Quest Reminder Window Changes

I’ve changed up quest text and the position of the quest reminder window to be easier to read.  Noobs never read the old one, so hopefully this one will be more useful to them for learning.  It’s way more noticeable, and the bullet-point outlining should be much more skimable.  Note that quest text won’t change to the new format until you turn in and get new quests.

new quest reminder window

Also:

  • Any change to inventory will reset inventory scroll (prevents getting stuck when scrolled down and sell items)
  • Leveling window moved to left
  • Menu > quests now toggles reminder window
  • Leveling window no longer moves in relation to quest window
  • You can still hide the quest reminder window the old fashioned way (SHIFT + U)

Leveling System Added

Big update today!  Based on player feedback and suggestions, I’ve added a new leveling system to the game.  You’ll notice an Exp Bar displayed next to your active item now:

7.5.13 level meter

You can gain experience points by:

  • Slay Lawyercats, Hipsters, and Slugs
  • Fight enemies in PvP arenas
  • Complete quests

Once you do, you will unlock items in the shop for each level:

7.5.13 level shop lockedv7.5.13 level shop unlocked

New items and shop categories with new items are highlighted in green to make them easy to find.

Some other misc changes:

  • Fixed bug where goldcap didn’t reset if you were offline when the timer reset
  • Admin command /potato to remotely turn people into potatoes 😛

Let me know how you like the new system!

PS, thanks to Trololo for the trap category bug report – is now fixed.

Thank You Giveaway

As a thank you to both new and old players, I want to do a little giveaway:

To get your thank you gift, e-mail me at PR+THANKYOU@ArchiveEntertainment.com

  • For verification of FB/Twitter like, please include  FB/Twitter name.
  • For verification of Greenlight Yes vote, please include or link to a screenshot of the yes button pressed.  (Don’t know how to screenshot? Check out this guide)

Giveaway ends in four days – July 3rd — so enter it NOW!  (Yes, if you previously liked/yes’ed the game a long time ago, you can still enter).  Boring legal stuff: One entry per person.  I am not affiliated with facebook/twitter/valve/zuul/etc.  No purchase necessary to win.  Approximate cash value of each prize is 1/100th of a cent.

Thanks for your support!

PS – Don’t forget if you share the game with a friend using Menu > Refer, you and your friend can get additional gold.

Join me live on The Greenlight Supershow

Greenlightfinal

We’re part of a mega livestream on Saturday called The Greenlight Supershow.  I’ll be talking about the game and hopefully we’ll have some new players from the interwebs joining us to play live.  It should be a lot of fun, and it’d be awesome to see some of the community playing along.

Our slot is 10pm EDT — click here to get the broadcast time in your local timezone and a calendar invite.

Be sure to swing by… I may even give out a token or two live on the air 😉

News sidebar works again

Apparently Twitter, in its infinite wisdom, decided it would be a great idea to remove the feature that lets us display tweets on the sidebar.  Instead they’re trying to get everyone to use their ugly widget.  Fsck that.  So I signed up for a free wordpress site, added news syndication to there via my hootsuite account (which I love), and hacked up a javascript reader to pull its RSS.  Hopefully the resulting news pipeline won’t be too easy to break.

TLDR: Newsbar should work again and I officially hate twitter now.