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.

Assuming all goes well, the 2/12 build will be released tomorrow. If I’m being honest, it isn’t anything too exciting, except maybe for the balance change where “control” type effects only expire at the start of the target’s turn (thus raising the odds of you getting at least one ‘clean’ action now and then, offer not valid if under multiple control effects at once. ) The rest is just a collection of small UI, AI, and balance tweaks that had built up during content pushes.

Working on a small build that’s nearly done already. Nothing tooo fancy, just some bug fixes and AI tweaks that have built up during the content pushes that I want to stop briefly to knock out.

After that, I will begin work on yet another content build: this one adding a new terrain set and level layout style, which will be used in a new side-dungeon. This new side-dungeon will be part of Demon’s first “one out of X” set: it will have a 50% chance of appearing instead of Tower: 1 & 1/2, and will appear on either Tower:2 or Tower:3, haven’t decided for sure which yet. Stay tuned for more information, on both the imminent tweak build, and the upcoming new content build that will follow it.