5.1.1.539 patchSep 7, 2023 - Community AnnouncementsThis is an update to the DROD game engine. This version features many game logic and cosmetic/rendering bug fixes, plus performance and stability improvements, and an SDL2 library version upgrade. The full change log is here.Treacle StewDec 13, 2022 - Community AnnouncementsTreacle Stew, a fiendishly clever new Smitemaster's Selection expansion pack has been released! Features many insidious gel-based puzzles and a brand new story following DROD: The Second Sky. You can get Treacle Stew at the Steam store page here. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/25658389/ad76c2931cd302a3b7e289cbf61d03d76c3a027f.pngDROD Travelogue Soundtracks now available!Nov 6, 2020 - Community AnnouncementsThe DROD Travelogue soundtracks are now available for purchase on Steam! The City Beneath Soundtrack Gunthro and the Epic Blunder Soundtrack The Second Sky Soundtrack 90 tracks! Over four hours of music! View the details for each at the above links.Smitemaster's Selection CaravelNet DLC fixesOct 22, 2020 - Community AnnouncementsSmitemaster's Selection DLC updates have been deployed to address CaravelNet functionality issues. The holds Beethro's Teacher and Complex Complex have been updated to the latest version available on CaravelNet. The Choice has also been synced to the current version on CaravelNet. CaravelNet functionality should now be active and working properly for these three DLC holds.Have You Played DROD: Gunthro and the Epic Blunder?Jan 30, 2017 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunHave You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time. If you’ve paid any attention to my scribblings over the last few years, one of the recurrent themes you may have noticed is my hatred of puzzles games. Or rather, as I like to say, their hatred of me. But, as I’ve acknowledged in the past, wrap a strong theme or story around the puzzles and I might be fooled into paying attention, and from there I can be won over completely. The Deadly Rooms of Death series, a fantasy RPG that is actually a puzzle game, almost got me. … DROD: The Original Trilogy is released as DLC!Nov 21, 2016 - Community AnnouncementsYou can now pick up a copy of the original DROD trilogy as DLC for "Gunthro": King Dugan's Dungeon Journey to Rooted Hold The City Beneath The titles are available either separately or as a bundle. Each title has its own set of achievements and has been upgraded to make use of features in the new version 5.0 game engine. The best things come to those who wait. Thanks for your patience while we worked to make these releases shine!DROD: The Original Trilogy is released as DLC!Nov 21, 2016 - Community AnnouncementsYou can now pick up a copy of the original DROD trilogy as DLC for "Gunthro": King Dugan's Dungeon Journey to Rooted Hold The City Beneath The titles are available either separately or as a bundle. Each title has its own set of achievements and has been upgraded to make use of features in the new version 5.0 game engine. The best things come to those who wait. Thanks for your patience while we worked to make these releases shine!Critical DROD level editor fixSep 25, 2016 - Community AnnouncementsA critical level editor bug was observed in DROD:GatEB on Steam. This issue causes odd room placement errors in the game's level editor. It exists for anyone playing the game before this announcement went up on 9/25. We patched this issue in the game engine as soon as we learned of it. However, in order to fix the issue on your end, you will need to reset your local player data files once by doing the following: Export your player progress (optional): Go to the Main Menu, click "Change Player", then click "Export" to save your player game progress to a file on disk. Delete the game's local data files: Exit the game. Go to "C:\Users\ \Documents\Caravel\drod-5_0\" (on Windows) and delete the five "*.dat" files in this folder. Start the game. If using Steam auto-cloud sync, select to use local (not remote) files. Re-import your player progress (optional): Re-import any custom holds you had installed, then click "Import" on the player creation screen and select your exported .player file to import your progress back into the game. Linux and OS X patches uploading soon. Our sincere apologies for the inconvenience.Critical DROD level editor fixSep 25, 2016 - Community AnnouncementsA critical level editor bug was observed in DROD:GatEB on Steam. This issue causes odd room placement errors in the game's level editor. It exists for anyone playing the game before this announcement went up on 9/25. We patched this issue in the game engine as soon as we learned of it. However, in order to fix the issue on your end, you will need to reset your local player data files once by doing the following: Export your player progress (optional): Go to the Main Menu, click "Change Player", then click "Export" to save your player game progress to a file on disk. Delete the game's local data files: Exit the game. Go to "C:\Users\ \Documents\Caravel\drod-5_0\" (on Windows) and delete the five "*.dat" files in this folder. Start the game. If using Steam auto-cloud sync, select to use local (not remote) files. Re-import your player progress (optional): Re-import any custom holds you had installed, then click "Import" on the player creation screen and select your exported .player file to import your progress back into the game. Linux and OS X patches uploading soon. Our sincere apologies for the inconvenience.
