Realms and Ruins: Abencor news & patch notes

• Disabled the terminal window that appeared when launching the game.

• Removed coin pickup items and now award gold directly when opening treasure chests.

• Added a popup explaining how to interact with NPCs.

• Fixed itch.io app compatibility so the game can now be launched directly through the itch app.

• Updated Steam store screenshots.

• Fixed several saving/loading issues that could occasionally softlock the player.

• Fixed enemy spawning issues.

• Fixed a player movement speed bug when disembarking from ships.

• Fixed navigation and collision issues in the Snowy Fields and Volcano Dungeon.

• Fixed an issue preventing the end-game sequence from triggering correctly.

• Fixed multiple skill, spell, and equipment scripting errors.

• Fixed item equip behavior that could accidentally drop items on the ground.

• Fixed various quest, dialogue, projectile, animation, and sound-related bugs throughout the game.

• Performed a complete weapon sound and animation pass, replacing placeholder effects.

• Added missing sounds to more than 30 monsters and creatures.

• Fixed creature attack animations and visual effects.

• Completed a full animation review of NPCs, monsters, and interactive objects across the game world.

• Added new rewards and treasure content for existing encounters.

• Expanded the demo ending teaser into a full boss encounter for the main game.

• Continued balancing and refining skills, spells, and combat systems.

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I've updated the demo with the following: • Disabled terminal window when launching the game • Removed coin "items" and grant currency upon opening chests • Added a popup regarding how to interact with NPC's

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​Over the last development stretch, Realms & Ruins crossed a major milestone. WE ARE OFFICIALLY IN BETA! ​All core content is in and R&R is feature complete. From here on it’s heavy playtesting, balancing, polish passes (enemies, items, skills, quests, animations), bug fixing, new demo prep and some release/marketing prep.

• Completed all remaining dungeons, including Wizard Tower, Naga’s Gauntlet, Firevein Shrine, Trial of Stone, and Frostrest

• Completed all remaining skill scripting, items, and acquisition quests

• Finished skills and questlines for Channel Arcana, Swift Throw, Cleaving Throw, Berserker Rage, Keen Intellect, and Healing

• Implemented magic book systems tied to Channel Arcana

• Added safety checks to prevent potential soft locks in some areas

• Fixed a quest-breaking bug related to the Bandit Leader guard quest

• Fixed multiple Shield skill issues, including offhand restrictions and a scripting typo

• All core content implemented and progression paths finalized

• Project has officially entered beta, with development now focused on playtesting, balancing, polish, bug fixing, demo prep, and release planning

• Updated several item descriptions

• Added 18 new items to the game

• Added 8 new skills, with all skills now functionally complete pending final code polishing and testing

• Refactored some skills to be dynamic based on your equipment. For example, the "Channel Arcana" skill casts a different spell based on the magic book you have equipped. This will also be the base for other skills, like throwing weapons (different thrown weapons have different effects). This also doubles as a "dual wield" type mechanic, where your offhand equipment isn't just for shields, but magic books or thrown weapons and your primary weapon is still used for the default attack.

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• Refactored the shield block skill to dynamically reduce damage based on the equipped shield’s stats

• Fixed the blind condition so it correctly clears after its timer expires

• Refactored the poison condition with a custom script to prevent infinite stacking

• Adjusted antidote potion behavior to account for the poison changes

• Scripted 4 additional player skills

• Reduced the scope of several maps that were overly large but didn't offer anything compelling in that large space

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This month’s update focuses on a lot of polish and performance tweaks in addition to some things I had been procrastinating on while working on other tasks. I did an entire playthrough, recorded footage and came out with some tighter boss fights, smoother dungeons, better enemies, and a some other needed updates and improvements. From fresh traps to refined systems, things are really coming together.

• Recorded several hours of gameplay for an updated trailer (which I need to re-record at a higher resolution whoops)

• Balanced the lava dungeon boss’s HP and reworked boss mechanics to prevent scripting errors

• Added mana recovery when resting

• Configured enemy spawns, loot, and behaviors in the Volcano dungeon, Northlands, and final dungeon

• Added a new puzzle to the Bastion of the Prism

• Fixed and optimized navigation lines, tiles, and collisions across multiple maps (Ship Graveyard, Sunken Galleon, and others)

• Fixed z-fighting issues and a broken container in the Orc Lair

• Fixed a missing animation on the Orc Axe

• Refactored the weather system to prevent disappearing effects and improve performance

• Optimized three maps to reduce load times and improve FPS

• Fixed collision issues on grass/snow tiles that caused camera shakes

• Created, scripted, and tested a new trap type for use in several dungeons

• Refactored portal stones scripts for more consistent function and to prevent edge-case errors

• Fixed missing roof and wall tiles in several maps

  As always, if you like what you see don't forget to wishlist join the discord to hang out or follow me on bluesky/itch!

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• Added new creature attack type

• Added player status effect: blindness

• Added potion to cure blindness

• Added new stats: perception, dodge, and crit (crit split from Dexterity into its own stat, but still interacts with Dex)

• Completed final systems and scripts related to the perception system

• Created new puzzle/quest to fill in a traversal map

• Added a puzzle/minidungeon that grants a new ability

• Added quest NPCs with quests/rewards in the volcano, ocean, and northlands areas

• Added new puzzles to the volcano dungeon

• Finished a major side quest line with world-state changes in the Frozen Keep

• Added 45+ new treasures/equipment across the world, some tied to quests

• Completed placing all current treasure/items in the game

• Completed over 100 weapon scripts and mapped them to items

• Updated descriptions for all equipment

• Rebalanced the fireball wand and another magic weapon

• Added a starter weapon that auto-equips at game start

• Swapped out old weapon animations on early game weapons with new system

• Added secret areas tied to the perception stat

• Fixed missing tiles in a handful of maps

• Optimized Ivywood Forest tiles for faster load times

• Fixed/adjusted navigation lines across several maps

• Updated tiles to have proper step sounds

• Fixed UI alignment issue when using portal magic

• Added a “miss” sound effect

• Added new tags to enemies for weaknesses/resistances systems

• Fixed issue where some weapons could kill essential NPCs (causing softlocks)

• Added a new merchant

• Sourced and added music to the Frozen Keep dungeon

• Had an interview with Josh Bycer (Game Wisdom) discussing dungeon crawlers and indie dev

• Reworked press kit and launched a new website to cut costs from AWS hosting

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Summer is nearly over but I've been hard at work. Here’s a rundown of what’s been worked on over the last 30 days or so:

• Refactored the boat launch script to prevent an exploit that permanently increased player movement speed

• Adjusted water tile tags and movement modifiers to align with the updated boat fixes

• Fixed navigation issues in several desert maps

• Added 5 new treasures to discover in the world

• Implemented portal rune locations, scripts, and items. The portal system is now complete (barring new areas)

• Resolved a performance issue caused by turret projectile spam

• Updated trap projectiles to only trigger sound effects on player hit. The sounds were firing off globally when the projectiles despawned which was unbearable.

• Added number popups to show damage dealt to enemies

• Fixed missing roof in Bastion of the Prism

Animations:

 One of my goals for the last month was to complete all the remaining creature animations. I originally was making them as I imported monster models, but eventually just got the creatures made with no animations to complete the critical path. I'm happy to have finished animations sets (idle, walk, hit, attack, death) for around 45 monsters, including:

• The final boss and key late-game enemies

• A full set of spider-type monsters

• A group of snow and frost-themed enemies

• A variety of merfolk  and underwater monsters

• Multiple fiery enemies for the lava zones

Phew! UI Improvements

I decided to go back and take another look at the UI in Realms & Ruins. I had something for a while now that has served as a nice placeholder, but ultimately wasn't very great to look at. I went back and reworked some UI (while currently keeping layouts etc the same) to be a bit nicer to look at. These aren't entirely finalized and I may go in and do a full rework of inventory/character sheet etc but that's to be determined. For now, it looks a bit cleaner. Check out the screenshots and comment if you have any feedback!

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Happy July! It's been scorching hot this month but this update is hot with lots of little fixes and tweaks. Like I've mentioned before, my goals for R&R going forward are finalizing a few systems, adding treasures, filling in missing dialogue and lots of bug fixes and playtesting. These past few weeks I've completed a full playthrough of Realms & Ruins: Abencor from start to finish. I took notes, squashed bugs, tweaked things and made dozens of small improvements across the game. It's starting to feel like a more complete experience but there's still some work to be done. Here's a list of all the things I've done:

•  Added dialogue to all the NPC's in Mandora, including guards. 

•  Some minor quests have been added to Mandora area

•  Refactored a main quest script on how the player receives a quest item to avoid conflicts if the player has a full inventory

•  Removed debug text from bandage ability

•  Added log message when using bandage ability

•  Added a rounding function to the bandage ability

•  Modified an animation on an NPC in Ivywood to look less stiff

•  Added a check to prevent issues entering the catacombs cave from the back side

•  Added a check to prevent the player from accidentally leaving the catacombs cave without getting a quest item

•  Added some missing door sounds to doors in the catacombs

•  Ivywood shop was missing a purchase button for torch

•  Corrected listed price for torch in Ivywood shop

•  Corrected list price for arrows across all shop UI's

•  Added sound effect when selling

•  Reported an engine bug causing spawns to not be hostile

•  Reported an engine bug causing put_entity function to cause entities to not be hostile or move 

•  Replaced some invisible walls with objects 

•  Made some erroneously wandering guards stationary.

•  Added a walking animation to a gray elf model that didn't have one

•  Fixed a transition in Mandora that placed the player on the wrong tile

•  Removed some unused navigation paths in Mandora

•  Added a missing ceiling to the Mandora Throne Room

•  Added a missing wall block near the Orcish Blacksmith

•  Added a log message when stepping in acid

•  Adjusted the stats of the "Dune Crusher" weapon to make it actually worth buying

•  Adjusted the lantern quest item to be looted from a container rather than an enemy, to avoid full inventory conflicts

•  Adjusted the Dredgemoth quest item to be looted from a container rather than an enemy, to avoid full inventory conflicts

•  Added appropriate enemy behavior to the Flaming Skeletons in the Sandstorm Temple event

•  Added a sound effect to doors in the Sandstorm Temple

•  Added a sound effect to the boss door unlocking in the Sandstorm Temple

•  Adjusted loot drop rate on enemies in the Dune Tunnels

•  Adjusted some dialogue from the Ogres in the Orc dungeons to make more sense with what is occurring

•  Fixed a transition to the mandora Bank where the playing was facing the wrong way upon entering

•  Removed a duplicate switch in Bastion of the Prism

•  Added some missing ceiling tiles in Bastion of the Prism

•  Fixed a missing navigation tile in Bastion of the Prism

•  Added a missing skybox to the Chasm and Bastion of the Prism outside maps

•  Adjusted fog color in the above to fit better with the newly added skybox 

•  Added a check to various dungeons to prevent player from entering the boss room if they are not at the appropriate place in the main quest to prevent story continuity issues

•  Added tags to many tiles to appropriately play step sounds. 

•  Changed some interactive doors in the Chasm/Orc camp to prevent the player/camera from turning in confusing ways

•  Added a sign to storage/bank buildings 

•  Added bank + appropriate scripting to the underwater city

•  Chickens now cluck

•  Cows now moo

•  Camels now....make whatever noises camels make

•  Adjusted spawn rates to make Ivywood forest less crowded

•  Added tags to all enemies in the game, categorizing them in ways that allow resistances and weaknesses.

•  Changed the reward for the Dredgemoth quest to be a unique weapon rather than a mundane sword

•  Wrote the script for special properties of the Dune Crusher weapon

•  Wrote the script for special properties of the Beastthorn weapon 

•  Fixed some broken navigation in the Sandstorm Sanctum

•  Changed some interactive doors in the Sandstorm Sanctum to prevent the player/camera from turning in confusing ways

•  Added some environmental props to Sandstorm Sanctum to account for new navigation

•  Fixed offset placement of 2 doors in Sandstorm Sanctum

•  Added music to the Dune Tunnels dungeon

•  Fixed a transition issue where the player would face the wrong direction going from the sea to the Culceth Port

•  Added a navigation POI/Landmarks to make it easier to navigate the open sea (eg a nearby port being seen on the horizon) 

•  Added a check to merchant sell scripts to prevent players from selling quest items that cannot be replaced

•  The script for slimes splitting on death has been fixed to account for areas where a slime couldn't split (walls, null space etc)

•  Fixed behavior of splitting slimes to be appropriately aggressive

•  Fixed a transition issue both to and from the Sea to the Kelp Forest. Added new effect to be a better indicator for transition points to each side 

•  Fixed a transition where there was no way to actually get to the Ship Graveyard

•  Fixed a transition in the Ship Graveyard which was erroneously going to the Kelp Forest instead of the Coral Cave

•  Fixed a transition to and from the sunken galleon dungeon

•  Made some non-combat NPC's in the sunken galleon passable to avoid the player getting stuck if the NPC moves in a compromising osition

•  Fixed a typo in a transition from the Abyss which was throwing an error on map load

•  Made the jellyfish, ocean fish and lionfish billboard sprites to be congruent with other creatures

•  Fixed an animation for the jellyfish that got stuck in a loop when attacking

•  Added a heal, bind and level up point to the underwater city

•  Fixed broken transitions into and out of the Auga Royal Chamber

•  Updated death/respawn script to account for Auga respawn point

•  Corrected the bg music in the Auga Royal Chamber

•  Corrected gold price display on Auga Merchant

•  Added a roof to the sunken galleon dungeon

•  Reduced the size of some oversized characters

•  Added a light source to a set piece in Auga

•  Corrected an incorrect offset to a prop in Auga which was causing some zfighting 

•   Fixed some erroneous sounds playing in the frost cave on certain tiles, a relic of migration from a previous build

•  Fixed a missing sound file for the frost cave beast, a relic of migration from a previous build

Phew! That's a lot. I think I'm on a good path to be done by my hopeful release timeline of later this year. There's still more work to do, but I'll keep grinding away.

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Happy summer! This month marks 2 years since I officially announced Realms & Ruins: Abencor. I've been staying busy post DCjam2025. After the jam, R&R reached over 500 wishlists and still growing! This is awesome and I never thought it this many people would be interested in my little dungeon crawler. I've been working hard on finishing up the game, see below for the details of the last month or so:

• Frost keep and maps leading to it have been connected, including map states related to the quest

• Frost Keep questline has been scripted and completed

• Completed the Frost Keep dungeon

• 9 new monsters and NPC's added

• Various objects and weather effects have been created related to the Frost Keep

• Fixed an issue with the portal stone not accounting for world states

• Fixed an issue with respawning not accounting for world states

• Updated development documentation

While a short list, there's a lot of content here and I'm happy with how the Frost Keep dungeon and related Quest has turned out. Here's the current state of Realms & Ruins: Abencor:

• Over 100 maps including 5 cities, overland areas & 13 dungeons

• 200+ NPC's & monster 

• 100+ items & treasures

So I've filled out the core of the world with some optional dungeons and quests. So what's next? Primarily my goals in the coming months won't be anymore dungeons (for now). It will be adding some NPC dialogue, adding some smaller quests, adding more treasure and loot, completing unfinished creature/NPC animations, enhancing all of my weapon animations, adding final teleport stones/portals, adding the final skills to the game and then my final goal will be to do lots and lots of playtesting and balancing. My plan is to complete and have the game release before the holidays this year (TENTATIVE!). That's all for now.

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• Fast travel system has been created. You'll have to discover the ability to use this magic first and through exploring you'll find runes that allow you to teleport to different areas. I'm thinking I might even add some secret one, that will teleport you to difficult and or optional dungeons or areas.
• Completed the sunken ship dungeon
• Completed a spider dungeon
• New spell/related quest added to the game
• Expanded snowfields map
• Began work on a side dungeon related to the Northlands
• added some props and environmental decorations to older areas to spruce them up a bit
• Adjusted item drop rates for better balance
• Fixed up some monster animations to look a bit better
• Several new props/decorations created for dungeons/maps completed in this update
• Multiple enemies created and animated related to completed maps in this update

• 89 maps w/ 4 cities, overland areas & 11 dungeons
• 180+ NPC's & monsters
• 100+ items & treasures
• Completed main storyline + sidequests (and more to come!)

• The final boss model has been created and animated
• Final boss arena map has been created
• The final boss encounter, scripting etc is all complete. The game is officially playable from start to finish
• Updated R&R project tracker to be up to current build of the game
• Updated internal docs for tracking items and global variables
• Fixed a door in frost dungeon that wasn't properly transitioning the player
• Fixed front dungeon boss door that was transitioning the player to the wrong map
• Fixed interaction with boss room door in the front dungeon
• Added new loot and bhavior to frost cave
• Created 6 new monsters
• 4 new items added to the game
• 4 new decorations/props added
• Shop UI and dialogue scripted for underwater city shopkeeper. You can shop in Agua now!
• Appropriately removed a quest item during quest dialogue related to the sea cave
• Fixed navigation in the sandstorm temple
• Fixed multiple doors in volcano dungeon to place player in the correct location/map
• Fixed various nav lines in volcano dungeon
• Fixed an attack sound on ice beast that was not playing correctly
• Changed a frost cave monster item drop to be stackable
• Changed a sea cave monster item drop to be stackable
• Changed a volcano cave monster item drop to be stackable
• fix boss room door to appropriately check quest items
• Added a dive spots to get to the underwater areas
• Began work on sunken ship dungeon

• Completed, scripted events, added spawns and monsters to sub-dungeon 1 of the final dungeon
• Completed, scripted events, added spawns and monsters to sub-dungeon 2 of the final dungeon
• You can now level to 20
• Adjusted stats gained (not spendable points) at each level
• Fixed various item descriptions
• Fixed various item prices
• Fixed some shop UI displaying erroneous data
• Normalized volume of shopkeeper music
• Normalized volume of menu sounds
• Selling items now accounts for stack size. You no longer have to sell an item stack individually
• Added a "current gold" indicator on buy and sell screens
• Began producing a game manual
• Completed first draft of game manual (20+ pages!)
• Completed first draft of current world map (may add more later??)
• Fixed typo and some grammar in the intro game text
• Sourced multiple components for a physical edition
• Fixed skybox seams on several maps
• Received manual, physical map and doodads for physical edition. Physical box is proofed, but company is waiting until after chinese new year to print and ship
• optimized some maps to improve performance
• fixed some weather that wasn't pre-rendering on map load
• Moving platforms are now a thing
• Potions now appear on the quick slot bar on game startup
• Added a new magic skill and associated scripting (how to acquire still being worked out)
• Added more consistent environmental assets to the snow zones
• Updated media kit assets to match the recent art updates
• Updated startup dialogue
• Began work on final encounter/end of main story

• Fixed various issues in volcano dungeon boss (boss animations, scripting related to phases)
• Made cut scene related to volcano boss
• Updated main menu image, is now animated
• Shops now sell torches!
• Adjusted prices of some items
• Added price labels to shops
• Adjusted font and some UI elements on shop screens
• Refactored an event script in the Sandstorm Sanctum dungeon to account for errors if the player dies during the event
• Refactored an event script in the Orc Camp to reduce script overhead and be more consistent
• Fixed death animation on the orc beastmaster which was erroneously using non-death frames
• Fixed a missing switch in Bastion of the Prism
• Updated dialogue script to appropriately change sailing skill icon
• Fixed a dialogue script in the sea cave to display the appropriate text
• Fixed attack animation on zombie sailor to not get stuck in a loop
• Fixed death animation on zombie sailor which was erroneously using non-death frames
• Fixed multiple tiles that weren't walkable and should be in sea cave
• Fixed multiple tiles that were walkable and shouldn't be in sea cave
• Fixed missing tile in sea cave
• Made some changes to the sea cave map
• Added fog for ambience and changed lighting in the sea cave map
• Changed flowing water script in sea cave map
• Fixed some seams on a couple "brick" and "wood" pattern tiles that looked a bit funky if took a really close look
• Fixed corner/seams on the ivywood tree model to not overlap and cause graphical artifacts
• Sourced music for final dungeon
• Created several environment assets for the final dungeon
• Began early prototyping for a jumping system. Not sure how far I'll go with it, just playing around and would have to retrofit it to the current game world. Not an issue per se but I want to keep scope creep to a minimum until release
• Fix multiple cutscene scripts which weren't properly stopping the playing from moving during the cut scene
• Fixed a script that was erroneously rolling the credits, a remnant of my demo migration

• Updated Steam and Itch Art! These were always placeholder assets. Feedback would be appreciated!
• Fixed various scripts incorrectly being assigned after migrating the frost cave dungeon
• Imported correct sound effects that were not migrated related to the frost cave dungeon
• Recreated treasures and placed them in appropriate containers that were not imported correctly, related to the frost cave dungeon
• Recreated global properties related to frost cave dungeon (ties in with script fixes)
• Fixed cutscene related to the Frost Cave Boss
• Fixed a number of behaviors that were incorrectly set on creatures, related to the frost dungeon
• Added some additional scenery to the boss room of the frost cave dungeon
• changed gray sea serpent to be billboard
• fixed blue sea serpent tail attachment
• reduced size of sea cave crab
• fix a navigation line in ivywood that was preventing movement
• fix a navigation line in frost cave that was preventing movement
• fix animation on crystal guardian in tower
• Fixed attack animation on zombie
• Reduced number of enemy spawns in Sea Cave
• Reduced number of enemy spawns in Mandora Plains
• Fixed death animation and various related scripts involved in the mandora orc boss fight
• Fixed attach points of some traps in Bastion of the Prism
• Fixed some dialogue with errors
• Updated "hit" animations (when an enemy gets hit) to use the predefined animation name rather than a custom hit animation global script since hit animations are built in now
• Boss and new enemy for volcano dungeon created
• Volcano Dungeon boss map created
• Volcano dungeon boss scripting and mechanics completed

• I've added 3 new maps tied to the volcano dungeon (work in progress, nearly finished)
• I'm also in the process of developing the boss of the dungeon fight with some unique mechanics.
• 5+ new monsters are being worked on for the aforementioned dungeon
• I started experimenting with some backdrops for the northern mountain, a quick distraction from the volcano work but check out the attached screenshot
• Lastly, I'll be experimenting with a new tool to improve sprite animations. I plan to showcase these in my next update if it works out

• Merged scripts, audio/music, tiles, character models and other related assets from demo build to main build
• Coral Cave map and underwater city created
• Added spawns to coral cave, kelp forest, ship graveyard
• Adjusted lighting on multiple maps to better fit the theme/biome
• Changed entry points to most underwater areas ('zone ins'), changing the overall layout of the underwater biome
• Refactored shield block skill to be more efficient/make more sense under the hood
• Created player journal system for in-game note taking
• Modified damage logic formula to calculate dex and have a % chance to critically hit! Crits are now in the game.
• Fixed some navigation in crypts
• Bears now exist in Ivywood
• Added stats, animations and placement/spawns of bears
• Re-scripted several doors to be more efficient
• Made an underwater city
• Began work on north Ivywood and the northern, snowy/frozen region of the game (3 maps, more to come)

• 6 new underwater creatures created, statted and animated
• change default location of hp/mp bar (still draggable)
• Completed new map in water biome
• Updated behavior, stats and loot tables of 15 creatures
• Create a vault/storage system.
• Placed vault NPC's and buildings in every major town (culceth, mandora, ivywood)
• Difficulty adjustment for catacomb enemies - reduce strength of entry level enemies

• Created multiple snow and ice related tiles
• Created frost cave dungeon
• Scripted puzzles for frost cave
• Created, statted and animated 8 new creatures related to the frost cave
• Added music for frost cave, including music for the boss encounter
• Created 3 unique items found in the frost cave (secrets abound!)
• Scripted and tested AOE components of a fireball wand
• Created mana potion and scripted functionality
• Scripted boss encounter for frost cave/demo dungeon
• Scripted resistances related to wearing frost armor
• Scripted on-hit special effects for enemies in cave
• Added snow

• Created a new tile
• Built out Sea Cave, including unique dungeon mechanic. Walls/ceilings are still needed
• Completed animations on water objects
• Began initial underwater biome map creation. (more to come)
• Built out Sea Cave, including unique dungeon mechanic. Walls/ceilings are still needed
• Added turrets to Bastion of the Prism (a previously broken engine feature)
• Raised the roof on certain rooms in Bastion of the Prism to fit bigger baddies
• Fixed Shock projectile to remove itself
• Shock projectile now plays a shock sound on hit Sound is too disruptive, and has been removed
• Added an exit to Bastion of the Prism
• Created boss for sea cave, including animations and special attacks/boss mechanics
• Updated weeks worth of internal development documentation
• Redid sea cave map with new tiles to be less monotonous
• Created an debuff system, where visual feedback (outside of message log) shows when you are poisoned, stunned, etc
• Modified wolf pelt sell price
• HP bar is now draggable
• Selling items now rounds the value to a nice whole number
• Completed quest scripting that allows access to the underwater biome
• Implemented the basics for a multi save system, including UI and hotkey shortcuts to allow multiple saves (saves write to user appdata folder)
• Created some unique treasures for the sea cave
• Modified UI to show HP and MP bar
• Added a "special" ability tab on the ability UI
• Added an additional map to the sea cave
• Created a new tile
• Redid sea cave map with new tiles to be less monotonous
• Completed animations on water objects
• Began initial underwater biome map creation (more to come)

• Tuned down defense scaling for all monsters outside of Ivywood.
• Significantly increased monster gold drops, including ones previously that were missing gold drops entirely. Further testing is needed but hopefully it's possible to survive better outside of Ivywood when it comes to your coinpurse

• Removed some spawning locations in the Orc Cave.
• Fixed navigable grid squares on several maps.
• Fixed script issues in the desert when transitioning maps.

• Adjusted movement frequency and speed for certain enemies.
• Enabled orcs and wargs to actively chase the player.

• Changed how the desert mechanic works and made the compass more useful.

• Modified the priest model to align with other character models.
• Fixed the Culceth Merchant 2 idle animation.
• Created and animated 5 new monsters.

• Increased player starting speed to be less sluggish.
• Modified Field of View (FOV)/Camera height to better align with Dungeon Crawler conventions, improving visibility of adjacent tiles.
• Changed key bindings: turning to Q and E, and strafing to A and D.

• Moved some UI elements to temporarily resolve issues with disappearing skill/quickslot bars.

• Added a mermaid to Mermaid Rock (additional content planned).

• Began work on the Sea Cave dungeon.