Escorting people can really grind you down sometimes.

Hi!
As my first blog post on this really interesting game I thought I'd speak a bit about my first days in TOME, as I'm pretty new to roguelikes and apparently pretty bad at it too :)

I found out about TOME from Ascii dreams, and at first I didn't like it at all, the gaphics looked awkward and the old rpg ui wasn't working, plus I kept on ending up dead, so I simply left it there. The second try was much better. I found out that my poblem was that on downloading oldrpg my sistem was renaming the .teea to .teea.zip, after that everything went downhill. My second character, a warrior, made it to 12, and I had so much fun with him, building him, solving quests like in the old days (by using your brains), killing the other adventurers for awesome drops :D

After that I recommended it to anyone I know, I really hope it will make it on Steam and that it will have a much deserved community of modders, that could make the game even more awesome.

All this to say thank you, for creating, sharing, playing this roguelike gem, much appreciated :)

My fellow players,

My minions,

Now that ToME is out of beta a new challenge lies before us: getting on Steam!

Since the release of V1 the number of votes for ToME on steam greenlight has increased a lot but this is still far from enough. We need more!

Everybody with a steam account can help, simply go to http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=93674769 and vote!

Every vote counts, tell your friends, the friends of your friends, etc... to go vote! (and to play ToME obviously)

If we all work as a team we can make it. It is my firm belief ToME is a great game and we have to show the world that it is!

Thanks, and as usual, have many many deaths in Eyal!

The board is set, the pieces are moving.

Nearly three years ago I uttered those same words when releasing the first beta of ToME4.
Before that there were 20 closed alphas and since then 43 betas and 4 RC releases, all played and loved by an increasing number of players, now over ten thousand.
During all this time my goal has never changed: to build a game that is both deep and complex but also fun and as accessible as possible. I have never believed in grinding, and have in many cases gone against the "traditional roguelike way" and I have always done it with those goals in mind.
Today is payoff time! For three years I have worked extremely hard on this game because I fell in love with it and I am blessed because others did too: great, fun, nice people; some of which also helped in the making of the game; each in their own way. To them, and to all my players, I send a huge "Thanks, I love you girls and guys!"

Without further annoying chit-chat, and with immense pleasure, I give you: Tales of Maj'Eyal 1.0.0
Go download it from http://te4.org/

If you wish to help me a little more you can do two things:
- Send a donation, they really help: http://te4.org/donate
- Go vote for ToME on Steam: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=93674769

Now go have fun my minions, live and die in Eyal!

I am happy to present you ToME's trailer!

T-Engine4 and ToME4 1.0.0RC4 is upon thee ! See http://te4.org/

Soooonnnn V1 !!

Don't forget to help ToME by with donations ( http://te4.org/donate ) !

And do not forget to vote on http://roguelikedeveloper.blogspot.fr/2012/12/request-for-votes-ascii-dreams.html

Release highlights:

• Bugfixes

Expanded changelist:

• Fixed Dark Portal
• Fix FOV error at the Mouth and others
• Casting Cease to Exist on oneself is a bad idea
• While on Ambuscade one can not equip items
• Magical Combat, Ambush and Shadow Magic are correctly labelled as spells
• Yeeks start to skip tier1 levels after the 4th
• If the auto hotkey for items option is disbled, it wont do ti for the rod of recall either
• Damage Smearing description doesnt say it takes no turn, since the metadata shows it
• Vor Armoury npcs are 'vaulted' they will not act before being seen, improving performances there by a *lot*
• Campaign name field is longer
• Reduced the size of the lost wife dream and the number of creatures to 10 (down from 25)
• The altar of dreams will cycle between all dreams in order
• Creatures that can pass walls/tunnel will also look for you!
• Sandworms & sandworm bosses are not immune to tunnels falling on them
• Fixed Shard of Crystallized Time description
• Wyrms mindstar have acid now
• Drying with Precognition doesnt kill you
• Scatter Shot has a tile
• Pits creatures are "vaulted"
• Reduced the size of Briagh Lair and the number of NPCs
• Acid, Frost, Lightning Infusions do not reduce the total damage done
• Alchemists Bombs do not use Dex anymore
• Fire Body drains 4 times less mana, does more damage and projectiles go throught friends safely
• Fire Storm damage increased and cooldown reduced
• Smoke Bomb radius increased
• Smoke Bomb now will spread burning effects instead of changing LOS if a target is burning

Have fun!

As promised here comes T-Engine4 and ToME4 1.0.0RC3 ! See http://te4.org/

Soooonnnn V1 !!

Don't forget to help ToME by with donations ( http://te4.org/donate ) !

And do not forget to vote on http://roguelikedeveloper.blogspot.fr/2012/12/request-for-votes-ascii-dreams.html

Release highlights:

• Many many bugfixes & polishing
• Prodigies now available at level 30 and 42
• 6 new prodigies

Expanded changelist:

• Greatly improved Angrimley and novice mage staying power
• Fixed lore in the ID and graveyard
• Removed particle error debug lines
• Illuminate now has a visual effect
• NPCs can only pass target if the target and the npc given them are within at most sight range
• When an NPC can has been fooled by teleporting away, it stays fooled instead of magicaly finding the way
• Wildfire now prevents fire damage against self
• Uttercold now allows to pierce iceblocks (without destroying them)
• Tempest now grants daze chances to lightning, chain lightning and thunderstorm
• Crystaline Focus now grants physical and spell saves
• Buffed Phantasmal Shield
• Phantasmal Shield now deals light damage
• Game will switch to low FPS when in the background to save CPU
• Stone Wardens correctly gain physical power from shields
• Ai when fooled by teleports will not go straight to the player, they'll search at semi random aruond them in an increasing radius
• Fixed timetravel freezes
• Dimensional Step doesnt lock on npcs
• Load Game can now load older games: WARNING: this WILL destroy the universe
• Frostdusk provides darkness affinity
• Meteor Rain doesnt do selffire
• Meteoric Crash works with either spell or mind power
• AI wanders around when it looses you
• AI can be lost by going out of sight for a while
• 6 new prodigies: Superpower(str), Vital Shot(dex), Corrupted Shell(con), Cauterize(mag), Mental Tyrany(wil) and Tricks of the Trade(cun)
• Reduced the rarity of zone specific artifacts
• Sticky Smoke has a graphic
• Added a --safe-mode flag, if the game is ran this way it will start in 800x600 windowed with as much graphical things disabled as possible
• Witnessing Meteoric Crash prodigy will also unlock it
• Prodigies points are gained at levels 30 and 42
• Categories points are learnt at levels 10, 20 and 36
• Level 50 now grants a bonus 10 stat points, 3 class & 3 generic points
• Artifact gems will popup lore as other artifacts
• Pure Aether at level 5 allows Aegis spells to be used while Aether Avatar is active
• Dark Empathy prevents minions from damaging the master
• Bligthed Summoning grants Bone Shield to Bone Giants
• Fix Cornac description

Have fun!

Hi my fellow players,

I wish a merry whatever-you-celebrate to you all!
Have fun and remember, during the holidays you get a special "Santascape" event in Maj'Eyal !

Be well!

Hi fellow players!

I have created a new event to celebrate this period: the Santascape!
If you play online during the holidays you'll get it push to you by the server (need to be playing at least RC2).
Have you been a good girl/boy? Do you deserve presents? Find out in thie jolly good death tra... err ... merry adventure!

The event will keep beingsent for a few days after new year and then .. you'll need to wait one more year, so go enjoy it now ! :)

PS: and dont forget voting on http://roguelikedeveloper.blogspot.fr/2012/12/request-for-votes-ascii-dreams.html if you did not already :)