Son of a Witch - скачать игру версии 3.8.1

This is a small project of mine released on Steam today. 20 years ago I made my first game called "Njam", a two-player pacman type of game. It ran on 486 computer with DOS operating system and had VGA graphics.

For the anniversary I ported all the levels to 16:9 format for modern displays and added a 4 player co-op option and the versus mode (1 vs 1, 1 vs 2 and 2 vs 2). It has full controller support and I completely revamped the graphics to use a fantasy theme with heroes and monsters chasing them around.

This game concludes my short break from Son of a Witch development from the end of 2018 and now I'm back on it full speed. New features coming soon.

If you love Pacman or 4-player couch games, check it out:

The new version brings mostly some balancing and game difficulty tweaks. Most significant is that bosses are now guaranteed to drop runestones. Looking at the complaints from players, the main issue was being able to get more powerful as you progress through levels. So far, this has mostly been done by breaking rocks to get runestones, but it seems that many players don't like the randomness this brings, esp. if you don't get the Squirrel pet nor the Miner Ring. Experienced players would simply break random rocks to try to get it, but you might be hours and hours in the game before you discover this mechanics.

The yellow runestone was considered mostly useless by many players. The thing it that it was useful for non-archer characters who start with low archery range, which meant it was used for a secondary weapon and not much useful in most of the runs. I have changed it to increase the arrow speed instead. The upgrade is still tied to a bow, and you can see the exact upgrade effect when you pause the game if the bow is your main weapon. BTW, since the arrow speed is increased it also increases the range.

Features:

- bosses always drop at least one weapon damage upgrade
- yellow runestones upgrade initial arrow flying speed for bows in regular game
- heroes who start with a bomb, now start with two bombs in the regular game
- Archer and Rogue characters are always unlocked in Casual/Party mode
- Rogues start the game with the dagger in Casual/Party and PvP modes
- Updated Polish and Serbian translations

This is just a warmup for 2019. Many more updates to come this year.

Have fun playing!