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Well, That Happened!

November 2, 2016 by Nicholas Vining

Launching a game! It’s a thing that happens – I, for one, am still recovering. (I went to the gym for the first time in three weeks today and it was awful. Please, just somebody put me out of my misery.)

For those of you who have bought the game, we thank you for your patronage and appreciate it. We are currently working our way through the usual list of bug fixes and improvements that you discover are necessary as soon as you launch a game; those of you who are sending us crash dumps or bug reports, we’re reading them all and are working our way through them as fast as we can. For those of you who have written to let us know that you’re enjoying the game, we really appreciate that too.

Pictured: Gaslamp dev team fighting bugs.

Pictured: Gaslamp dev team squashing bug reports.

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Clockwork Empires 30B released: Saves, Unicode.

August 25, 2014 by Nicholas Vining

We’ve pushed version 30B to the public branch today, which will contain saves as well as support on Windows for user names with Unicode characters. If you have the update, you should see “Version 30B” on your screen in white text in the upper right hand corner. You shouldn’t need to do anything else.

Whoever controls the stew controls the colony.

Whoever controls the stew controls the colony. Here, the Law of Stew reigns merciless.

Saves are still a work in progress, and there are a handful of bugs we’re fixing, so keep a sharp eye out. If your save fails to load the first time, try it again (we’re not sure what causes that quite yet but we have Top Men on it). If you get a random crash related to saving or loading, please let us know on the forums and send us a .DMP file.

Further work on saves will be put into the experimental branch for testing purposes. You may also find other Exciting Work for Clockwork Empires version 31 (which we will elaborate on in a future blog post.)

Thanks for your patience everyone!

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Earliest Access Status Update

July 18, 2014 by Nicholas Vining

The general consensus around the office is that today’s Earliest Access launch went better than any launch that the company has done in the past. People seem to be having a good time; while there are some crash bugs, they seem to be pretty manageable.

Awkward name for a military squad or sign of [REDACTED] infiltrating the highest levels of the Empire?

Awkwardly named squad or sign of REDACTED infiltrating the highest levels of the Empire?

Here are some Helpful Notes on some of the most common technical issues players are having:

  • If your game will not start, it looks like you have a computer that is running an international version of Windows; known examples that break the game are French and Polish operating systems. We are working on figuring out how to unbreak this (by which, I mean “trying to remember how I figured this out for Dredmor.”)
  • If your game suddenly stops displaying terrain, set the terrain quality back to “High” and restart the game (there’s no functional difference any more anyway, and this option should be removed.)
  • If your game is not displaying anything at all, you probably have an Intel HD3000 or HD4000, which are not officially supported yet. We will be working on these in the future. (The newest generation of integrated Intel hardware seems to work okay, which is surprising!)
  • If you have an NVIDIA card, and your terrain does not display, and your terrain quality is set to high: update your drivers. There seems to be a bad batch of drivers floating around somewhere.
  • In general, updating your drivers is a good idea.
  • If you get no sound: possibly, try running as Administrator? We haven’t quite figured this one out yet, but Top Men are Working On It.
  • If you are having problems with reclaiming your key, drop us a line at contact@gaslampgames.com and we will sort you out.
  • If you have any other problems, head to our forums ( https://community.gaslampgames.com/ ) and check the current bugs thread, and if it’s not on there, you can post about it there OR submit a report through the Clockwork Empires Portal ( http://portal.clockworkempires.com/ ).

There is a pretty good list of “known bugs” at this point, and we will be slaving away on a patch in the office this weekend with an eye towards pushing it to the public on Monday (July 21st). This should take care of a handful of random crashes, as well as some low-hanging UI fruit that players have been especially eager to have us fix.

We are then going to shoot for a more “content-y” patch on the following Friday (July 25th).

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We have personal assurances from the Colonial Minister!

As always, we thank you for your patronage and we look forward to further delighting you with Colonial Incursions as we proceed from “Earliest Access” to “Early Access”, and then – at long last – “Finished Game.”

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Clockwork Empires: Earliest Access FAQ

July 17, 2014 by Nicholas Vining

Some questions and comments about tomorrow’s Earliest Access launch:

Q. “When will builds go out?”
A. “Roughly 10AM PST.”

Q. “The game crashed, broke, or otherwise did a terrible and monstrous thing. It is now sitting in my living room and hogging the couch, throwing empty beer cans at the cat. It has given me Ghost Neck, and many other diseases that we read about on your blog. What do I do? Who do I complain to?”
A. “If you want to submit the bug quickly and get back into the game, your best bet is the support form, which can (as of some time this evening) be found at portal.clockworkempires.com.  Our forums also have a list of known bugs and we regularly check for new ones at community.gaslampgames.com.

Q. “Is there OS X or Linux support?”
A. “Not for Earliest Access, no. We have unpolished, internal ports that are not ready for prime-time. We hope to have this up for the first or second incarnation of Steam Early Access in August.”

Q. “What’s the ETA on save games?”
A. “Save games have a critical bug in them right now, which we are still hunting down. Micah has not moved from his desk for the past one hundred and sixty-eight hours and has now grown some kind of third eye in the middle of his forehead. Expect these to show up next week.”

Q. “In the eight hours since you invented it, Earliest Access has ruined PC Gaming forever! What IS THIS THING?! How do we know what to expect, and where should we go to understand what we’re buying?”
A. “An enormous project status page, clearly outlining all the work we have done in the past two-and-a-half years as well as the expected roadmap for everything going forward, can be found here.”

Q. “What are testers saying about the current state of the game?”
A. “The earliest build is best described as an occult cabbage-farming simulator with fishpeople.”

Q. “Are you fishpeople?”
A. “Blup. I mean, no.”

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The Joys of Video Card Compatibility

November 27, 2013 by Nicholas Vining

With David taking a quick getaway vacation, and Micah off recovering from not doing anything in academia recently, Daniel and I are quietly holding the fort. By quietly, I mean “stirring up trouble.”

As you may have read, we sent out several builds of Clockwork Empires to various parties recently. Six such parties, in fact. Of these six parties, three of them were able to play the game, and three of them were not. This is what happens when you take code that runs very nicely on your office machine (Windows 7, a Lot Of RAM, a fairly recent video card of Good Quality and Character by NVIDIA, with a Fan Attached To It) and try to run it on somebody else’s machine (Windows XP laptop, 1 gig of RAM, and the video card driver is actually just Bonzai Buddy.)

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Output of the game on the Intel HD4000.

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Pre-Alpha Testing Has Commenced (Whatever That Is)

November 23, 2013 by Daniel Jacobsen

The grim realities of testing.

Well, it’s started.  A very small number of builds have gone out into the wild, with minimal functionality, as part of a systems compatibility test.  We have disabled pretty much everything but getting people to keep themselves alive, and some ramifications for not doing so, the least of which probably being death.  Again, the possibility space is very limited with this build so we can focus on the really important stuff like hardware compatibility.

We will gradually be enabling features on the builds that are in the wild, and at the same time increasing the number of participants in our Experiments.  If you’re interested in participating, please sign up for “testing” via the mailing list at ClockworkEmpires.com – I promise we won’t send you any news you don’t sign up for (we hate it when people do that, so we’re not going to be those people).

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Steam Trading Cards for Dungeons of Dredmor; Dredmor Patch 1.1.4 Up!

July 10, 2013 by David Baumgart

EDIT: A small fix for a (relatively minor) collection of broken save games has just hit Steam. If anybody else has any problems, please let us know. — Nicholas

I burned out on trading cards at around the Magic: The Gathering’s Fourth Edition (because once you play Leviathan in a real game, is there really anything left to do in M:TG?) but I figure if we’re going to do this trading card thing we have to do it right and provide our lovely, ravening fans with something they’d really enjoy.

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So! We went and commissioned Stephanie Larsen (who, by the way, with Chestnut St. Pixel Foundry created the Gaslamp Games logo) to do five six new illustrations of various Dredmorian Subjects. Fun was had!

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I’ve also tied the proverbial rudder-wheel of the good ship Gaslamp Art Team with the Rope of Neglect and taken a week off Clockwork Empires to paint five Steam profile backgrounds exploring themes in Dredmor ranging from “recycling existing art but being too obsessive over detail to not repaint it completely” to “meticulously accurate renderings of hematite”. Because we know what you like.

There are also a bunch of random badges and emoticons and Diggles and things.

They should be on Steam. Now go enjoy yourselves!

BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE! IT IS NOW PROGRAMMER TIME

Nicholas has now taken over the blogpost to bring you A NEW DREDMOR PATCH. Finally, the damn thing is out of beta and we are ready to bring it to you, our users. Enjoy new features such as THE FOLLOWING CHANGES:

– Diggles now actually dig!
– FIXED: Dual wielding items could cause infinite status buffs.
– “Conversion” support. Items can now augment existing item definitions if they exist. See the mod request thread for syntax.
– FIXED: monsters attacking your summons left over from another level.
– FIXED: random crash w/aquatic monster spawning on entering a new room
– FIXED: mods with cooldown skills not working
– FIXED: bug with Essence’s Essential Skills Pack where kung fu-ing a door will crash to desktop
– FIXED: achievements button misaligned
– FIXED: Steamworks support for x86 Linux
– FIXED: other issues w/x86 and AMD64 Linux builds
– FIXED: Using the Lutefisk Cube on itself in the Pocket Dimension is now Even Cuter.
– Multiple scrollbars.
– FIXED: Inventory filters.
– FIXED: Wand repair achievement.
– FIXED: some monsters can no longer yield XP/treasure/zorkmids
– FIXED: crust tooltips not showing negative damage buffs.
– FIXED: Steam publisher working again. We think.
– FIXED: skills can now require you to have a certain sort of weapon (or shield!) equipped.
– FIXED: held item may disappear when trying to pick up item
– FIXED: stupid broken teaser graffiti
– FIXED: some other stuff? Things? Gah.

Enjoy! (Again, all new stuff is contingent upon us pulling a lever and having Valve process it. Caveat emptor.)

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Impending Patch Changelog

August 13, 2012 by Nicholas Vining

Greetings Dungeoneers! We’ve prepared an approximate list of the things going into this week’s bug-fix patch. The patch should be circulating through all the usual distribution channels some time next week; We’ll let you know when it happens.

CORE

  • FIXED: various issues with saving and loading games, including but not limited to your inventory disappearing, your save games breaking, and you losing levels when entering or leaving the pocket dimension
  • FIXED: insurance fraud payout on dead corpses
  • FIXED: primary stats not being buffed by skills
  • FIXED: game now runs correctly on machines with international localizations
  • FIXED: aggressively regenerate levels when a level has been deleted from a save game
  • FIXED: instructions now included on Magic Box pop-up
  • FIXED: sight radius could not be decreased
  • FIXED: flickering up/down buttons in the skills tree
  • FIXED: phantom slots on skills grid
  • FIXED: crash clicking “next” on tutorial button
  • FIXED: at low resolutions, wizard key falls offscreen at 2x mode
  • FIXED: magic box could be exploited to steal from shops
  • FIXED: Steam overlay not working in -opengl mode
  • FIXED: missing expansion2 caused problems with expansion3
  • FIXED: spell points could result in negative mana
  • FIXED: dagger and polearm bonuses now only apply when wielding a dagger or a polearm
  • FIXED: Confiscate Evidence allowed theft
  • FIXED: rutabagas would dash repeatedly at you, either killing you instantly or locking the game
  • FIXED: named monsters no longer spawn in Mysterious Portals in enormous piles
  • FIXED: clicking the Digest button in the pocket dimension no longer freezes the game
  • FIXED: item stacking problems
  • FIXED: buff stacking problems
  • FIXED: skill level is now actively checked when encrusting a weapon
  • FIXED: when we add a steam achievement, we also add the local achievement
  • FIXED: some local achievements
  • FIXED: transmuting monsters could repeatedly set off traps
  • FIXED: various other polymorphing monster crashes
  • Increased all monster perception values
  • Slightly nerfed first level polearm skill
  • Fixed polearm stance effects that weren’t firing
  • Made high level polearms harder to craft
  • “Platinum Ring” removed from Lucky Find spawnlist because it doesn’t exist
  • Radiant Aura, Magic Steel buff stacksize capped at 1
  • tweaked Healing Rain effect
  • tweaked This Root Shall Suffer to cause more suffering
  • fixed some random spelling and grammar
  • UI: darkened Krong popup dialog background to make icons easier to read
  • UI: darkened resistance & damage extension widgets to make icons easier to read
  • Master of Arms description updated to reflect chance of triggering “Suit Up”
  • removed unnecessary skill category tags
  • Tentacular Infestation bolt no longer infests you with tentacles when it hits others
  • Very Sharp Wall of Blades Stance now hits enemies with small amount of piercing/slashing when player is attacked

ROTDG

  • fixed Helm of Threepwood artifact quality
  • enhanced the Broadside skill
  • added a new sound for Broadside

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  • Ravens now make proper sounds
  • Mage’s Mana Maille buff stacksize capped at 1
  • all eruptors spawn fewer traps
  • Clockwork Knight: teleport animations removed from movement-based spells
  • Puissant Veil now hits enemies with magic damage when player is attacked

COTW

  • decreased monster charge attack damage (see: deadly Rutabagas of death)
  • Communist healing skill may now fire commie debuffs
  • Hammer and Sickle can be found in the dungeon
  • Hammer is now craftable
  • Sandstorm nerfed (Sandstorm damages reduced, mana cost increased, additional player debuff added)
  • Asp Empowerment buff changed to fire less commonly
  • damage scaling added to “Alien Weapon” skill
  • added special craftable Communist Armour & Helm
  • Bailout should now remove fiscal responsibility
  • Pyramid Scheme can now trigger correctly
  • Reform and Opening now actually pays out
  • gave minor passive bonuses to Tourist & Paranormal Investigator
  • added missing item definitions for Helm of Ultimate Knowledge and Shrat’s Helm
  • added four new high-level daggers
  • added some more Wizardlands so we don’t keep running into that room with the Evil Clones all the time. (Wizardland Geometry may slightly change as a result.)
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