Sternly Worded Adventures

Devlog

• V45: Apple Jacking
  October 22, 2024 by The-Balthazar

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  #Update, #Major

  It's been a long month, and with it, a new update! The main features of this update are a rework of the shrine dictionary, forests have a chance to contain non-spider content such as apples or bandits... Continue reading

  
• V44: Rapier Hotfix
  September 23, 2024 by The-Balthazar

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  #Update

  This is mostly a hotfix to deal with the fact that the message added into the demo of previous version which informs you when the demo ends crashed the game the first time you try to start a character... Continue reading

  
• V43: Blinks & Bantz
  September 20, 2024 by The-Balthazar

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  #Update

  This is mostly fixes, but it does include over 400 new words, which are mostly most of the new new additions to Collins Scrabble Words for 2025, including 'bantz', excluding about 190 new CSW words th... Continue reading

  
• V42: Water, the Forest, and Spiders
  September 12, 2024 by The-Balthazar

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  #Update

  I probably wouldn't be doing this release for another week or two when I've made more stuff, but I'm in between big things, and nothing is waiting on anything else, so while we're on the front page of... Continue reading

  
• V41: The quick brown hotfix
  September 02, 2024 by The-Balthazar

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  #Hotfix, #Update

  This mostly just contains fixes for things that have come up from V40, but also contains some new content. Notably you can now manually configure the on-screen keyboard in great detail. General: Fixed... Continue reading

  
• V40: Worlds within
  August 25, 2024 by The-Balthazar

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  #Major, #Update

  So I wasn't expecting this update to take nearly 4 months, but here we are. Thank you for your patience. The changelog has gotten so long, organising it has actually become somewhat of an issue. I'm w... Continue reading

  
• V39: Colourful language
  May 14, 2024 by The-Balthazar#Update

  Those who have been following along will no doubt be aware that this update was intended for release 10 days ago, but I was having issues saving the backend store to publish it. Well support have fina... Continue reading

  
• The lost update?
  May 09, 2024 by The-Balthazar

  So I was hoping I wouldn't need to make this post, but it's been long enough now that I feel you deserve to know what's going on. Last Saturday I tried to release V39, however the store backend ended... Continue reading
• V38: The return to sender hotfix
  April 24, 2024 by The-Balthazar#Hotfix, #Update

  Hate to need to do another hotfix so soon, but I can't knowingly leave unavoidable crashes in the wild. Combat: Fixed combat at special locations crashing when you get to the end. Fixed the arcade pre... Continue reading

  
• V37: Warmfix
  April 23, 2024 by The-Balthazar#Hotfix, #Update

  This update is mostly just fixes, but also adds a new challenge to the arcade; 'full random'. Achievements: Fixed a typo in the 'Capitol' achievement description. Fixed an error in the 'Mathematical'... Continue reading

  
• V36: The "Oops! All Achievements" hotfix
  April 18, 2024 by The-Balthazar#Hotfix, #Update

  This one might have just ended up as a minor release for just Steam, but there's a few other things in it and I wanted to maintain feature parity. Also I wanted to tell the story. Okay, so the story:... Continue reading

  
• V35: Hotfix
  April 12, 2024 by The-Balthazar#Hotfix, #Update

  You know that feeling when you find a stream vod of your game at like 3AM to try and sleep to, except you can't really sleep to it 'cause it's your game so you're fully alert the whole time, and then... Continue reading
• V34: Wild Pregame
  April 02, 2024 by The-Balthazar

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  #Major, #Update

  So I was hoping this would be a quick update before I started working on the results of the poll in earnest, but the main thing I was tackling ended up being a involved in a bit of tangled central log... Continue reading
• Poll: Future update focus
  December 20, 2023 by The-Balthazar

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  I have created a strawpoll that will run until the end of the year where you can voice your desires for future development prioritisation for Sternly Worded Adventures. You can find the poll here . It... Continue reading
• V33: Hotfix
  December 03, 2023 by The-Balthazar

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  #Hotfix, #Update

  Fixed nil armour calculation error with Vampire Pendant. Fixed the challenge postgame implying the money earned was going somewhere. Made the text on the inlaid-bronze-wooden tiles more readable... Continue reading
• V32: The Definitive update
  November 18, 2023 by The-Balthazar

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  #Update

  The definitive update. Definitive as in containing definitions. This update adds dictionary definitions from Wiktionary. This aspect isn't complete, and I estimate around 99.77% of the words should ha... Continue reading

  
• V31: The Cursed Hotfix
  November 06, 2023 by The-Balthazar#Hotfix, #Update

  Fixed Æ and Œ not counting for vowel movement spells. Fixed a crash if you press keys like `[` or `]` during an adventure. Fixed pressing the `.` key selecting random tiles after selecting all wildc... Continue reading
• V30: Tiles of the Arcade
  October 31, 2023 by The-Balthazar

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  #Major, #Update

  This update has been about 2 months in the making, so hopefully it's been worth the wait. It's another where it's been that long, and I'm so used to all the new things, that I'm not even sure what's n... Continue reading

  
• V29: Proto-challenge mode
  August 27, 2023 by The-Balthazar

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  #Update

  This update brings with it a quick and dirty challenge mode in the extras menu, a bunch of fixes, and changes to some tutorial messages and tooltip text to make some mechanics more explicit to new pla... Continue reading

  
• V28: Halfling update
  August 21, 2023 by The-Balthazar

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  #Update

  The most notable additions to this update are the addition of animations and customisation options to the halfling, and adds new overworld music for the capital. If you have a pre-existing halfling ru... Continue reading

  
• V27: Fixes & Spell particles
  August 16, 2023 by The-Balthazar#Update

  This update adds some basic particle effects to attacking spells, and, amongst other things, fixes two issues I observed in this Olexa video , one of which narrowly avoided being a crash. The first be... Continue reading
• V26: Potions & Fixes
  August 14, 2023 by The-Balthazar#Update

  Quick update with a few new consumables, and a few changes made in responce to goings on in the Olexa video. Rotated tutorial about showing the area buttons. Added the option to hide the date/time on... Continue reading

  
• V25: Hotfix to the hotfix
  August 13, 2023 by The-Balthazar

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  #Update, #Hotfix

  So it turns out the fix from V23; " Fixed the game trying to go full screen from the start on web, when it might not have permission. " actually broke the game being able to create new config files on... Continue reading

  
• V24: Hotfix & Minesweeper
  August 11, 2023 by The-Balthazar

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  #Update

  This is mostly a hotfix to deal with the fact that the previous version broke buttons without me noticing, but also contains a minesweeper minigame, which is available in the demo without limit, and c... Continue reading

  
• V23: Tiles Rework
  August 07, 2023 by The-Balthazar

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  #Update

  This update comes with a rebalance and rework of tiles. This includes changing the rarities of tiles, changing the score/materials of some tiles, nerfing the score of gold tiles but increasing their c... Continue reading

  
• V22: Hotfix
  July 29, 2023 by The-Balthazar#Update, #Hotfix

  Remember when I freaked out a week ago because I thought there was a bug that could prevent you from starting over from the main menu if you had a living character still? Yeah turns out there was, but... Continue reading
• V21: Explosions & Fixes
  July 27, 2023 by The-Balthazar#Update, #Hotfix

  Another small update, the biggest changes being a fix for an easy to trigger, but totally avoidable and concequence free, crash and a mild rework of the start of turn and exploding tiles. Fixed a cras... Continue reading
• V20: Stats & Fixes
  July 22, 2023 by The-Balthazar#Update, #Hotfix

  This is mostly just a hotfix for V19. Normally I wouldn't update so soon but a bug that I only realised while writing this was actually new to this version, and not in V19, was pretty nasty. That issu... Continue reading
• V19: Oceans & Fixes
  July 20, 2023 by The-Balthazar#Update

  So slightly depressingly no one downloaded V18 at all, okay one person did, and that was because I mentioned that fact as I was deciding if I was gonna release what I had for V19 already, but I'm not... Continue reading

  
• V18: Forests & Demons
  July 16, 2023 by The-Balthazar#Update

  Smaller update this time, most of the changes are either cosmetic, or relating to the demonkin route. Those are listed at the end if you want to avoid spoilers. Some notable changes out side of that:... Continue reading

  
• V17: Classes, Music, & Story
  July 05, 2023 by The-Balthazar#Major, #Update

  Boy I sure managed to keep up the weekly updates thing didn't I? So long story short the features that I wanted to add were all too large to finish in a week and all too interconnected to release in c... Continue reading

  
• V16: QoL & Fixes
  April 29, 2023 by The-Balthazar#Update, #Hotfix

  This update has a few quality of life changes, but mostly exists as a hotfix for a few crafting bugs. Quality of life changes The stats box during an adventure now indicates that you can expand/contra... Continue reading
• V15: Balance & QoL
  April 25, 2023 by The-Balthazar#Update

  This update mostly focusses on new items, new enemy balance, and quality of life changes, but also adds a demo. The demo ends when you reach a level 2 adventure, or have had a combined 15 adventure ru... Continue reading

  
• V14: Crafting & Exploration
  April 18, 2023 by The-Balthazar

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  #Update

  The most immediately noticable change with this update is that the game has been renamed from Word Tile Game to Sternly Worded Adventures. Content wise this update mainly focuses on events and functio... Continue reading

  
• V13: World Generation
  April 07, 2023 by The-Balthazar#Update

  This update mainly focuses on overhauling the overworld, and new player experience, but also includes a handfull of new gear items, new location types, and some actual events. New overworld generation... Continue reading