David I am back home and trying to send an update, the one I have sent before I left was rejected due to wrong numeration. I will fix all the things you mentioned. - I will throw more randomly distributed healing potions on all levels, and make sure heal spell is to be found much earlier, watcher giving heal spell is a good idea. - I have no idea why you experience disappearing items after reload, I will focus on finding out what's the source of the problem. - as for level 2 - there are two doors, one after another, so you have to find two keys, one is in the chest behind the big spider, another is on the table on the south east corner of map. - I have already fixed lvl6 door closing after save in upcoming update and now it's much easier to find spellbooks (10% higher chance to find for each) - lvl easy and normal differs in enemies healthpoints and number of enemies (but number of enemies might be similar as it's still random, just min and max borders are moved.
Welcome back home, Lucasz, and I hope that you had a good trip. I actually started yet another play through a few days ago, and am near the end of level 5 so far, but have not yet talked to the Watcher on level 5 yet, and will wait for your update, in case you have him give out the healing spell in your update. I know that in the current game build, he gives you a few potions, and it would be great if he could continue to do so. However it would be even better if he could give you the “heal” spell, even if it came at the cost of one of the potions he would otherwise give you. The reason that I’m saying this is so that one would be guaranteed of having the healing spell prior to the zombies on levels 6 and 7. I should clarify that this is the time that you see the Watcher the second time in the game, in the NE section of level 5, near the end of that level. I’m not referring to the first time that you see the Watcher, back in level 1, the time when he gives you the energy bolt spell. I will sum up my conclusions the best way that I can. I actually chose “very easy” on this play through. 1. Level 2 Keys. No problems this time. The second key was on that table that you mentioned. On that earlier play through when I couldn’t find it, that same table was empty. No wonder I never found it. 2. Disappearing items. This seems rare, and only after loading a previous save. When I played level 4 this time, and after picking up the crown, I made sure that I played continuously until after I completed both quests on that level, without loading any saves. 3. Difficulty levels. I have basically at least started play throughs 4 times, the first two on “easy”, the third on “normal”, and my current one on “very easy”. The play through on “normal” was aborted on level 2 since there was no key on that table, and it couldn’t be continued. As far as I can tell, the difference between difficulty levels is subtle, and although the game may be slightly easier on the lowest difficulty level, it’s hard to tell. One thing that I was wondering about was whether the difficulty level chosen at the start of the game is saved throughout the entire play through. Once a game is started, there’s no way to check whether you’re still playing on the level chosen at the start. The reason I’m saying this is that it’s surprising how hard those zombies are to kill on both levels 6 and 7, even on “easy”, and I suspect that they won’t be much easier even on the “very easy” setting. 4. I’m glad to hear that you’re increasing the “spell find” rate. On this fourth play attempt, I have found 5 spells up to near the end of level 5, 2 which were given by completing quests. I still have no healing spell yet. On this fourth play through, I currently have “magic shield”, “enchant weapon”, and “light”, which were found, and “energy bolt” and “fireball”, given out by completing quests. 5. Item finds. It’s too bad that there are so many useless items, such as spoons, beer mugs, rocks, bones, and empty books. It’s frustrating to open an impressive looking chest, using a tool, and finding nothing but junk inside. I guess that’s just the “luck of the draw”. I actually tried the “save”, “open chest”, and “reload” trick, hoping for something better, but that doesn’t work, since it seems that once a new level is started, the items found in all chests on that level are “fixed”. 6. Level 6 “4 plates” puzzle. In my humble opinion, there should be a better reward for completing this puzzle. I completed this puzzle on one of my earlier play throughs, which was later aborted due to the “closing door bug”. (Glad you’re fixing that, btw). However, I was disappointed that there was nothing in there apart from some urns containing useless items. I was hoping, at the least, that there would be a chest in there with some decent items as a reward. That’s just my own thoughts, of course I understand that this puzzle is optional, and I have no idea whether this would be an easy “bonus fix”. 7. I should also mention that I still have that game in progress, on the other iPad, where I reached level 12 but couldn’t continue due to the lost gem. It would be nice to have a go with that game, to see if I could complete it, if the gems issue could be fixed. (I have basically zero healing items left, though, so it may not be possible. I hope that my latest findings will help, Lucasz!
Thank you David so much for all this feedback. I have been able to send update last night, I don't get what was wrong with numeration but I have changed new update to 999 and it works (instead of 0.9xx). This update fixes several problems, but not all, so I am going to hurry to send another one fixing the rest. The one that is waiting for launch (under review) is fixing lvl6 door (reload closing), reappearing monsters with loot (after going down), there is a 5-10% higher chance to find spells and lvl 12 - button combination to get all gems if you get stuck. I didn't add heal spell to watcher gifts (lvl5) so I am thinking if I should to it in next update as you will probably already be on lvl 6, so I can place spellbook with heal spell somewhere on lvl6 to be found (near the entrance so it can be used against the zombies). Will it be ok? Thank you for summing up in points. 1. I will take a closer look, it's generated on the table, it's kind of dropped and affected by calculated physics so my guess is sometimes it is kicked behind the map. I will make sure it's always there in next update. 2. It's hard to find the reason of disappearing items, but I will try to load lvl4 with crown over and over again until I get to this problem and then I will be able to understand it and solve it. 3. Difficulty level is saved so it stays the whole game. I keep data for monsters parameters in separate script. Difference is subtle as there are 5 levels of difficulty so I have graduated it. But to be honest I had a problem with zombies (I adjusted their parameters but didn't see the difference so I suspect they might be reading parameters from some other script and this way zombies may not be affected by difficulty changes. I will check it and if so fix it in next update). The truth is I have +- 1300 script files there that run the game so sometimes I overlook something). 4. yes spell chance to find is higher now (I hope it will be visiible). It will be on in update that should be live this evening/night). Thank you for this idea as the game should be fun not a torment 5. Yes items are distributed when you enter the level and then saved. So one you are on the level and saved game items are always the same. I can kick out some usless items (spoons etc) and it will increase chance of finding something useful. Should I do it? If you have any idea of an item that could be added to make it more interesting I can do that too 6. You are right, there should be a reward for the floor button puzzle on lvl 6. I will add it to the next update! 7. The update that is now in appstore and waiting for review (999) has the lvl12 help for you It will solve your door problem and as well give you a small help gift 8. I would like to add a special thanks for your tireless work in search of bugs and exploring the game, I would like to thank you by the name if it's ok with you, if so can you write me your name (you can send me an email if you don't want to write it here, it's [email protected]). Or I can just use David1953
A big hearty thank you to you as well, Lucasz, and of course I am happy to be of help. I’ve been playing games of several different kinds for many years now (mostly adventure games, and a lot of RPG games farther in the past, which I’m rusty at now), and can’t remember anyone as dedicated as you have been with this game, and doing your best to address any issues. Right now, I have the level 12 game on one iPad, the newer one, and will attempt that one first once your initial update goes up. I’m still near the end of level 5 on the other iPad, and will hold off on chatting with the Watcher on level 5 until your second update, and won’t go to level 6 either. I’ll leave the decision about the heal spell up to you as to whether to give it to the watcher in level 5, or early in level 6, up to you, and either is OK with me. (I’m prone to think that giving it to the Watcher is a better option, and perhaps “safer”) I’m keeping that second game in reserve, and prefer not to start the game from scratch again, hence I’m willing to wait for your second set of updates. Your suggestion of throwing out some of the useless items such as spoons in your following update is an excellent idea, and I heartily agree. Perhaps I will write you privately and share with you my full name there, but for now, you can use “David1953 on Touch Arcade”. I will try to write you privately sometime tomorrow.
I finally completed the game today, and what an excellent game it was. There continue to be further improvements, including a doubling of spell slots, fixing of some bugs, and an overall better chance of finding more spells in general, among other things, and the developer continues to be on top of everything.
Hi I am stuck on first floor I can’t find the claw from the beast for the rat king Thanks for helping I am desperate
Anyone able to finish the game yet? I have read the whole forum and there seems to be sooo many bugs not letting you go through it.
I am very sorry for that, I have added multiple save slots in one of last updates and it has unfortunately messed it all. I have just released an update fixing it for Android and now update for iOS is on the way, should be live in 1-2 days. With 1.10 update everything should work fine again!!!
I’m both anxious and excited about this game after reading all of this thread. Anxious that a bug will break my game and excited that the developer is actively trying to fix things. It appears the game is discounted atm so no better time to take a chance. Fingers crossed. EDIT; First impressions have me somewhat concerned. The text in the opening cinematic gets bigger as you read it. So much so that the ends of the sentences actually go off screen and you can’t read it all. I am assuming this happens because I am playing on my iPad Pro and the game is not optimised for a 4:3 aspect ratio. Whether this becomes an issue later in the game is yet to be seen. First scroll I found within 10 minutes had a spelling error. “I have been wadering in this forest for so long”. Should be “wandering”. Small things yes….. but not filling me with confidence.
Once you talk to the Rat King, you should have access to an area, in the SE, where there are several giant scorpions, and any of them carries one of what you need, after you kill them. They’re a bit harder to kill than other monsters on this level. It’s been a long time since I completed the game, and there have been several updates since then, and with any luck, nothing has changed on that level. I really enjoyed the game overall, and in my opinion, it’s definitely worth sticking with right to the end.
I played the game long ago, several months back, and completed it, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I did play it on an iPad Pro, and never ran into an issue like this. I’m aware that the game has been updated a few times since I completed it, though.
That is so nice to hear Sir! So i am buying it on android thank you! If sonething is not going well i will reprt it here!
New update should fix all the load/save problems with missing items (like claws for Ratking). What do you mean by no sound? I have tested it before sending an update and all was ok. Can you confirm sound problems?
Their is a glitch I am floating behind the decor No way to come back To restart or begin a new from an old save does not prevent it to happen again What should I do? Thanks
Thank you for reporting it, can you give me more details? Where and how does it happen? Did you do anything special what could have triggered it? So when you load from an old save from before it happens again? Did you equip an item recently? I would need a screenshot of a map where it happens and of your inventory (or if you can give me names of items you are equipped). I will try to fix it asap but it seems as something random so I need more details. Thanks
I am not able to clic on the option to kill the ogre/orc Grunt after speaking to the dwarf also how to make Grunt a king ? thanks
You’re not supposed to kill him, and as for making him a king, there’s a crown that you need to find.
