24 Aug 2026Developer post

Devlog 102

I've been working diligently these last few weeks on companions (after being sent out in the field again), and I've nearly ready to get a new update out, but it will probably happen later this week (maybe Friday). I've mainly been working on tactics and companion interactions. Di

03 Aug 2026Developer post

Devlog 101

I'm back from being in the field this week, and I've been working on a lot recently! First off, I have re-added puzzle doors. So far I have re-added 3 different types. I'll probably eventually make a few more of those, but right now was just getting the proof of concept down once

13 Jul 2026Developer post

0.3 Update (Virtues and Vices) and Devlog 100

Changes: Added in sins to all quest conversations and encounters All sins will give you some sort of short term benefit Added clothing shops Added the effects of effects Added more encounters Transmogrified all the panels into different art styles Added sausages Bugfixes: Added c

22 Jun 2026Developer post

Devlog 99

I went back into the field almost immediately, but I still am making progress here. I decided against an update sooner because I wanted to get a little more content in before I did so. I'm almost ready for the final 0.3 update. The plan looking forward is to fully implement the s

I went back into the field almost immediately, but I still am making progress here. I decided against an update sooner because I wanted to get a little more content in before I did so. I'm almost ready for the final 0.3 update.

The plan looking forward is to fully implement the sin/confession mechanic I had been planning since day one. My strategy thus far is to comb every single conversation and interaction for opportunities to sin, and marking them appropriately so things are tracked. As mentioned before, the difficulty will increase for each sin you commit.

Any sin can be confessed and the difficulty reset, but it may be more difficult than you think.

At the end, you'll receive a penance quest to perform, which will have a time limit on it.

The penance quests will be structured more or less like regular quests.

As you'll notice on the above screenshots, some penances will require you to return a certain amount of money. Not only is this spiritually valid, it's a good game mechanic that prevents you from profiting from sinful behavior.

I am also working on some new material for the Steam Store page, which will probably take up the majority of the week. I'm planning on changing the name of the game to Rogues' Purgatory, an oblique reference to St. Patrick's Purgatory, Purgatory itself, and Rogue. The problem with the old name was that I significantly changed the game from where it was a couple years ago, and it no longer takes place in Europa. This means I will have to change all the Steam content for the new name, and I'm planning on a new video as well, since the old one does a very poor job of explaining the game in its current state. I'll refresh all the screenshots, too, but now I have a library of about 100 screenshots to choose from so that will be trivial.

If I have time I will continue adding art content to the encounters and the 3D rendering space, but my goal is to have everything done and dusted early this week.An underman. Disgusting.

Remember to leave any questions, comments, and prayer requests you have in the comments below.

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08 Jun 2026Developer post

Devlog 98

After coming back from the field, I have been working on penance quests. Essentially, they're going to very strongly resemble the existing quests, except they won't have a reward. The "reward," granted in advance, will be a reduction in difficulty brought on by sinful shortcuts t

11 May 2026Developer post

Devlog 97

I have been very diligently working on encounters the past two weeks, but I also have to be studying for an examination this Tuesday, so that was cramping my style a bit. However, I'm already at 25 encounters, so already halfway to the goal of about 50. I'll probably drop an upda

27 Apr 2026Developer post

Update 0.3.96a / Devlog 96

Changes Added 9 new cave encounters, which spawn in caves exclusively Added some new encounter artwork Fixes Fixed Spires not being renamed on signs. Known Issues Not all encounters have artwork. The pink square missingno texture will be a placeholder Work has been progressing en

13 Apr 2026Developer post

Devlog 95

It's Sunday, and I feel like I accomplished everything I wanted to this week. I did a lot of bugfixes earlier in the week, with many thanks to those who submitted reports. I should have been better with some of the QC things, but it was what it was, and things should be a bit mor

It's Sunday, and I feel like I accomplished everything I wanted to this week.

I did a lot of bugfixes earlier in the week, with many thanks to those who submitted reports. I should have been better with some of the QC things, but it was what it was, and things should be a bit more fixed. There are a few outstanding bugs but they are low priority in my book.

This week I converted the encounter system to be fully token driven. This means little to the player, but it means a lot to me because it means I can start adding things a bit more rapidly. The previous system involved a bunch of reused code and some sloppy if-elseif statements that went on for pages. Now it's a simplified system, actually a direct copy of the conversation system. This allows for rapid writing on my part as well as additional complexity. Rather than being a choice with a random consequence, now there can be branching contexts, much like a conversation. However they are still going to be primarily

You may see the pink and black missingno square for some encounters, but that will be because they are being written far more rapidly than they were in the past. That said, I have been inspired to create a few new panels.

For interactions with cultists.

Encounters are now going to take place everywhere. I'm currently generating 1000 of them per level for testing purposes, but they will come at a relatively slow pace in the future. The goal is that something interesting will happen every 15-30 seconds, at the standard walking pace, so that will translate into maybe every 5-10 grids (one tile on the map).

Stalagmite interactions

So I will probably be working on writing some interactions in the coming week. I have about two dozen different interactions planned already. My goal is about 4 dozen, which is the rough equivalent of the board game Betrayal at the House on the Hill. I don't think that will be "more than enough", but that should be sufficient for good variability and replayability.

A side effect of the tokenized system is that things will be moddable, in the far future. Anyone with a text editor and an image editor will be able to make a fully functional encounter. However this won't be a near term thing unless it's very popularly demanded.

The text version of an encounter. What you see is what you get, minus the fact that you need an illustration to go with it.

So that will be the plan for this week, and I'll probably push another update by next Sunday. Remember to email any questions, comments, and prayer requests you have to [email protected], or just leave them in the comments below.

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23 Mar 2026Developer post

Update 0.3.93a / Devlog 93

Changes Added more conversations (now at least 8 different conversations per quest type) Conversations now reset at the end of the day. Quests no longer permanently lock when refused. Most locations now have descriptions (rather than ???). Many buildings also have descriptions. A

Changes

Added more conversations (now at least 8 different conversations per quest type)
Conversations now reset at the end of the day. Quests no longer permanently lock when refused.
Most locations now have descriptions (rather than ???). Many buildings also have descriptions.
Added "secret" art style - more information below on this experimental feature
Renamed "Lairs" to "Spires"

Bugfixes

Language, grammar, etc. edits.
A few minor crash fixes

Known Issues

Town NPCs and children are still bugged
"Secret" art style - more information below
Loading screen is in upper corner of fullscreen

Devlog

It's been a few weeks and I've been hard at work. I've been slightly more productive the past week, and managed to get a lot of conversations done, leaving just 12 regular conversations and 12 mini conversations left to finish in 2 weeks.

I admit this conversation went a little bigger than I intended, at 42 reachable contexts.

Perhaps I could have done a better job writing this week, but I was inspired to work on an experimental feature I had always been planning for the future. This way I can work on something a little more artistic as a rest phase when doing coding.

The ambitious goal for Rogues of Europa was to have various art styles to view the game, allowing the player to choose from a pared-back Rogue-like interface to more detailed and decorative spritesheets. I also planned isometric and 3D, though maybe not in any official channels.

An early test, when I finally got everything scaled correctly.

The picture shows the new "secret" rendering style, which is fully one-to-one interchangeable with the existing rendering style, merely from a new perspective. Admittedly it didn't look like much then, but I ported the wall rendering code to 3D, and I got this:

Very cool.

Right now the functionality is a bit lacking. The first thing you'll notice is the camera angles are choppy and only go at 45 degrees. I intended this as a feature to keep it more compatible with the existing game, because you can switch on the fly to whichever you prefer. Currently you can only move forward, but you move forward with the camera angle, which is a very natural maneuver. The controls are currently W to move forward, and move mouse to move camera angle.

The game is not workable with the experimental setting primarily because not everything is rendered. Things like buildings, stalactites, petrified trees, mushrooms, lakes, etc. are not rendered yet. Mobs are also not rendered, so interactions, shopping, and combat are all basically impossible.

Progress will be very piecemeal on this and it will be an experimental feature for a while, at least a couple of months. In terms of plans for the future, I still plan on writing the last 12 conversations and mini conversations before Easter, and pushing an update with those before working on 0.3 in earnest. Remember to email any questions, comments, and prayer requests you have to [email protected], or just leave them in the comments below.

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23 Feb 2026Developer post

0.2 Update & Devlog 90

Changes Added abbeys and their inhabitants Abbeys contain a church, cells, fields, and a kitchen. Monks, nuns, abbots, and abbesses work, pray, and sleep Added the fetch quest Added additional conversations for the "clear" quests Changed some verbiage in the HUD Bugfixes Fixed a

Changes

Added abbeys and their inhabitants
- Abbeys contain a church, cells, fields, and a kitchen.
- Monks, nuns, abbots, and abbesses work, pray, and sleep
Added the fetch quest
Added additional conversations for the "clear" quests
Changed some verbiage in the HUD

Bugfixes

Fixed a relatively rare crash caused by old code

This week, I wrapped up the "fetch" quest, and added a few conversations. More conversations will be on the way as I gradually flesh them out, probably at a rate of 4-6 complete conversations per week. But the main focus will still be on playable content, like quests.

The new quest book entry for fetch quests

Much like with the "recover" quest, "fetch" quests also have the "live" pointer to the location of the item, except unlike the "recover" quest, the "fetch" quest can span different levels of the cave, now called strata (singular stratum), being the only quest that does so. This makes it far more difficult since now you'll have to navigate up and down levels using the lairs.

Another unique feature is that you have to have a certain amount of money to finish the quest. As I write this, I realized I should have put that in the quest book and will do so in a future update. Basically this money is the payment to purchase the item from whoever has it. In theory you can spend it and earn it back later, but that's up to your sense of scrupulosity.

0.2.90 will be the last 0.2 update, and I realize I have been working on it for slightly over a year. I'll endeavor to get the completed 0.3 update out quicker. I think it will go a bit faster, since most of the mechanics are in place, I just need to do some fleshing out and some light mechanic building.

The plan for 0.3 (Vices and Virtues) is to increase the density of moral choices significantly. I know that I've promised a lot with choices mattering and such but now is the time where it will start actually mattering. If you do something wrong, evil will manifest in the world. Doing the wrong thing will be tempting, and doing the right thing may be difficult. The 0.3 update will be where a lot of the spirit of the game will come into play, even as 0.2 was the flesh and 0.4 will be the heart.

Remember to email any questions, comments, and prayer requests you have to [email protected], or just leave them in the comments below.

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26 Jan 2026Developer post

Devlog 88

I was in the field this week, but I was able to get some stuff done on the fetch quests, which I hope to finish soon. The heart of the fetch quest is the abbey, a new terrain feature. Abbeys appear in little alcoves in the caverns, and a maximum of one will generate per level, an

12 Jan 2026Developer post

Update 0.2.87a / Devlog 87

Update 0.2.87a Changes Added "recover" quests. Added "clear" quests. Added new panel artwork for different art styles. Added new display font "calligraphy". Font can now be changed on-the-fly in the pause/options menu. Added peddler NPC, who sells tinkering items. The peddler can

Update 0.2.87a

Changes

Added "recover" quests.
Added "clear" quests.
Added new panel artwork for different art styles.
Added new display font "calligraphy". Font can now be changed on-the-fly in the pause/options menu.
Added peddler NPC, who sells tinkering items. The peddler can show up in cave features, like petras, woods, lakes, cauldrons, and domes.
Changed the formula for how monsters spawn. Harder monsters will now spawn earlier, and monsters that are too easy will spawn in "superpacks" of 4-7.
Game now starts on current date, 1880. Added seasonal display.
Reworked tinker items slightly to do more damage over a greater area.
Reworked item drops and pickups.
Added loading screen.

Bugfixes

Fixed signpost generation, signposts are now guaranteed to generate in all locations they are supposed to generate.
Patched behavior where you could wait a short time and eat food quicker.
Fixed crash when using thrown weapons.
Fixed glitched cauldron rendering where the northwest corner of it would look like a lake.
Fixed crash involving NPC pathing.

Known Issues

New quests only have one dialogue type. More will be on the way!

Devlog

Unfortunately I was very ill last week with a fever, so I couldn't take advantage of the off-days I had to work on Rogues of Europa. However, once the fever broke last Monday I focused on getting what I needed ready for the update, and managed to push it out this week.

The main thing I did this week was finish up the "clear" quest. As usual, I had to rework a few systems to make things work.

If I had to build a blockade, I would definitely use a bunch of furniture and wood and stuff.

I liked how the blockades turned out. The only problem was soft-locking from where the barricade hole spawns. I am reasonably sure that it can't soft-lock, but please post evidence if you see something.

Anyway, the system I had to redesign was the item system. Previously, items were spawned and rendered relative to the grid, and now they're spawned and rendered relative to the tile. This isn't necessarily a problem, and I'm pretty sure I did a good job but there could be issues, so watch out for weird item behavior.Explosion!

The new item system allowed a much nicer way of making mines, and so I made them a bit more powerful. Part of the quest involves destroying the blockade with explosives, and I wanted a nice big boom. The area of effect now scales with the amount of explosives used, and a few things other things can increase the range too.

The quest book outlining the "clear" quest.

But that's about it for the week. Next week, a few more features will be added as I create the final oddjob quest: the "fetch" quest, which will mainly involve crossing between levels. The medium term will bring companions, companion quests, and penance quests as update 0.3 approaches! Remember to email any questions, comments, and prayer requests you have to [email protected], or just leave them in the comments below.

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29 Dec 2025Developer post

Devlog 86

Christmas greetings to everyone! I've had plenty of time to work on things these past weeks and I have made some good progress. An update will likely be ready this week, though with a few caveats. First things first, I finished up the recover quest, and ironed out (probably) all

Christmas greetings to everyone! I've had plenty of time to work on things these past weeks and I have made some good progress. An update will likely be ready this week, though with a few caveats.

First things first, I finished up the recover quest, and ironed out (probably) all of the kinks. I very slightly changed how the recover quests work and changed them from retrieving a sent package to retrieving a package that should have been received.

As always, locations relevant to the quest can be learned about through questioning or by looking at signposts and using your brain.

So far I only have one quest conversation lined up for this one but it should be functional. I will of course add another 11 in the future but I thought it best to just get out this minimum so that the quest can be stress tested a bit.

It took a whole bunch of work in the back end to get him to say one and three quarters miles.

In addition, there is now a slight variation on how conversations can be done. In many conversations it will be possible to lie, and the fact that you lied will be counted against you, metaphysically. This was one of the easiest things to program in, since instead of making checks that what you are saying is true, I didn't have to program any checks whatsoever for the dialogue. However, for the recover quest, it must be impossible to lie, because you have to produce the item to give to the quest giver. But I added that in with the recover quest.

There were some significant artwork changes this week. I felt inspired so I created a calligraphic styled font for use in the UI.

Very stylish.

I then decided to do something I had been intending to do for a while, and create a program to redraw all my illuminated panel artwork (everything from inventory items to UI screens) with the different tilesets I have. It didn't take all that long, thanks to python, and it was highly successful.

Relatively subtle but keeps everything nice and consistent.

Calligraphy goes very well with the Sprite tileset.

An important implication is that this opens the door a little bit wider to texture modding.

Since I was more or less done with the recover quest, I started developing a new quest called the "clear" quest. It involves monsters or people setting up a barricade somewhere in the caves. Your mission: find the barricade, defeat the monsters, and destroy the barricade!

In order for you to accomplish this, there of course must be a reliable way to procure explosives. That said, most towns don't take to kindly to storing and selling bulk explosives. So you'll have to venture out into the caves to find peddlers, who carry all sorts of interesting items in their pushcarts.

Don't mind if I do!

I will finish up the barricades and the rest of the generation in the next few days, and will push out that big update sometime next week, so keep an eye out! Remember to email any questions, comments, and prayer requests you have to [email protected], or just leave them in the comments below.

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