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An RPG Styled Roguelite set in fantasy procedural paths. Craft artifacts, slay legendary monsters and abuse synergies to fulfill the secret goal of your champion. Which one will you choose? We need your feedback before the official launch!

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Unity Betrayed Us

14 Sep, 2023

I normally stay away from the hot stuff in the news and keep focusing on my work without bothering, but what Unity announced this week affects my work itself in too many ways for me to stay idle.

It not only insults the work of every single indie developer out there but it also adds a lot of uncertainty for the developers that have chosen to focus their career path on Unity like I did.

I mainly write this article to put oil on the fire they started in hope that they get burned badly enough to cancel their new ridiculous policies. And if they don't, well we won't be able to safely put a price tag on Chaos Crown at all, so consider this my attempt to shake things up with what little voice I have.

I invite you to directly read their policy announcement here[blog.unity.com], but if you're ready to take my word for it here are the main key points that will affect us and the rest of the indie games ever made with Unity, take note that there are flaws and grey areas that they'll clarify with time :

A $0.02 to $0.20 per first install fee when a game sells for 200k or more (that threshold can change anytime). Includes already released games, so expect some games you like to be completely removed from the market before January if their owners are unable to pay them. Those fees are fixed and can change at any given time, which will drive up global game price inflation higher than ever before. Moreover, there is no telling as to how they'll manage to detect if a game has been pirated, which means that companies may get overcharged. We also have no access to the algorithm they'll use to calculate first installs so it might end up being fraudulent in nature.

This is a change in how we do business with Unity and no one was consulted, agreed to or had a warning about this sudden change. Should this policy last, we won't publish any game made with Unity to the Steam Store.
x4 the prices of subscriptions and removed the lower tier so that you're forced to go full price.
Dependency to WIFI to run any Unity versions or Unity games.
Anti competition policies with their micro transaction tools that will over time give them a monopoly over the market.

Fun fact, the Unity CEO is the one that introduced loot boxes during his time at EA. He's also famous for having suggested in a video call that players should pay real money to reload in-game ammo. He also sold 2k of his Unity company shares just before announcing this, which is what we call insider trading : a crime that will at the very least get him in the court room.

As of now Unity has received death threats and a major backlash from the development and gaming community. I can only hope things get worse for them.

You might have heard this from other games already.

I don't have a clear answer as to what can be done. I guess that if you feel as angry as I am about what they're about to do, our best bet is to give them the greatest backlash they've ever seen. Make your voice be heard. If this policy passes expect only more abuses from companies.

EDIT :
Unity has updated their policy announcements 10 days later :

A cap of 2.5% of the profits to calculate the install fee and the option to pay the lower price between both of the numbers.

Unity is now comparable to Unreal in its pricing policies. We can now rest assured that the install fee wont screw us too much. We can also avoid to pay them by keeping our current version of Unity (since it was not legal to make us accept those terms on previous versions in the first place!!)
x4 the prices of subscriptions and removed the lower tier so that you're forced to go full price.
Dependency to WIFI to run any Unity versions or Unity games.

We'll be able to publish our game after all, but we won't be sticking with Unity for our next projects, unless they do something really impactful to regain our trust.

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Lava Elemental Victory Bug

Hello, I found a bug while playing the demo. Whenever I defeat the final boss as the Lava Elemental, the victory portal does not appear. The portal appears just fine when I do runs as the Archer, but every time I use the Lava Elemental I'm just left in the empty field with nothing to do. I even got that one achievement as I managed to wander around and fall off the map. Exiting and entering the game again just forces me to face the final boss again, but the portal still won't appear afterwards....

ccfireball

4 Oct, 2021 @ 3:06pm

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Hotfix

13 Jun, 2023

Potentially fixed the final boss room path. We found a missing reference in the system that was bound to cause an issue. Let us know if you find any more issues!

Special thanks to @ccfireball for reporting it!

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Our 2023 Objectives and Maintenance Update

6 Jun, 2023

Due to the loss of our 3D artists, we have encountered difficulties in creating new scenes for the procedural path system while simultaneously working on new features, menu creation or rework, bug fixes, and other system updates such as enemy pools, reward pools, crafting system, and playable characters.

To address this issue and reduce the workload associated with 3D environment creation, we have taken inspiration from games like Risk of Rain 2 and decided to introduce medium-sized maps as a solution. Each map theme, such as Stravux, Fawynn, Flamoria, and Rotgrave, will now feature a small village home base. From these bases, players can visit the Guild of Adventurers to create their own quests by selecting contracts and then teleport to medium-sized hostile environments where they can complete the chosen objectives. This new gameplay loop will offer various rewards, including experience points, notoriety, specific items or loot boxes, gold, and data crystals.

Furthermore, we will be implementing a new level system. Up until now, only players had levels, but with this update, enemies will also have their own levels. Given that hostile maps will feature all available enemies, this addition will help players gauge whether they should engage or flee from specific encounters.

Players will have the ability to teleport between home bases in search of specific rewards for their builds until they have completed every map.

To officially complete a map, players simply need to defeat the big boss of the hostile environment. As a reward, players will receive a piece of a legendary Chaos Crown, which can be assembled in a special menu. Once the Crown is fully restored, players can challenge the Chaos Lords and make a wish for their champion. An intriguing twist will be revealed in due time.

Regarding the leveling system, we have decided that skill tree upgrades should be permanent for each champion. Upon leveling up, players will be offered a choice of three randomly selected skill upgrades from a pool. Additionally, some of the secondary skills on the champion's bar may be chosen from this pool, as players have expressed a desire to have more control over their non-basic skills, such as Fire Rain, Barrage, Arrow Spray, and others.

We value your feedback on these upcoming changes! Please let us know your thoughts.

Patch Notes:

This update focuses on bringing the demo version up to date with our most recent changes in the base game.

Numerous improvements have been made to enhance stability and overall quality of life.

Additions:

The AI now utilizes a new logic for selecting and using skills. While this change may not be noticeable for simple minions, it has greatly improved the behavior of complex enemies like bosses.
We have introduced a new Ogre Shaman, which will serve as the final boss for Stravux in the new map system we are developing, it is not in the demo, but will be once the new system is fully implemented.
You can now open the map menu at any time by pressing "M". Please note that this feature may not be very useful in the current demo.
We have implemented a new music system that independently detects combat in each room. It will play new tracks that we have purchased from Vindsvept on YouTube. These tracks should provide a more immersive medieval fantasy experience.
The Treasure Hunter achievement now has an increased chance of being completed. It will also count every type of chest in the room, including treasure chests, reward chests, and mimics. To obtain this achievement, we recommend combining the luck passive of the archer with the Treasure Map item or forging an item with Treasure Map as the second component. This way, you can spawn treasures at will by spamming a proc condition.

Please let us know if you encounter any bugs. With these major structural changes, there is a possibility that something may have been unintentionally broken during our playtesting that we did not notice.

Remember, you can always join our Discord Server at https://discord.gg/CxU6JnRBpw!

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i have no idea how to even start this

i get to character select screen and....then what? there is no "go" button, enter does nothing, space bar is a nope. what am i doing here?

DUKE NUKEM

8 Oct, 2021 @ 7:49am

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Really fun game, but there's a lot of running away

Hi, I gotta tell you, I really enjoyed this demo, just to make that clear. However, I feel like there may be a bit too much running away. Most of the enemies in the demo seemed to be running melee, with the major exception being the slimes and another good exception being the charge attack from those enemies in the challenge level. Of course, several of the enemies did have other interesting features, such as the spiderwebs, the death effects, and enemy auras, but that doesn't change the fact that those e...