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PAX 2012 Booth
Posted in Gaslamp |
Tagged alcohol, batteries never last long enough, data roaming, delegate anything you don't want to do, diggle union, don't break the website, exhibitor badges are cool, gaslamp assemble!, hotel wifi is highway robbery, is this too guady?, no swine flu, omg i met jerry from PA, precious wifi, queue like the british, so this is what it takes to be successful, swag, the floor counts as a bed, walking is hard
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Dredmor’s *How* Old?
To our astonishment Dungeons of Dredmor is a year old today; we released the game on Friday, July 13th, 2011, and immediately followed it with about three patches. To say that the past year has been a bit of a roller-coaster is, perhaps, rather understating things.
Posted in Dungeons of Dredmor, Games, Gaslamp |
Tagged assume the despair position, diggles, drink more booze, it is a cellular peptide cake with mint frosting, Lord Dredmor demands fan art, need more mana, oh canada, Project Odin is not a home brewing project gone terribly wrong, the bolt council demands it, the robot stirs the sauce
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Conquest of the Wizardlands: August 1st
Wondering when you can begin exploring the forgotten dimensions of lost wizards? Then gather ’round, because Gaslamp Games is pleased to announce that the Conquest of the Wizardlands expansion for Dungeons of Dredmor will be launched on August 1st.
Let’s do that one more time with art.
Got it? Got it.
Lightning! Brax! The Bomb! Wizardly Empties! Diggles again! Conquest of the Wizardlands has it all!
Now let us hint ominously at Things To Come.
Posted in Dungeons of Dredmor, Games, Gaslamp, Other Games |
Tagged being ominous, conquest of the wizardlands, consult your local quack before determining if the scientific remedy is right for you, crimble is not something you want for Christmas, curse of triangulon, expansion, expansion packs, lightly disturbing concept art, never use a wood saw named the widowmaker, not the braindrills, odin is a game about industrial accidents waiting to happen, odin is not a game about the subtle joys of art conservatorship, ominous, ominous enough for you yet?, project odin, the mind probe will tell us everything we need to know, we cleaned the coffeepot now hopefully the visions will stop, wizarding empties, you asked for the deer you shouldn't complain about the consequences, you have to put the deer into the squid
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The April Madness
Turns out when you’re writing a renderer for a game, and the renderer isn’t finished, it’s hard to come up with really awesome stuff to show people about the game you’re making. This is essentially what we’re waiting on before we blow the lid off of everything on Project Odin. We want to be in a position where we can show you what we’re working on, get your feedback, ask you about things you’d like to see in the game, and answer any questions you might have.
Mr. Triolo is currently contemplating how one might animate a chicken
There is a lot of concept art floating around on our repos that we’re trying to use to give you guys an idea of the fact that a lot of work is being done right now, not just in art but in the code as well. We’re having to do a lot of “architecture” programming before we can start putting the game together on top of it; the main reason for this is that Odin is multiplayer, and multiplayer games just work differently. We are taking the opportunity to do some optimization to ensure that the game takes advantage of all these newfangled “cores” we hear about in the computer stores these days as well. Again, if you have your toes in the programming world, you know that this can be tricky. (If you don’t but you are curious, check out this educational wikipedia article on race conditions! If you don’t like circuit theory, feel free to skip that.)
We are also taking some time to actually get organized. The game is going to take more than a year to get done (not six like the last one! maybe two though) and one of the biggest issues with making a thing that takes as long as games do is that it’s difficult to keep all the important stuff in your head when you haven’t thought about it in a while. We were guilty of a lot of this on our first (failed) project, and we were guilty of more of it on Dredmor. I’m sure it will happen for Odin as well, but my job over the last two weeks has been getting us set up with a way of managing our project stuff so that we can be as organized as possible with as little effort as possible. (For those of you who are interested, we’re using Atlassian, and it seems pretty awesome so far.) I’m also starting to understand why so many indies make all their games, start to finish, in a month.
Coming soon: some Dredmor news pertaining to toys, the Steam Workshop, and some new content!
A potential terrain style that we have since scrapped for technical reasons (orange didn't test well)
Dredmor 1.0.10 Status; The Future
Dungeons of Dredmor has now been updated across all distributions and all platforms: Steam, the Humble Download Page, Desura, and GameFly (our bonus new distributor!) So far, the only problem we are aware of is that the skills for Realm of the Diggle Gods are not installing correctly in the GameFly build only; we are looking into this with Gamefly, and hope to have it resolved as soon as possible. There have also been reports of some people being able to wear cheese as armour, but that’s neither here nor there.
The full change log for the patch is reproduced under the cut. If you have any feedback on the new patch – balance changes and complaints, bug reports, praise, suggestions, or simply wish to enjoy the complementary Lutefisk samples, please don’t hesitate to let us know on our forums.
So what do we do for an encore? Stand by for … three announcements.
In the mean time, why not buy some shirts? (Or, for that matter, stickers.)
Posted in Dungeons of Dredmor, Gaslamp, Programming |
Tagged cheese armour what cheese armour, cogglers, dredmor, odin, patch what patch, sitrep, stick a gear on it, the number of the announcements shall be three, three shall be the number of the announcements, you have to put the gear on the diggle
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On Testing
When I started working on 1.0.10 at the start of this year, one of the things I asked myself was how to improve our patching process – or how to stop horribly game-breaking patches from happening ever again. First, let us review the Dredmor patch history:
0.9 -> 1.0.0 – The Greatest Crashing Beta Test Ever of 2011.
1.0.0 – Dredmor released with mysterious audio crashing problems, exposed by a change to the audio code at the last minute.
1.0.1 – Fixed the audio crash.
1.0.2 – Fixed the audio crash which was exposed by the fix for the first audio crash.
1.0.3 – Zillions of bugfixes.
1.0.4 – A hastily released patch after 1.0.3 broke save game compatibility with 1.0.2, and the laser-like glare of the Eye of Sauron turned upon me. (And I wept.)
1.0.5 – Was reasonably boring and nothing happened.
1.0.6 – Broke achievements; was hotfixed. (Some people consider this version a “classic” Dredmor for some reason.)
1.0.7 – Humble Bundle build; added Linux support and, also, bonus crashing.
1.0.8 – Diggle Gods build. Included things like “the n-Dimensional Lathe, a giant, crashing, unexploded bomb”, things not giving people the correct stats, crashing mysterious portals, eleventy billion broken tutorials…
1.0.9 – Patch for everything that went wrong with the Diggle Gods build. Added crashing bookcases, crashing savegames, save game corruption, and stuff not loading in the mod launcher. This also marked the start of the attempts at fixing the “belt eating problem.”
1.0.9 REV B – patch for all of these things, some of which actually stayed patch.
One of the conclusions that I reached was that a lot of the really bad problems (save game compatibility; n-dimensional lathe; hideous random audio crashes) were things that showed up when we had a thoroughly tested build, made one small change to it, and then put up the build with that one small change (which, consequently, was the change that broke everything.) As a result, we decided to instigate a new policy: any time we make any change to a Dredmor release candidate, no matter how small, the patch goes out for testing and is banged upon for at least 48 hours (preferably 72) before we ship it. Dredmor 1.0.10 is the first build we’re shipping with this new policy; we hope it works out well for all parties concerned, but it does mean that deadlines are a little hit or miss.
As always, thanks for your patience! We will try to keep the forums updated on where we stand in the QA process. If you want to grab patch RC7 and try it out, OS X and Windows versions are now available in our forums.
What's this? I don't know. Look over there!
Dredmor Patch Status
For those of you who aren’t hanging out in our forums (and why not?) Dredmor Patch 1.0.10 release candidate #7 has now been put up. So we’ve gone through seven of these now. So far things seem to be much more stable than 1.0.9, and I’m happy. I’m hoping that as soon as the testing Squad gives me the word, we can have this up on Steam, Desura, and the Humble Bundle download page by the end of the week.
Full changelog, and some Odin teasing, below.
