- Anywhere there were question marks for items or enemy variants, it's now black silhouettes
- There are now separate setting volume sliders for music and sfx, if you find something that seems wrong or unaffected, let me know on discord
- Added link to the Spotify OST in the credits

- Mini collection now displays items correctly
- Fixed more issues with mini and main collection log if you had started a 2nd save file or deleted 1 of the 2 save files
- More volume inconsistencies fixed where if you changed the slider, it would be louder or quieter than normal

If you were unable to create a new save file, that should now be fixed from the last patch.

And there was a visual issue with the loot screen where the equipment wouldn't display which is now fixed.

- the next note after pausing is no longer stacked on top of another note
- windowed mode is now always 16:9, fullscreen should look better for widescreen users too

- the adrenaline stat is back from older versions of the game. it is only found on the floor6 boss unique and it's explanation can be found in the help menu under the nature boss/unique tab including math

- various stats are now explained (with math) under the first tab in the help page that weren't explained before. these stats exclude unique-exclusive stats and weakness stats
- powerlevel math is now explained under the equipment help menu tab
- weakness math is now explained under the weakness tab in the help menu
- accuracy stat and math are now explained under the uniques that provide them
- there is now a WASD to move minitutorial on new save creation
- there is now a dungeon splits minitutorial on new save creation

- hitting save in settings brings you to the main menu if you were in the main menu, and dungeon if you were in the dungeon
- fixed various issues with the floor changing arrows
- ensured the player cannot move while dungeon pop-up tutorials are visible

- loot screen should always come up after winning a battle, this caused a rare softlock before
- enemy max per floor was broken so it should be much better now

- there is now a settings button on the main menu screen instead of just inside the dungeon ui
- volume setting is now properly perceived linear
- changing volume is now instantly saved
- volume now changes properly even while music is fading in
- battle hit, misses, and quarter warnings sfx are now affected by volume
- layered transition sfx are now affected by volume

- removed half notes and dodge notes from floor 3 boss cause "you made it too hard" and "its the hardest boss in the game"
- vitality is very nerfed as it was too op but its still really good ngl so play around with it
- accuracy is now a stat on two uniques, this increases the hit area
- snake now properly displays in collection log
- removed half notes from the final boss
- on zoom in, enemies no longer disappear

- steam cloud saving is now supported
- steam db now owns a key
- lowered polish and swiss price against steam's recommendation

- Fixed volume issues: if you were experiencing things like music being quiet while hit sfx being loud, then mess with the volume bar in settings and that should fix it. For everyone else just starting the game, then it should be fixed already

- Known bug: the next note is stacked on top of each other after you pause and resume during battle. This isn't fixed but it's on the list

- Kills required for a lich gem charge increased from 8 -> 13

- Increased halfnote warning sound effect volume

- Discord rich presence is now compatible

After almost a year of development, Rogue Rhythm is now available. I have only developed one other game before and it was a subway surfers clone that took 2 weeks. I do not know how this began or how it finished. The release of this game makes it a success. I have learned so much and met such amazing people that made this into something that I can be proud of no matter its commercial success.

The main thing the game needs still is Freemode. This gamemode will allow you to fight against any enemy you have met before using any gear you have obtained before. It also allows you to create a fight by changing the stats of the enemy you want to fight. There are also a couple more quality of life features that will come soon.

I don't know. I want to make games but I'm graduating from University in a couple months and also need to focus on getting a job. Hopefully this game will prove well on my portfolio for exactly that. Chances are there are a few more games in me though.

You can join the discord, there is a little icon at the bottom of the page :)

This update changes so many things that I'm not even going to bother typing it all out because you probably won't notice most of them anyway.

What you will notice is the new combat UI and the new monster sprites. I have gotten some help from a couple pixel artists and I worked hard implementing them. We are redoing all the monster sprites and all of the enemies that you see in the demo should be updated.

The demo will not be here forever. Sometime after Steam Next Fest 2024 I will be removing the demo. I don't think that it provides a good enough understanding of the game by just playing the first 3 floors. There is more to it than even just that but that's the important part. If you haven't had the chance, play it while it lasts.

I'm really excited to finish this game and am grateful for the recent help I have received.

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As I said before, I thought this was going to be a pretty simple update with some cosmetic changes. It ended up completely changing how this game is played and how it will continue to evolve in the future. This was going to be update 1.4 but now it's more like 2.0.

I uploaded a video about the combat revamp here: For yall who want to read the changes or see what else there is (as there is a lot), then here you go

As promised there is now a save system for dungeons. This is useful for fighting bosses as losing to one will spawn you right outside the boss room. Save in this state to take a break if needed without losing progress.

I completely redesigned the way that the battle is programmed for the second time to implement many interesting mechanics.
The combat revamp is more meaningful to later floors, but for the demo, there are still a lot of positive changes.

This means that a bar does not need to travel from left to right at a fixed speed depending on the bpm. We can have fast or slow bars that are still on the same beat. As I explain in the video, its as if your scroll speed was changing mid-fight in a 4-key rhythm game. I will be incorporating these random fast and slow notes through the whole game starting on floor 2.

Every enemy starting on floor 3 now has a chance to throw out a half-note. Combined with the speed changes, there are now some very interesting combinations that could be deadly if you get unlucky.

Before, you were warned about a dodge bar coming up by the attack area turning red on the previous beat. The issue is that now there are a ton of mechanics added and many many more coming in the future. I didn't want to represent every new mechanics by a different color. Besides, how would you combine multiple mechanics and still warn the player with all of them at the same time?
My solution was a future-bar. This bar is now above the normal attack line and shows the player everything that will happen in exactly one beat. All you need to do is learn how to memorize one beat into the future while playing and you will know what happens next every time. This is a one-time skill that will be useful for the entirety of the game.

Before, you could tell if you hit the enemy or if you missed by the edge color of the attacking area changing different colors. The new indicator not only shows you just what you hit like a critical, normal, or miss, it also shows you how you did it with the exact timing shown.

Attack Limit

One again, before, you could attack as many times as you wanted as long as the bar was in the light gray area. Now, you can only attack once as indicated by the bar turning green as soon as you attack. This is great for learning the game as attacking twice right before a half-bar would be detrimental as you might not have enough reaction speed to keep up. Plus it overall fits this new gameplay style better.

Improved Note Timing

Another change that comes with the revamp is far more accurate beat timings. I was using a method that was not only inaccurate overall, it got more and more inaccurate the longer you were battling an enemy. I change my "yield return new WaitForSeconds" method into a "AudioSettings.dspTime" method and now it is much better. As far as I can tell, not only is it more accurate, but it stays accurate no matter how long the battle is.

The Future

Outside of the demo, there will be even more combat changes for regular enemies. With an exception of the first boss, every boss' new mechanic will stay in your battles for the rest of the game. The game will evolve and change as you progress keeping it interesting and challenging.

Now for everything else!

Tutorial

General Tutorial Changes

• Updated the tutorial to fit the new combat system in regards tom the future bar indicator
  
• Changed the tutorial text font and background for better visibility
  
• The tutorial now works properly if you finish it, quit to the main menu, then do the tutorial again
  
• There is no longer a white border around the main menu after finishing the tutorial and quitting to the main menu

Dungeon Tutorial

• The monster encounter SFX now plays

Combat Tutorial

• The tutorial no longer counts key presses toward the battle when you are just pressing key to advance the tutorial
  
• Got rid of a little visual skip that happened while transitioning to the fight
  
• The dodge button no longer appears stuck after finishing the dodge tutorial
  
• The tutorial slime can no longer die until you complete the dodge tutorial

Loot Tutorial

• You can no longer delete items in the tutorial to prevent soft-locking, indicated with a negative SFX and the item outline flashing red
  
• Loot music now properly plays for the amount of time it's supposed to

Stats Tutorial

• The sword you get from the tutorial now fills a collection log slot
  
• You can no longer just press the stats button to continue, you also need to equip the item; this may have not been the case in a previous patch
  
• The sword no longer unequips itself after completion of the stats tutorial
  
• The quit to main menu button is now disabled during the tutorial

Battle

• There are now SFX for when a future bar is warning a half-note's appearance, a SFX for successfully attacking, one for missing, and one for dodging
  
• It is now common for one of two enemies on each floor above floor 1 to have a faster attack speed
  
• Dodge bars are now blue instead of red
  
• The score display is now correct in the tutorial and after the tutorial
  
• When pressing a key while you should be dodging, you no longer ever take damage a second time when the dodge bar reaches the end (you used to take damage twice if you pressed the correct WASD key on the red bar)
  
• Refined enemies' animation ques

Boss

• Boss is now actually fightable, my bad if he wasn't in previous updates. I fixed an issue that made him immortal if you fought a normal enemy, then the boss
  
• Boss IJKL keys are now a different color from WASD to easily distinguish with peripheral vision
  
• Speed starts at 1.0 and increases by 0.3 after every phase
  
• Boss loot no longer bugs and stacks items on top of each other
  
• Made the breaks during a phase change not so quiet and boring
  
• Loot and dungeon music now play after the boss' death and dungeon music now plays after losing the boss fight
  
• Bosses now have a different loot music track than normal enemies
  
• Can no longer press dodge during the boss phase changes
  
• After you beat the boss, you are no longer soft-locked and the cutscene plays correctly
  
• Removed any lag on the fourth countdown bar
  
• Boss' HP bar no longer goes to full for a frame during a phase change

UI

• Updated stats screen to fit more text
  
• Quit & Save buttons on the dungeon screen are no longer misplaced after the tutorial finishes or you exit a battle
  
• You can no longer press or highlight buttons of other menus that you aren't on
  
• Update "done" button and fixed highlighting bugs in the process
  
• Fixed more bugs with the colors of the 3x3 font buttons
  
• Changed Q in the 3x3 font
  
• You can no longer press the quit button during the monster encounter animation

Dungeon

• Decreased enemy generation by %50
  
• The game now autosaves whenever you regenerate a dungeon including going down stairs
  
• You can no longer move backwards after entering stairs

Inventory

• Attempted to get rid of any sort of inventory item duplication methods.. hopefully won't be running into any more of those

Items

• Increased bronze platebody powerlevel from 4->5 so that it is not the same as bronze chainmail anymore

SFX

• Loot slide SFX volume was lowered

The last update will be mostly full of cosmetic and small changes that don't affect gameplay too much. But there is one feature I will be adding in the last update that is fairly important and that is a save system for while you are in the middle of a dungeon.

Right now, if you were to save the game in the middle of a dungeon and close the game, upon reopening it would just regenerate the floor that you were previously on. I will be implementing a save system that will keep track of the floor generation including enemies and the boss.

This way you can tackle the boss as many times as you want while being able to take a break between fights.
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All previous updates and changes made in this update are in the mac version right now

• Fixed the bug that randomly deleted your save file

• Fixed player randomly taking damage at the start of the next battle after ending a battle with a dodge incoming
  
• Fixed score displaying incorrectly at times
  
• Last update I said that you can no longer get a dodge on your 2nd bar, but I think it is actually true now
  
• Changed monster countdown from 3210 to 1234
  
• Fixed issue I caused in one of the last updates that made the boss sprite change to a spider during healthbar regenerate animations
  
• Fixed issue I caused in one of the last updates where after the boss gets to 0 hp, you had to attack again to trigger the boss' death
  
• Boss new HP bar animation now lines up with the SFX better
  
• First bar during countdown is now green not white

• Fixed inventory item stacking bug when trying to swap multiple items continuously
  
• Boss name now fits in collection log
  
• On the loot screen's collection log, it now just says "Monster" instead of naming the current monster.(the monster name can still be found in the collection log on the dungeon screen)
  
• The "floor" collection log on the loot screen is now /12 if there is a boss on that floor and it adds the boss' collected items to the total
  
• Made WASD visuals go default during countdown
  
• If the boss is selected in the collection log and you press travel, the button is now properly highlighted
  
• Dungeon rooms and hallways now go behind the collection log UI on zoom in/monster encounter
  
• Iron full helm now has the correct sprite in the inventory instead of an iron med helm

• During the dodge tutorial:
  
  • there is no longer a second dodge-bar after you successfully dodge
    
  • dodges properly flip-flop until you successfully dodge
    
  • dodge indicator is now always correct
• Tutorial no longer freezes are finishing, and I removed the fade transition after finishing the tutorial (this may have not been the case for previous patches)
  
• Loot tutorial no longer requires you to equip your sword loot instead of just taking it into your inventory (this may have not been the case for previous patches)

• Got rid of speed effect on weapons so bows instead of being +Speed, -Strength; are now: +Vitality, -Crit Strength; Also changed values to +%15, -%5 while all other weapon positive and negative effects are %10

• The keyboard pressing SFX now triggers for all key presses and releases instead of just WASD