Ananias 1.20 released and it’s awesome!

Lot’s of work went into this one! PLAY ONLINE! Scroll down for details.

Some important news:

• The campaign has stalled again at 20% with about 1 week left (NOOOO!), help us revitalize it by sharing with your friends and contributing!  This is what we are aiming to, music-wise (check it out, it’s awesome)
• We are on IndieDB now! vote for Ananias so that more people gets to know about it!
• Diet Ardee continues his Let’s Play with v1.19, exploring the different types of monster pets.
• Denzi and I continue working hard on the art and code side.
• Expect some exciting news on the Music part soon! but we need more funds!

Now for the changes:

New Features:

• Healing Ponds – Explore the levels and you might find these one time wonders that replenish your hitpoints
• Stand by command – Order your pet monster to stay where he is
• Allow passing turn and moving around in safe rooms

User Interface:

• Flip sprites based on where they face
• Locate monster sprites slightly offset to give a better impression of depth
• Add title screen menu
• Enhanced monster descriptions
• Show player strength and pet stats
• Changes on save/restore flow
• Relocate location intro images
• Center inspector title and icon and change title color

Balancing

• Nerf weapon bonus, Buff weapon malus
• Nerf healing upgrades
• Nerf skill point upgrades
• Change starting level for Jackals and Fairies
• Fix guard item AI for both enemies and pets
• Add more bone and ether enemies
• Make ranged attacks require skill points, make guardians attack ranged enemies
• Add skill points to archers
• Buff some early monsters skill points
• Add entrap to demonspawns

Bugfixing

• Prevent archers from attacking covered by player
• Prevent warping into other monsters
• Prevent pets from warping while on defend command