"Twisty Little Passages" Kickstarter announcement (18 May 2019)

Caravel Games is excited to announce an all-new creative project we're taking in a different direction called Twisty Little Passages, now live on Kickstarter:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/caravelgames/twisty-little-passages

It's a game book of solo dungeon crawl puzzle adventures that plays somewhat like a tabletop game. The puzzles are similar in spirit to DROD RPG areas, so if you're a fan of that game, you should especially check out this project.

As of this moment, the project is 72% funded! One bonus goal has already been unlocked and there are some great stretch goals on the horizon.

TLP is a unique blend of puzzle and dungeon crawler in a classic tabletop fantasy adventure setting. It features a multi-chapter campaign story that progresses through a series of 25 dungeon maps, where each area is a hand-crafted puzzle. Fight monsters, acquire keys to open doors, get life-boosting elixirs, powerful equipment and enchanted items, and defeat the boss at the end of each level. Use your wits to find the right path through each area and survive. Solve each puzzle to move forward with the story.

TLP is a game of full-color, fully-illustrated thematic puzzles drawn by experienced fantasy artists. Engage your imagination in a series of dungeon crawls and enjoy the experience of interacting with a real book at the same time.

To play, you draw right on the laminated dungeon maps with a fine-tipped dry-erase pen to track your progress as you explore, find treasure, keep stats and inventory, defeat enemies and uncover the secrets of solving each area. It may require multiple attempts to find the solution to a puzzle, and it's easy to restart your progress by wiping the page to start again.

If you like puzzles, mazes and dungeon crawl adventures, you'll find this a uniquely engaging experience!

This game book is different from the play in

DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale

in that each puzzle is standalone and the goal is to solve the puzzle rather than optimize stats. We wanted each puzzle to be a sterling example of a unique dungeon crawl puzzle focusing on a specific game mechanic, element or play style.

Watch a teaser trailer, take a look at the game rules and get a sneak peek at a quick tutorial/introductory puzzle on the Kickstarter campaign page:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/caravelgames/twisty-little-passages

There are also rundown and playthrough videos and early reviews of the game, which all provide glowing praise for the puzzles and play experience.

You can read a developer journal that I'm publishing on Board Game Geek that shares insights into how our team approached the puzzle design and what considerations we put into developing this unique experience:

https://www.boardgamegeek.com/blog/9092

Thanks for your interest in this new creative puzzle experience from Caravel Games!

Questions, comments and feedback are welcome!
Crash fix (1 December 2016)

We've released a fix to a showstopper crash that players experience on entering the "SutO" level.

Thanks for your patience!
Patch 5.1.0.6512 (14 April 2016)

This update fixes a critical regression introduced in the previous version of the game.
Patch 5.1.0.6501 (23 March 2016)TSS hold fixes:

ED: fixed script bug while using speed potion

EotS:1S1E: fixed scripted challenge bug

OHV: scripted cut scene can be re-played

Scroll text typo fixes
5.0.1.1001

Teleport player command now makes the player and their weapon correctly interact with the target tile and the tile teleported from (includes updating pathmaps)

Mirrors can no longer be placed on top of each other in the editor

It is no longer possible to walk on top of the fluff when using a platform

Tarstuff and fluff will now correctly grow over disabled force arrows

All missing items were added to "Wait for item" command

Imperative (Open move) now works even if the character is not set to "deadly" which is consistent with all other pathfindings in the game

Temporal seep, fluff and wraithwings now obey their expected movement restrictions and permissions

When undoing in the puzzle-view spiders now don't disappear or get stuck inside each other, and they are also correctly counted in the hint-box

Hitting a rock giant's corner which stands on shallow water with a dagger now correctly produces a stepping stone

When using Custom speaker the game now correctly remembers which entity spoke and displays said entity in the speech history

When using the quick go-to command (CTRL+) on the change location screen the initial articles (a, an, the) are ignored

Temporal clones moving through a blocked tunnel will just waste the move instead of waiting for the move to be open OR teleporting into the player

Puffs will no longer target invisible clones which are outside their smell range

GatEB title screen is now always fully redrawn on each frame to avoid problems with region-redraw marking

When previewing rooms on the minimap objects in the top-left corner will no longer act as if the player was standing on (0,0)

Temporal clones will now shine their own light as long as the environmental effects are in the top 1/4th of the scale

Checkpoints are now activated even if the player is pushed onto or through them

Construct player role gets killed on oremites, is resistant to body slams and drops trapdoors

Temporal clones can now bump into characters and make them react to Wait for Player to Touch Me command

Invalid _MyWeapon values are now silently ignored

Seep death and aumtlich gaze is now recalculated after tar stabs to avoid situations where seep are not killed/aumtlich gaze doesn't freeze when involving black doors being dropped

Fuses lit by explosions triggered by floor spikes no longer have a one-turn delay

Weapons can no longer be permanently changed by using a clone

Mirroring a room with floor vents no longer produces an assertion error

Removed "Wait for event: switch clone" command which never worked

Mimic's (or guard's) caber now kills the player on the turn it should instead of a turn later

Pushing the player now correctly updates the brain movement pathmaps

Dagger wielding player now changes their direction when crossing room boundaries in the same way an unarmed player does

Scripted characters now correctly rearm themselves when pushed off the oremites

Guards and soldiers wielding daggers now correctly turn when they move; wielding other weapons, with their weapon on the target, will try to move towards the target

Seep no longer press pressure plates

Pushable imperatives have been reworked to work as intended

Rattlesnake's head can now be burned even if their tail had been burned on the same turn

Flying character roles no longer drop thin ice or get killed by spike traps

Monsters pushed into a wall now correctly stab with their weapon

Armed monsters making a move into a puff will now stab before dying

It is now possible to build Tarstuff with Built Item At and Build Marker commands

Replacing a force arrow with another one in the editor will no longer break associations with orbs/plates

Puff's target highlight no longer disappears when the puff moves

Building regular, cracked and broken orbs over existing ones no longer breaks associations

Else if and Face towards like guard commands were added

List of commands has been sorted alphabetically

Ctrl+ shortcut now works in most lists in Character script edit

Hitting enter when focus is in New Variable Name or New Character Name it adds the new variable/character instead of closing the window

Added checking if two variables are not equal

Enter in command selection screen closes the window and saves the command

Ctrl+ now ignores the leading articles if a list is sorted alphabetically with articles ignored
5.0.2.1002

Updated the docs for a number of imperatives, Face towards like guard and Else if commands

Drinking a blocking potion (mimic/decoy/clone) by teleport will make it impossible to drink any other blocking potion in the same turn

Tokens are now activated by teleport on turn 0

If the player is teleported onto a tile which kills them they won't be able to be teleported away from that square

Saving settings no longer causes hold list to be redownloaded if CNet Login wasn't changed [No thread for this but no need to check this one either]
5.0.2.1003 (Mostly fixes)

It is now possible to build regular orbs on top of cracked and broken ones

Fixed some edge cases for Face towards like guard and made it work on turn 0 inside an if statement

All entity lists in add command window can be searched via Ctrl+
5.0.2.1004

Dagger-hitting a rock giant will now, in all cases, result in a stepping stone being created on the stabbed tile if there was shallow water underneath

Building unstable fluff no longer throws assertion errors

It is no longer possible to build tarstuff over monsters

All possible player roles (except fegundo) are now vulnerable to fire traps

Removed brain and skipper nest roles from the player role selection menu

Player role construct pushed onto oremites is now correctly killed

Player role construct is once again vulnerable to body attacks

Player will no longer be killed by hot tile in a situation where: the player is standing on one, rotates CW or CCW which pushes another entity which, by being pushed, pushes the player off the hot tile

When player is speed up monsters pushed around on hot tiles will only be killed if they stay in place for a total of two half-turns
5.0.2.1005

Fixed a visual bug where part of the menu was left displayed when seeting the JtRH title screen with alpha blending and environmental effects disabled

Build, build marker and wait for item lists are not the same list any more and the mismatched elements have been removed (like "None" in Build and Wait for item)

Building Arrows, Disabled Arrows and Ortho squares now works

Remove floor layer item option has been added to Build and Build marker commands
5.1.0.1006

Stalwarts are now correctly killed by enemies

Wait for item: Pressure plates (all three types), Light, Wall Light, Ceiling Light (dark and light) and tokens added

Fixed a bug where stalwarts wouldn't step on enemies when wielding a dagger

Fluffs will target visible clones even if player is invisible

Build marker for all tarstuff now is displayed using the tarstuff's inner graphic

Fixed a typo in "script.html" help file which caused the in-game renderer to fail

Added correct graphic for "Remove floor tile" build marker

"Remove floor tile" in Build and Build marker is now future-proofed

"Remove floor tile" now works correctly and doesn't throw assertion error

Temporal tokens now correctly inherit stealth from the player character

Projections which kill fluffs (eg. in rock golem role) no longer lose stealth

Temporal projections can, once again, wade in shallow water if the player is also capable of it

Temporal projections are not frozen by Aumtlich beam when they are stealthed

Puffs can no longer be pushed against arrows and ortho squares and will be instakilled on-tile if the entity is wielding a caber

Firetraps processing will no longer crash the game if the currently processed firetrap is turned off
5.1.0 release:

Room editor: Now can place briar on pressure plates (and v.v.)

Fixed crash on room paste from deleted hold

Fixed some low contrast speaker subtitle background colors

Fixed built items not falling into pits or water

Fixed: building an item that replaces fluff should cause the fluff to break up properly

Fixed: IsTileAt script command wasn't handling swapped arrow rotator tokens correctly

Fixed: seep sometimes don't display while viewing another room from the minimap

Clicking on evil eye in the room now doesn't skip highlighting other tile-specific object relations

Help file typo fixes