Spell Disk News

• Added Infinity Dungeon mode! It can be accessed by interacting with the elevator in the Architect Chamber. You can bring your recent or saved builds against the endless levels of the dungeon. For the details, the danger level will always be set to 4 at the start, regardless of your saved or chosen danger level, and will progressively get more difficult as the stages go on. You cannot craft or upgrade your items, so try to bring your best in the base game mode to have a shot at it!
  
  
• Added a dash fatigue system. When you dash consecutively without resting for a long period of time, the required stamina to perform a dash will increase temporarily. Over time, the requirement will drop down to the regular amount. This system is implemented to prevent many cases in which the player could attain an infinite invulnerability period, which was harming the fun of the game. Unless you've somehow managed to generate more stamina than you could use, it will be difficult to even encounter this system being activated to hinder your dash behavior. A message will pop above the player's head, and the required stamina threshold marker in the dash bar UI will move accordingly.
  
  
• The overheating mechanic will be removed at the start of each floor in the last area of the dungeon, similar to other areas.
  
• The difficulty of the Dungeon Architect Boss has been adjusted in response to early feedback, as many players felt that she posed too little challenge for a final boss. Upon close inspection, we identified some reasons and made some adjustments: Increased the elemental resistance value, similar to the Citadel bosses (Captains), and also slightly increased the health value. Due to the short duration of the 'emergency escape maneuver' that all bosses have, the Dungeon Architect was somewhat more often vulnerable than other bosses. Slightly increased the speed of some of the Dungeon Architect's animations to make the boss more aggressive. Because the Dungeon Architect was using a special animator, it was not affected by the danger level's action speed modifier (at higher danger levels). This change is to counteract such shortcomings. The number of minion disks summoned at once is increased. Elemental floor trails will extend to the end of the wall, instead of leaving some empty space between the wall and the trail.
  
  
• Changed the texts of the victory screen. The end screen will now indicate which method of victory you have achieved so it can be easier to differentiate different ways the game can end. Also improved the text's legibility.
  
• Optimized the game over best score calculation methods.
  
• Optimized and stabilized the death player state logic internally. It should not affect the way it used to work, but if you happen to come across an issue, please report it to us.
  
  
• Reworked Grace Guard artifact due to the ineffectiveness of the artifact. The new effect is "while being idle or charging, reduce damage taken by 50%."
  
• Reworked Gem Healer artifact because this item alone disrupted the value of health management. The new effect is "obtain diminishing attack speed buff upon collecting gems." Decreased the rarity of Gem Healer artifact and also renamed it as "Horned Gem".
  

• Fixed an issue where the dash ability would be disabled if you entered the final gate with your dash. The gate would force you to walk toward the edge of the screen without properly handling the dash state, resulting in the player not being able to dash. This has been fixed.
  
  
• Increased the speed of enemy spawns in the timed level mode.
  
• Added a frame buffer between enemy spawns in the waved level mode.
  
  
• Added an indicator to check which save is equipped.
  
• Improved the legibility of the time and seed number by adding spaces and outlines to the texts
  

Our next update, labeled as "Beyond the Gate" in our Early Access Roadmap, is finally here! We appreciate the players who participated in the beta to test the build early on.

• Added stages beyond the gate. You can still choose to take the elevator to escape the dungeon after the third boss in the Citadel. Your run will still count as victorious, regardless of whether the gate was locked or not.
  
  
• Reworked the base game mode danger level. The danger level will continue to be infinitely scalable. The new danger level modifiers are as follows:
  0: Standard.
  1: More elite enemies.
  2: More modified stages.
  3: Disks start with zero mana.
  4: The gate is unlocked.
  5: More traps appear.
  6: Deadlier bosses and enemies.
  7: Modifiers are more difficult.
  8: Multiple modifiers may appear.
  9+: Stronger enemies.
• Only after danger level 4 or higher can you begin interacting with the final gate and access the area beyond it.
  
• As part of the "more traps appear" modifier, we significantly optimized the traps and enemy behaviors around them. Enemies will now mostly ignore the presence of traps because trap-avoiding behavior sometimes caused errors that made them idle or broke their player-seeking behaviour.
  
  
• Added the new boss: The Dungeon Architect. The new boss can be encountered at the end of the area beyond the gate.
  
• Defeating the Dungeon Architect will reward you with the following:
  A new weapon.
  A new outfit.
  A new accessory.
  Access to a secret location called the Architect's Chamber.
  
• Added the Architect Chamber, where most of the new 0.6 features will be implemented. Inside the Architect Chamber, you can review your previous runs and load the build. Right now, you cannot do much except for spawning dummies to measure your damage score, but more game modes will be implemented soon. At the moment, we're limiting the number of recent runs that can be saved because we're working on a new save system. We'll patch out the new save system to permanently save your runs as soon as we're ready.
  
• In the 0.6.1 version update, the endless dungeon mode will be added.
  
• In the 0.6.2 version update, the survive-with-your-build mode will be added.
  
  
• Optimized the BGM memory management. Due to this change, the BGM won't pause and unpause at the pause scene, but will instead be silent upon entering the pause scene.
  
• Adjusted the base luck of the headband accessory.
  
• Fixed a bug where un-equipping the headband accessory did not disable its negative effect (the shop dice not showing up).
  
• Fixed a bug with an interaction between the cryomancer outfit and the gem slime accessory. Also adjusted the gem slime accessory to have a limit to spawn a slime per frame.
  
• Reworked the enemy summon effect to make the progress more visible at a glance.
  
• Adjusted the player's 2D light to avoid the zig-zag tile map squares over the wall, which would no longer be visible.
  
• Fixed an issue where the game setting panel would not receive any input from the mouse in the setting menu.
  
• Fixed an issue where the buttons behind the game settings panel or the key configuration panel could be clickable with mouse control.
  
• Added a color indicator for the availability of a button in the main menu scene.
  
• Added mouse control (hover and select) for some UI objects.
  
  Since 0.6 beta version, the following adjustments have been made:
  
• Adjusted the difficulty of the Dungeon Architect Boss. The boss will attempt to move out of the danger more frequently.
  
• Adjusted the strength and rarity of the Triplet Shield Artifact. The item was proving to be too powerful in certain modes that will be coming in future updates, so we are preemptively adjusting its power scale so that it doesn't feel like you must find this item to have a good shot at the new game modes.
  
• Added the functionality to save and delete memories in the Architect's Chamber.
  
• Adjusted various UI inside the Architect's Chamber.