An Amazing Wizard News

• [Bosses] Finished Ancient Desert boss.
• [Main Menu] Added Splash Screen with studio logo (named Tiny Goblins).
• [Bestiary] Added extra information about enemies in the Bestiary (base health, experience, resistances, biomes, etc).
• [Emotes] Added 3 new emotes to the quest NPC so the dialogues will feel more alive now.
  
• [Emotes] Added 1 new emote to the Spellweaver NPC.
  
• [Leveling Up] Basic Spell damage is now increased by 0.65 for each gained level.
  
• [Leveling Up] Stomp max damage is now increased by 2.8 for each gained level.
  
• [Settings] Added Story Mode setting allowing you to disable all dialogues (enabled by default).
  
• [Loading Screen] Added tooltip informing about new Story Mode setting.
  

• [Spells] Increased mana cost of summoning spells by 20%
  
• [Enemies] Rebalanced all enemies health.
  
• [Base Stats] Increased wizard's base maximum health 375 => 430
  
• [UI] Improved Bestiary, Challenges, Artifact Smelter, Spellcrafter and Weaponsmith UI.
  
• [Inventory] Made player statistics more readable by adding more colors to the text.
  

• [Story] Added end dialogue triggering after finishing the game on easiest difficulty level.
• [Shop] It's now possible to sell spells and magic weapons to the Shopkeeper.
• [Shop] Item Grade now affects it's price.
  
• [Perks] Added option to auto level up (without the need of pressing a key to select a Perk).
  
• [Camera] Camera is now locked on boss fights.
  
• [Enemies] Added real description to the Chilly Imp and improved it's AI (to be a little bit more annoying to deal with).
  
• [Loading Screen] Added 10 new quick tips displayed on the loading screen.
  
• [Tooltips] Added tooltip that you can skip the tutorial by ignoring Kalila (the first NPC you see).
  
• [Achievements] Added new Steam achievement.
  

• [Mana] Increased base mana regeneration per second and mana regeneration per second gained when leveling up.
• [Controllers] Improved aiming with a controller.
• [Controllers] Default controller keys icons changed from PS4 to XBox.
  
• [Lights] Significantly reduced projectiles and effects lights intensity.
  
• [Audio] Lowered volume of take damage SFX.
  
• [Tutorial] Shortened few dialogs in the tutorial.
  
• [Boss Portals] Changed sound and volume of Ancient Desert boss portal.
  
• [Artifacts] Buffed percentage heal of Shamanic Spellbook (0,3% => 0,64% of all damage done).
  

• [Controllers] Fixed a bug where it was really hard to unlock things in meta progression when using a controller.
• [Controllers] Fixed a bug where sometimes both XBox trigger buttons were treated as the same button.
  
• [Controllers] Fixed a bug where it was impossible to use few buttons on some controllers.
  
• [Controllers] Right button is now responsible for "Exit" action instead of the Start button when using a controller.
  
• [Mouse] Fixed a bug where it was impossible to bind extra mouse buttons.
  
• [Keys] All keys now react faster once clicked - fixed short delay when trying to do some actions.
  
• [Resolutions] Fixed issues related to Steam Deck resolution.
  
• [Magic Weapons] Fixed a bug where Magic Weapon was still present after unequipping it.
  
• [Tooltips] Fixed Climb tooltip. It will no longer be shown outside standing on ladders.
  

• [Controllers] Removed welcome popup suggesting to play using keyboard & mouse.
  
• [Settings] Removed option to change "Controller's Aiminig Speed" because it's no longer needed after improving aiming on a controller.
  

• [QOL] Added special sound when taking damage.
• [QOL] Increased visual clarity when taking damage and when on low health.
• [Bosses] Added new attack for the Ancient Desert boss.
  
• [Summons] Summons are now able to use all spell enchantments.
  
• [Spells] Added 6 new summoning spells.
  
• [Quests] Added difficulty level restriction for some quests. Some quests were too hard at the beginning while others were too easy on higher difficulty levels.
  
• [Tutorial] Added question mark towards Astral Portal in the first run activating after leaving the tutorial area.
  

• [Enemies] Bosses and Minibosses now always prioritize attacking player over summons or charmed enemies.
• [Spells] Reduced base duration of all summoning spells to 8.25 seconds.
  
• [Level Generation] Ice level can no longer be the first level in the first run. This had to be done because other biomes are better for introducing new players to the game.
  
• [Destructive Objects] Buffed base chance of dropping Magic Weapons from destructive objects 5.5% => 6.85%
  

• [Minimap] Enemies are now freezed(unable to do anything) while the minimap is open.
• [Enchantments] Fixed a bug where sometimes enchantments debuffs were not working.
  
• [Spellweaver] Fixed a bug where Spellweaver could sometimes spawn inside a wall.
  
• [NPCs] Destructive objects should no longer spawn on top of NPCs (making it impossible to spawn items which were impossible to pick up)
  
• [Destructive Objects] Fixed a bug where it was possible to abuse spawning first spells from destructive objects by exiting the level and loading it again, leading to having insane amount of spells.
  
• [Dialogs] Fixed initial dialogue with the Void Eye.
  
• [Summons] Summons of your summons will no longer attack you after few seconds.
  
• [Summons] Fixed a bug where your summons could be damaged with your explosions.
  
• [Enemies] Fixed a bug where Leech enemy was not moving after attacking their target.
  
• [Enemies] Fixed Savage Rat attack hitbox - he was unable to deal any damage if his target was standing close enough to him.
  

• [Tutorial] Removed first mission from the tutorial (about jumping).
  

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• [Rooms] Added new boss room background.
• [First Run] Extra random spell now always spawn at the beginning of the first run. - so you can test spells merging way faster now.
  
• [Spells Drop] There is now 70% increased chance to drop first 2-4 spells from destructive objects.
• [Quests] Added initial randomized dialogues for quests.
  
• [Quests] Changed initial dialogues and detailed descriptions in quests.
  
• [Enemies] Added Chilly Imp enemy.
  

• [Sprites] Reverted reducing quality of all sprites. - game size is back to more than 2GB because reducing the quality of art was causing some unacceptable issues.
  
• [Spells Merging] Increase base change of successful spells merging.
• [Spells Merging] When merging spells fails then only the worse spell will be lost instead of both spells.
• [Enemies] Moved all temporary enemies from level 2 to level 3.
  
• [NPCs] Spellweaver NPC now spawns way closer to the starting area.
  
• [NPCs] Quest NPC now spawns further away from the starting area.
  
• [FPS] Changed maximum FPS limit from 300 to 144 (default value of 144FPS limit is not changed).
  
• [Spells] Nerfed Lesser Fireball base damage (23 => 18.5).
  
• [Spells] Power of the Bones now summons 2 => 1 skeletons, it's mana cost and cooldown was reduced by 50% and now this spell has 1 => 2 charges.
  
• [Spells] Ratatata now summons 3 => 1 rats, it's mana cost and cooldown was reduced by 66% and now this spell has 1 => 3 charges.
  
• [Spells] Summon Dark Puppy now has 2 => 3 charges and the summon duration was increased to 4 => 5.25 seconds.
  
• [Spells] Summon the Army now summons 2 => 1 enemies, it's mana cost and cooldown was reduced by 50%, cooldown changed to 21 => 16 seconds and now this spell has 1 => 3 charges.
  
• [Spells] Summon Werewolf spell now has 1 => 2 charges.
  

• [Dialogs] Both player and enemies are now immune to all effects during dialogues.
• [Quick Travel] Both player and enemies are now immune to all effects while Teleporting Altar(quick travel window) is active.
• [UI] Fixed a bug where sometimes some UI elements were flickering (it was related to reduced quality of sprites).
  
• [Achievements] Master Class Spell is now working as intended.