Working on content for several builds in a row has been fun.

Annnnd, I’m going to be switching over to other fun stuff, which I’m already talking about with other folks on the forums: http://forum.ferretdev.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=114

But, in between, it’s time to do a bit of polishy work. This won’t make for very exciting builds necessary, but it’s an important part of helping keep Demon going strong and hopefully attracting more players. I know the target audience for “AI controlled pet-based roguelike with a ridiculously hard difficulty level pretty much right out of the gate” is small, but I want all of them.

Some of the polishy stuff can still be pretty nice though. Check out some recent changes to the character sheets.

Character sheets now feature a much larger presentation of the art for the character. This has previously only been available during negotiations, but the art looks pretty awesome enlarged, so I wanted to make it possible to see any character in that size.

You can also see what modifier a demon will provide when fused with another on character sheets as well, and just like when using a Matrix, you can right-click the modifier to see the list of possible bonus abilities.

I’ve also been cleaning up some other little “always bugged me” type things, like getting the UI to clean up better between games, having the player’s start position in the Tower be more randomized (instead of always the lower-left most open position ), etc.

Anyway, I will be on this sort of thing for a little bit, then it will be back to more meat and potatoes type builds.

And he emerges victorious, with some new powers and new friends. Build should be out relatively soon today!

The dark knight chosen to test today’s build prepares to enter Arcadia…

Hey everyone. The next build featuring the new possible alternative to Tower: 1 & 1/2, the untamed wilderness of Arcadia, is in testing now. Hoping for a release late Wednesday or sometime Thursday. See you soon!

Still have some work to do on the walls to make them a bit less hedge maze and bit more forest, but things are far enough along now where I can show off a couple of screenshots.

Here’s a terrain shot:

And, here’s a sample map generated using the new forest “architect” I made for the level:

I really like how the maps have turned out. They tend to have one big forested area, but with lots of fun side paths into smaller areas.

Arcadia is a one floor side dungeon that will appear in 50% of games. When it appears, its portal will spawn on Tower:3, and the unique Actaeon will always spawn within it. Games where Arcadia appears will *not* have Tower:1 & 1/2, the two are part of a dungeon set (the first in Demon), only one dungeon in each set spawns each run (similar to Lair sub-branches in Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.) This also means you may finally be able to run into West and Headless in the main Tower again…

Still a bit of work to do for this build, but I’m hoping to release relatively soonish. Stay tuned!

Hey, didn’t mean to go silent for more than a week. I *almost* have Arcadia’s terrain looking good enough to show here, and will post something soon. Organic terrain is much trickier than interiors. Stay tuned!

So, there’s a bug with the new control effect duration changing code where these effects never wear off if the demon is in your stash

That’s pretty bad, and I’ll be rolling out a fix ASAP.

However, it’s somewhat of an illusion: if you summon the critter, the effect should wear off before it takes it first turn still. Just means you can’t remove it while resting if they’re stashed, which is annoying and bad.

Anyway, fix will be coming soon. Sorry about that. Even I don’t think of everything, sometimes.