The Wizard's Lair (now at v2.08hotfixed Mythic Edition)

[getter77]

http://devlin.itch.io/wizardslair

Dare you challenge The Wizard's Lair? in this adventure, you find yourself facing against your greatest challenge yet - To enter the Wizard's Lair and slay the Wizard of Anarkhis! Face off against fearful creatures and dodge devastating traps as you descend into the depths!
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Use powerful spell scrolls, drink mysterious potions and find legendary weapons to aid you in your quest to defeat the Wizard!

Since going gold:

- lots of balance tweaks, bug and content fixes

- Weapons and armour are now automatically equipped if your equip slots are empty.

- Added two new floor types: The Zoo and the Displacement Zone. they will appear randomly in the later floors(after DLvl 10) along with the Snake Pit and Labyrinth.

- Added some more item drops to monsters. Kill stuff!

- Added 3 new armours and rebalanced existing armour. New armours are: Half-Plate Mail, Chain Hauberk and Officer’s Full Plate.

- Added 8 new weapons : Guardian Mace, Twinblade, Glaive, Obsidian Dagger, Flamberge, Golden Axe, Katar and Demonslayer.

- Added 5 new Monsters : Viper, Lich, Wraith, Spectral Skeleton and Twisted Displacer.

- Lots of minor tweaks, presentation changes and fixes for completeness.

- Increased turns required to regenerate health from 6 to 10 turns.

- Finalised a bunch of internal stuff, and a number of minor bug fixes.

- Finished the tileset for the “Ice” floors(DLvl21-25)

- Added Daniel and Dalton to the dungeon, making the optional Warmaster ending available.

- Completed the Sanctum scripting, it now behaves exactly as it should

- Completed the Scores page, added an option to clear scores in the Options Menu

- Fixed the tombstone page showing the floor you died on incorrectly.

- Added Mushroom(turns a random item in your inv into a mushroom), Healing(heals about the same as a minor healing potion) and Surround traps(surrounds you with monsters from that floor).

- Increased the Level Cap to 50.

- Significantly increased the damage of most monsters.

- Added a moves counter - this is work towards a feature linked to the game over screen too!

- Lots of balancing tweaks to enemies, mostly buffing enemies to make them less hopeless at higher levels.

- Improved the Game over screen a little. More to come on that front!

- Trap Reveal now reveals the Stairs as well, to make it more useful.

- Changed Minimap behaviour completely. To view the Minimap, go into the menu or Hold Tab!

- Balanced the lesser potions to be more effective in end-game situations.

- Added an option to show/hide the “Waiting…” message when skipping turns.

* Restructured the Dungeon Generator function completely - Generators for each type of floor can now be easily edited.

* Added Maze generation to the DLvl generator - DLvl 10 and 20 will be full-floor mazes!

* Added an EXP bar, Food meter and modified the layout of the HUD.

- Fixed a bug that makes joysticks work again in Linux.

- Made the dungeon deeper by 4 floors- Sanctum is now at DLvl 30 instead of DLvl 26.

[getter77]

v2.05

- Changed Endgame situation and Warmaster conditions to be more challenging, you fight [the boss] after killing the wizard instead of in place of him.

- Tweaked the Zoo to make it much more challenging.

- Tweaked the Wraith and Lich to be a little to be less punishing.

- Major Balance change: Armour is now effective by a percentage instead of a basic subtraction. Armours have been balanced and rebalanced. Defence caps out at 90%.

- Fixed a little hiccup where the score page doesn’t go back to the titlescreen when the A Button (JBtn0) on a controller is pressed.

Also,  Mac support has arrived.   

[getter77]

v2.06

- Rebalanced everything’s attack values to make it less near-impossible and more just plain “challenging”

- Added a minor change that makes it more noticeable that you hit the defence cap (value turns green when you hit maximum)

- Fixed a few minor glitches and removed some legacy code related to the controls.

- Added an additional effect to the [Old Quest Log]

- Updated the game’s code to use a display scaler in full-screen mode instead of fixed resolutions.

- Fixed an intermittent bug which caused poor performance on certain Windows systems.

[getter77]

v2.07  Major changes ahoy:

- FIXED a crash bug related to starvation

- FIXED the joystick bug causing poor performance properly this time.
- FIXED an ATI/AMD specific bug related to screenshot saving and “alpha halos” in gameplay screenshots.

- Drastically changed decoration system - allows for destruction of dungeon floors
- Added wall shading to the world to make it prettier and to give better contrast between wall and floor.
- Added option to toggle wall shadows.

- Made Zoo smaller to make it possible to complete, and made it less likely to appear in a game.
- Made Displacer Zone equally as likely to appear in a game as Zoo

- Revamped weapons and armour, added elemental damage and resistances.

- New scroll : [Big Bang] causes a big explosion damaging enemies and destroying walls.
- New scroll : [Rage of the Gods] deals holy damage to enemies.
- New scroll : [Blizzard] scroll deals ice damage to enemies.
- Changed scroll : [Blaze] is now called [Firestorm], and deals fire damage.
- Changed scroll : [Death] has been increased to two tiles range.
- Modified the Effect of [Chance] and [Old Quest Log] to trigger unique fixed effects if certain conditions are met.
- [Old Quest Log] now has additional clues.

- Explosion traps now damage enemies and destroy all walls adjacent to them.
- New Trap: Fire traps deal fire damage based on DLvl.
- New Trap: Ice traps deal ice damage based on DLvl.

- Tweaked Sanctum a little for balance.

- Rebalanced drops(again).

- Added the Lore Book, the first five enemies are visible(with basic info), beat the game to unlock the rest!

- Made Enter confirm name on character creation screen.

[getter77]

v2.08 Mythic Edition   Game goes donationware/free

http://devlin.itch.io/wizardslair

**Note: v208 is highly likely to be the FINAL version of The Wizard's Lair.
 
Update Log (Legendary Edition v207 - Mythical Edition v208)
 
- The game is now free! do enjoy, but please consider donating via devlin.itch.io/wizardslair if you downloaded it from Desura.
- Added smooth movement between tiles ingame and an option to enable/disable as desired.
- Adjusted the rate of movement to accomodate the smooth movement.
- Rebalanced a boss to not require the RNGods to praise you with perfect good luck.
- Rebalanced drops (*again*) to make the better items less common.
- Decreased number of items that drop on each floor to account for item rebalance
- Tweaked some of the script a little, reworded a few things to make better sense.
 
- FIXED kills from spell scrolls not triggering scripts (thanks Alex Sheppard for catching that!)
- FIXED some Lore Book glitches
- FIXED a bug where clearing the scores could clear your game progress and the "clear progress" option didn't work.
- FIXED a bug in maze generation where the game could crash.
- FIXED a bug in rare drop generation, where it would completely reset your stats because it tried to generate you as an item.

Garnered a nice little writeup on RPS too!  http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/10/08/freeware-garden-the-wizards-lair/

[getter77]

said v2.08hotfixes   

- Fixed a bug in my scaler library eating performance.
- Fixed the spawn locations of Daniel and Dalton so they’re not accidentally spawning out of bounds.
- Optimized the game’s thing drawing code, increased speed of engine by about 40% or so.