Space Gladiators news & patch notes

The Turkish language is now available in the game. Special thanks to Gowner and the LG studios team for that!

Hello, We now have trading cards, emotes, backgrounds and badges for the game! Not totally sure how that works but you should be able to get some of them by just playing. Also wanted to let you know that Space Gladiators will likely be released in 1.0 later this month. It's been in Early Access for more than 15 months now, which is about 9-12 more months than planned. Even though there are a lot of ideas and features that couldn't be done, I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. Of course, I'll keep tweaking and supporting the game even after the EA tag is gone. Special thanks to Sasta (1), James (2), MrJuhanso (3) and Petra (4) for their help!

Fixes & small tweaks

• Fixed a bug where the Water Bottle and the Cross would heal before adding a Max HP. (1)
• Fixed a bug where the graphics of the energy bar would sometime go over its limit. (2)
• Fixed a bug where the Nail Bat was giving 5x the amount of damage it should. (3)
• Fruit Basket now gains a charge when you’re picking up a fruit even if you’re not at full HP. (4)

Cheers!

Special thanks to Emilio Tolsada (1) and Sensei Bean (2) for their help!

New stuff

• New language: Spanish (1)

Balancing

• Fakir Training: 20% chance to block trap damage => 50%
• Hell’s Dagger: +1 up damage per devil item taken => +2
• Carving Knife: 8% to get item on a corpse => 15%
• Precision Knife: 16% to get item on a corpse => 25%
• Unkillable: -3 Max HP every fatal hit => -2
• Fruit Basket: starts with 3 charges => 5
• Enhanced Fruits: +3 coins => +10
• Beelzebub: +20% Damage => +10%
• Athletic Insects: HP increased

Fixes & small tweaks

• Fixed a bug where Lightning Sword would display 0 damage when your tech is low even though it actually deals a minimum of 1 damage.
• Fixed other descriptions.
• Changed the sound effect of hitting goo, laser bullets and lava projecitles.
• Fixed a bug where the description of some arena rewards were overflowing. (2)

Hello, Thanks to more awesome people, the game is now available in Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Polish! I’ve also added some more items, fixes and balancing tweaks. Special thanks to Bear (1), Petra (2), Traumaturgy (3), TheSpaceEgg (4), Funguy (5), Devildoer (6), drakan (7), jason (8), Hibou Inquiet (9), Howard (10), Rogue Justice (11) for their help! New stuff

• New languages: Polish (6), Traditional Chinese (8), Simplified Chinese (10)
• Ghost Costume - outfit: +1 Armor, gain 5 seconds of invulnerability when you enter a room (1)
• Zombie - trait: Set Technology and Max Energy to 0, enemies have a 3% chance of dropping a Brain (5)
• Child Eater - trait: Dolls get added as Passive items (ignoring modifiers), you can’t have a Defensive Ability nor an Outfit (2)
• Carving Knife - defensive ability: use on corpses to get various items with a 8% chance (4)
• Precision Knife - perk: You now have a 16% chance to get an item when using the Carving Knife
• Beelzebub - trait: +20% Damage, 50% chance to take 1 damage when you pick up a Consumable (3)

Balancing

• Full Moon: +10% Damage -> +5%, price reduced
• The levers to reroll shops now break after 5 uses. (7)
• Reduced the attack range of Voubi with a Marksman Hat. (11)
• Voubi spawns a clone every 10 hits -> every 12 hits. (11)

Fixes & small tweaks

• Blood Fuel no longer ignores invulnerability.
• Having multiple Broken Vases now increases the initial damage dealt to all enemies.
• The last hit on the gym’s training dummy no longer gives you a Biceps if you haven’t unlocked it first.
• Fixed a bug where the corpses of little green slime enemies would never disappear even in situations where they should be.
• Fixed issues with the map.
• Fixed the description of the “Monk” and “Food Lover” traits. (9)
• Purple goo projectiles in the jungle now disappear instantly at the end of arena fights.

Cheers!

Hello, Thanks to the work of some players, the game is now available in 2 more languages: Portuguese (BR) and Russian. If you also want to help bring the game into your own language, feel free to head out to Localizor and start translating! I also took the opportunity to push some bug fixes. I haven’t had as much time to work on the game lately, but Space Gladiators has already been in Early Access for more than a year now which is way more than I originally planned. I still want to add some things but overall I’m pretty happy with the current state of the game. I think 1.0 is not that far off. I know some of you are hoping for more stuff like mod support, customized runs and such. It might come later but I can’t really promise anything there. The game has evolved way past its original scope and wasn’t supposed to include modding & stuff, so some of these functionalities would probably be way too hard to implement into the current codebase. I’ll only know for sure if I get the time to look into it more deeply though! Special thanks to Bear (1), Rekengappy (2), Tijoe (3), Funguy (4) and everyone who helped with the translations!

Changelog

• Portuguese (BR), Russian (1) (2)
• Fixed some item descriptions.
• Fixed a bug where the Spiky Shield perk’s base damage was 1 instead of 20. (3)
• Fixed a bug where Spicy Food had only a 5% chance of activating instead of 25%. (3)
• Having multiple Spicy Food items can now create multiple poops (each with a 25% chance) with one downward attack instead of increasing the % chance to create 1 poop.
• When starting a new run, the character selected by default is now the last character you played. (4)
• Fixed a bug where the map would sometimes show inaccessible rooms.
• Fixed a bug where the specific arena rewards that spawn for Zombide weren’t in priority for his current whip’s color when they should have been.

Cheers!

Hello, A small update today, featuring items from the community vote back on the Discord server! It has actually been lingering on the beta branch for some time now. A lot of things on the backend had to be fixed and cleaned-up to be able to implement the crowd sourced translations. This created a bunch of random bugs and I wanted to playtest it a bit more before making it live on the main branch. Please let me know if you find some weird things, broken items or translations! Special thanks to TheSpaceEgg (1), Traumaturgy (2), Swestar (3), Padongo (4), Sensei Bean (5), Petra (6), Celt (7), Funguy (8) for their suggestions!

New stuff

• Mystery Machine - passive: +1 Strength, Technology or Max HP when you enter an unknown room. (2)
• Midas’s Crown - passive: Gain coins every 10 times you hit enemies with basic attacks. Scales with Charisma. (7)
• Broken Vase - passive: Hitting an enemy with a basic attack without killing them deals damage to all enemies. +1 damage every time the effect activates until the end of the room. (8)
• Rare Coin - defensive ability: Gives better modifiers. Gain 50 coins and destroy this item on use. (6)
• New localization system
• 2 new rooms

Balancing

• Defective Steroids: -30% Attack Speed => -20%
• Indecisive: -10% Negotiation => -25% (1) (2)
• Climber: now gives 15% Speed (2)
• Ogre Helmet: now spawns in shops (3)
• Spider Doll: price reduced, now gives +50% Jump
• Head Arm: +50% damage => +75% (2)
• Big Frame: -20% Speed, +1 Max HP => -10% Speed, +2 Max HP (2)
• Rough Skin: +10 Thorns => +20 Thorns (3)
• Reckless: +10% Damage => +15% Damage (3)
• Plasma Launcher: costs 2 Energy => 1 Energy (2)
• Bounty Hunter: +15 coins => +20 coins (2)
• Stitched Bag: -30% Attack Speed => -10% (2)

Fixes & small tweaks

• Fixed some misplaced exits in a trap room of The Hole.
• Fixed a bug where using defensive abilities as Pepilon with Gunslinger would give you ammo back. (4)
• Added an indicator when you run out of ammo as Pepilon. (4)
• Fixed a bug where Souls and Crank could kill invulnerable enemies. (3)
• Bounty Hunter no longer gets applied in mini boss rooms. (5)
• If you’ve beaten one boss of a zone with a character, the other one will now always be picked first. (3)
• Spawned enemies no longer count towards challenges where you have kill enemies. (6)

Cheers!

Hello, Space Gladiators is now available on Localizor, a website used for managing crowd-sourced translations! It has been recommended by a lot of other cool indie devs and it looked like a simple and elegant solution so I wanted to give it a try. I spent the last few weeks fixing all the keys and translations inside of the game to make it easier to get external contributions. Here are the current languages available for translation:

• German
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Russian
• Portuguese
• Chinese (Simplified)
• Spanish
• Polish

If you're speaking one of those fluently and wanna help the game out, feel free to start contributing there! You'll only need to create a Localizor account and you'll be good to go. I also created a dedicated channel on the Discord server to keep organized and in case you need more info on anything so make sure to join us there! Cheers!

Hello, This week we got some more new items and bug fixes. We also got the game verified on Steam! You might have noticed that the achievements for beating the bosses with the 2 new characters were missing. That’s because we had a limit of 100 achievements since the game wasn’t verified. That limit has been lifted and the achievements have been added. They should get unlocked automatically once you launch the game if you’ve completed the corresponding challenges. Special thanks to Petra (1), Lyman (2), Padongo (3), Traumaturgy (4) and Swestar (5) for their suggestions!

New stuff

• Coral - passive: Set your current negative stats to 0 (doesn't impact temporary effects) (1)
• Shield Breaker - passive: Ignore enemy shields (1)
• Full Moon - passive: +10% damage (1)
• Rip and Tear - passive: Enemies explode on death. Scales with Strength. (1)
• Hell's Dagger - passive: Upwards attacks deal additional damage. Scales with the number of items you've taken from Demonic Altars. (1)
• Ball and Chain - passive: +4 Strength, killing critters no longer give you Energy (1)
• Well Bruised - perk: Recover 1 HP every 4 hits you take. (2)

Balancing

• The projectiles of refugees ghosts now go through platforms.
• Killing infinitely summoned hot dog bats and mushroom slaves no longer make you recover energy or activate effects that could potentially give you permanent boosts or fully heal you.
• Scarf: price reduced

Fixes & small tweaks

• Updated the arenas of the Armory and the Refugees Camp.
• Fixed a crash that happened when you entered a specific trap room in the Colosseum. (3)
• Renamed Fruit Bag to Fruit Basket.
• Fixed some bugs with Fruit Basket’s energy cost with the Enhanced Fruits perk.
• Fixed a bug where the Spikes had the same icon as Metal Scrapping in the inventory.
• The Unkillable and Worm Soup perks should no longer appear for Robbie.
• Tweaked Bronnie’s and Athletic Insects’ rooms to be more visually comfortable.
• Miner’s Helmet now displays the exact % chance it gives you. (4)
• Fixed a bug where Voubi’s clones were dealing full damage with Lightning Sword. (4)
• Fixed a bug where rewards specific to items you previously owned could spawn even when you no longer had them. (1)
• Steam achievements should now automatically unlock if you have completed the associated challenges. (5)

Cheers!

Hello, We’re back with our smaller more regular content updates! This one adds a few new items, rooms, bug fixes and balance changes. On another note, my engine got a big update a few days ago and it broke a lot of things. I hopefully fixed it all but you might see weird things in some rooms (exits and assets in the wrong spots, traps that don’t work like they should etc.). If you see stuff like that, please report them to me in the Discord or on the Steam forums. Special thanks to Pepenosoy (1), littleninja117 (2), Celt (3), SenseiSenzuBean (4), Funguy10101 (5), Dreamless (6), Lef (7), MadderThanEggs (8), Woodlutins (9), Petra (10), TheTurtleMelon (11), Lyman (12), Traumaturgy (13), TheSpaceEgg (14) and Hallow (15) for their suggestions!

New stuff

• Pretty - passive: +5% Negotiation, +10% Charisma (10)
• Spicy Food - passive: 25% chance to poop when you attack down. Scales with Max HP. (10)
• Water Bottle - passive: +1 Max HP, recover 1 HP. (14)
• Disgusting - passive: +1 strength for every -5% Negotiation you have (14)
• Pretty Doll - doll: +20% Negotiation (14)
• 2 new unknown rooms (5) (10)
• Bad people get punished >:(

Balancing

• Stun Whip: 25% stun chance => 10% (4)
• Fox: 2% pet chance => 1% (8)
• Head Arm: 100% damage => 50% (11)
• Bully: boss fight tweaked

Fixes & small tweaks

• Fixed a bug where Cursed Octopus marks didn’t appear on little green slimes.
• Fixed a bug where the Lost Potato pet would sometimes crash the game. (1)
• Fixed a bug where Lightning Sword dealt only half the damage it was supposed to. (2) (3)
• Fixed a bug where using the shield and pausing the game would get you stuck in the shielding animation. (5)
• Fixed a bug where some traps didn’t stop after beating the second boss in the Jungle in Danger 4 or more. (6)
• Fixed a bug where miniboss signposts were sometimes broken. (7)
• Fixed which stat is being lowered with Zombide when you have an Alien Arm. (6) (9)
• Upgrade descriptions are now displayed in the character selection screen. (12) (13)
• Some unknown rooms have been tweaked.
• Fixed a bug where losing the Devil Armor while having a Prison Doll would cancel the protection from traps. (15)
• Fixed a few item pools.

Cheers!

Hello, We’re finally here! Lost Potato and Space Gladiators’ update 0.8.0 are now live! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1365010 Make sure to check out Lost Potato if arcade-ish top-down roguelite sounds like something you’d enjoy, it really helps support my work! It means two brand new characters to unlock, three new minibosses to find during your runs and a ton of new items, fixes and balancing changes. As usual, this update will be followed by a bunch of smaller ones that’ll add more items, rooms and fixes. Time to party! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35772788/6bb0913be76f3976ba2f77ec54c652f8d0256e41.gif Special thanks to Petra (1), Bear (2), Funguy1010101 (3), Kenzup (4), TheSpaceEgg (5), Traumaturgy (6), Lyman (7), Olexa (8), Soremon Sketch (9), Rogue Justice (10), DarkLiveRyder (11), Flounder (12), Blueish (13), Ixion (14), TheTurtleMelon (15), littleninja117 (16) and AguruAguru (17) for their suggestions!

New stuff

• 2 new characters with 10 new specific perks
• 3 new minibosses
• New random character selection option (3) (14)
• Tiny Arms - trait: +50% damage, can no longer attack vertically (13)
• Head Arm - trait: +100% damage, can no longer attack horizontally
• Natural Scent - passive: Doubles the number of critters in every room
• Unkillable - perk: -3 Max HP everytime you take a fatal hit. Die once you reach 0.
• Explosive Critters - passive: Critters explode for 10 damage when they die (1)
• Blobfish - passive: +2 Max Energy, -10% Negotiation (1)
• Decaying Bodies - passive: Dead enemies spawn a critter (1)
• Rich Critters - passive: Critters have a chance to drop coins when they die (1)
• Drugged Critters - passive: Critters have a 2% chance of dropping an Injection when they die (1)
• Agressive Critters - passive: Critters die when they touch enemies and deal 10 damage (1)
• Alien Liver - passive: +1 Max HP, +1 Max Energy, -10 Thorns (1)
• Shotgun - offensive ability: Fires 3 bullets, scales with Armor. Cost: 1 Energy (9)
• Handcuffs - passive: +6 Strength, +6 Technology, your Max HP is capped at its current value (13)
• Fox - passive: +2% chance of finding a pet in destructibles
• Jacob’s Pride - passive: +50% coins in trap rooms, +25% coins in hard rooms (1)
• Monk’s Blessing - passive: +5 Metal Scrapping, -1 Metal Scrapping for every 100 coins you currently have (7)
• Lightning Sword - passive: Hitting an enemy with a basic attack deals damage to all enemies. Scales with Technology. (1)
• Cursed Octopus - offensive ability: Basic attacks add marks on enemies. Activate to deal x damage per mark. Max 5 marks per enemy at once, scales with Max HP. Cost: 1 Energy
• Mecha Friend - offensive ability: Rolls around and deals damage. Lasts 10 seconds, scales with Armor. Cost: 3 Energy
• Maggot Bag - passive: Killing an enemy spawns a fly that moves randomly and deals damage. Scales with Max HP. (7)
• Tyler - pet: A little friend that will build plasma mines. Destroy them to deal damage in an area. Scales with Technology.
• Nail Bat - passive: Basic attacks deal additional damage. Scales with Spikes. (1)
• Torture - passive: +6 Max HP, full heal before arenas and bosses, can no longer heal in other ways
• Lost Potato - pet: A little friend that will stun nearby enemies
• 2 new unknown rooms (1)

Balancing

• Babouk: starts with 15 Vampirism, max 20 => 12 Vampirism, max 18 (2)
• Robbie: level 5 bonus is now +1 Metal Scrapping.
• Abyssal Pact: +10 Vampirism, -50% Attack Speed => +6 Vampirism, -30% Attack Speed
• Fruit Bag: now synergizes with Enhanced Fruits and double food effects. (1)
• Blood Fuel: take 1 damage when using an Offensive Ability => 50% chance to take 1 damage (3)
• Climber & Spider Doll: pressing up while sticking to walls now makes you slide upwards. (11)
• Marksman Hat: now synergizes with Voubi’s projectiles
• Minimalist challenge: arena rewards are now allowed. (1) (6)
• Trapped Coins: price reduced
• Trapped Outfit: 20 damage => 30 damage, bigger explosion (7)
• Rocks and Metal Cannon: base damage increased
• Gobblers: they now have a slight delay before being able to move so they don’t rush you down as soon as you enter a room
• Stinky Doll: poop every 8 seconds => every 4 seconds
• Fat Spiky Doll and Prison Doll: now also protects from the big white trap balls in The Hole (6)
• Energy Shield: once per room, can’t have Defensive Abilities. (1) (15)
• Asteroid and Defective Steroids: +8 Strength => +5 Strength, price reduced (13)
• Poop: now effectively doubles damage after adding up all damage bonuses instead of doubling base damage before bonuses
• Brick: less falling speed lowering, but stacks

Fixes & small tweaks

• Fixed graphical glitches and other weird things in some rooms. (7) (4) (2) (6) (3)
• Armor has been renamed to Outfit to avoid confusion between the gear and the stat. (3) (8) (1)
• Souls no longer apply Nanobug. (1)
• The “Supplying” perk now spawns an Outfit before the final boss. (2)
• Fixed a bug where the Barbarian’s Curse would remove all of your armor on pickup. (1)
• Fixed a bug where Voubi’s clones Turrets were dealing as much damage as Voubi’s. (1)
• Voubi’s clones now spawn in the same direction as Voubi. (1)
• Green slimes now display a telegraph on death before splitting into two tiny slimes. (9)
• Fixed a bug where having negative Charisma and a Demonic Totem would spawn 0 souls.
• Tweaked some item descriptions to be more precise. (10) (1) (3)
• Fixed a bug where Soul Drain would recover less energy when killing an enemy with Chipset Overcharge. (10)
• Fixed a bug where picking up a new Fruit Bag wouldn’t give new fruit charges. (3)
• Fixed a bug where attacking down while going down a platform would make a side attack instead of a down attack. (1)
• Fixed a bug where wall larvas would float in the air after being attracted by a Void Gun projectile. (6)
• Fixed a bug where Voubi’s projectiles would reflect trap projectiles upwards when attacking up and being on their downward trajectory. (1)
• Fixed a bug where the Potato Doll projectile didn’t synergize with Marksman Hat. (5)
• Fixed a bug where clones would block Voubi from hitting the gym dummy. (1)
• Coins get attracted faster to avoid staying clumped up behind the player. (1)
• The Dumbbell and the Bloody Shield now display how much Strength they’re currently giving you.
• Fixed a bug where Nanobug would create an explosion on the player instead of on enemies with Laser Gun. (10)
• Fixed a bug where enemies with a damage boost in the Jungle would damage you through your shield. (6)
• Turrets’ damage in the Engineer fight no longer scale with your Armor. (1)
• Final boss icon in the Select Character screen is now centered. (4) (1)
• Reflected trap projectiles no longer damage the player. (1)
• The speed of Skulls’ projectiles after being reflected has been increased.
• Fixed a bug where clicking “Retry” in the tutorial would generate some bugs. (12)
• Items don’t get pushed by basic attacks anymore if they haven’t touched the ground atleast once to prevent pushing fruits coming out of destructibles into spikes.
• Fixed a bug where opening the inventory while holding a shield would keep you stuck in the shield position. (3)
• Fixed a bug where wall larva enemies in The Crypts would sometimes change directions before attacking. (10) (6)
• Fixed a bug where green halos were displayed on dead clones. (1) (8)
• Fixed a bug where clones projectiles’ starting position was off when attacking to the left. (5)
• Having multiple Trapped Coins now spawn one explosion that deal more damage instead of multiple explosions. (1)
• Unstackable passive items now stop spawning if you already have one.
• Item descriptions should now display the actual amount of damage dealt after all bonuses were added (% damage, damage doubled etc.)
• You can now see what challenge you need to accomplish to unlock a character by hovering over it on the character selection screen.
• Fixed a bug where stat caps were sometimes miscalculated and not working as they should (1) (2)
• Fixed a bug where Barbarian’s Curse would also halve the HP cap (1) (16)
• Fixed a bug that would crash the game in the inventory when pressing certain keys. (17)
• Refugees no longer activate Theft. (8) (1)
• Fixed Voubi’s attack sound.
• Bosses’ health bar disappear once they die. (1)

Cheers!

Hello, A quick announcement to let you know that the next big update (new character??) will be out this Friday! And also a whole other game: Lost Potato! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1365010 Lost Potato is a minimalistic top-down roguelite where you can't damage enemies directly. Push them into spikes, reflect bullets and help a young potato find its way out of a jungle filled with man-eating tribes! Make sure to go ahead and wishlist it! (really helps with getting visibility) {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35772788/9b05c2504b2dbb829fdcc81293048d50ebb39472.gif See you on Friday!

Hello, Space Gladiators is currently available at 20% off for the Steam Summer Sales! Wanted to make this quick announcement to let you know that I'm planning on increasing the price once the event is over. This means the current discounted price is probably the best deal you'll get on the game for a while. This shouldn't come off as a surprise to most of you who've been reading previous announcements or the Steam page of the game. The amount of content of the game has more than doubled since the Early Access launch back in October and with some more major content updates coming soon, I feel like this is the right time to do it. So if you've been on the fence, now's your chance to snatch it! Cheers!

Hello, French is finally here! Now that the game is setup for localization, adding more languages will be way faster. But they’ll come later when the content is more stable. I also added 11 new traits / items / perks and polished the menus a bit. Next up is some more exciting stuff: I think it’s the right time to start working on some new characters, mini-bosses and other content ideas I had. I’m still unsure if I want next update to be the big one or if I’ll do a couple small ones first to fix some stuff… but definitely keep an eye out for it! Special thanks to Dreamless (1), Susucr (2), Blueish (3) and Rogue Justice (4) for their suggestions!

New stuff

• Full French localization
• Gambler - trait: Shops sell only one item, rerolling shops costs 5 coins instead of 25 (2)
• Needle Phobia - trait: +4 Strength, take 1 damage when you pick up an injection (2)
• Achilles Heel - trait: +2 Max HP, +2 Strength, +2 Technology, take 1 additional damage from traps (2)
• Meat Armor - trait: 15% chance to block incoming damage, can't wear Armors (2)
• Energy Shield - trait: Consumes all Energy to block damage if you have 3 Energy or more
• Lifelong Training - trait: Set Strength and Technology to 3, 50% chance to gain 1 Strength or 1 Technology when you clear a room
• Bounty Hunter - trait: Mark one enemy each room, +15 coins if he's killed first, -10 coins if not (2)
• Tree - passive: +2 Technology for every living critter (2)
• Trapped Armor - passive: Explode for 20 damage when your Armor gets destroyed (2)
• Heaven Dagger - passive: Downward attacks deal 25% more damage (3)
• Fruit Bag - defensive ability: Recover 1 HP. Starts with 3 charges, +1 charge when you pickup a fruit while being full HP. (5 max)
• Better Bag - perk: The Fruit Bag can have up to 8 charges

Balancing

• Indecisive: -20% Negotiation => -10%

Fixes & small tweaks

• Tweaked some descriptions.
• Added some polish to the menus.
• Some trap projectiles now go faster when reflected. (4)
• Fixed the hitbox of the Metal Cannon projectile.
• Fixed a bug where the Alien Artifact II Jump bonus wasn’t taken into account by the Power Generator. (1)
• Fixed a bug where the Pet Trainer and Pet Master perks could appear multiple times in the same run. (1)
• The Wrench icon now appears in grayscale if you don’t have enough coins to use it.
• Fixed a bug where pets didn’t get experience from arenas.
• Fixed a bug where souls didn’t spawn in rooms introducing zones.
• Renamed the “Video” settings page to “Global”.
• Fixed a bug where ending a run in an unknown room would make the starting weapon of the next runs have better stat modifiers.

Cheers!

Hello, The main focus of this update is to improve the game’s performance and to fix some important crashes that would delete your save file. I’m not going to go into too much details but know that you’ll now experience some loading at the following times:

• Launching the game
• Starting a run
• Ending a floor
• Finishing a run

Basically, we’re now preloading a lot of stuff at specific times to avoid frame drops in the middle of a run. That’ll be indicated by a little dancing potato in the bottom right of your screen. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35772788/6bb0913be76f3976ba2f77ec54c652f8d0256e41.gif I’ve reduced the texture page size from 4096x4096 to 2048x2048, which might impact you if you have an older computer and the game keeps crashing because of memory limitations. I also got tons of suggestions and bug reports from y’all so I tried my best to implement them. Don’t worry if you don’t see yours here, I haven’t had the time to go through all of it. Next couple of updates will be focused on adding items and new abilities before I start working on setting up the game for localization! Special thanks to D3 (1), Woodlutins (2), Lyman (3), Ducky (4), Rogue Justice (5), Dreamless (6), Nublear (7), Jean (8), TheTurtleMelon (9), Fugu (10), Cimarus (11), EthanZ (12), Susucr (13), PentaHybrid (14), Blueish (15) and Natalie Swirvin (16) for their suggestions!

New stuff

• Performance improvements.
• Loading at specific times (game start and beginning/end of zones) to reduce lag and stuttering mid-run.
• Automatic backups and save recovery system to avoid losing your save file and crashing on launch. (2)
• Family Heirloom - trait: Get a random ability with better stat modifiers, destroy the rest of starting gear (3)
• Animal Lover - trait: Get a random Pet, destroy the rest of starting gear (3)
• Grifter - trait: Get 1 free item in every shop, -100% Negotiation (3)
• DIY - trait: +5 Metal Scraping, can't wear Armors (3)
• Indecisive - trait: The price of rerolling shop items doesn't increase, -20% Negotiation

Balancing

• Voubi’s clones Green Energy Balls no longer heal you. (12)
• Voubi’s clones no longer trigger lava traps in the Refugee Camp. (6)
• The Greedy trait no longer makes you lose coins when a clone gets hit. (3)
• The Strong Bones perk no longer protects your clones. (10)
• Weapon altars now give items with better stat modifiers.
• The max number of enemies spawned by Genetic Containers in Challenge rooms in The Hole has been reduced and increases as you progress through zones. (9)
• Hot dog bats max speed has been lowered. (15)
• Final boss fight has been tweaked. (15)
• The thunder of the green robots in the Colosseum is now faster and can go through platforms.
• The number of enemies in the arenas of the Hole has been slightly reduced.
• Plasma Launcher: now costs 2 energy to use instead of 3 and its projectiles have a larger blast radius. (6)
• Drone: you can now only have 1 at a time. Its direction and starting position now depend on your direction when throwing it.
• Big Nose: -30% Negotiation => -50%, 100% to get an injection => 50%
• Axe: Damage reduced. Recover 1 HP if you hit atleast one enemy. (10)
• Plasma Axe: Recover 1 Energy if you hit atleast one enemy.

Fixes & small tweaks

• Improved Robbie’s basic attack hitbox.
• Butcher’s basic attack’s hitbox size has been slightly increased to better match the animation.
• Fixed some invisible platforms. (1)
• Fixed a bug where killing a boss with Robbie without having an active ability would crash the game. (2)
• The Flying Corpse enemy will no longer change direction (and run into the player) when getting hit from behind. (7)
• Fixed a crash that happened when picking up a Mushroom while having an Integrated Chipset in your inventory and while enemies were alive. (2) (6)
• Alien Eyes now go through platforms. (3)
• Fixed unreadable font before arenas in small resolutions. (4)
• Updated the attack animation and pattern of zombies with red balls. (taking inspiration from PleasantWhale’s amazing fanart) (9)
• Tweaked some rooms to avoid having enemies spawn too close to you and being hard to avoid. (5) (9)
• Voubi’s clones are now colorless to help differentiate them more from the real Voubi. (3) (6) (7)
• Fixed a bug where Babouk could lose more than 1 HP at a time if he had armor. (8)
• Fixed a bug where picking up an item while shielding would freeze the character. (8)
• Fixed a bug where throwing away the Fat Doll while having the Chef perk would remove the doubling effect of food. (8) (16)
• Having multiple Demonic Totems will now spawn even more souls. (7)
• Fixed some typos and descriptions. (6)
• Cocoons now explode instead of getting attracted by the Void Gun. (10)
• Spikes in arenas are now displayed in front of the enemies. (11)
• Fixed a bug where little gobblers health bar would still be displayed even if the option was toggled off. (9)
• The event room with a coin lever is now limited to 10 uses. (8)
• Fixed a bug where traps weren’t being removed at the end of second boss rooms. (6)
• The Shield Master trait now allows you to pickup other shields. (6)
• Added a small duration bar on top of the Drone to know when it’s going to disappear. (10)
• Prices now appear red if you can’t afford them. (13)
• The Enhanced Fruits perk no longer appears for Robbie. (14)
• Fixed a bug where Robbie could still find some fruits on the ground instead of tools. (14)
• Fixed a bug where Voubi’s projectiles were getting destroyed when hitting an invulnerable enemy. (10)
• Fixed a bug where throwing away the Spider Doll while having the Climber trait would remove the ability to stick to walls.
• Screenshake option is now set at 75% by default.
• The Marksman Hat now also affects the Lava Balls.
• Fixed a bug where ability particles were getting displayed on invulnerable enemies and friendlies.
• Fixed a bug where you would never take damage from the Blood Donation if you had 1 Max HP or less.
• The armor stat can no longer go below 0.
• Fixed some rooms.
• Some enemies have been updated.

Cheers!

Hello, I noticed that the old arena rewards were almost forcing you into a certain specific playstyle. You'd basically find perks giving you a Heart or a Pet every run even if you didn't like playing with these items. To fix that, this update adds 26 new perks and the ones relative to specific items will now only appear if you already have said items. It means you won’t find perks giving you a free Heart or a free Pet anymore. Next updates will be less content-heavy and might take more time to go live. I have quite a bit of back-end work to do before I focus on adding new stuff again: performance optimizations, crash fixes, some tricky suggestions to implement, setting up the game for localization etc. Special thanks to Lyman (1), ElectricLute (2), Babbleplay (3), 2 Lainz (4) and Dreamless (5) for their suggestions!

New stuff

• Heavy Weights - perk: The Dumbbell can give up to 18 Strength instead of 12
• Electrified Stun - perk: The Stun Device also deals 10 damage
• Enhanced Wrench - perk: The Wrench costs 25 coins if you have < 5 Armor
• Automatic Broom - perk: The Broom activates itself for free every 5 seconds
• Precision - perk: Basic attacks have 15% chance to deal double damage
• Adrenaline - perk: +10% damage until you change rooms everytime you get hit (max 50%)
• Fakir Training - perk: +20% chance to block trap damage
• Arena Fighter - perk: +20% damage in arenas
• Insect Killer - perk: Killing critters restores 3x more Energy
• Angel - perk: Get 1 additional item in Angel Altars
• Demon Hunter - perk: Get 1 free item in Demonic Altars
• Leech - perk: Restore 1 HP the first time you hit an enemy every room
• Treasure Seeker - perk: Chests give 1 additional item
• Enhanced Gear - perk: Gear you find will have better stat modifiers
• Addict - perk: Double the effects of future injections
• Supplying - perk: Get a random Armor before arenas and bosses
• Protective Potato - perk: +10% chance to block incoming damage
• Fighting Skills - perk: +20% Attack Speed (3)
• Sprint Training - perk: +30% Speed
• Portable Coin Forge - perk: +10 Piggy Bank
• 6 new perks to unlock

The next 6 perks were previously unlocked by finishing the game in max difficulty with every character and are now unlocked from the beginning.

• Heroic Aura - perk (Gladiator): +100% Charisma, +20% Negotiation
• Thorny Weapon - perk (Patato): +1 Strength for every 5 Thorn points you have
• Auto Repair Bots - perk (Robbie): Set your Armor to 3 if you spawn in a room with < 3 Armor
• Chest Day - perk (Babouk): You can have 1 additional Max HP
• Mutation - perk (Voubi): Your clones deal 50% more damage (1)
• Soul Drain - perk (Butcher): Killing an enemy restores 3 Energy (once per room)

Balancing

• Climbing Skills is now a Trait and no longer gives Speed.
• Mutation: +25% Clone Damage => +50%
• Scientist Altar: you can now choose between 3 injections instead of 4
• Soul Drain: once per room

Fixes & small tweaks

• Arena rewards relating to a specific item will only appear if you have that item. (i.e. Strong Heart will only appear if you have a Heart, Pet Master if you have a pet etc.)
• Fixed Voubi’s description in the inventory. (1)
• Fixed a bug where Voubi’s clones activated some spike traps. (5)
• Coins now go through platforms when attracted by the player. (2)
• Armors can no longer give Thorns as modifiers. (4)
• Fixed a bug where the Throwing Spear could almost stop in the air if it went through too many enemies.
• Fixed some typos.
• Critters now also restore Energy in the rooms that introduce zones.
• Fixed a bug where clones were dealing too much damage with Yellow Energy Balls.
• The “Extra Batteries” perk has been changed to “Stun Bullets”.
• Fixed some alignment issues in the inventory screen.
• Energy Absorption renamed to Soul Drain.

Cheers!

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35772788/56bb657b6da0ff81365ed34400f17296e74418b4.png Hello, This week’s been pretty crazy! I got a lot of feedback and I tried to implement most of it in this update. I also added 6 new items, fixed a lot of stuff and did some work on balancing the game. One big problem that I kept seeing is that a lot of the time you could just facetank all of the enemies and outdamage them once you got a few good items. (namely Strong Bones, Green Energy Ball or a lot of Vampirism, HP and Metal Scraping) I think I’ve pinpointed the issue: too many invincibility frames after you get hit. It means that enemies could never deal more damage than the amount you recovered - which made it very boring once you got to this point. It was even worse with Voubi because of the clones that acted basically like an additional Vampirism mechanic. That’s why I’m reducing the iframes by 25% in this update. (you’ll basically take 25% more damage if you facetank everything) Voubi also got nerfed quite a bit. He’s definitely the hardest character to balance and he was pretty overpowered in version 0.7.1. Anyway, feel free to check the full changelog below! And as usual, I’m looking forward to hear your thoughts about the changes. Special thanks to Bestiyo (1), Idiosyncrazy (2), Pielef (3), Moonboi (4), Rogue Justice & friends (5), 2 Lainz (6), Himg (7) and Lyman (8) for their suggestions!

New stuff

• Dumbbell - defensive ability: Consumes all Energy, +2 Strength per Energy point consumed until you change rooms. (+12 max)
• Tactician’s Mustache - passive: Reflected trap projectiles deal 50% more damage
• Trapped Coins - passive: Explode for 10 damage whenever you lose coins
• Pet Food - passive: +10% pet damage
• Boxing Glove - passive: Stun enemies for 0.1 seconds the first time you hit them
• Energy Pickaxe - passive: Recover Energy when you break destructibles

Balancing

• Invincibility frames after getting hit: 1 second => 0.75 seconds
• Golden Sword: +10 Strength => +6 Strength, price reduced
• Leaky Gas: damage reduced
• Bloody Shield: max Strength given is now +6
• Throwing Coins: lose 1 coin when you use the ability
• Void Gun: lasts 3 seconds => 2 seconds
• Marksman Hat: price reduced
• Voubi: clones itself every 8 hits => every 10 hits (5)
• Voubi: clones deal 20% damage => 10% (5)
• Voubi: invincibility frames are no longer shared with your clones. i.e. When you get hit, your clones don’t get invincibility frames. When one of your clones gets hit, you don’t get invincibility frames.
• Voubi: his attack projectiles now go through platforms. (8)
• Armor points: having 1 point of armor does not absorb all damage anymore. i.e. when you have 1 armor and take a hit that deals 2 damage, you now lose 1 armor and 1 HP instead of only 1 armor.
• Gorillas: improved range
• Spawners: no longer get their spawning cooldown reset by being stunned and they no longer appear in easy rooms in the “Labs” subzone

Fixes & small tweaks

• Fixed some typos. (7)
• Starting gear is now chosen from all unlocked items and not just the items you’ve discovered. (1)
• Fixed a bug that made you fall out of the screen in some rooms in the Jungle. (6)
• Fixed a bug that sometimes crashed the game when dying as Voubi. (1)
• Starting gear is now allowed for the “Minimalist” achievement. (2)
• Added more effects and particles when your armor gets hit. (3)
• Fixed a bug where the Heart could escape in some rooms. (4)
• Clicking on the “B” button with the map open now closes it instead of using your offensive ability. (1)
• The map also closes automatically when you perform any action except moving.
• The name of the current zone is now displayed when you open your map. (1)
• Descriptions of challenges rewards are now displayed in the “Challenges” menu page. (6)
• Arenas now give experience points.
• Fixed some glitches in the Big Brains fight that happened when staying in a corner.
• You now appear transparent while you’re invulnerable.
• The Wrench no longer consumes Energy if you don’t have enough coins to gain armor.
• You no longer feel recoil when using the Chipset Overcharge, Wrench, Alien Eyes, Broom and Stunning Device abilities.
• Fixed issues related to rotated hitboxes. (Robbie’s attacks feel a bit different now because of this)
• Removed 2 enemies that are currently inaccessible from the catalog.
• Some item pools have been modified.
• Fixed a bug where clones could still move when talking to a NPC.
• Voubi’s clones now throw 2 lava balls instead of 1 when using the Lava Balls offensive ability.
• Tweaked some rooms.
• Fixed a bug where the number of pets wasn’t being reset between rooms.
• Fixed a bug where the Alien Artifact I Speed bonus wasn’t taken into account for items that scale on your Speed.

Cheers!

Hello, Thank you all for the reception to latest update, it’s been great! There will be a few smaller ones now to add more content and to smooth out some rough edges. Special thanks to Rogue Justice (1) and TheTurtleMelon (2) for their suggestions!

New stuff

• Added 14 new Traits. (the scrolls at the beginning of a run) (2)
• Added 5 new rooms.
• Added 2 new items.

Balancing

• Big Nose: -100% Negociation => -30%
• Poop effects and price have been changed.

Fixes & small tweaks

• Fixed a mistake where the “Negociation” stat was referred as “Coupon” in the inventory.
• Some rooms have been updated.
• The big red spiderish enemies in The Crypts now spawn tiny bats in a more randomized direction. (2)
• The Surgical Bot icon now still appears if you have disabled the “Display numbers” setting.
• Accentuated the red aura of the big white ball traps in The Hole.
• Tweaked the hitbox of some enemies and added some leeway before the player gets hit.
• Fixed a bug where the refugees sound was too loud. (1)

Cheers!

Hello, Today we're celebrating 6 months of Early Access! The game has changed so much since the launch. With our biggest update yet just going live, I figured this would be a good time for the first sale of the game. So during the next week, you can get Space Gladiators with a 10% discount. Finally, a heads up: the early access is lasting longer than I expected and tons of content are being added so the price will most certainly go up before the 1.0 launch to reflect that. Cheers!

Hello, Welcome to the game’s biggest update yet! I’ve received a lot of feedback and ideas over the last 2 months and I tried my best to implement them. The main goals of this update are twofold:

• Improve the diversity of the game with new subzones and hundreds of new rooms, traps and enemies
• Smooth out the gamefeel and difficulty curve of the game with improved movement and the removal of contact damage.

From now on, if an enemy doesn’t have a red aura it means you can touch him without taking damage. A lot of behaviors have been obviously been reworked and rebalanced to account for that. We’re also trying out a new run structure: all runs are now full runs. A lot of people have suggested that the previous format of doing each zone individually felt weird. I’m not completetely discarding the idea of reintroducing the possibility of doing individual zones later on but we’ll see how it goes that way first. What’s next? After a few small patches to fix the bugs and balancing issues that’ll come up, here’s what I have planned for the next main updates:

• New characters.
• New event rooms and items.
• Also considering adding minibosses, but I'm not 100% convinced that'd be the best use of my time considering how much work it takes to make good ones.

I actually wanted to implement most of these things in this update, but it was starting to take way too long so I decided to postpone them. Special thanks to Rogue Justice (1), TheTurtleMelon (2), Lef (3), Giragnoulak (4) and mataos (5) for their suggestions!

New stuff

• Every zone is now separated into 3 subzones with specific rooms and some specific enemies in each of them. The order of the subzones is randomised.
• Added 371 new rooms.
• Added 8 new traps.
• Added 21 new enemies.
• Added 1 new item.
• Enemies no longer damage the player on contact by default.
• The boss fights have been reworked and tweaked.
• The “Select Zone” screen has been removed. All runs are now full runs. (2)
• Player movement and interactions with walls have been reworked and smoothed out. You don’t stick to walls while going up anymore and it’s easier to move around walls & corners or to grab small walls.
• Reduced the size of the item description boxes and redesigned them.
• The “Key” item has been replaced by the “Stun Device”.
• Added the “Fragile Heart” perk.
• Some NPC actions have been tweaked and more special rooms have been added.
• Added new destructibles.

Balancing

• Reworked and rebalanced some enemies.
• The medic has been disabled.
• Genetic Containers attack pattern has been modified.
• The Wrench item now costs 50 coins to use instead of 25.
• The Thief trait has been buffed.
• The “Blood Donation” item now only has a 50% chance of making you lose 1 hp at the start of rooms (instead of 100%).
• The “Pet Trainer” perk now increases pet damage by 50% instead of 100%.
• The “Cyclops” pet damage has been decreased.
• The “Poop” item has been buffed.
• The first bosses in Danger 4+ no longer give rewards.
• The “Heart” no longer heals you if it explodes on enemies with the “Explosive Heart” perk but its damage has been increased.
• The “Strong Bones” perk effects have been changed.
• Shields now also protect from traps.
• The “Integrated Chipset” item has been nerfed.
• The “Pocket Magician” price has been increased.
• The “Seismic Device” item has been buffed.
• Reflected trap projectiles damage now increase when you change zones.
• The new enemies from being in Danger level 2+ will now appear in waves instead of all at once. They don’t appear all the time.
• The “Energy Belt” price has been increased and it’s a bit more rare.
• Enemies attacks are now on cooldown when they spawn to avoid getting hit as soon as you enter a room.
• The “Chipset Overcharge” Item can now damage at most 3 enemies with each activation.
• Poopers and Spitters no longer throw projectiles while they’re outside of the screen. (4)
• Poopers now poop twice as fast.
• The “Heart” ability now takes 3 hits to kill.
• The “Rocks” and “Alien Eyes” abilities have been tweaked.
• Robbie now finds Wooden Tools in destructibles instead of Radioactive Fruits.
• Some items found in special circumstances (special rooms, bosses, big chests, challenge rooms) now have better stat modifiers than average.
• Voubi projectiles now explode on contact with a trap projectile. (4)
• The “Climbing Skills” perk has been buffed.
• Reduced the number of fruits dropped by destructibles.
• Reduced the average quality of healing items available before arenas or bosses.
• Picking up the Poop item when in danger level 3 or more will now quadruple the damage you take instead of just doubling it.
• Chests found in trap rooms will now never be as good as the ones found in dedicated Chest rooms.
• Patato’s Thorns bonus from leveling up has been halved.
• Reduced the amount of aliens spawned by having an “Alien Baby”.

Fixes & small tweaks

• Tweaked the size of the arena rooms so the camera doesn’t move vertically when it’s not needed. (1)
• Fixed a crash that sometimes happened when talking to a NPC to randomize your armor or doll and fixed the pools of items to choose from for all randomizing options. (3)
• Renamed the “Coupon” stat to “Negociation”.
• The timer option is now deactivated by default.
• Fixed Butcher’s attack hitbox.
• Item descriptions are now displayed when talking with NPCs.
• Removed the option to deactivate the death screen.
• Updated the requirements for speedrun achievements.
• Fixed a bug where the game would crash when trying to get to the last page of your passive items while in the inventory.
• Fixed a bug where the item randomizing NPC would delete your shield if you had the Shield Master trait.
• Fixed a bug where Tools consumables gave too much Armor to Robbie in certain cases. (1)
• Fixed a bug where the game would crash when using the Chipset Overcharge ability combined with the Extra Batteries perk.
• Fixed a few graphical glitches.
• Made it clearer which armors you can’t wear when you have the Assassin trait.
• Updated the tutorial.
• Fixed the amount of sounds produced by enemies when using the Chipset Overcharge ability or the Seismic Device item.
• The damage value displayed in the description of yellow abilities now includes bonuses given out by the Blueprint items.
• Coins now appear behind enemies.
• Fixed a bug where clicking on the “Next” button with a controller while talking to a NPC with dialog options would close the dialog.
• Fixed a bug where enemies with shields wouldn’t take damage in some cases from the Seismic Device.
• Fixed a bug where item descriptions appeared behind UI elements.
• Fixed a bug where pets could attack bosses during their intro.
• Smoothed out the camera movement and tweaked it to facilitate bouncing on enemies. (1)
• Added safety procedures to avoid situations where the game could freeze. (5)
• Fixed a bug where some enemies stopped falling when starting their attack animation.
• Fixed a bug where later arenas in The Colosseum or the Untamed Jungle could be empty of traps.
• Fixed a bug where enemies sometimes got stuck in gates.
• It’s now a bit easier to go down platforms.
• Fixed a bug where invulnerable enemies could get hit by some abilities.
• Fixed a bug where having negative Theft with the Assassin trait lowered your strength. Same principle for the Power Generator item.
• Fixed a bug where spawning a Heart too soon after killing the last one would make it die instantly without healing you.
• Fixed a bug where ghouls sometimes stayed stuck indefinitely on platforms.
• Fixed a bug where Voubi sometimes gained too much energy by killing critters.
• You can now see the specificities of your character in the inventory page.
• The enemy glossary doesn’t include names and descriptions anymore to facilitate localization in future updates.
• Fixed a bug where some enemies jumpe incredible heights when you hit them.

Cheers!

Hello, This update is meant to fix a lot of things that were reported during the last week! The main goals are to smooth out some confusing things and make your attacks feel more responsive. All the gates of inaccessible paths are now hidden and the map has been cleaned up. I also added an indicator to show you whether your attack is in cooldown or not. I’m not certain it perfectly solves the issue of not knowing when you can attack again (especially when your attack speed is low) and I obviously welcome your feedback on that one, as usual. I’m still working on the enemies but I thought it’d be better to make those fixes live first. Special thanks to Giragnoulak (1), TheTurtleMelon (2), FunGuy101 (3) and ingeniousclown (4) for their suggestions! Full changelog:

• Flying Meats projectile size has been increased. (1)
• Updated some rooms. (1)
• All the blocked paths are now completely hidden. (2)
• Reworked the map to be clearer. (2)
• Reduced Patato’s starting Thorns from 30 to 10. (2)
• Replaced the Armors descriptions when you’re playing Patato to make it more obvious that you eat armors instead of wearing them (and did the same for other cases where it applies). (2)
• Added the option to disable enemy health bars in the Gameplay settings. (2)
• Fixed Radioactive Subjects and Aliens behavior so they don’t get stuck in walls anymore. (3)
• Tweaked spawning spots in arenas to avoid having enemies stuck in walls. (3)
• Added an indicator for when your attack is in cooldown (and corresponding setting to disable it). (4)
• Pressing Down + Attack while you’re on the ground will now perform a normal attack instead of nothing. (4)
• Fixed the hitbox of the Spear ability.
• Fixed Babouk’s attack hitbox.
• Fixed some displaying bugs in the menus when using the mouse in some resolutions.
• Fixed the description of the Wrench (displayed 50 coins instead of 25).
• Lowered the chance of Trap rooms spawning in favor of Monster rooms.
• A maximum of 2 special rooms can now appear before the first arena of each zone.
• Bosses no longer rest when they reach 25% or 75% of their health.
• Danger level 3 now also disables the Medic in boss fights.
• The dummy in Marinello’s gym no longer regenerates energy on hit.
• The HP of some bosses has been increased.
• Fixed the visual effect of the Surgical Bot.
• Changed the purple color to pink for damage numbers.
• Fixed the damage color of the Energy Fist.
• Fixed a small glitch that made boss health bars blink when damage numbers are activated.
• Fixed Babouk’s attack animation.
• Fixed the damage color of the Potato Doll.
• Added an indication in the inventory to press down to get more info on your stats.

Cheers!

Hello, This update has 2 main goals (apart from fixing bugs). The first goal is to allow different styles of play that are focused on increasing your coins, speed, jump height etc. instead of just strength and technology. 20 new perks, items and traits have been added for that purpose. The second goal is to improve how items and stats changes feel on your character. It basically means displaying the damage numbers on hit, improving some visual effects and displaying armors on your characters! Doing all that required quite a lot of back-end work to be done. All player assets had to be reworked and the characters are now drawn to the screen in layers - amongst other things. Do note that armors are not displayed yet on some characters (Robbie & Voubi). It took way longer than I expected and it’s not feasible to do it the same way for those two. I have ideas on how to circumvent the issue but I don’t think it’s a priority right now if we take into consideration how much time it takes. The next update will most probably be focused on what I feel is the weakest point of the game right now: the enemies. Stay tuned for that! Full changelog:

• Added 7 new Perks.
• Added 1 new Trait.
• Added 12 new items.
• Armors are now displayed on some of the characters.
• Piggy Bank now works in Arenas and Boss rooms.
• Killing critters now allow the player to regenerate energy and the option to delete them has been removed.
• Added a small visual indication for the Piggy Bank, Angel Doll, Pocket Magician, Nano Bug, Cloning, Vampirism and Metal Scraping effects.
• Added a new setting that shows how much damage is dealt above the characters. (now activated by default)
• Voubi’s clones no longer produce particles and have been modified overall to improve readability.
• More item effects now apply on clones. (speed, jump height etc.)
• Clones are now teleported sooner when they’re too far away from the player and they stay closer to him.
• The Red Laser item no longer produces particles.
• Fixed a bug where empty event rooms sometimes appeared.
• Fixed a bug where using a shield didn’t protect from Goo bullets.
• Fixed a bug where clicking “Retry” at the end of a run generated the rooms of the next zone instead of the current one.
• Fixed a bug where the Axe damage applied twice.
• Fixed the damage of the Plasma Axe.
• Fixed some displaying issues.
• Fixed a bug where sliders in the menus sometimes appeared yellow.
• Fixed how the Chipset Overcharge ability behaves when combined with the Extra Batteries perk.
• Redesigned a few effects.
• Fixed the spawning animation of Flying Meats in the Lost Soul fight.
• Fixed a bug where Enhanced Fruits, Waffles and Enhanced Waffles didn’t disappear from an altar when you picked another item.
• The Siphoning Shield effect can now be activated by protecting a trap bullet.

Cheers!

Hello, Here’s the first update of the year! It’s mainly a graphical one. I improved the design of some of the enemies and replaced them completely in a few cases. The goal is to remove old sprites I had spent only a few minutes putting together (e.g. the ghost) and that didn’t feel like they belonged in an alien planet. I’m trying to steer the art direction of the game toward something more unique and specific to the game’s context. I also reworked the background elements. Quite a few people pointed out that the enemies were blending in too much with their environment and were sometimes hard to see. This update marks only the beginning of these design reworks. There’s a lot I want to do in that regard, but I’ll try to sprinkle it during the next weeks/months alongside gameplay and content additions. Talking about gameplay, I noticed that very few players were using shields - so I made them better! They now protect you from all sides and not just from front attacks. Voubi’s cloning system also seemed a bit too hard and frustrating to play. He now clones himself every 8 hits with no limits per room. Finally, I fixed a bunch of bugs. There are still a few of them that have been reported and that aren’t fixed yet. I’m working on it and I’ll include them in the updates as soon as they’re fixed. Special thanks to Giragnoulak (1), JoueurSansFromage (2) and pisun morza (3) for their suggestions! Full changelog:

• Updated backgrounds to accentuate the contrast between actual gameplay oriented objects (enemies, destructibles, items etc.) and decorative ones.
• Redesigned and replaced the sprites of a bunch of enemies and tweaked their hitboxes and behaviors.
• Danger challenges have been reordered. (1)
• Voubi now clones itself every 8 hits. (2)
• Ability icons will now turn into grayscale instead of black when you don’t have enough energy to use them. (2)
• Using a shield now protects you from all sides.
• Updated the tutorial to tell the player he can dash through enemies. (2)
• Modified the size of texture pages to try to fix a crash at the launch of the game on lower-end machines. (3)
• Fixed a bug where Voubi’s clones could hit Marinello’s gym dummy.
• Fixed the speed of the Void Gun projectile.
• Fixed a bug where the game would crash in some cases when using a shield against meatball projectiles.
• Voubi clones attacks no longer push back enemies.
• Robbie can no longer start with the “First Aid Kit” trait.
• Fixed Babouk and Voubi’s descriptions.
• Updated some enemies descriptions.
• Fixed a small display bug for the rerolling stick when the price was over 100 coins.
• The “Prepared” trait now gives out 5 Armor instead of 3.
• Updated some items descriptions to be more clear about which stat they affect. (e.g. “Enemies take 10 damage when they hit your hp” => “+10 Thorns”)

Cheers!

Hello, Just a quick announcement today to let you know that you can now post your best times to the speedrun.com website! Just complete a run (full or of any particular level) with whichever character you prefer, record it and upload it to enter the leaderboard. We're still a small community so your changes of grabbing a top spot are pretty high right now! Link: https://www.speedrun.com/space_gladiators_escaping_tartarus Special thanks to Giragnoulak for submitting his runs and creating the page for the game!

Hello, Big update today! This one took quite a bit of time. I probably should have separated the features in multiple little updates… but now that we’re here, let’s see what it’s all about! The biggest change is that the game now procedurally generates multiple possible paths to get to the arenas. You can choose which rooms you want to go with the help of a newly created map system. For those who have finished the game, there is now new content to beat! This update introduces the Danger levels, which are basically new levels of difficulties. Note that you’ll have to finish a full run at Danger level 0 before unlocking the next Danger level for that character, even if you have finished a full run before. Beating Danger levels will unlock new Traits, which are also a new addition - you get one random trait everytime you start a run. The last big change I’ll talk about is the new Event room type. They’re inhabited by cute NPCs with whom you’ll be able to interact to get specific bonuses and effects. I also have a pretty clear idea about what the next updates might be about. That includes (in no specific order):

• Redoing the enemies AI to allow more diversity in their behavior and adding new enemies.
• Adding a ton of new rooms, traits and perks to differentiate the runs from each other.
• New items that’ll allow more sophisticated and exotic builds to be viable.
• Adding mini bosses and more challenging optional rooms between arenas.
• Adding sub zones that’ll allow you to go through a different biome to get the boss of the zone.
• And more!

Anyway, I’ll leave it at that for now. Thank you for reading! Full changelog:

• The structure of the rooms and the zones has been changed. You now advance in a real procedurally generated world.
• Added Danger Levels which are higher difficulties that become available once you finish a full run.
• Added 8 Event rooms in which you’ll meet NPCs or other artefacts that’ll give you specific bonuses.
• You now have the option to start out with a random trait chosen from a pool of traits.
• 25 new items, traits and perks have been added (some locked behind challenges).
• 11 new challenges and achievements have been added.
• You can now see the minimap on the top right corner of the screen and a zoomed map by pressing TAB on a keyboard or LB on a gamepad by default.
• Fixed a bug where the “Minimalist” challenge wouldn’t unlock when using a character that has starting gear.
• The tutorial has been updated.
• Challenge rooms can no longer appear before the first arena.
• The chance of finding fruits in destructibles has been reduced.
• Enemies can no longer drop items if you don’t have the Backpack item.
• The Backpack item effects have been updated.
• The “Extra Batteries” Perk no longer gives out Max Energy and the stun effect can only be applied once per enemy (including bosses).
• The “Miner’s Helmet” Perk now gives less chance of finding items in destructibles.
• Icons on signposts have been updated.
• The ingame UI has been updated.
• Items now give out less Max HP overall.
• Babouk can no longer lose more than 1 HP at a time from any incoming source of damage.
• Added the new “Challenge Help” setting in the Gameplay tab to show icons that’ll get disabled when you’ve picked up an item or used an ability. (useful to complete some challenges)
• Added the option to disable the minimap in the “Video” tab.
• Added an icon in the inventory to indicate when you’re in a full run.
• Hard and medium rooms now appear a bit more often.
• Fixed the value displayed in the inventory when you have more HP than your HP cap.
• Stunning an enemy now resets their attack cooldown.
• Fixed a bug that caused the game to crash when using Chipset Overcharge with Voubi if you had atleast one clone.
• Fixed a bug where clicking “Retry” didn’t reinitialize whether or not the player had used an ability this run and therefore didn’t unlock the achievement.
• Fixed some bugs related to the “Optimize Coins” setting.
• Fixed the position of Voubi’s clones icons in some resolutions when using the “Icons” HUD style.
• Fixed a little displaying bug in the HUD when you had too much armor.
• Fixed some displaying bugs in the background in some rooms.

Cheers!

Hello, This update changes the way backgrounds are done in the game. They hopefully now look better, are less performance intensive and make it way easier for me to add new rooms into the game! (which means more content) Apart from this, I’ve added random stat modifiers to dolls, armors and weapons. The reasoning behind this is that it should keep you on the lookout for better gear even if you already got the one you want from the beginning of the run. Not sure if it’ll work as intended - I’ll be looking forward to getting feedback on this feature! Finally, I’ve implemented the important fixes and suggestions you’ve been sending me. Don’t worry if you don’t see yours implemented in this update - some of them take more time / are of a lesser priority and will come later. Special thanks to Giragnoulak (1), DrFenouil (2), makise_sora (3), ShoMG (4) and hobbidwa (5) for their suggestions! Full changelog:

• The Colosseum and the backgrounds in the other zones have been redesigned.
• Armors, Abilities and Dolls (except for starting gear) can now have stat modifiers.
• Added a new Altar.
• The size of the ingame UI has been reduced. (1) (2) (4)
• Fixed a bug where you wouldn’t be able to move or attack after getting hit by an enemy in some cases. (3)
• Fixed a bug where the gate wouldn’t open if you were revived after killing a boss and dying at the same time. (5)
• Fixed a bug where the wall sliding sound didn’t stop when you die.
• Added an option in the Video settings to revert back to the old UI with icons instead of bars. (2)
• Voubi’s attack range is no longer random. (1)
• Souls and Crank now go through walls to get to the enemy. (3)
• The mouse should no longer go off the screen while you’re ingame (not in menus). (3)
• Some rooms have been tweaked. (2)
• Lowered the amount of Charisma given by some items. (2)
• Pets descriptions now show how much damage they do and with what stat they scale. (4)
• Fixed a bug where the “Meatballs Battle” achievement didn’t unlock. (1)
• Fixed a bug where the experience bar at the end of a run didn’t display correctly in some resolutions. (3)
• Updated the UI, most notably in the inventory.
• Added a description for the Engineer.
• Fixed a bug where moving the mouse after clicking on a key binding would change which key is currently being binded.
• Stats in the inventory now display their real value if they are negative. For example, your actual HP can’t go lower than 1. But if you pick up an item that lowers it by 3, it will display -2 and you’ll have to pickup +3 bonus HP before being able to increase your actual HP again.
• Fixed the description of “Charisma”.

Cheers!

Hello, This week’s update main focus is to redesign the UI and some other things (spikes and particles), aswell as fix some balance issues. There are so many things left to do to get the game where I want it to be - I think this early access is going to last a bit longer than expected! Features I want to implement include adding more procedural generation to the game, new enemy AI, item modifications, a new map and path system, better synergies for items and enemies... I admit it feels a bit overwhelming, but I’ll take it week by week for now! Special thanks to Papnix (1) and Giragnoulak (2) for their suggestions! Full changelog:

• The UI has been redesigned in a few places.
• Particles have been redesigned. (1)
• Spikes have been redesigned. (1)
• Added a few frames of invulnerability before registering a collision with an enemy. (1)
• The overall health of enemies in a full run has been reduced. (2)
• The final boss fight has been tweaked. (2)
• Fixed a bug where the speedrunning achievements didn’t unlock. (2)
• Price reduction can no longer go higher than 50%.
• Picture now gives out 20% price reduction instead of 30%.
• Coupon now gives out 5% price reduction instead of 10%.
• You can now see the description of the rewarded perk when choosing which opponents to fight in the arena.
• Enhanced Fruits now also give out 3 coins when picked up.
• Wall spikes now also disappear when rooms get cleared.
• Fixed a bug where the Genetic Containers idle sounds kept playing after the player’s death.
• Fixed a bug where a player dashing to exit a zone with Spicy Sauce would poop indefinitely.
• The Extra Batteries perk no longer gives out ability duration bonus.
• Picking up multiple Spicy Sauces now increase the damage of poops.
• Fixed a bug where Robbie started with 10 Armor instead of 8.
• The blood quantity option is now set at 75% by default.
• The design of the destructible rocks has been tweaked to be more visible.
• You now find as many coins in a full run as in other runs.
• Items in a full run are now more expensive.
• Glasses now give out 20% Attack Speed instead of 10%.
• The price of the Angel Doll has been increased.

Cheers!

Hello, Super excited to publish this update! I improved the design of Gladiator and gave each character their own unique weapon and attack patterns. The goal is to differentiate them more from each other and make them feel better to play. I also added dashboards below each zone's description with your best times with every character (alongside some new achievements and unlockable items!). The game is going to undergo a lot of changes in the next months. I have tons of ideas that’ll hopefully enhance its uniqueness and make it more enjoyable while keeping its core gameplay. So stay tuned for that! Special thanks to “DrFenouil” (1), “Giragnoulak” (2), Papnix (3) and kirakirby (4) for their suggestions! Full changelog:

• Gladiator has been redesigned. He now fights with a laser sword and his attack patterns have been changed.
• Patato’s weapon is now a leg of ham and his attack patterns have been changed.
• Babouk’s weapon is now a small spear and his attack patterns have been changed.
• Butcher’s attack speed has been increased to be the same as other characters.
• Added a dashboard showing your personal best times with each character. (2)
• Added 4 new achievements / challenges / items to unlock. (1) (3)
• Reduced Patato’s Fruit drop rate. (1)
• Patato’s base Thorns have been reduced from 50 to 30. (4)
• Strong Heart’s bonus has been reduced from 3 to 2. (4)
• Rerolling a shop’s items will now always give out different items than those already present. (1)
• The timer is now stopped in some places and will turn yellow when that’s the case.
• Fixed a bug where using a Shield after a boss has rested atleast once would be cancelled directly.
• Fixed a bug where the item of a Challenge room didn’t appear if using a Key too soon after starting the challenge.
• Aliens spawning when you’re carrying an Alien Baby no longer give out coins or items.
• Fixed a bug where some challenges related to a specific zone weren’t displayed after having discovered the zone.
• The Potato Doll now scales on Max HP.
• Fixed the speed of Butcher with a Plasma Shield.
• The amount of coins found in destructibles in a full run has been increased.
• The Pocket Magician activation rate has been reduced from 25% to 10%.
• Fixed a bug where the amount of energy cost or armor of an unlocked item wasn’t being displayed on the screen at the end of a run.

Cheers!

Hello, This update aims at fixing most bugs and issues found during this first week of Early Access. Most notably, Voubi’s gameplay has been reworked and is hopefully now more fun and balanced. With all of these out of the way, I’m excited to start working on new content and designs for the next updates! Special thanks to “Esty” (1), “Giragnoulak” (2), “DrFenouil” (3) and “CrazyRed” (4) for their suggestions! It’s a bit all over the place so I separated the changes into 3 categories: major changes, minor changes and bug fixes. Major changes:

• Added a setting that turn all fruits into waffles. (4)
• Checking inventory now pauses the game. (1)
• Voubi clones no longer activate Vampirism, Metal Scraping or Energy regeneration.
• Voubi clones can now use abilities right away but they deal less damage. They’ve also been tweaked all around.
• Voubi can now see his current number of clones. (3)
• Voubi can now only spawn 1 clone per room.
• Reworked how Voubi and his clones share the damage taken.
• Spike Balls of The Hole now disappear from monster rooms once the gates are opened.
• The chance of finding items on enemies has been reduced.
• Butcher now earns 3 coins everytime he kills an enemy & his upgrades have been updated.
• Green Energy Ball damage has been reduced.
• Red weapons no longer activate Vampirism and Metal Scraping effects by default.
• Robbie now starts with 8 Armor instead of 10.
• Robbie now gains 1 additional Armor everytime he picks up Tools.
• The items sold by the first shop of a full run are now half price.
• Renamed “HP Damage Reflection” to “Thorns”.
• Renamed “Armor Damage Reflection” to “Spikes”.
• Renamed “Energy Damage” to “Technology”.
• The Spiky Shield perk now scales with your Spikes.
• Enemies have to wait less time after appearing from a Cage before being able to attack.

Minor changes:

• The number of enemies in the last arena of the third zone has been reduced by 4. (2)
• Some platforming rooms in the third zone have been updated. (2)
• Flies now telegraph their poop earlier. (2)
• The Fly Collector boss has been updated & improved. (2)
• The icons displaying the bosses defeated in the characters screen are now specific to the selected character. (3)
• Updated Voubi’s description to give more info on his clones. (3)
• Perks are now represented by their icon instead of a scroll in the inventory and in the “Items Discovered” screen. (3)
• Some rooms have been updated to keep the player from hitting enemies without being able to get hit himself. (3)
• All stats descriptions have been updated and now display dynamic elements in the info box. (3)
• The icon of offensive or defensive abilities on the top right of the screen now become black if you don’t have enough energy to use them. (3)
• Enemies and traps now stop producing sound when the player dies. (1)
• Updated the screen that shows unlocked items or characters with the description of the associated challenge. (1)
• Changed the icon to represent the cost in damage of items that are part of a demonic altar.
• Updated slightly the death screen layout.
• Added some new tips that can appear on the death screen.
• Completing a challenge now displays its specific icon instead of a generic icon.
• Jumbee the Boogie and Alien Eyes are now Green weapons and scale with your Max HP.
• Mage Robes have been replaced with Soldier Chestplate.
• The Bell effects have been modified.
• The design of the Book has been updated.
• The timer of a run no longer increases when the inventory is open.
• Final boss improved.
• Updated the Laser Gun description.
• Updated the Engineer fight.
• The Coupon & Picture items now give out less price reduction.
• When playing as Voubi, the screen is now only darkened if Voubi has 1 HP left and there are no clones alive.
• When playing as Voubi, the Angel Doll will now only activate after all clones are dead.
• Tweaked the price of some items.
• The description of food are now updated when picking up items that double their effects.
• Added an animation for stunned enemies.
• The cheering, Cage and Genetic Containers sounds no longer keep on playing during pause, inventory or death screen.
• The amount of blood now varies depending on which enemy is hit.
• The chance of activation of the Surgical Bot has been reduced from 10% to 3%.
• The Medic will now appear in the right room for the final boss.
• The Heart description will now update if you have the Strong Heart perk.
• Increased the price of the Energy Fist and reduced its effects.
• The music now starts with the credits splash screen.
• Some rooms have been tweaked.

Bug fixes:

• Fixed a bug where some Steam achievements were impossible to unlock. (3)
• Fixed Steam screenshots. (3)
• Fixed the World Destroyer challenge icon. (3)
• Fixed a bug where the traps continued working after defeating Mushroom King. (3)
• Fixed a bug where the Metal Canon bullets went through walls.
• Fixed the boss tracks not playing if boss intros are deactivated.
• Fixed the position of the blood splatter when colliding with an enemy projectile.
• Fixed a bug where the descriptions of the challenges involving the Fly Collector didn’t show after beating it once.
• Fixed a bug where having negative Attack Speed, Movement Speed or Jump Height wasn’t calculated correctly.
• Fixed a bug where Butcher attacks would sometimes get cancelled if he had too much Attack Speed.
• Fixed a bug that allowed the player to go outside the map and fall in the void in some rooms.
• Fixed a bug where the player got stuck in the shielding frame when a boss went into resting mode.
• Fixed the hitbox of Butcher with an Alien Arm.
• Fixed the fart sound happening too much in some instances.
• Fixed a bug where theft was being applied on enemies that could be farmed indefinitely.
• Fixed a bug where the Particles setting wasn’t being saved.
• Fixed a bug where dashing in a trap bullet activated the Pirate Doll cooldown.
• Fixed a bug where Flies sometimes pooped without telegraphing it.
• Fixed a bug where Babouk became tiny while jumping.
• Fixed a bug where Genetic Containers had less HP than they should in some places.
• Fixed a bug where the screen was still blackened on the end of run screen if you had 1 HP left when you finished the run.
• Fixed bugs related to the sounds of clones to keep it from being too loud.
• Fixed a bug where the effects applied to abilities didn’t apply to Souls spawned by using a Demon Stick.
• Fixed a bug where Souls and Crank crashed the game in some instances.
• Fixed a bug that made the player unable to do anything if he dashed too soon after attacking while getting hit by enemies.

Cheers!

This update aims at fixing issues some players have pointed out. It’ll hopefully make the jump feel more controllable, cement Patato as “the easiest character to play” that he’s designed to be and fix some other things. Special thanks to “Peredur Gargantaur” (1), “Giragnoulak” (2) and “DrFenouil” (3) for their suggestions! Full changelog:

• Hitting your head against a roof while jumping no longer makes you fall instantly. (1)
• You no longer take damage from enemies or canon bullets while you’re dashing. (1)
• You no longer get pushed away when you’re jumping next to a wall while on the ground. (1)
• Patato’s base Strength and Energy Damage have been increased from 5 to 8. (2)
• Patato’s base Vampirism has been reduced from 10 to 5. (2)
• The Metal Canon now costs 2 Energy points to use. (2)
• The skin of the Spitter projectile has been modified to be more visible. (2)
• Mushroom King will no longer teleport on platforms and traps have been added. (2)
• Reduced the number of ghosts that Lost Soul can spawn and they now have 1 hp. (2)
• The description of the Bomb has been updated. (3)
• Vampirism is now capped at 15, except for Babouk. (3)
• The Vampirism given by some items has been reduced. (3)
• Enemy placement in some rooms has been modified to avoid colliding with them directly after entering. (3)
• The Heart will no longer appear in your cell if you’re playing Robbie. (3)
• The Ninja Doll effects have been modified.
• The Assassin Doll effects have been modified.
• Metal Scraping is now capped at 20.