v1.8 - Scrub-a-Dub-Sludge

Back again with a sizable update right before Halloween.

ALSO. This weekend is the 2021 Roguelike Celebration! I'll be giving a talk on Saturday, October 16th. Golden Krone Hotel is also featured in a Steam sale tied to the celebration. Check it out!

Highlights

• New sounds and music including 9 new songs by Christopher Loza

• Starvation rework with no more instant deaths

• New branches: Baths and Sewers

• New monsters: Harpy, Sludge, Samca

• New spell: UMBRA

• Hotel entrance rework

• Magical drinking fountains added

• YOU CAN PET THE DOG

• And lots more!

Sound

• Nine new songs by Christopher Loza

• "Classic" soundtrack removed (this was an alternative free music soundtrack, not good)

• Music selection is matched to intensity of current situation

• Music won't change if repeatedly and quickly switching floors

• New sounds like splashing, footsteps, and entering a portal

• Sounds now play in stereo (e.g. sounds far to the left only play on left speaker)

• Electric melee attacks now have a unique noise

Starvation rework

• Starvation has been reworked. No more instant deaths. You instead take continuous damage and no longer regen mana once completely starving.

• Lower starting satiation to offset the starvation rework

New content

• New branch: Baths. A random swap out for Greenhouse. Fight lightning fast Harpies and the entrancing Rusalki.

• AddedNew branchSewers. A random swap out for Grotto. This branch has an optional miniboss, the Rat King, and a new monster, Sludge.

• Sludges split into two when attacked and leave behind toxic sludge piles that spew poison gas when stepped on.

• New enemy: Samca. A weaker version of Moroi that is not easily struck.

• New status effect: Bleeding. When struck by repeated physical attacks from the same enemy in a single turn, some of the immediate damage is converted into slow bleeding.

• New spell: UMBRA. Become permanently more powerful with each cast, but at great cost.

Gameplay

• Drinking fountains that act like time limited, one use potions

• Commander disguise can convert potential allies that are equal to their level (as opposed to only greater than their level)

• BOMB allows you to choose a potion instead of selecting randomly

• Primer now transmutes a potion if you have no unidentified potions

• Brutemaster's pet wolf get stronger when they level up

• And you can pet the wolf!

• The Abberation status (provided by Flux potion) gives you double attacks in addition to random damage types.

• Fire Mother has been made flying

• Player speed can no longer drop below 4

• Antidotes are now a guaranteed potion and made slightly stronger

• Added a neutral Firefly monster

• Time crystals made slightly rarer

• Stained glass windows are visible during the day even if otherwise complete darkness

• Made a few good statuses last longer.

Map gen

• Reworked the hotel entrance with 11 new rooms that can appear on any side of the hotel. Each new entrance gives a significant and immediate boon.

• More level generation templates

• Templates are randomly rotated offering more level variety

• Branch stairs should now be guaranteed to spawn far away from bosses.

Graphics

• Reworked stained glass windows to look taller/better

• Humans/vamps hit by electric attacks have a cartoony skeleton animation

• Skeletons slightly redrawn and cuter

• Redrew stairs going down

• Monsters that spawn additional monsters (e.g. Wolf Spider) are more convincingly animated when producing those monsters

• Gallery and Baths now have columns instead of single wall tiles

UI