1.0.2 - Visual fix
Water visual fixed
Water visual fixed
Side Effect
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- May 12, 2025
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1.0.1 - Bug fix
Patch day 1. But day 8.
Original postPatch day 1. But day 8.
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Last Update.
Last update before the release. Big in game UI improvements.
Original postLast update before the release.
Big in game UI improvements. - Developer post
1.8.29 - New level: Pyramids
Hola. For absolutely no reason, I've been focusing on projectile-type spells and project organization. You shouldn't notice any major difference. However, I leave you with a new level in Act I: Pyramids. Earthquake: King effect modified Ice pillar: Queen effect fixed Firewave: Pa
Original postHola. For absolutely no reason, I've been focusing on projectile-type spells and project organization. You shouldn't notice any major difference.
However, I leave you with a new level in Act I: Pyramids.
- Earthquake: King effect modified
- Ice pillar: Queen effect fixed
- Firewave: Pawn / Bishop / Rook effect modified
- Tsunami: applies damage by default (we absolutely needed an upgrade for Tryff, who struggles against a lot of small minions)
- New level: Pyramid
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1.8.28 - Act II balance
Hello everyone! It's been a while since there was an update. I have been working a lot on UE5, and I have to admit: it's not worth porting the project to UE5. The benefit is very low compared to the cost in time and energy. Sadly, I am abandoning this porting, and I will continue
Original postHello everyone! It's been a while since there was an update. I have been working a lot on UE5, and I have to admit: it's not worth porting the project to UE5. The benefit is very low compared to the cost in time and energy. Sadly, I am abandoning this porting, and I will continue to work on the existing project.
Spells
- Ice pillar: same but better
- Contamination: fully reworked
- Superconductivity: fully reworked
- Ice spear: queen damage fixed
Levels
- Water temple: hydra's AI fixed
- Ballrrom: hydras are more sensitive to friendly fire (hard only)
- Cemetery: major balance in all difficulties
- Apocalypse knights: knights gain more HP when a brother dies
- Forgotten fortress: kings nerfed (I forgot that the kings were Tesla coils, and they were a bit too strong...)
Other
- Toxic tree: now scales on attack instead of poison tiles (king effect updated)
- Sacred altar / clone factory: starts with charges
- Frozen aura: fixed (was completly broken)
- Pyramid: fixed HP
- Ice of damocles: fixed water consumed when casted on frozen AI
Enjoy!
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1.8.26 - Ice spear / Ice needle
Nothing really interesting here. I bought a ice VFX pack and I played with it. You can see it on the ice needle and the ice spear (both spells have cool modifications). Don't ask me why, I'm remaking the project from scratch on UE5 (currently the project is made with UnrealEngine
Original postNothing really interesting here. I bought a ice VFX pack and I played with it.
You can see it on the ice needle and the ice spear (both spells have cool modifications).Don't ask me why, I'm remaking the project from scratch on UE5 (currently the project is made with UnrealEngine 4). This explains why updates take times.
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1.8.25 - Boss I rebalanced
Mordangar Easy: no change Normal: no change Hard: infernos have queen abilities Illusionist Easy / normal / hard: king has pawn ability on ice wave Hard: queen / king have queen ability on frozen aura Other Toxic tree: now scales on attack instead of poison tiles (king effect upd
Original postMordangar
- Easy: no change
- Normal: no change
- Hard: infernos have queen abilities
Illusionist
- Easy / normal / hard: king has pawn ability on ice wave
- Hard: queen / king have queen ability on frozen aura
Other
- Toxic tree: now scales on attack instead of poison tiles (king effect updated)
- Sacred altar / clone factory: starts with charges
- Frozen aura: fixed (was completly broken)
- Pyramid: fixed HP
- Ice of damocles: fixed water consumed when casted on frozen AI
Enjoy!
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1.8.24 - Act I rebalanced
It is time for AI rebalance! French town Easy: no change Normal: no change Hard: pawn have better ability Fix: pawns can't move as kngiths anymore Water Temple This is an hard rework of the level. Simplification is the key so elementals are instantly operational. Easy: low elemen
Original postIt is time for AI rebalance!
French town
- Easy: no change
- Normal: no change
- Hard: pawn have better ability
- Fix: pawns can't move as kngiths anymore
Water Temple
- This is an hard rework of the level. Simplification is the key so elementals are instantly operational.
- Easy: low elemental spawn / low water tiles.
- Normal: medium elemental spawn / medium water tiles.
- Hard: hight elemental spawn / hight water tiles / cave enabled.
Jungle
- Easy: no queens / no bishops.
- Normal: presence of bishops.
- Hard: presence of queens. Queens only spawn pigs and pigs are aggressive. Pawns no longer spawn mushrooms.
The wolf
- Wolve have less earth.
- Easy: no change.
- Normal: no change.
- Hard: one more wolf (because why not?).
Gold mine
- Exit wall has 15 HP (instead of 25).
- Easy: no spider.
- Normal: presence of spiders.
- Hard: stronger spiders.
Other
- New pact of Odmund. I love the new pact. It's much more in line with the movement's idea. The old spell was nice, it's now a standard lightning spell.
- Tesla coil: better damage.
- Curse of Necrom: light changes.
Enjoy!
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1.8.23 - Holy reworked.
Hello everyone. It's been a while since the last update, and that one was complicated. It was like a real spider web in the code. Global Holy no longer provides attack bonuses to AI units, but mana regeneration instead. Invocations and enemy pieces stat with 0 holy. Invocations'
Original postHello everyone. It's been a while since the last update, and that one was complicated. It was like a real spider web in the code.
Global
- Holy no longer provides attack bonuses to AI units, but mana regeneration instead.
- Invocations and enemy pieces stat with 0 holy.
- Invocations' HP rebalanced: they start with less but the queen effect is more efficient.
- With these changes, multiple spells have been adjusted. Generally, those that used to remove holy now add it instead.
Spells
- Hati removed from the game (again?).
- Eternal return removed from the game.
- Voodoo doll return removed from the game (I really liked the mind control mechanic, but it was causing too many issues).
- New spell: clone factory.
- Water elemental: nerfed (I'm not done with it yet).
- Air hydra is clever
- Fire obelisk: knight effect applies fire instead of damage (it was too strong and synergizes better with the obelisk).
- Earth pillar: rook effect reworked (stronger now).
- Zombie is completly reworked.
- Lightning pillar: attack speed nerfed.
- Sacred nova: pawn effect added.
- Lay on hand: completly reworked.
- Regeneration: knight effect locked (too strong).
- Sacred word: heavy reworked.
Levels
- Destroyed machie: big reblance (this event had been "broken" for a while, but I managed to do some very nice things with it).
- French castle: better balance.
- Appocalypse knights: better balance.
- Jungle (hard): no more leaves.
- Cemetery: better gold repartition. Enemy pieces are now queens and kings (instead of pawns and queens), grave stones are rooks. This is only for a better visibility.
- Conclave: water fixed on kings.
Overall, Acts 1 and 2 don't change too much. Act 3 deals much less damage, but the global normalization of health points compensates a bit. I think it's still simpler now.
I think I have all the pieces of the puzzle to focus on the level difficulty. I've had a lot of ideas itching at me during this update. They're noted down. We're going to suffer.Fixes
- Lightning bolt pierce fixed.
- Fortification: king effect fixed.
- Sound of the poison explosion fixed.
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Crashes - Revert
Due to major crashes, this is a revert to the previous version. I apologize.
Original postDue to major crashes, this is a revert to the previous version. I apologize.
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1.8.22 - Level visual
Hello everyone! For this update, I wanted to finalize the visuals of the levels. Everything is in a "marble" style (except for the tutorial). As planned, the game takes up less space on the hard drive. There are still 2-3 small things remaining, but those will come with time. I w
Original postHello everyone!
For this update, I wanted to finalize the visuals of the levels. Everything is in a "marble" style (except for the tutorial). As planned, the game takes up less space on the hard drive. There are still 2-3 small things remaining, but those will come with time. I wanted to get rid of them to focus on the balance and difficulty.
- Fixed AI on french town (I had already fixed this bug, but I messed up a bit in my revisions).
- Fixed plant texture in the jungle
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1.8.21 - Small update
Hello hello! Not a big update today. Just chilling on remaking levels. Song of the archdeacon up (needed) Cathedral visual remastered Jungle visual remastered
Original postHello hello!
Not a big update today. Just chilling on remaking levels.- Song of the archdeacon up (needed)
- Cathedral visual remastered
- Jungle visual remastered
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1.8.20 - Balance patch
Hello, everyone. Today, it is a balance patch aimed at making the game more understandable and accessible for newcomers. The mana cost required to move a piece is now fixed and no longer depends on water: Pawns and knights: require 1 mana Rooks and bishops: require 2 mana Queens
Original postHello, everyone. Today, it is a balance patch aimed at making the game more understandable and accessible for newcomers.
The mana cost required to move a piece is now fixed and no longer depends on water:
- Pawns and knights: require 1 mana
- Rooks and bishops: require 2 mana
- Queens and kings: require 3 mana
This change is noticeable in the mid-game and late-game. It's an explicit buff for pawns, rooks, bishops and knights, and a deliberate nerf for the king, which was much needed.
Certain ascensions have been adjusted in line with this change and now have the advantage of no longer varying based on whether it's a player piece or an AI piece:
- Water ascension: now provides 1 extra mana max
- Lightning ascension: now provides 1 extra mana income
- Ice ascension: the frozen piece receives 25% more damage (I'm not certain about this one, perhaps 50% is preferable, but I don't have enough feedback on this ascent yet)
Certain spells and items have also had to be modified or rebalanced:
- Wings
- Superconductivity (unfortunately, still a rather bad spell in my opinion)
- Burning Bypass
- Toxic Bypass
- Blessed Bypass
- Explosive Bypass
- Fire aura (nice update on this one)
- Toxic aura
- Frozen aura
- Magic broom
- Starving fish is removed and replaced by the "Papper plane"
Since water no longer has downside, water spells now provide less.
This is just the beginning of several balancing updates. I didn't pay much attention to it when I revisited the spells, the goal being to find enjoyment in them above all. It was only the first step.
Enjoy!
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1.8.19 - Sacred Altar
Hello everyone. The summoning process is coming to an end. There are still a few details to review, but nothing too serious. I'm increasingly focused on balancing and how to make the game more challenging. I have some ideas in mind, and the game is likely to undergo significant c
Original postHello everyone. The summoning process is coming to an end. There are still a few details to review, but nothing too serious. I'm increasingly focused on balancing and how to make the game more challenging. I have some ideas in mind, and the game is likely to undergo significant changes in the upcoming updates, especially in hard mode.
- Sacred altar: completly reworked
- Toxic tree: limited to 10 poison and King effect reworked
- Water elemental: rebalanced (stronger)
- Light Angel: does not target useless pieces anymore
- Pact of the white: does not target useless pieces anymore
- Light Angel: does not target useless pieces anymore
- Dragon paw: does not target useless pieces anymore
- Conclave is harder in hard (still not enough)
- Ballroom: no more poison tiles in hard
- Jungle: pig's AI fixed
- Gold mine: buy dwarf fixed
- Dimensional tower: redirection fixed
- Earth pillar: earth at the end of a turn removed
- Toxic tree: visual of elements fixed
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1.8.18 - Toxic Elemental reworked
Hello! Today is the turn of the Toxic elemental (now toxic tree). Toxic Elemental reworked: it took me several attempts before finding something I really liked. The new elemental relies on poison tiles. Light Angel: new juicy pawn effect (because why not) Fixed: bomb spawn for th
Original postHello!
Today is the turn of the Toxic elemental (now toxic tree).- Toxic Elemental reworked: it took me several attempts before finding something I really liked. The new elemental relies on poison tiles.
- Light Angel: new juicy pawn effect (because why not)
- Fixed: bomb spawn for the infernal machine
I'm increasingly thinking about ways to make the game more challenging. We're slowly reaching the end of the summons; it's time to endure a bit =)
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1.8.17 - Invocations continue
Hello! Let's continue with the rework of certain summons. Water Elemental: continuing in the line of charge-based summons. It wasn't the most useless summon, but redundancy between spells and summons doesn't appeal to me. Flying Bomb: probably the most useless summon in the game.
Original postHello! Let's continue with the rework of certain summons.
- Water Elemental: continuing in the line of charge-based summons. It wasn't the most useless summon, but redundancy between spells and summons doesn't appeal to me.
- Flying Bomb: probably the most useless summon in the game. However, I kept the concept and classified it as a "spamable" type summon. The damage is quite decent, and the upgrades are inexpensive. Ideal for eliminating static units. The Flying Bomb is no longer neutral but friendly. This makes it more flexible.
- Fixed bosses on coliseum.
- Infernal machine updated.
I am aware that the level of 'The Destroyed Machine' is broken. This is due to the rework of the 'An Eye for an Eye' spell. Don't worry; it will be fixed in the next update. I will take this opportunity to rework the overall difficulty of the levels related to the machine.
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1.8.16 - Focus on air invocations
Hello everyone. Today, let's focus on air summons and a few nerfs. You know me, I don't like nerfs, but sometimes it's justified. Tesla coil's upgrades are more expensive. Fire obelisk requires 75 charges instead of 50. Lightning pillar starts with 0 holy and the pawn effect has
Original postHello everyone. Today, let's focus on air summons and a few nerfs. You know me, I don't like nerfs, but sometimes it's justified.
- Tesla coil's upgrades are more expensive.
- Fire obelisk requires 75 charges instead of 50.
- Lightning pillar starts with 0 holy and the pawn effect has been removed.
- Summonings spells with 3 mana sickness now have 4 mana sickness. As the summons are much more efficient and powerful, reducing their number seems reasonable to me.
- The air elemental has been completely reworked. It now utilizes the power of tiles, an idea that I find very interesting.
- The Dimensional Tower no longer loses health when redirecting projectiles.
- The duplication has been updated. The idea remains the same, but I filled in the gaps with some cool effects. I persist in thinking that this spell is underrated.
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Minor Fixes
Minor fixes, including infinite loop in the Craystal Cave.
Original postMinor fixes, including infinite loop in the Craystal Cave.
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1.8.15 - New spell: earth pillar
Hello everyone! Summoning spells again and again. New spell: earth pillar Flood: is now a passive spell Barricade: is now the "earth hydra" Coliseum: you now face both bosses in hard
Original postHello everyone!
Summoning spells again and again.- New spell: earth pillar
- Flood: is now a passive spell
- Barricade: is now the "earth hydra"
- Coliseum: you now face both bosses in hard
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1.8.14 - Working on invocations
Hello everyone! Let's continue with summoning spells. Upon reflection, I've noticed that the "troublesome" summons are the ones without mobility: they are summoned to a location, do the job, and become useless afterward. The Tesla coil has been rebalanced. I played a round with i
Original postHello everyone!
Let's continue with summoning spells. Upon reflection, I've noticed that the "troublesome" summons are the ones without mobility: they are summoned to a location, do the job, and become useless afterward.
- The Tesla coil has been rebalanced. I played a round with it, and it was a delight (a bit overpower).
- Skoll from a pawn can now vanish (in the spirit of giving it more mobility).
- Fire elemental has been replaced by Fire obelisk. This summon is intended to enhance the gameplay of special tiles.
- Toxic tree has been replaced by Toxic hydras. Tree is not useful. The Toxic Elemental isn't either, I need to rework it.
- All hydras has been reworked. The purpose of the spell is to have many hydras with low health points.
- Lightning pillar rebalanced: now fires with the queen by default.
- Water pillar: small nerf (bubbles can't start with more than 75 water).
- Fix: holy shroud UI.
- Fix: tile holy-lightning.