Windows 10 Compatibility Patch (or, Microsoft Broke OpenGL)
Hello All, The main build has been switched to Direct 3D forced compatibility mode, as the latest version of Windows 10 (1903) does not seem to be compatible with the OpenGL version used in the game engine. For anyone wishing to still use OpenGL on older version, it is still available. If you go to the game in the Library and bring up the Properties window for it, then go to the Beta section th…
Hello All, Happy Halloween from Parody Games! ːsteamhappyː As you may have seen the game is on sale through tomorrow. But, if you are reading this then odds are you probably already have a copy. In other news, there is an upcoming Live Stream of It's A Wipe on Veterans Day (11/11/2018) over at the hobbitbilboman's Twitch channel. Full details can be found here . There's a lot of retro gaming st…
Hell All, I hope that everyone is having a great start to their Summer and getting some good deals on games! In response to a request for additional Player Made Raid functionality there is a small update to It's A Wipe! (Version 1.9.9.4S)! What's new in this version: ---------------- * Moar Monster Commands * - A large number of new versions of monster commands have been added to the list of ex…
Hello All, I just wanted to post a little update, mainly to note that I am still alive and slowly plugging away at a new game (working title Heroes of Kingspoint). I've been doing a weekly blog about it over here and just started doing a series of posts about the planned classes for the game. No real It's A Wipe! news, except that a direct sequel is still pending this other game getting done. H…
Well, it's been a little over three months since the Third Anniversary announcement of a player made raid competition. Even though there were a few inquiries into how to get features working, only one person actually submitted an entry to the Workshop by the deadline of today. A little sad that there were not more entries. But, at least it was proven that it actually works. So congratulations t…
Hello All, A new player made raid, Fire Lands , is now available. The raid is intended for well geared parties only. On a related note, a few small corrections for player made content have been uploaded in a patch. Here's what is fixed in 1.9.93: ---------------- - Added the ability to play different songs in the different fights. The directions in the guide have been updated. - Fixed some spac…
Happy New Year! After a complaint that the game was not very playable using 4K monitors, I added an additional screen setting for 3840x2160. The engine the game was made on, while not strictly predating 4K monitors, was not really made with them in mind - as they were only an extremely high end luxury items at that time. So, apparently full screen does not work too well with them. I also added…
Updates??? Updates!?!? That's right! To celebrate three years of It's A Wipe! being on Steam I put together a new Player Made Raid for the occasion! This raid is intended for guilds that have beaten the game and are solidly geared. Anyone that farmed a ton might find it a little on the easy side, but new guilds will wipe pretty quickly. Why a Player Made Raid, instead of a new core raid that dr…
It has been almost a year since I posted any announcements on here, so this is probably well overdue! First off, Happy Thanksgiving! (At least to anyone celebrating it in the U.S.) Second thing, I'm still alive and working on the new game I mentioned last annoucement. If anyone has been keeping track of the blog I mentioned ( ) then you probably already have a decent idea of how it is progressi…
It's A Wipe! has been on Steam for 2 years! Thanks to everyone that has picked up this game! I hope that you have enjoyed it! I also have a pair of announcements to go along with this theme of twos. First off, Olly, who did the music, sound, and a lot of menu work on It's A Wipe! has his own game coming out on Steam! It is a very challenging platformer titled 'Happy Birthday, Bernard'. You can…
Hello All, Sorry for the long time between announcements, but for those not reading the forums there was a little discussion about when will something new be coming out for It's A Wipe!?! The answer is eventually. I am interested in getting back to doing some more video work, but it is going to take some time to come out with something new with real substance to it. To that end, I would be inte…
Happy Memorial Day! Been playing It's A Wipe! again recently and found a couple minor things that could use fixing :) Here's what is fixed in 1.9.9: ---------------- * What Time Is It? * - Fixed an issue with the save game date index. Apparently the engine was using some odd time calculation based off the run time since last startup. Changed it to actually be the system time. * Get Back In Line…
Hello All, A few bug fixes have been applied, so I thought that I would roll it up into a nice set of patch notes for anyone that doesn't read the forums :) Also, one updated button graphic! Here is what is new in 1.9.8 1/2: ---------------- * Unintended Iron Man * - Fixed (hopefully!) an issue where the new save file index, added in the last patch, was not building correctly for new installs c…
Hello All, A few improvements to the game, mainly relating to save game sorting and the demo for player made raids. Here's the full list of what is new in 1.9.8: ---------------- * Saving Time * - Save games will now log the date and time that they are saved into a separate index. The newest saves will now be displayed at the top of the list when loading a new game. The first time the game load…
Hello All, After a LOT of play testing over the New Year holiday we have made a few small corrections to issues that we found. There's also a couple minor tweaks for clarity and ease of use, mainly focused around the Log window. Here's what's new in 1.97: ---------------- * Logs, Down & to the Right * - Adjusted the size and position of the log window, and the button that opens it. The log butt…
If you've been following the forum discussion you may have seen that, in response to some requests for more options to play with no morale, we're adding a new game mode! In playtesting, we also came across a few minor things that should be addressed in this patch. Here's the full list of changes: ---------------- * BOTS - Now Hard * - A new HBOTS (Heroic/Hard Bots) has been added. Morale is dis…
Hello All, Posting this up a little earlier than the actual anniversary, but we wanted to get some of the big changes we've been working on out to everyone. The biggest item is that this patch introduces a way to make player created raid content and upload it to a Steam Workshop. It's a little rough around the edges, but we hope to refine it time goes on and we get feedback from users. There is…
Hello All, One big change that should hopefully fix an issue some people have had with the game not loading properly. Apparently the engine would crash out with some graphics cards when doing a check to see if it was Direct 3D compatible. In this build, it now only checks for D3D compatibility if OpenGL fails or Force Direct 3D has been set. Other than that, a minor fix for viewing character ar…
Hello All! Sorry for the long time between updates, but I've been distracted with other people's nice games and starting work on a more serious take on a fantasy guild management game. No ETA on when that will be done (It's A Wipe! took two years to make), but I decided to take a little break and do some work on I.A.W! Here is what's new in 1.9.3: -----------------------------------------------…
Hello All, For anyone that enjoys the music from It's A Wipe! the artist has put it up here. There's some bonus early editions of tracks that didn't end up being used in the released game. We hope that you'll check it out and enjoy!
Hello All, Most of these fixes were stealth patched over the past couple of months, but finally calling it a new build :) Here is what is new in build 1.9.2: ------------ *Sound Off/Sound On* - Fixed an issue where the sound would sometimes not be re-enabled after the game was paused by alt-tabbing when tabbing back. *No More Multiple Personalities* - Fixed an issue where creating your characte…
Hello All, A few small clean ups to the renaming functionality added in the last patch. Calling this one 1.9.1 since it's so small. What's new in this version: *Name Space* - Added in restrictions to the length of the name fields to match the typical player/character name lengths. *Who IS That?* - Added a class display under the names, and tool tips on the selections that display some basic inf…
Hello All, A couple of requested enhancements making their way out for the public! Here's what is new in version 1.9: ------------ *The Name Game* - You may not rename characters (and players) when starting a new game. There is also a Rename Scroll available for purchase that will let you perform a rename for all characters on a game in progress. (Except your character for some technical reason…
Hello All, A few changes (hopefully improvements) to the game based on feedback. There are still a couple of larger updates that I want to do, and some of these changes are part of that... but, I also wanted to post an update before too long :) Here is what is new in version 1.86: *Less Stupid Bards* - Bards will now cast more appropriate songs to the situation... sometimes. Generally you will…
Hello All, Doing a small patch to address one issue, with a couple small tweaks thrown in! Not exactly a lot of changes, so we're calling this one Version 1.8 1/2 (1.85). Here's what's new: *Longer Sessions Should Stay Running* - After a lot of testing, finally found an issue where the game would often crash when it tried to clean the log of game activities - which was when it hit around 10,000…
Hello All! We have posted up a small patch with one big enhancements, and a couple minor tweaks. Here are the details: *Raid Reset Options* - When starting a game you can now choose to have raids reset on a daily or weekly basis. If you wipe with the Weekly Reset option, it will start from the fight you lost on when attempting the raid again - until the week ends. We originally didn't add this…
Hello All! With most of the bugs reported addressed, we have started looking at adding some more quality of life improvements. We plan on doing further semiregular updates over the next couple of months to try to knock out some of the enhancements that we can do without needing lots of new art or major reworks... Then, we'll take a look at what we can do for those :) The next patch will focus o…
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