DCSS: Trunk Updates 1 April 2023 and Tournament Announcement

Hello crawlers, and welcome to the most completely serious and truthful trunk update of the year! The 0.30 development cycle is (finally!) nearing a close, and we are pleased to announce a tentative tournament start date of Friday, May 5, 2023, at 20:00 UTC for the sixteen day 0.30 Release tournament. We’ll shift towards bug fixes and balance […]

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Kryftolike: Version 1.9.552 – Small upgrade

Upgrade CGE: Fix handling of FreeType library when the game was put into a folder with non-ASCII symbols and username also contained non-ASCII symbols Small game optimizations…

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Sources of HyperRogue, part VII

Time to continue this blogpost series! So, without further ado… First, let’s talk a bit not about real lands, but rather “technical lands” that exists for technical reasons, and that typical players are not supposed to find. The world of HyperRogue i…

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Sources of HyperRogue, part VI

The last post of this series was in 2017! So it is high time to continue with the lands added in 10.x. This was also in 2017, so we are not sure whether we remember all the influences! So please comment if anything is missing. The Hall of Mirrors rep…

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DCSS: 0.29 “Shooting Stars”

We are pleased to announce the release of Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup 0.29 “Shooting Stars”! DCSS 0.29 features a sweeping rework of Necromancy, streamlining and upgrading many of its spells, along with similar improvements to the necromantic god Kikubaaqudgha. Ranged weapons have likewise been streamlined and reworked to be more satisfying to use. For those […]

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Kryftolike: Version 1.9.542 – Fix APK installation on Android 12

Fix APK installation on Android 12 (Castle Engine upgrade, thanks to Michalis Kamburelis) +18 hints/jokes Free achievements notifications (tiny optimization) Update game metadata, mostly for Debian Pa…

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Kryftolike: Version 1.9.542 – Fix APK installation on Android 12

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Kryftolike: Version 1.9.534 – Lagging monsters

Monsters now have a 12% chance to skip movement each turn, that gives player a chance to increase distance and subsequently shake them off if able to control the situation for long enough. +45 new hin…

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Kryftolike: Version 1.9.534 – Lagging monsters

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Kryftolike: Version 1.9.525 – Engine Upgrade

Upgrade Castle Game Engine version. Major improvement: Enable optimizations on aarch processors (some new Android devices)…

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