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As announced yesterday, I ran a few thousand simulations, and rebalanced some stats. But for once the monsters were rebalanced and the bosses nerfed. Each boss now drops an item specific for the playe…

Quite some time has gone by since I was able to spend some time in the castle. In the meantime I released another remake of a game: Caelorn - a remake of VGA Planets (https://caelorn.silverday.de). Ca…

The last few weeks were quite busy so I did not get to do much. I made some progress on the backstory, though not as much as I would have liked. Today I as told about some issues with logging, that I …

No I have not abandoned WCSOZ. The game has now reached a state where it is playable and as it looks numbers check out, yes no one has beaten it yet, but players tend to survive longer. Given this I a…

I've seen some criticism lately about how much AI is involved in developing Wizard's Castle: Shadows of Zot. It's fair criticism to raise, and you deserve a real answer rather than a defensive one. So…

Mobile UI fixes added movement and action buttons to the map tab in mobile UI Added a translation interface for users who want to help translate

Changed character creation from randomly rolled attributes to player distributed model with race and class mods tier 1 monsters give slightly more experience started to add descriptions to items (only…

Yesterdays balancing action went too far- Character bekame over powered too quickly. So we had to intervene. Again! Sorry! Character creation was changed again. We removed the random reroll, and gave …

Today we're making a significant change to how the game loads dungeon content and language data. The original design included an offline mode backed by internally bundled data files. While it worked, …

By now the game has reached a complexity, that makes it impossible for me to test everything. So I am looking for brave adventurers to help testing! Testers will receive 4 additional character slots a…