{"id":805,"date":"2013-11-15T16:29:44","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T16:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.qcfdesign.com\/?p=805"},"modified":"2013-11-15T16:29:44","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T16:29:44","slug":"safe-and-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.qcfdesign.com\/?p=805","title":{"rendered":"Safe and Sound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 15px;\" alt=\"blogPost_ver1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.desktopdungeons.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/blogPost_ver1.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" \/>So, we&#8217;ve made it to the other side! The game is out and this is our first non-beta patch for the web player community.<\/p>\n<p>Weekly updates aren&#8217;t strictly part of our brief anymore, but there&#8217;s still more for us to put into the online build and the Steam community has been very helpful in providing loads of early-game feedback (don&#8217;t forget to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/226620\">grab the game on Steam<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.desktopdungeons.net\/retrieve-steam-key\">redeem your key<\/a>\u00a0if you haven&#8217;t done so already).<\/p>\n<p>What may interest most of you is the addition of streamed audio from the powerhouse duo of Danny Baranowsky and Grant Kirkhope, giving Desktop Dungeons a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dbsoundworks.bandcamp.com\/album\/desktop-dungeons-original-soundtrack\">fully orchestral soundtrack<\/a>\u00a0to finish the experience with a little bit of aural magic.<\/p>\n<p>The soundtrack is too big to load up all in one go (and we&#8217;re sensitive to people connecting wirelessly from the Antarctic or whatever), so we&#8217;re experimenting with loading up individual tracks on the fly &#8212; if there&#8217;s a delay in hearing any sound, it&#8217;ll be due to stuff caching in the background. Let us know if there&#8217;s any issues, and enjoy the music!<\/p>\n<p><em>This week&#8217;s changelog is rather big, due to it being the culmination of several panicked, semi-panicked and almost-entirely-unpanicked build updates made over the course of the week. Have a look through:<!--more--><img title=\"More...\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.desktopdungeons.net\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fixes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Added some protection around elf\/dwarf building creation.<\/li>\n<li>Changed layout and keyboard support for combat to encourage more analysis<\/li>\n<li>Added more file write access protection.<\/li>\n<li>Added protection from quitting mid-save.<\/li>\n<li>Added option to create desktopdungeons.net account when steam connection fails.<\/li>\n<li>Added more music scripting to various Challenge dungeons.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed some crashes relating to illegal directory\/filenames.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed various file access crashes while saving\/loading.<\/li>\n<li>Changed save overwrite from delete-&gt;write to write-&gt;rename-&gt;backup<\/li>\n<li>Added music to web build<\/li>\n<li>Game now remembers zoom\/fullscreen settings.<\/li>\n<li>Attempting to force steam connection for users still experiencing problems. (May take up to 10 seconds to connect)<\/li>\n<li>Patched some gaps in map music (new tracks for Cursed Oasis, Shifting Passages and Demonic Library phase 2)<\/li>\n<li>Using knockback on enemies correctly triggers any berserking effects<\/li>\n<li>Unlock condition for Guild of Exploration relaxed slightly<\/li>\n<li>Fixed some minor issues with Triple Quest scripting, added extra music cues<\/li>\n<li>Added stat logging for Steam connection issues.<\/li>\n<li>Added stat logging for File I\/O issues.<\/li>\n<li>Added a dialogue for retrying when a file write fails.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a bug that could cause a crash with very old (beta) save games.<\/li>\n<li>Added Exit Game button to the menu.<\/li>\n<li>Moved settings into a sub-menu.<\/li>\n<li>Gate Scroll adds 5 hp, cannot be converted<\/li>\n<li>Extra powerup tutorial message added to startup dungeons<\/li>\n<li>Special notification animation added to Gate Scroll shop and first few god subdungeons<\/li>\n<li>Waste Not, Want Not no longer applies to puzzles<\/li>\n<li>Fixed easy higher level killer achievement.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed crash with saves from the cloud that have no advisor tasks.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a typo on the splash screen.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed burn pop not being in right place on small dungeons.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed Apostate and Polytheist achievements not working, also fixed god boon stat logging as a result.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed problem with music stopping after returning window focus<\/li>\n<li>Piety indicators no longer show +X when dropping below zero.<\/li>\n<li>Irresistable achievement no longer possible in puzzles<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a bug that was causing some clients to not &#8216;see&#8217; steam.<\/li>\n<li>Added message boxes to notify about cloud sync failures.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, we&#8217;ve made it to the other side! The game is out and this is our first non-beta patch for the web player community. Weekly updates aren&#8217;t strictly part of our brief anymore, but there&#8217;s still more for us to put into the online build and the Steam community has been very helpful in providing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[19,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.qcfdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.qcfdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.qcfdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.qcfdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.qcfdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.qcfdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.qcfdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.qcfdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.qcfdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}