Hey folks! Time for another quick TowerFall patch. Here's the details:

• Crusher blocks can no longer sense players during their invincibility frames
  
• Changes to the layout of a Dreadwood stage in Dark World mode
  
• Changes to the layout of a Flight stage in Versus mode[mattmakesgames.tumblr.com]
  
• Fixed a crash when minimizing the game
  
• Fixed a crash with player invisibility when using modded archers

This patch is live right now for Windows, with Mac and Linux coming soon. Enjoy! (:

-Matt

Hey everyone! Today I uploaded a quick little patch to address a few lingering issues after the Workshop Update.

• Added a new achievement! Speed of Light - Hyper jump across a level
  
• Fixed a crash when placing Mud on a bottom row of a level in the editor
  
• Modding in new archers or co-op towers by hand, rather than replacing the already-existing ones, should no longer crash the game

Thanks, and have fun!

Today we're releasing a huge update for TowerFall that includes a brand new level editor and Steam Workshop support. The editor is a powerful tool that allows you to create and share your own personal Versus Towers! We're super excited to see what you create :) These updates are free, but require the Dark World Expansion to play.

Here's the full changes:

New Stuff:

• Added the Workshop! Create, share, and play your own custom Towers for Versus mode. Requires the Dark World Expansion.
  
• Use Steam Workshop to share and find custom Towers
  
• New stage element available for custom levels: Chalice platforms
  
• New variant added: Infinite Brambles
  
• Added new sound effects for:
  
  • Miracle Grabs: Catching an arrow and then immediately cancelling your dodge
    
  • Dodge Stall Grabs: Catching an arrow by holding the dodge button to extend your dodge time

Changes:

• Players now bounce when they drop orbs by touching them, regardless of where they collided with the orb
  
• Reduced the volume of proximity block sounds
  
• The keyboard config menu now accepts the “OemPipe” key
  
• Keyboard inputs now have numbered names on character select screen ("Keyboard 1", "Keyboard 2", etc)

This update is currently only available on Windows - but Mac and Linux support are coming very soon! I'll edit this post when they're available. This update was originally only available for Windows, but now Mac and Linux support have been added!

Thanks for your support!
-Matt

We just uploaded a new update for everyone on Steam, tying up loose ends after the release of the Dark World Expansion.

The biggest change, by popular demand, is that Trigger Arrows now have a dedicated detonate button. There's also a new keyboard configuration menu. It lets you rebind the keys from in-game, assign multiple players per-keyboard, and saves your settings in Steam Cloud!

The full changelog is below. Thanks for playing :)
-Matt

Gameplay Changes:

• Alt shoot button (B on xb360 controllers) now detonates trigger arrows rather than primary shoot button
  
• Added a screen explaining how to detonate trigger arrows to Darkfang. It will only show once per play session, and you can disable it by disabling tips in the Options menu
  
• Catching a flaming arrow now lights you on fire
  
• Rebalanced a few Twilight Spire stages
  
• Added [???]

Controls:

• Added an in-game Keyboard Config menu
  
• The config menu allows for multiple keyboard players, but be warned that most keyboards will drop keypresses when multiple players try to use them at once!
  
• Moved keyboard config data to tf_savedata, so that it works with Steam Cloud
  
• If you have no gamepads connected when you start the game, the menu will show you the keyboard controls
  
• Even if you have 4 gamepads connected, you can now still use the keyboard to navigate the menus
  
• Added option to disable all DirectInput gamepads on Windows

Fixes:

• Fixed 'Ghost Friend' bug
  
• Fixed depth issue with the King on King's Court in Versus mode

We've just released the largest update yet to the game, coinciding with the launch of the Dark World Expansion DLC! There's a ton of improvements and fixes here. In fact there's so much to list that I couldn't even fit it all in this post! Check out this forum thread for the full changelog.

Thanks for playing! :)
-Matt

Dark World DLC:

• New Versus towers:
  
  • The Amaranth
    
  • Dreadwood
    
  • Darkfang
    
  • Cataclysm (with procedurally generated levels)
• New 1-4 player Dark World co-op mode, with four unique boss battles
  
• New playable red archer, the Vainglorious Ghoul
  
• 9 additional playable ‘alternate archers’
  
• New Powerups:
  
  • Trigger Arrows
    
  • Prism Arrows
    
  • Speed Boots
• New variants:
  
  • Team Revive - In Team Deathmatch mode you can resurrect your friends
    
  • Treasure Draft - Everyone picks a powerup at the start of each round
    
  • Clumsy Archers - Drop an arrow every time you dodge
    
  • No Quivers - Archers can only hold one arrow
    
  • Double Jumping - You can jump again in the air
    
  • Arrow Shuffle - Randomly picks 2 special arrow types to spawn this match
    
  • No Hazards - Removes all environmental elements that can kill you
    
  • Start with Trigger Arrows
    
  • Start with Prism Arrows
    
  • Start with Speed Boots (renamed from old variant ‘Speed Boots’)
    
  • No Trigger Arrows
    
  • No Prism Arrows
    
  • No Speed Boots
    
  • 2v2 Tournament Rules preset
• 12 new Trials

Other New Stuff:

• Added a new alternate “end of match” music track
  
• You can now save up to 5 custom variant presets at once (was previously 3)
  
• New Versus awards:
  
  • Happy Accident Award
    
  • Mastermind Award
    
  • Web of Lies Award
    
  • Gravedigger Award
    
  • Reanimator Award
    
  • Exorcist Award
    
  • Speed of Light Award
    
  • Hyper Booper
    
  • Hyper Martyr Award
    
  • Ally Oop Award
    
  • Bomb Squad Award
    
  • Nerves of Steel Award
    
  • Prism Warden Award
    
  • Special Delivery Award
    
  • Too Fast Too Furious
    
  • Caged Animal Award
• Added more Team Deathmatch levels to the existing Versus towers. Every tower now has 6 Team levels. Most are modified versions of free-for-all maps, but Sunken City got a brand new level which is also playable in other modes
  
• Added the “Session Stats” page to the Archives, which shows stats from the current play session and resets when the game is closed

Balance:

• Merged FFA and 1v1 Tournament Rules into one ruleset simply called Tournament Rules. This ruleset contains only No Autobalance and Symmetrical Treasure
  
• Slowed down the final “push” of the miasma as it closes in to encourage more kills before it consumes all the archers, and to make center-stage a more advantageous position
  
• Sudden Death variant now starts with miasma 1 second into the match instead of 5 seconds
  
• Rebalanced a lot of Versus arenas in the original levelsets
  
• Jumping on a teammate’s head now shares arrows the same as bumping into them from the side
  
• You can now hold the dodge button to extend your dodge time by 5 frames. This is known as “dodge stalling”
  
• You can now catch arrows when you have a shield, but only if the arrow is not in a dangerous state (ie it would not hurt you anyways)
  
• Arrows are no longer destroyed when crushed by moving solids
  
• Arrow inventories are now visible during the round intro
  
• Treasure changes:
  
  • Decreased the chance of no treasure spawning
    
  • The chance of getting special arrows out of a treasure chest is now normalized. In most towers, there is a 60% chance each chest has a special arrow pickup, chosen from the possible types for that level
    
  • No more than one of each orb pickup can spawn per level now. If the Chaos Orb spawns, no other orbs will spawn
    
  • The amount of each upgrade powerup (Wings, Looking Glass, Speed Boots) that can spawn per round is now capped by the amount of archers
• Added a particle effect for hyper jumping to make it more readable
  
• Archers will now slip off ledges while ducking, if they’re on the ledge by 3 or less pixels. Slipping starts 4 frames after you start ducking
  
• You can now shoot the falling orbs in Twilight Spire to destroy them as they fall
  
• Max Treasure variant now caps the amount of chests spawned per level to the amount of players + 2
  
• Return as Ghosts variant improvements:
  
  • The delay from the last kill to the end of the round is doubled when there are ghosts alive
    
  • Ghosts can no longer kill for 30 frames after they finish spawning
    
  • Players can now control their ghost a bit during the spawn animation
    
  • The shoot button now triggers the ghost’s dash attack (was previously just the dodge button)
    
  • Ghosts can now open treasure chests. Chests will always spawn bomb traps when opened this way
    
  • Added some controller rumble cues to ghosts to remind players they’ve respawned
    
  • Ghosts are now drawn above other gameplay elements so they’re easier to spot
• Electric shocks now destroy brambles
  
• You can now use dodge slides to pick up hats
  
• Spinning spikeballs now pick a random spin direction when the level starts

Quest Mode Changes:

• Players are now revived at their corpses, like in the new Dark World co-op mode
  
• Level completion time is now tracked on Hardcore mode
  
• Removed the old score system
  
• The ‘Level Complete’ screen now awards the crown to the player who performs better (based on kills, deaths, and combo). That player wears the crown in the next level
  
• Mimic archers now have the corpses of the archer they’re disguised as
  
• Ghost enemies can no longer hurt you while they’re stunned
  
• Added super jump pads to Twilight Spire
  
• Cultist enemies can now hop up one-tile-high ledges
  
• Red crystal enemies now only shoot one arrow at a time (blue ones still shoot twice)
  
• The final boss’s beam attack now lights players on fire

...see this forum thread for the full changelog!

I'm experimenting with some new content for TowerFall, but I took a break to put together this quick update. It's mostly about tying up loose ends, on both the design and tech sides of the game :)

We've got one new variant: Regenerating Shields. It should help beef up the 3v1 juggernaut matches that seem to be popular lately. I'm excited to see what else it gets used for.

Balance changes include some tweaks to the Backfire levelset, and an important change to how Bottomless Treasure works that should improve 1v1 tournament play.

For stability I've improved the replay recording to help performance on weaker machines. See below for details!

Thanks for playing, and keep the feedback coming.

-Matt

The full changelog:

Gameplay:

• New variant: Regenerating Shields
  
• Powerups spawned from the bottomless treasure chest will now timeout and despawn after 5 seconds
  
• Rebalanced a few Backfire versus mode level layouts
  
• Removed Start with Super Bomb Arrows from the random variants pool

Stability:

• Went back to using XNA on Windows
  
• Added option to set replay recording mode: Use GPU, Use CPU, or Off. Use GPU is now the default (was previously done on CPU) and should be faster on most systems
  
• Added option to disable controller rumble
  
• Added option to disable controller discovery, and removed startup argument that did the same thing. If you were using the startup argument, you'll have to go to the options menu to disable it again
  
• Fixed the Matt Makes Games intro being out of sync with the music when vsync is disabled

We launched TowerFall Ascension on Mac and Linux today! We also added 5 new variants, most based on player suggestions.

Plus Fangamer released official TowerFall shirts[www.fangamer.net] and stickers[www.fangamer.net] this week!

The new Variants:
Speed Boots - Run 40% faster! Works great with Encumbrance as well
Regenerating Arrows - If you're out of arrows, wait 1.5 seconds and you'll magically gain one
Anti-Gravity Arrows - Arrows never fall, and always seek
Small Quivers - Reduces your max arrow count to 3
Infinite Drills - Drill arrows will drill through every surface they hit, forever

Now we're up to 75 variants :D As always your feedback has been super helpful - have fun!

-Matt

The full changelog:

New Stuff:

• Mac and Linux support! Thanks to Ethan Lee
  
• Added five new variants: Regenerating Arrows, Infinite Drills, Anti-Gravity Arrows, Small Quivers, Speed Boots

Changes:

• On Windows, switched the game to SDL2 and MonoGame (thanks to Ethan Lee). This should lower the system requirements, improve gamepad support, and help with porting. You can still play the XNA version by switching to the 'xna' game branch

Fixes:

• Fixed the new variant '!' on the variants menu not drawing with the correct transparency

TowerFall Ascension has just been updated with three new variants, a new achievement, various balance changes and fixes.

The new Variants:
Trigger Corpses - Hold the shoot button when you're dead to explode your corpse
Encumbrance - The more arrows you're holding, the slower you move
Super Seeking Arrows - Arrows curve towards targets twice as strongly

This brings the total to 70 variants! All your feedback has been super helpful, keep it coming and have fun :)

-Matt

The full changelog:

New Content:

• Added Super Seeking Arrows variant
  
• Added Encumbrance variant
  
• Added Trigger Corpses variant
  
• Added Reaper's Crown achievement
  
• Added [???]

Balance:

• You can now change your facing direction while ducking
  
• Made the Return As Ghosts ghost controls a bit faster and more responsive
  
• Arrows no longer collide with treasure chests in the short time they are flashing after they appear
  
• Reduced requirements for Massive Mythology and Time Lord achievements

Changes:

• Can no longer hold the shoot button to prevent your corpse explosion with Exploding Corpses variant
  
• You can now activate the Exploding Corpses and Return As Ghosts variants simultaneously
  
• Removed variants from the Randomize Variants pool: Cursed Bows, Cursed Dodges, No Slipping
  
• New variants added in patches will now show up as "NEW!" in-game the next time you play
  
• Returning to Archer Select from Versus match end menu now un-joins all players
  
• Changed how Most Trigger-Happy Award is rated. Previously it went to the archer who shot the most arrows, now it goes to the player who spams consecutive arrows the most.
  
• Added new player-made gamepad configs
  
• The "input_log" console command now copies the first gamepad's ID to the clipboard
  
• Game now checks for Keyboard_Config_Custom.xml before Keyboard_Config.xml. You can rename your config file to Keyboard_Config_Custom.xml to avoid it being overwritten with every update

Fixes:

• Fixed facing direction flipping when another player bumps you while you're ducking
  
• Picking up your own crown no longer counts toward the Usurper Award
  
• Picking up your own hat now only counts toward the Most Fashionable award if you were previously hatless
  
• Fixed Koala Hunter Award only counting stomp kills
  
• Fixed replays during slow mo being really short
  
• Fixed crash on startup with no sound device enabled
  
• Fixed various bugs with Return As Ghosts with vsync disabled
  
• Fixed White Archer's hair behaving incorrectly with vsync disabled
  
• Fixed some backgrounds drawing wrong with vsync disabled
  
• Fixed some small physics bugs with falling arrows with vsync disabled

New updates for TowerFall Ascension are live! This is mostly bugfixes and simple feature requests, with a few small balance changes. Thanks and keep the feedback coming!

Balance:

• Bumping into a teammate (in Team Deathmatch or co-op Quest) will now trade an arrow to even out your arrow counts, if possible
  
• Changed requirement for Massive Mythology achievement to 10,000 rounds (was 20,000)
  
• Changed time requirement for Time Lord achievement to 2:10 (was 2:00)

Changes:

• Added option to disable vsync
  
• Added support for rebindable keyboard keys and multiple players on the keyboard. See "Keyboard_Config.xml" in the game's install directory. Gamepads are still highly recommended though!
  
• If you hold the "Save Replay" button as the round scoreboard appears, you will now save the replay before anyone else has a chance to skip to the next round
  
• Random vetoed levels (press L on a level on the map to veto it) are now remembered until the game is restarted
  
• Can now press the random veto button (L) on the random map tile to quickly cancel all vetoes
  
• Added popup messages on startup if your graphics card isn't good enough or you aren't running the game through Steam
  
• Added "input_log" dev console command to print out GUIDs of all connected DirectInput gamepads
  
• Added "input_test" dev console command to show all buttons and axes of all connected DirectInput gamepads
  
• Added 3 new player-made gamepad config files - USB-to-PS2, Fighting Stick 3, and Logitech Cordless Rumblepad 2

Fixes:

• Fixed game running in fast motion when monitor refresh rate is higher than 60Hz
  
• Changed DualShock 4 iconography to match the PS4 version
  
• Possibly fixed alt-tab crashes
  
• The intro music now uses the Music Volume as set on the options menu
  
• Added load logging. Use the launch option "-LoadLog" and the game will create load_log.txt in the game directory
  
• Added "-NoGamepadUpdates" startup argument to lock gamepads to the ones connected when the game launches (may solve menu slowdown for a few people)
  
• Possibly fixed rare bolt arrow catch crash
  
• Fixed an infinite loading bug and various crashes on PCs in Turkey
  
• Fixed drill arrows still seeking while drilling when No Seeking Arrows variant is activated
  
• Fixed being able to catch arrows if you dodge right as they hit you even if you have the No Dodging variant activated
  
• Fixed Cursed Dodges variant killing you after an arrow catch if that arrow was caught during the grace period after being hit