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Rats, Bats, & Bones is a challenging tower defense game in which you play the role of a renowned engineer who must use wits and guile to defeat hordes of undead. Place traps including spikes, spears, cannons, bombs, and turrets, in the walls and floors. Be creative with barricades in order to shape the path of your enemies. Carefully select abilities as you battle your way through a story containing 30 hand-crafted levels. As you beat the invaders back, you will be rewarded with silver which can be used to unlock new traps, trap upgrades, and special player bonuses.

Features

Play 30 hand-crafted levels with multiple difficulties
Earn silver to unlock new abilities as you play through the story
Deploy 20 clever traps in your own creative way
Each trap has its own unique upgrade to unlock
Choose between 14 powerful player bonuses
Battle against over 20 unique enemies
See how far you can last in "endless" mode
Killer synthwave soundtrack

Soundtrack released!

Hi everybody, the Soundtrack DLC for Rats, Bats, & Bones has now been released and is available for free! Please enjoy and have a happy and safe Halloween!

-Mark

[ 2019-10-31 19:34:07 CET ] [Original Post]

1.0.0 Official Release

Happy Halloween! Rats, Bats, and Bones is now out of Early Access with this version 1.0.0 release!

Thank you so much to everyone who has supported the game during Early Access and especially to those who gave feedback and helped spread the word. You all rock!

Version 1.0.0 release notes:

Rats, Bats, and Bones is out of Early Access!
Act III is here with 15 new levels and blistering new level art!
Several new scary monsters!
4 New traps:
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Blunderbuss - A gun that fires a wide spread of bullets.
Scythe - A sharp blade that constantly sweeps back and forth.
Feedback Field - Prevents enemy magic spells by zapping them with holy energy.
Frost Trap - Shoots frost to slows enemies. Upgrade it to freeze those with armor.

8 new special unlockables that give *permanent* bonuses!

3 new songs for Act III!

All previous music has been remastered.

Fixes and Changes:

Improved performance when there are lots of monsters on the screen.
Player can now prepare a total of 10 traps (was 9).
Lots and lots of balance tweaks.
Most level layouts have been modified.
Most levels now have more enemies but you are given more scrap.
Later levels in Act 2 are not so punishingly difficult.
Workshop screen now has 4 pages for unlockables, separated by type.
Added nice shaded edges for levels.
Dart trap changed to only fire if it sees a monster. It will slowly recharge over time.
Burning enemies cannot regenerate.
Added screen shake effect when crystal is damaged.
Added a few subtle UI special effects.
Revenant is now brown for better clarity.
Sound effects are now handled so not too many will be played all at once.
Added more Steam achievements.
Fixed bug where prepared traps list could save out of order.
Fixed bug where Lanterns ghost blocking upgrade was not working properly.
Fixed trap reset animations sometimes getting out of sync.
Fixed various bugs caused by reanimated skeletons.
Fixed bug where selected trap panel not properly resetting.
Fixed bug where unaffordable traps could still be selected by number keys.
Fixed bug where monster kills might not record for older profiles.
Fixed bug where warlocks tried to heal dead bodies.
Fixed rare bug where some monsters would not give scrap on death.
Weather particle effects no longer display outside of the level.
...and lots more!

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[ 2019-10-28 20:48:48 CET ] [Original Post]

Update 0.9.7

0.9.7 March 23 Update!

The main feature for this update is Endless Mode. Test yourself against each map's Endless difficulty, earning silver the farther you get! I also added Steam Leaderboard support for Endless, although there are no in-game leaderboards just yet.

In addition, this update includes balance tweaks and bug fixes. Also, all monster waves have been changed and slightly rebalanced.

Added Endless mode.
Endless mode wave reached uploaded to Steam Leaderboards.
Reduced scrap cost of many trap upgrades.
Added some missing sound effects.
Push Trap squish check now more accurate.
New profiles now start with 2 respec points (was 1).
Bonus tooltip no longer covers Bonus slots.
Increased Arrow Trap cooldown.
Reduced the effectiveness of Tar and Incense slightly.
Reduced the Priest bonus radius modifier to 33% (was 50%).
Fling Trap throw distances are now more consistent.
Fling Trap now has increased cooldown when throwing heavier monsters.
Flame Trap now has reduced damage, especially against large groups.
Reduced effectiveness of fire: monsters now burn slower and extra fire takes more to stack.
Selling traps now asks for confirmation.
Pause menu now shows monsters appearing.
Added a custom mouse cursor.
Various improvements to performance.
Fixed bug where monsters could get stuck off the map.
Fixed bug where you couldn't build barricades over dead bodies.

[ 2019-03-23 17:54:01 CET ] [Original Post]

Released!

Hi everyone and thank you for your interest in Rats, Bats, and Bones! I hope you have fun with the game! A few quick items:

This is the Early Access release so there may be some bugs here and there. Please let me know if you find any and I'll do my best to fix them as soon as possible.
There is some content that is missing from this release. The "story" is currently incomplete, and "Endless mode" is also currently disabled. They will be added/enabled in future updates.
Please feel welcome to express any ideas or feedback of any kind, good or bad, either here or by email at mark [at] ratsbatsandbones [dot] com.

Cheers!
Mark

[ 2018-12-19 22:21:27 CET ] [Original Post]