A Wizard's Lizard: Soul Thief News

Another Friday, another AWL: ST update! We've been iterating on the Wizard's Lab and fixing some crashes and other general issues. Here are this week's changes:

• Bees now target most objects
  
• Add mysterious "tank" rooms to Wizard's Lab
  
• Add Bunsen Burner corpse, gold guts
  
• Make albino Raga sleep on rugs
  
• Add Bunsen Burner to Wizard's Lab
  
• Art for Wizard's Lab level platform
  
• Art for Electric Shock
  
• Clearer rectangle hazard graphic for Armor
  
• Tesla Coil sounds and effects
  
• Add Tesla Coil guts
  
• Add Tesla Coil corpse
  
• Fix player killer plant avatar in Progress Scene
  
• Robustify Progress Scene
  
• Bugfix: Prevent crash when a Spook is killed while attacking
  
• Bugfix: Prevent crash when attempting to play a missing animation
  
• Bugfix: Fix camera issues caused by camera follow lag
  
• Bugfix: Prevent Blue Orb freeze graphic from persisting forever
  

Next week we're planning to add a bunch of new room types to all levels and continue to flesh out the Wizard's Lab.

Hard to believe it's Friday already! This week, we've pushed a very early version of the Wizard's Lab into the mix in order to start getting feedback. There are several more monsters and traps in the pipeline (as well as the final boss) which will land in the next few updates.

Matt did a couple game development live streams on our Twitch channel which highlight the work-in-progress Wizard's Lab content:

• https://www.twitch.tv/lostdecadegames/v/63387530
• https://www.twitch.tv/lostdecadegames/v/63156467

Additionally, we've added a bunch of new room layouts especially in the Kitchen and Courtyard. Here are the full changes for this week:

• Start spook's lantern at the facing position
  
• Buff spook attack
  
• Don't remove spook's lantern on collision
  
• Nerf fan plant wind duration
  
• Buff clam health
  
• Art for new Wizard's Lab doors
  
• Add many new rooms layouts to Kitchen and Courtyard
  
• Add Booster Room to Wizard's Lab
  
• Add Shield Generator to Wizard's Lab
  
• Add Bomb Imp to Wizard's Lab
  
• Add albino Raga spawners to Wizard's Lab
  
• Add Tesla Coil to Wizard's Lab
  
• Update app icon
  
• Results scene UI for Wizard's Lab
  
• Tweak player oven turret -- nerf health, add warning
  
• Fix player oven turret in UI
  
• Polish Raga getting knocked back
  
• Add Freezing Orb to Wizard's Lab
  
• Camera now leads the player in the direction they're facing
  

Hope everyone had a great week! Matt and Greg are at PAX East over the weekend demoing A Wizard's Lizard: Soul Thief. Drop by and say hello if you're attending.



Since we've been busy prepping for PAX and working on content for the Wizard's Lab, this week's patch is just a few changes. We're hoping to get a playable version of the Wizard's Lab out very soon.

Here are this week's changes:

• Blink now travels as far as it can, respecting walls, instead of canceling when too close to a wall
  
• Beehive in Raga's Room now has a bee flying around it
  
• Bugfix: Prevent duplicate toys from spawning after toy purchase
  
• Bugfix: Fullscreen setting is now correctly saved and applied when the game starts
  
• General bugfixes/polish
  

Happy Friday! We've got a new patch for you with bug fixes and some new content. We're actively working on the Wizard's Lab dungeon, which isn't playable just yet, but we're aiming to have it ready by the of April. Here are this week's changes:

• Fix player inkwell attack
  
• Polish player pig head
  
• Restore floating effect
  
• Make merchant possessable (first pass)
  
• Add new Spinneret wand
  
• Replace monsters with static trap in Floor Vents room in the Kitchen
  
• Pig Heads now attempt to avoid Floor Vents
  
• Remove orthogonal restriction from Crow and Spook player detection
  
• Crows and Spooks now attempt to avoid Thorns
  
• Fix bee spawner attack
  
• Nerf, polish angel statue
  
• Add Green Orb Stand and Green Orb to Wizard's Lab
  
• Add Orb Stand and Red Orb to Wizard's Lab
  
• Stub out Wizard's Lab (can't get there yet)
  
• Senso Spikes and Rune traps now only react to players, monsters, and critters
  
• Visualize and polish item cooldown expiring
  
• Added bee book to the library (you might need to revisit a challenge!)
  
• Fix books in coolbox UI
  
• Fix credits title graphic
  
• Remove wizard from starting room
  
• Reduce audio volume by half
  
• Add a slight buff to Raga's movement speed
  
• Track best time and display on blackboard
  
• Once you kill the monsters and the doors open in a room, they now stay open
  
• Add blackboard toy to display stats
  
• Bugfix: Prevent crash when controlling player
  
• General bug fixes and polish
  

Don't miss our weekly alpha video which demos a few of the changes.

Also, we'll be demoing A Wizard's Lizard: Soul Thief at PAX East 2016 so make to look for our booth if you'll be attending.

I added a new monster to the courtyard today, but forgot to get all the assets in before a push. So in 0.10.0 there was a weird yellow jelly in the courtyard! In this patch, 0.10.1, the new monster is complete, give it a go!

We'll iterate on the monster and improve how it feels to play in the future. Feedback welcome :)