Version logs

To note: all the logs that are on this wiki are on Slash's Blog. This is mainly to log the change of the game, and to keep a list of stuff that needs to be updated on the wiki.

v 1.65

(Released: July 26, 2015)

Gameplay

• Remove restrictions to wear metal armor
• Add penalties for energy and elemental magic when wearing metal armor.
• Allow barbarians to use heavy armor
• Remove parry skill from Paladin
• Add parry skill to Slayer
• Increase room sizes
• Reduce variability of weapon damage when thrown
• Leave pet behind if not next to you during a battle
• Add angelus and mandragora potions, now Barbarian can cause monsters to evolve without having to read a spell.
• Reduce power of paralysis skills by enemies.
• Modify attack types of some monsters
• Add back shepherd challenge class
• Fix pathfinding issues for monsters
  

User Experience

• Allow using the “Back” button on Android to navigate between menus and to toogle inventory.
• Allow movement using keyboard on desktop.
• Add back fullscreen mode for web.
• Show description of object, cell or monster blocking a ranged attack.
• Add new music tracks for Underwater Lagoon and Lair of the Ancients
• Show weapon info when switching weapons.
• Show monster skills separate from description.
• Remove some lame monster descriptions.
• Separate arrows on hi-res mode
• Add magic sfx for wand
• Hide facebook share button (will be replaced for the character resume screen soonish)
• Don’t show skill points if zero
• Use short classname on graveyard
• Remove marble background from mobile
• Add graveyard background image
• Enhance map sprites for reagents, potions and bandages
• Change lagoon water appearance
  

Technical

• Use Apache Cordova directly for Android and iOS instead of CocoonJS
• New music manager: Load music files as required instead of all on initialization.
• Disable sound autoinitialization for mobile
• Change fullscreen stretch mode
• Sprite pool support (Disabled for the moment)
• Upgrade to circular-functions 0.0.3 on npm
• Don’t compress paths on pathfinding to prevent ultra jumps
• Use phaser-slashman to correct blurry text on multiline textfields

v 1.64

(Released June 14, 2015)

User Experience

• Add big directional buttons for mobile
• Add “jumping” animations for movement and attack.
• Add new map sprites for weapons and armor
• Show more help on item effects on the object inspector
• Show more help for monster effects on the object inspector
• Check if can use items before proceeding to use them.
• Relayout inventory window
• Add arrows to directional buttons
• Relayout Desktop UI
• Add spellcasting SFX for energy and elemental magic.
• Allow selecting target when using item on ground
• Move confirm and cancel buttons to lower bar on mobile
• Add targetting indicator
• Add more indications for Alchemy.
• Add new explosion animation
• Spice up spell descriptions
• Change name of Pump Crossbow
• Gray direwolf

Gameplay

• Add pathfinding for monsters
• Increase defense of leather armor to 2, switch some defense values, make black robe non unique
• Make player block LOS of monsters
• Make ranged attacks spend points for enemies, allow animated directed projectiles for enemies

Bugfixes

• Keep friendliness and summonness of monster when polymorphing
• Prevent mask reset when blinking red, while keeping the interpolation within bounds (hoping to fix the fades to black issue)
• Use new version of pathfinding lib, enable diagonal pathfinding
• Fix flow for underlying items usage
• Prevent examining features while targetting
• Fix Mouth and Kobold description
• Allow using items on self when standing same tile as pet.
• Prevent relayed action like magic attacks from ending before they are done
• Remove duplicate animation for charm monster spell
• Reduce number of consecutive corridors, and corridor size, for lagoon to reduce clashing
• Prevent multi upgrades on level up

Technical

• Change static images for “image” instead of “sprite”
• New music controller with built in audio creation, decoding monitoring and destruction

v 1.62

(Released May 25, 2015)

Gameplay

• Two new classes with new skills are now available
  • Ailorus Monk
    • Flying Kick: Unarmed ranged hit, doesn’t need to run
    • Unarmed attacks get stronger with power
    • Immune to poison and spell maladies
  • Dumeril Sage
    • Can use elemental spells several time
    • Unleashes the full power of elemental spells
• Make all classes start with power 2

User Experience

• New title screen from Denzi
• Changes on layout and menus for desktop version
• Add input fields (much easier text input) for desktop version, using my phaserTextField lib.
• Color animation for paralyze skill and paralyzed status
• Add Decoration for buttons
• Enhance flow for searching users on desktop mode
• Remove antialiasing from logo text
• Add overlay to switch weapon button
• Remove welcome screen
• Change “Lv” for Power
• Add back navigation for new game screen
• Change icon for back

Server

• Log out sessions on server
• Allow multiple sockets per user
• Make usernames case insensitive.

Bugfixing

• Disable DOM textfield for Android version to prevent crashing
• Fix missing Yendorian monsters
• Fix cornering issues in Lagoon
• Fix “Shot” typo
• Remove long message from mobile
• Fix issues with PIN handling

v 1.61

(Released May 13, 2015)

Gameplay

• Arcane master can no longer unleash the full power of Elemental spells (however he can still use them safely)
• All classes can now use wands to freeze and shock enemies
• Friendly monsters no longer spend their summon points on safe rooms
• Barbarian charges cannot be parried now

User Experience

• Default message windows are now better looking using sweetAlert
• Elemental spells now have new projectile graphics
• Show player info on Title screen, remove Profile page
• Changes on the “Online” menu to be easier to use

Bugfixing

• Fixed yet another issue with using items on the ground
• Prevent befriending friendly monster’s summons as pets.
• Added timeout for connections to the server to prevent unresponsive screens
• Restored level 12 mini boss to Mermaid Queen
• Remove sockets initialization preventing offline play

Technical

• Migrated to Phaser 2.3.0
• Changes in music decoding monitor
• Use incremental version number for up to date check
• Add back font loader to prevent issues with fonts
• Change bit rate of music to allow iOS to decode

(Older updates may be found on the blog)