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This update implements significant fixes to character pathfinding and is expected to resolve multiple recurring collision issues or characters getting stuck. Also fix a text problemon mac. Contains a few additional minor fixes.
This update implements significant fixes to character pathfinding and is expected to resolve multiple recurring collision issues or characters getting stuck. Also fix a text problemon mac. Contains a few additional minor fixes.
Hello, Heads of Magic Schools. Today we’re deploying a fairly significant update, even if you might not notice major changes in the game itself. This update upgrades the Unity engine to a more recent version. We had been using an older version for quite some time, and for securit
Hello, Heads of Magic Schools. Today we’re deploying a fairly significant update, even if you might not notice major changes in the game itself. This update upgrades the Unity engine to a more recent version. We had been using an older version for quite some time, and for security reasons it was now necessary to update it.
You should also notice several minor improvements, particularly regarding the interface and performance. For some players, this engine update should provide better stability and improved in-game performance.
Thank you to all the players for your support. We know we’re progressing slowly on the Spellcaster expansion, but it will arrive. One day.
See you soon!
Hello everyone, Just a quick note to let you know that we’re part of a bundle with the newly released Wizdom Academy, now in Early Access! So if you're in the mood for twice the magical school goodness, this bundle is worth every gold coin!
Hello everyone,
Just a quick note to let you know that we’re part of a bundle with the newly released Wizdom Academy, now in Early Access! So if you're in the mood for twice the magical school goodness, this bundle is worth every gold coin!
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/51880/The_Magic_Campus/
Hello, headmasters and headmistresses of magic schools! :cutedragon: It’s been a long time! Sorry for the long silence. Here’s a small balance and bug-fix update (see the non-exhaustive list at the bottom of this post). This is also a technical update, paving the way for a major
Hello, headmasters and headmistresses of magic schools! :cutedragon:
It’s been a long time! Sorry for the long silence. Here’s a small balance and bug-fix update (see the non-exhaustive list at the bottom of this post). This is also a technical update, paving the way for a major expansion coming later this year. This expansion will allow us to deliver the final, definitive version of Spellcaster University.
This game has been a labor of love for us, but the time has come to move on to new video game projects. This expansion will let us wrap up the adventure properly.
A quick word as well for those who interacted with us throughout development: for the past two years, we’ve been very quiet. Various family reasons (and perhaps, paradoxically, a need to take a breather after the incredible reception Spellcaster University received—thank you again!) led us to gradually step back from communication, though not from development, which continued at a slower pace.
For a long time, we hesitated to create an expansion for Spellcaster University. We had plenty of ideas but feared overloading an already rich game. However, as time passed, we refined our vision and arrived at something we truly like. I’ll be sharing some visuals of what’s coming “soon.”
Balance:
Bug Fixes:
Hello everyone! Just a quick note to let you know that Spellcaster University is 50% off for Deckbuilder Fest! Get ready to build the greatest school of magic the world has ever known.
Hello everyone! Just a quick note to let you know that Spellcaster University is 50% off for Deckbuilder Fest!
Get ready to build the greatest school of magic the world has ever known.
Happy holidays to all school headmasters! We're continuing to prepare new products for you, slowly but surely, despite the ups and downs of life. A few hints of what's to come have crept into this image. ːsteamhappyː We wish you lots of happiness and magic! :cutedragon:
Happy holidays to all school headmasters!
We're continuing to prepare new products for you, slowly but surely, despite the ups and downs of life.
A few hints of what's to come have crept into this image. ːsteamhappyː
We wish you lots of happiness and magic! :cutedragon:
:cutedragon: :cutedragon: :cutedragon: Just a short message to announce the release of a new update for Spellcaster University. On the program, various optimizations and bug fixes, some visual improvements (especially for clouds), some comfort improvements (possibility to save yo
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Just a short message to announce the release of a new update for Spellcaster University. On the program, various optimizations and bug fixes, some visual improvements (especially for clouds), some comfort improvements (possibility to save your coats of arms/houses, summary panel of your school's teachers), and finally possibility for a fee to fire your teachers to get a new draw.
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It has now been roughly 1 year and 9 months since we came out of early access, and about 3 and a half years since Spellcaster University existed with its first appearance on Steam. That's... a long time. So, it's time for us to move on. We'll be announcing good news about the future of Spellcaster University soon, which we hope you'll enjoy. We'll tell you more soon!
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The teachers panel, with the possibility to fire them
Coat of arms save options
Hello all mages, witches and other demonists, :fatpegasus::fatpegasus::fatpegasus: Today we made available a major new content update. We talked about it in terms of free DLC, but concretely everything is added directly into the game, you don't have to do anything. To benefit fro
Hello all mages, witches and other demonists, :fatpegasus::fatpegasus::fatpegasus:
Today we made available a major new content update. We talked about it in terms of free DLC, but concretely everything is added directly into the game, you don't have to do anything.
To benefit from all the new features, it is better to start a new game. If you are in the middle of a campaign, most of the new features will only be available from the next level. The new features do not change the main mechanics, you may have to explore the decks to discover them.
The big new features are two new rooms with unique mechanics, fifteen new pieces of equipment and the cards that go with them. A new artifact and brand new futures as a bonus. I won't go into details, I'll let you discover. This is the biggest update since 1.0.
If you want to find out what's new, you'll find a changelog (absolutely not complete) in English in the game.
:cutedragon: We hope you will like it! :cutedragon:
Hello to all magic school directors! Just a quick announcement about the new free content we've been talking about for a while. We're in the final stages of completion, with the final translations still to be added. The good news is that we can announce a final release date. The
Hello to all magic school directors!
Just a quick announcement about the new free content we've been talking about for a while. We're in the final stages of completion, with the final translations still to be added. The good news is that we can announce a final release date. The bad news is that it's still a bit delayed. The update will be released between April 7 and 14.
We thank you for your patience. We're sorry, but the team is very bad at restricting what is reasonable to do, and we always have a little tidbit we want to add, a little improvement, etc...
In the meantime, here are a few more pictures of what's coming in April:
Halloween update Two days ago we released a special update that introduces a series of small seasonal events spread throughout the year. We've also made some fixes, optimizations, and added some graphical variety to the castle balconies. It's a small update while waiting for the
Two days ago we released a special update that introduces a series of small seasonal events spread throughout the year. We've also made some fixes, optimizations, and added some graphical variety to the castle balconies. It's a small update while waiting for the free DLC.
On the other hand, we are still working on this free DLC, which should be released in the near future, and this is the opportunity to show you some of the new features to come.
First of all, this free DLC will double the number of pieces of equipment available for your students. They bring new powers to maximize the performance of your students, and some will help you in the dungeon phases!
We are also preparing the arrival of two new rooms.
First of all, the much requested common room, which will be associated with one of your houses and will take its colors (image of the room under development):
And then, the stadium, the first room occupying four boxes. We'll keep you guessing about the sport that is practiced there, but I promise it doesn't involve flying brooms (image of the room under development).
And on top of all that, there will be new dungeon encounters, new futures, a new language (Korean), and always new fixes.
We've been a bit ambitious with this update, and it's taking a bit longer than expected. We're sorry about that, but we're putting all our heart into making sure you like it!
This is the 1.00! The whole team would like to thank all the players who participated in the Spellcaster University early access. The game has evolved a lot in almost two years thanks to you. But this is not the end of the road. We will continue to work on Spellcaster University:
This is the 1.00! The whole team would like to thank all the players who participated in the Spellcaster University early access. The game has evolved a lot in almost two years thanks to you. But this is not the end of the road. We will continue to work on Spellcaster University: in addition to the updates that will fix the inevitable bugs that will be reported to us, we will be releasing a free DLC in autumn that will focus on magic items and student equipment. And we have other ideas for the future. Thanks again to everyone!
New(major): Some events offer your students the opportunity to go on an expedition. Select your champions and guide them through the dungeons to collect loot. This brand new module includes spells, illustrations, specific events, and many other things.
New(major): New music, for days, nights and dungeons.
New: New variable objectives to renew your games.
New: Many new languages.
New: New events.
New: Display of the levels won on the global map.
New: Possibility to take back in hand the played artifacts.
New: The speed can now be controlled with the numeric keys.
New: Phoenix artifact boost dungeon expeditions.
New: Orc hound beat your students to motivate them.
New: New UI sounds.
New(major): Soundscapes for each region.
New: Barricaded doors for unused access to rooms (purely aesthetic).
New: Unique first names and surnames for each type of student.
New(major): Help book with a lot of information.
New: The stat book has been revamped, with more and more stats!
New: The general stat panel is accessible from the game.
New: New sounds for animations (like guinea pigs roaming the corridors).
New: New animations of injury and madness for students.
New: More equipment on the 2D portraits.
New: New 3D visual for graduating students. They no longer mysteriously disappear from your school.
Balance(major): Lots of adjustments on the effect of rooms, artifacts and equipment.
Balance: Some artifacts have a new effect that increases the efficiency of students in dungeons.
Balance: Some traits have a new effect that increases (or decrease !) the efficiency of students in dungeons.
Balance: The witch cat is now less effective (approximately 33% less effective).
Balance: Speed of advance of the evil adjusted to correspond to the modifications of the 1.0.
Balance: Resource quests are now more difficult.
Fix(major): Fixed a serious problem that made the game have a 1 in 5 million chance (precisely!) of crashing each time the random number generator was used.
Fix(major): Optimization of CPU consumption by reducing the number of operations performed in each cycle (such as unnecessary UI refresh).
Fix: Lots of various small fixes that we haven't seriously listed.
Fix: Pieces of equipment require at least one point in the magic involved to be equipped.
Fix: The Fir Ent card is now in the Nature deck rather than the base deck.
Fix: Changes in the advance of the forces of evil are now expressed as a percentage.
Fix: Organic rules now work as expected.
Fix: Full screen is not inverted anymore (it was a very stupid bug anyway...).
Fix: Forbidden characters on the different OS can no longer be used to name a school.
Fix: Improvement of the navmesh of the mountain level.
Fix: Easier (a bit) to place gazebo.
Fix: It is easier to select sleeping students (even if it is disrespectful to their sleep).
And a lot of other stuff that we didn't take the time to list in this changelog!
Just a little announcement to let you know that the release time is 07:00pm (Europe), 01:00pm (USA) and 01:00am (June 16) (Beijing). If you are interested in the game, wait for this time to buy it, there will be a 20% discount ːsteamhappyː.
Just a little announcement to let you know that the release time is 07:00pm (Europe), 01:00pm (USA) and 01:00am (June 16) (Beijing). If you are interested in the game, wait for this time to buy it, there will be a 20% discount ːsteamhappyː.
Hello everybody, We're getting very close to the end of Early Access, which will happen on June 15th. This is a major milestone for the whole team, and we wanted to give you an update on what it means for you, the players. :cutedragon: Version 1.0 offers a wide range of improveme
Hello everybody,
We're getting very close to the end of Early Access, which will happen on June 15th. This is a major milestone for the whole team, and we wanted to give you an update on what it means for you, the players.
To prepare for this release, we have put the game's soundtrack on sale. All the music composed for Spellcaster University is here, including all the new tracks made for the end of the early access. Feel free to check it out if you want to support us.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1657380/Spellcaster_University_Soundtrack/
Finally, some visuals of the new dungeon system. It's a kind of mini-game that will allow you to capitalize on your best students, and to differentiate the role of the different magics.
Thank you all! And a special thanks to all the magic school directors who have been with us since the beginning of the early access!
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Greetings to all magic school directors. Today we have a small announcement to let you know a few things about the immediate future of Spellcaster University. The first thing we wanted to tell you is that the pace of updates is going to decrease significantly, because unless ther
Greetings to all magic school directors. Today we have a small announcement to let you know a few things about the immediate future of Spellcaster University.
The first thing we wanted to tell you is that the pace of updates is going to decrease significantly, because unless there are major bugs, the next update will be 1.0 and the release of early access. When will this final release take place? It is not yet fixed, but expect something between 2 and 4 months. We will announce a definitive date soon.
What does this mean for you, dear magic school directors?
But what is it? What are these creatures? Well, let's say your students are going to have some extra work! But we'll talk about that later in detail.
An improvement of the world map under development.
Finally, we would like to make it clear that the 1.0 release does not mean the end of Spellcaster University's development. We still have quite a few community-suggested improvements that we would like to add. Even though we won't be able to do "everything"! Thanks to all of you!
A smaller update, but one that will still allow you to improve your teachers and offers you some new features of UI. But in the meantime, in the shadows, we are working towards the advent of 1.0... Thank you again for your support. We're approaching the end of early access, and t
A smaller update, but one that will still allow you to improve your teachers and offers you some new features of UI. But in the meantime, in the shadows, we are working towards the advent of 1.0...
Thank you again for your support. We're approaching the end of early access, and the game has come a long way in a year and a half, thanks to your feedback !
A new update with new content and gameplay additions ! We also integrate the Steam cloud. We've always tried to ensure backward compatibility of savegames, but adding the Steam Cloud can eventually lead to some problems. We have tried to anticipate all possible scenarios, but if
A new update with new content and gameplay additions ! We also integrate the Steam cloud. We've always tried to ensure backward compatibility of savegames, but adding the Steam Cloud can eventually lead to some problems. We have tried to anticipate all possible scenarios, but if this update should cause you to lose access to your savegames, do not hesitate to report it here https://github.com/JulienNigon/SpellcasterUniversity-Bug-Report/issues. We will do our best to help you recover them.
:fatpegasus: New: 8 new musics
:fatpegasus: New: 25 new futures: 5 per magical people (deep-ones, elves, vampires, werewolves and half-orcs)
:fatpegasus: New: 7 new traits for teachers (former adventurer, love his job, learned...)
:fatpegasus: New: Steam Cloud for saved games
:fatpegasus: New: Levels of reputations with the factions granting you various bonuses and maluses.
:fatpegasus: New: Manywings artifact, a weird creature very useful for alchemy.
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* Balance: event of the visit to the peasants rebalanced.
* Balance: "Skull" artifact is half as effective now.
* Balance: conditions to obtain a ghoul modified (because similar to the marionetist).
* Balance: the acceleration factor of the evil beyond the normal time of a gameis increased from 280% to 380%. This means that if your game lasted twice as long as the "normal" time, the evil is moving at 380% of its normal speed.
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* Fix: the "Demanding" trait now works correctly.
* Fix: the curves in the statistics book no longer go completely out of whack when a save is resumed.
* Fix: it is no longer possible to accumulate several pieces of equipment on the same location (e.g. several staffs, several medallions, etc...)
* Fix: when loading a save the students appear directly with their equipment.
* Fix: the thaumaturges do not make any more mana with each recruitment of a new student.
* Fix: the belvedere can be placed in mirror.
* Fix: typos and ressources logo not showing when needed.
A new alternative way to win for the last level, giving you more options. It is essentially based on being a generalist in your mana production, and on having a bit of luck. We will pay attention to your feedback to balance it in the next patches. We also added a whole set of sta
A new alternative way to win for the last level, giving you more options. It is essentially based on being a generalist in your mana production, and on having a bit of luck. We will pay attention to your feedback to balance it in the next patches.
We also added a whole set of statistics and logos for futures. We hope you'll like it!
And here's another fix! Several crashes have been fixed. All the saves should be backwards compatible, so don't hesitate to open again your saved games that were possibly unstable. This is especially true if you had a crystal ball in your magic school: it was quite buggy... Thank
And here's another fix! Several crashes have been fixed. All the saves should be backwards compatible, so don't hesitate to open again your saved games that were possibly unstable. This is especially true if you had a crystal ball in your magic school: it was quite buggy...
Thanks for your support, we'll see you soon for the next content update!
We have just deployed a patch that should considerably improve the management of saved games for MacOS users. Options and challenges should also be saved correctly from now on. Sorry for these bugs and a big thank you for your patience. :cutedragon:
We have just deployed a patch that should considerably improve the management of saved games for MacOS users. Options and challenges should also be saved correctly from now on.
Sorry for these bugs and a big thank you for your patience. :cutedragon:
It took a while. It was the first stage of the roadmap and we are still a bit late, but here is a new content update! It focuses on new non-human students and the items that go with it. Don't be surprised if you don't come across them directly in your new games, they are rare unt
It took a while. It was the first stage of the roadmap and we are still a bit late, but here is a new content update! It focuses on new non-human students and the items that go with it. Don't be surprised if you don't come across them directly in your new games, they are rare until you have the artifacts that attract them.
New artifacts are not detailed in this changelog, we let you discover them by yourself...
New: Students could now be Elf.
New: Students could now be Half-orc.
New: Students could now be Deep-one.
New: 9 new artefacts (often related to new students types).
New: 3 new objects to wear for your students.
New: 3 new recruitment cards (elf, half-orc, deep-one).
New: tooltips with information on the potential regions in which the university could be established.
New: MacOS 64 bit support.
Balance: natural dissipation rate of aberrations halved.
Fix: werewolf hair are now correctly colored.
Fix: choirboy, undertaker and knight assistant are correctly labelled as instantaneous.
Fix: global performance improvement on interface elements
Fix: it is now possible to manually save in all levels, including the forest or the lake.
Fix: the shadow-weaving spider works (at last) correctly.
Fix: Inquisitor future no more affected by elementalism.
Fix: Exorcist future has been purified and will not cause any more crashes.
Meta: collectable steam cards now available.
Thanks for your support <3