Crawl

Devlog

• Always check your spam folder
  August 26, 2024 by Neal McNamara

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  Hello again. This was a lot sooner than I expected but when you find an email a friend sent you from days ago in your spam emails folder with a wealth of amazing feedback and design insight ON THE DAY... Continue reading
• 3.3, The Definitive Version
  August 25, 2024 by Neal McNamara

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  Hey all, I am very pleased to release v3.3 of Crawl which I am willing to mark as the final version. I feel I have taken this as far as I could, I am very happy with the layout of the rules, I've cove... Continue reading
• The Shadowdark Shuffle
  May 13, 2024 by Neal McNamara

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  Hi, all. After some feedback from recent hands-off playtesting I have made some changes based on said feedback. Changes Added Finding A Dungeon step to the setup This is purely to avoid confusion and... Continue reading
• v3.1 - Always room for improvement
  April 18, 2024 by Neal McNamara

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  Pretty quick update. I always seem to think of little improvements to wording and formatting after I commit to an update so apologies for any confusion caused. Even now I have more changes incoming fo... Continue reading
• Screw the house rules, I have curses.
  April 14, 2024 by Neal McNamara

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  Hey all, big big update this time. These are significant changes that could feel jarring but they are built on top of the solid foundation from before and, in testing, appears to improve on the overal... Continue reading

  
• Tweaking House Rules
  February 06, 2024 by Neal McNamara

  Hey all, Sorry to come in with another update so soon after the last one but made a few changes and one addition that I am pretty happy with so I figured I'll put it up. Changes New house rule Fortuna... Continue reading
• Seriously though, kindling is important
  January 27, 2024 by Neal McNamara

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  Hey all. This update has only a couple of changes but I feel they add some needed clarity. Changes Changed wording on the idle action I realised it was a little cheesy to see a joker in solo or duo ga... Continue reading
• Conserve Your Kindling
  December 30, 2023 by Neal McNamara

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  Hi, all. A quick Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays to ye. Got a little teeny update here with v2.7 where I made a single little tweak that I felt was needed for the latest version of Crawl to work wit... Continue reading
• Diamonds Forever
  November 28, 2023 by Neal McNamara

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  I am back from an inspiring demo day with a very big update. You'll laugh, you'll cry...well at least I did. Changes Gave the name "Peeking" to the ability to see the top card of the deck based on tor... Continue reading
• Some Clean Up
  October 29, 2023 by Neal McNamara

  Hey all. I'm here with 2.5 which doesn't really add much, mostly just fixed some formatting to look cleaner because it was bugging me. Minor Changes Moved the bright light mechanic (aka the ability to... Continue reading
• Lighting The Way
  October 28, 2023 by Neal McNamara

  Back again so soon, I know. But this one's a doozy. Major Changes Two Pages Had one good idea and it broke the dam so now it's two pages instead of one. Added The Gauntlet w/ Optional Rules This was u... Continue reading
• Fight the Monsters!
  October 24, 2023 by Neal McNamara

  Hey all, back again with v2.3. Some slight changes and some major ones to cover so let's get on with it. Major Changes Changed "Quell" to "Burn" Burn is just a simpler and more effective descriptor fo... Continue reading
• Communicating the risk
  October 12, 2023 by Neal McNamara

  Hi again. So I wanted to do this quick little update to make one change for the sake of clarity. Changes Changed wording on explanation about going back into the dungeon. Now mentions that opting back... Continue reading

  
• The More Was Too Merrier
  October 01, 2023 by Neal McNamara

  So I finally got a few friends together for a proper multiplayer playtest of 4+ players and there was a problem... the game became too easy. Fun fact though, since we had 8 players at one point, we de... Continue reading
• Some final motivation
  August 29, 2023 by Neal McNamara

  Hey all. Now we've officially made it to v2.0 of Crawl. All I did was offer a completion bonus for making it all the way through the deck. Not arsed formatting this post like the others. Either way, g... Continue reading

  
• Enabling the persistent
  July 24, 2023 by Neal McNamara

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  Hey all. Me AGAIN. Just a quick little thing for the sake of clarity. Shoutout to qzaf for this one. Added continuation to the end of the "SETUP" section For those who want to keep the crawl going and... Continue reading

  
• This one is for Naz
  July 23, 2023 by Neal McNamara

  I thought I was done but thanks to the discord, progress is still able to be made. I was trying to work in a really solid idea from a fellow Crawler named Naz but couldn't get it to fit...however, it... Continue reading

  
• More points! Set bonus update
  July 09, 2023 by Neal McNamara

  Heya! Just had a realization and felt compelled to add this one little thing... Added Set bonus to scoring board Having Jack, Queen & King of the same suit now includes some bonus points which, conven... Continue reading
• I thought I was done but evidently, no
  July 08, 2023 by Neal McNamara

  Hi. I almost made it a full day without updating this project and yet again, I find myself at 4am yet again, inspired and unable to sleep. Changed terminology for cards I decided to commit to calling... Continue reading

  
• I probably should be sleeping
  July 07, 2023 by Neal McNamara

  Can't sleep with such a big change to talk about. Presenting... Gem Crawl v1.5, aka Crawl! Changed the name of the game to "Crawl" To roughly quote Justin Timberlake in that Facebook movie, "Drop the... Continue reading
• Escaping the darkness
  July 06, 2023 by Neal McNamara

  Good news for all you munchkins out there... Abandoning your party is now a proper mechanic. Added "Escape." to player actions This makes it so that players don't feel obligated to sacrifice their har... Continue reading
• Underlining the problem
  July 06, 2023 by Neal McNamara

  Weirdest thing happened. A friend on discord ended up being up for helping me playtest the game tabletop sim. Turns out that helps a lot! Leads to a few more changes in wording plus a new thingy. Remo... Continue reading
• So uh, yeah... nice weather?
  July 05, 2023 by Neal McNamara

  Nothing really to report here. Just wanna make regular devlogs a habit. Submission-related thoughts Hoping to arrange a meetup with friends either this weekend or sometime next week for a proper in-pe... Continue reading
• Me more word good
  July 04, 2023 by Neal McNamara

  Today I started working on figuring out a potential solo-mode for Gem Crawl so we'll see where that goes but for now, here are some more wording changes... Changed "pile" to "stack" specifically for r... Continue reading
• Updated the wording
  July 03, 2023 by Neal McNamara#Update, #Wording

  Changed the name of the "Light." action to "Kindle.". Shoutout to bibliophile here, it was one of their posts on discord that reminded me that "kindle" is a much better word for the action since it is... Continue reading