

This is probably also a good time to mention that, like Demon, Interdict will always be available for free, so don’t have any worries on that front.

Alright, that’s enough of me bending my “don’t talk about it until the first public release” rule. I’ll be posting again to announce the public release soon. Cheers!