Axe Ghost News

It's within reach! Axe Ghost, the compact turn-based tactics game with a muscular ghost launches on June 2 for Windows and Mac on Steam :D

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Added:

• Korean translation
  
• Simplified Chinese translation
  
• German translation, first draft. Language select in settings
  
• Rice Cat achievement
  
• Hovering over a leaderboard row shows a score progress chart
  
• Undo button
  
• macOS support in the demo
  
• Music for woodland environment
  
• Tutorial music
  

Changed:

• ZH and KO font adjustments
  
• Removed Free Play mode. Daily Challange now allows finishing your run after the timer ends
  
• Daily Runs now available in demo
  
• SFX sidechain compression dialed back
  
• Tutorial wording
  
• Game logo
  
• Added tutorial hints
  
• Improvements to Path to Readiness conversation UI
  
• Alignment of icons in leaderboards fixed
  
• Game over screen illustrations
  
• Demo styling changes
  
• Visual styling
  

Fixed:

• Bug where card positions weren't correct after Undo
  
• Bug where Garnemar could be cloned with Smear weapon
  
• Bug where tutorial completion state wasn't faithfully saved
  
• Bug where Garnemar became desynched after being damaged by robot fire
  
• Bug submit menu bug
  
• Bug where boss music would end if you Undo
  
• Bug with Undo and ice interaction
  
• Leaderboard charts make more sense now
  
• Score submit bug
  
• Leaderboard charts
  
• Bug where deselected weapons could still be played
  
• Demo Free Play bug
  
• Ellipsis missing character on linux
  
• Text formatting bug in dialogue
  
• Tutorial complete bug
  
• End Turn highlighting bug
  
• 'Q' marker bug
  
• Wizard rout bug
  
• Robot targetting rout bug
  

The Axe Ghost demo is available for Mac now too!

Known issues:

1. Cursor jumps momentarily when mousing over buttons.
   
2. Odd red screen shows momentarily when quitting the game.
   

[h2]Added[/h2]

• Tutorial music
  
• Smear special weapon
  
• Discord rich presence
  
• More Steam achievements
  
• Wizards
  
• Steam rich presence
  
• Particles for projectiles
  
• Lightning to preview screen
  
• Face animations for all enemies
  

[h2]Changed[/h2]

• Visual styling
  
• Scalpel is now a (rare) regular weapon
  
• Free Play removed from demo
  
• Tutorial informs player if they attempt a legal move that's disabled in the tutorial
  
• Clicking LMB anywhere dismisses Goal text at start of a run
  
• Clicking RMB anywhere deselects current weapon
  
• 2nd Path to Readiness level goal is to destroy 20 monsters in one go
  
• Path To Readiness level 1, new goal is to kill 70 monsters
  
• Skull Axe excluded from first two Path to Readiness levels
  
• End Turn button shows an icon on rollover when turn end triggers quest
  
• Tutorial adjustments
  
• Path to Readiness levels changed
  
• Some weapon colours altered
  
• Freezing robots prevents them from firing
  
• Pressing Escape now completely obscures the game board and pauses the game timer
  
• Spawn pattern system
  
• Robot beams kill the ghost, added a warning icon
  
• Made Path to Readiness a bit easier
  
• Tutorial wording
  
• Weapon draw logic
  
• More information in the tutorial
  
• Switch icon
  
• Robots appear a bit later
  
• Projectile appearance
  
• Various SFX
  
• Various changes to backdrops
  
• Woodland backdrop
  
• Cave backdrop
  
• Eyeballs look right at you now
  

[h2]Fixed[/h2]

• Tutorial complete bug
  
• End Turn highlighting bug
  
• 'Q' marker bug
  
• Wizard rout bug
  
• Robot targetting rout bug
  
• Tutorial breaking bug
  
• Bug where Path to Readiness dialogue buttons weren't clickable
  
• Bug preventing end of game buttons from working
  
• Void no longer affects cells that aren't visible
  
• Wizards come back after being routed
  
• Timing of wizard capture animation
  
• Bug where a freestanding ice block would prevent winning a run
  
• Boss pushback timing
  
• Bug where monsters got stuck on last row
  
• Score notice no longer overlaps other notices
  
• Box weapon bug when interacting with frozen monsters
  
• Aggdra appearance bug
  
• Bug where Poke Vertical could prevent Garnemar appearing
  
• Displace bug
  
• Rare submit score bug
  
• Muting audio channels now fully mutes them
  

• Leaderboard indicator shows whether this was the player's first attempt.
  
• Displace weapon.
  
• All Time leaderboard.
  
• Void weapon.
  

• Ice visual effect.
  
• Various sound effects.
  
• Daily Challenge can be played more than once.
  
• Displace can no longer push enemies off the edge of the grid.
  
• Switch now treats Bosses as wildcards when detecting contiguous groups of monsters (unless targeting the boss directly).
  
• Path to readiness dialogue animations.
  
• Leaderboard restyling. All Time leaderboard includes icons indicating special weapons for the run.
  
• Monsters advance one cell less far at the start of a run.
  

• Tooltip/Switch interaction bug.
  
• Inconsistency with L-Push and groups containing a boss.
  
• Leaderboard caching bug.
  
• Leaderboard bugs, Death flash.
  
• Bug with weapon distribution. Should be less difficult again now.
  
• Rout threshold check only uses visible cells now.