- fix for travel bug

[ 2023-03-30 13:22:55 CET ] [ Original post ]

Once again, thanks to players who've let us know about bugs in our Discord following the 0.4 release - LOTS of minor issues have been fixed with your help! Originally Feartress was released as a 0.1 alpha on the web, with just one 8x8 map to be played. Players could replay and explore different strategies to improve their completion time.
We evolved the game to include 13 worlds with progressively stronger enemies, and carrying items through to new worlds is a big help in defeating them. Recently we added your total world completion time to the map screen.
But what if you want to see how good you are at clearing each world without relying on your carefully curated loadout? Well, now you can test yourself in our latest update!

Time Trial

This new mode is available for any world you've already completed. Select it via the main menu:
You start the world from scratch with no items, but what's that?! A bunch of chests with useful gear waiting to be opened!
The chests contain a mix of equippable items (including a legendary!) and consumables - use them wisely to defeat the corner tiles as quickly as possible. Some additional help includes:

• Access to all books
• x3 item sell value
• x10 gold from combat
• +2 enemy loot rating

We look forward to hearing what you think about the new mode!

Additional keyboard shortcuts

We're happy with the shortcuts we added to the game, but the more we tried using them, the more we wanted to add - so we did! For example, you can upgrade and perform building actions from the build menu, all with the keyboard.
Other new shortcuts exist, such as for selecting dialogue and attacking, feel free to try them out yourself!

Updated main menu

The main menu has undergone a minor refresh, eagle eyed/eared players may be able to spot the differences.

What's next?

For now, we will continue to listen to feedback on Discord and fix any bugs that crop up. The two of us are hoping the game can gain more traction before we devote significant time to figuring out what direction to take the game (in terms of new maps and story). We'd also like to add translations at some point, as our web version had a lot of Japanese and Chinese players. Thanks for reading to end, hope you enjoy the update! - cooljingle

[ 2023-03-29 23:21:11 CET ] [ Original post ]

• Added a completion time summary to the map.
  
• Added a credits section to the title screen
• Bug fixes

[ 2023-03-16 12:37:57 CET ] [ Original post ]

With the release of 0.4.0 having been around a few days, we've been hard at work fixing small issues - thanks to those who reported any problems to us on our Discord. We have been reviewing feedback on the game. Of course, we care a lot about negative reviews and one sticking point a lot of players have had is about the speed of the game: "If build times were cut down like, 75%, it might be a bit more fun." "An idle game with extremely long timers" "right now the game is too slow even for me, a long time idler game lover." "The game progression is to slow." One way we tried to address the long waiting times was to add an active way to build up some basic resources with the introduction of Chop for Wood / Mine for Stone actions on the sawmill/quarry in 0.4:
These gain 1 resource per second per building, per click, and are upgradeable in the shop. Having said that, whether it be experiencing a grueling attritional fight or looking to build up some demons via the blood portal, there's still a lot of potential for waiting around for stuff to finish. So... we decided to implement a new feature which is now available in today's update, 0.4.1!

Speed Up Buttons

Now you can speed up your game up to 5x, so less real-time waiting around.

Faster Loading Times

It was reported to us that the release of 0.4 had the unfortunate side effect of making the game take a while to load. It's largely due to processing all the audio so we've moved that away from the loading screen and hey presto loading is fast again! For me it's so fast I can barely see the cool new loading screen animations :(

Keyboard Shortcut Hints

With the release of 0.4 we added some useful keyboard shortcuts. I personally use them quite a lot but as they are not so obvious to new players we've added some hints. For example, Pressing t or r with a number will train / retire a unit:
Pressing space will continue dialogue:
Pressing a number with an empty tile selected will build a building:

What else?

Good question! For now, we will continue to make small-ish improvements and listen to your feedback. Bigger changes may need to wait until we can build further traction on the game, we understand players are hungry for more but we are a small 2 man team so it's not easy to do major updates at a frequent rate. If you previously left a negative review and we've done enough to reverse your opinion then I humbly ask that you change it! With low review scores it is a big challenge for us to attract new players and grow the game into something bigger. Conversely, if you've enjoyed playing the game then a positive review will be a big help! Any feedback can be left with us on our Discord and we'll respond. - cooljingle

[ 2023-03-15 12:36:12 CET ] [ Original post ]

• Fixed a bug that caused the book of divinity/kittens to be missing from the shop

[ 2023-03-14 05:56:35 CET ] [ Original post ]

• Added a neat train unit effect
  
• Added an Export Diagnostics option to the window menu - the idea being it should help with troubleshooting any loading issues (diagnostics can be shared with us on Discord)

[ 2023-03-13 21:30:55 CET ] [ Original post ]

• fix intro being skipped for new players
• improve title screen performance

[ 2023-03-12 17:04:01 CET ] [ Original post ]

Firstly, apologies for the huge gap between updates. Most of the changes upon initial release were bug fixes, and once these were complete our progress on new features was slow due to us being a small two-man team with other work commitments to attend to. With that being said... We have some major improvements to announce with Feartress v0.4, out now! These include:

• Improved title screen/loading pages
• MUCH improved tutorial to help new players get started, with task checklist and extra guidance from LNK
• Extra building actions to make the gameplay more active - can manually chop for wood / mine for stone
• New shop items
• Additional dialogue
• Improvements to combat UI including Win Chance timeline visualization
• An additional 35 achievements - more than doubling the original amount!

Oh and one more thing... game music and SFX! I've created an album of 25 songs totaling an hour of in-game music, along with sound effects for buildings and actions. We were so excited about this announcement that we even made a trailer for it! [previewyoutube=VPoJzCmGX54;full][/previewyoutube] A lot of effort was put into getting the release ready, hope you guys enjoy the improvements. We'll continue to try to make the game better beyond this upcoming release - if you have any suggestions or feedback you can join our discord server and let us know!

[ 2023-03-12 09:05:51 CET ] [ Original post ]

* fixed stuck dialogue * fixed Invitation To Court consumable

[ 2022-07-11 15:21:16 CET ] [ Original post ]

Replaced auto load from Steam Cloud with a dialog prompting to confirm Screenshot:

[ 2022-07-08 21:03:21 CET ] [ Original post ]

* fix for cloud saves not working * fixes for various tutorial progress issues * prevent moving building onto tile with chest

[ 2022-07-07 19:03:34 CET ] [ Original post ]

* added skip tutorial button to prologue screen * fixed layout achievements

[ 2022-07-03 18:04:57 CET ] [ Original post ]

* fix for intermittent launch failures

[ 2022-07-02 11:29:05 CET ] [ Original post ]

* fix sacrifical altar consumption calculation * fix time based achievements not triggering * show discovered potions in recipe book * fix stealth potion recipe

[ 2022-07-01 10:26:23 CET ] [ Original post ]

* fixed game hanging after restart on certain platforms * fixed flying attack effectiveness * fixed shop page next button not advancing tutorial * fixed error on first of grid size achievement

[ 2022-06-30 20:39:14 CET ] [ Original post ]