Caverns of Evil maybe reaching the end of its run. In the near future I will be contacting Valve and requesting this game, Caverns of Evil , be removed from Steam. With all the age verification laws being passed, laws the require application (including game) developers to poll operating system providers for age information, I can not afford the liability. I cannot afford such infrastructure, no…
Just an update to a newer engine versions that fixes a recently discovered security vulnerability, nothing exciting. (Well, particle effects in front of water no longer looks super glitchy since I now know what the render layers are for.)
This improves the variety of level themes seen, especially on shorter runs. Level 1 is still always an urban theme (high number of materials and also the most modern theme), and the second will still be anything but urban. Beyond that, simple random selection has been replaced with a shuffle, increasing the number of themes seen and insuring all themes will be seen be the time the option to bea…
Better desert and jungle themes Level 1 will always be urban, level 2 will never be urban (fully random afterward) The music for level 1 will never be played for level 2 (fully random afterward) Arrows no longer stay around after hitting walls, since they rarely stayed in the right place.
There are now achievements for beating the first level and making it through level 16, at which point you officially beat the game. Also tracks highest level completed as a state (though I have no idea how you see stats).
Some changes: · The final bosses actually spawn · The victory screen will not advance the level or do other normal intermission stuff · Difficulty in NG+ is now asymptotic, with 16=16 and infinity=32
Finally, I seem to have fixed the late game stutter problem, so it should be fully playable to the point of victory -- yeah, that's right, this game now actually has an official victory condition that involves reaching level 16, though you can still play as many as you like with levels after 16 being considered a kind of new game plus. The permadeath is still there, of course.
More bug fixes now, but the big change is in the ending ... there sort of is one now, contrary to the last versions trailer (though the same trailer teases this). This was always supposed to be a simple game -- something like a "Doom, casual edition" -- and at this point it seems its actually done. Time for new projects.
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