Dungeon Deathball News

[h2]Overview[/h2]

[h3]New Key Art[/h3]

First of all, a huge thank you to the talented illustrator Ben Tobitt for producing this awesome new key art! I think it's a fantastic new look for the game. I hope you like it too. 😁

[h3]New Title Scene[/h3]

The main menu now takes place in this 3D dungeon scene, with some dramatic camera sweeps that whisk you through its dank halls.

[h3]View Leaderboards for previous Daily Challenges[/h3]

This update makes some big efforts to bring Daily Challenge mode to the forefront. You can now access the leaderboard even after you've played today's challenge.


In addition to that, the winner of yesterday's Daily Challenge will be displayed prominently on the title screen, along with the current leader for today.

[h3]Stats Viewer[/h3]

This new screen lets you view all the stats that are being tracked under the hood. There are some new stats added in this update too, so please be aware that they will start counting from 0 and won't show an lifetime statistic if you played the game before version 0.32.

[h3]Survivor Hall of Fame[/h3]

Another new screen which shows the names and dates of prisoners you've lead to freedom! Again, this only just started being tracked, so older names won't be listed.

[h2]Full Changelist[/h2]

[h3]🆕 Added[/h3]

• Daily Challenge Winners are now displayed on the title screen.
  
• 3D scene background on the title screen.
  
• Added camera animation when starting a new game.
  
• 'Survivor Hall of Fame' viewer.
  
• Stats viewer.

[h3]🔁 Changed[/h3]

• You can now view leaderboards for past Daily Challenges.
  
• You can now access Daily Challenge leaderboards after you've played today's challenge.
  
• Added more fog to intro/ending scene.
  
• Added dust particles to prisoner scene.
  
• Pressing Back/Cancel keyboard button on title screen no longer quits to "Thank you for playing" screen.

Enjoy!

Matt

[h2]Overview[/h2]

[h3]Teasers[/h3]
The game now shows you some noteworthy scores from the Steam leaderboard to give you something to aim for. It will try to pick scores from your friends, other players who are just above you and the player who has the #1 spot.



[h3]Menu Popups[/h3]
Lots more popups that appear next to your mouse cursor when you hover it over menu items. These aim to explain some of the more ambiguous or complex icons and options.





[h3]More Popup Options[/h3]
Don't like the aforementioned popups? You can turn them off. In addition, you now have more control over which types of popups to want to see throughout the game, so experienced players can hide distractions explaining things they already know.



[h3]Improved Upgrade Info[/h3]
When you're upgrading your players at the end of each stage, you can now see more helpful information about what each upgrade will do.



[h2]Full Changelist[/h2]

[h3]🆕 Added[/h3]

• 'Teaser scores' appear between stages.
  
• 'Menu popups' appear next to your mouse cursor when hovering over many different menu items, explaining what they do/mean.
  
• More options for which popup types you want to see.

[h3]🔁 Changed[/h3]

• Improved player upgrade popup. It now displays more information (including the before and after values of the stat you're upgrading).
  
• New Recruit popup uses icons and is generally easier to read at a glance.
  
• Player upgrade buttons now display current stat and icon on the button itself.
  
• Tweaked some Perk descriptions.
  
• Tweaked some Ball Modifier descriptions
  
• When hovering cursor over the tile that the Ball is on, the tile popup now displays information about the Ball Modifier you're using.
  
• Current score is now displayed on Stage Start and Team Info screens.
  
• Options menu is now a sub-menu of Pause menu.
  
• Team name is now displayed on stage results screen.
  
• Team name is now displayed in the preview text when choosing to continue a saved game.
  
• Popups now have a coloured outline.
  
• Renamed 'Wall' to 'Rock' in the popup.

[h3]🐛 Fixed[/h3]

• Hovering mouse over a fully-upgraded perk upgrade button no longer displays an empty popup.

Enjoy!

Matt

[h2]Overview[/h2]

1. Enemy AI is a bit smarter.
   
2. Intention markers give more information about the attack type.
   
3. 'Fast Mode' is even faster, and you also have additional options for speeding up the game.
   
4. Overhauled the 'Options' menu.
   
5. Overhauled the 'Stage Start' screen.
   

You can now tune the game to be pretty fast, for when you really need to squeeze a run into your lunch break.

[h2]Full Changelist[/h2]

[h3]🆕 Added[/h3]

• Windowed mode option.
  
• Option to disable dynamic cameras.
  
• Option to automatically skip long menu animations and cinematics.
  
• "Restore Defaults" button in options menu.

[h3]🔁 Changed[/h3]

• Wandering (green) enemies will move towards players if they can reach an adjacent tile.
  
• Enemies will move towards the Ball if it's on an adjacent tile.
  
• Enemies standing on Hazard tiles will prioritise moving off them.
  
• Ball Modifiers now change automatically with each stage, but the multiplier only changes if you use a modifier.
  
• All goalies in Trial 4 are replaced with the Slam Lad variant.
  
• Options menu revamped to fit more items in.
  
• Stage Start menu revamped to move ball buttons and info closer together.
  
• Stage Start screen now displays how many of each ball modififer you've used.
  
• Ball Modifier selection buttons now display their difficulty effect (Easy/Normal/Hard).
  
• Fast Mode now skips blocked spawns.
  
• Fast Mode now speeds up many more minor delays.
  
• Hazard tile popups now display their Stun stat.
  
• Attack cameras now track whatever was hit, to prevent cases where it would be pushed off-screen.
  
• Intention arrows differentiate between normal attacks and 'charge' attacks.
  
• Intention arrows differentiate between normal attacks and 'wind' attacks.
  
• Hatcheries' spawn intention marker changes colour if the spawn will be blocked.
  
• Blocked spawns now display a text popup.
  
• Missed enemy attacks now display a text popup.
  
• Clarified help text for enemies who attack a row of tiles.
  
• When Resting, the amount of stamina recovered appears in the text popup.
  
• Team Info screen displays each player's perk level as an icon.
  
• Team Info screen displays each player's class with colour-coded text.
  
• Team Info screen now displays Ball Modifier's difficulty effect.

[h3]🐛 Fixed[/h3]

• 'Dino-floor' achievement is no longer unlocked by Lightning Hazards.
  
• "Stunned" popups no longer display "-1" if the duration is infinite.
  
• Options menu items are now always in the same order, regardless of whether you access the menu from the title screen or the pause menu.
  
• Piercing attacks now push all targets simultaneously, instead of waiting for each one's hit animation to finish.
  
• Team Info screen now displays correct Score Multiplier for Ball Modifier.

Enjoy!

Matt

[h3]🐛 Fixed[/h3]

• Fixed Ball disappearing if a player who was holding it was killed by a Spike Trap.
  
• Chargers now rebound on impact, instead of waiting for the character they attack to finish their 'take damage' animation.
  
• Mawbreaker achievement no longer unlocks if the Maw can't be pushed because something's in the way.
  
• Player sprites no longer pop behind the ropes in the victory ending.

⚠ Session Save Data Reset
Your mid-run session save data will be reset in this update!
Fortunately, I have now implemented a feature that allows updates to only reset your mid-run session data, rather than ALL of your save data. As always, I'll avoid this wherever possible, but sometimes it's necessary due to major data structure changes. At least now your achievements, settings and stats will remain intact, but any sessions you have unfinished will unfortunately be deleted when the game starts.

Now, on to the big new changes...

[h3]👋 Say hello to your Team in the new intro[/h3]


[h3]📊 Revamped Timeline[/h3]


[h3]📈 Little baby Timeline after each stage[/h3]


[h3]😌 You can navigate the Options menu with a keyboard (WITHOUT tearing your hair out in frustration)[/h3]


And here's the full run-down of changes in this update...

[h3]🆕 Added[/h3]

• Player introductions at the start of each run.
  
• Stage progress with rank icons on the loading screen between stages.

[h3]🔁 Changed[/h3]

• Overhauled the Timeline seen at the end of each trial.
  
• Daily Challenge mode can now only be played once per day.
  
• Selected menu buttons now have an outline instead of being enlarged.
  
• Updates can now delete mid-run session save data to avoid deleting ALL save data.
  
• The Judgment now makes less noise while spectating.
  
• "Normal Ball" renamed to "Standard Ball".
  
• Updated the main title logo so it matches store page version.
  
• Total score popups are now brighter blue and more visually prominent.
  
• Total score popup now appears on the loading screen between stages.

[h3]🐛 Fixed[/h3]

• Fixed crash when skipping menu page transitions.
  
• Fixed Options menu navigation moving to unexpected buttons (when using a keyboard or controller).
  
• Trial intro jingle now correctly uses your music volume setting.
  
• Trial intro jingle pitch no longer gets distorted if you skip the sequence.
  
• Title text on loading screens now uses pixel-perfect scaling.

Enjoy!

Matt