Posted April 18, 2023 by The-Balthazar
#Update
The most immediately noticable change with this update is that the game has been renamed from Word Tile Game to Sternly Worded Adventures. Content wise this update mainly focuses on events and functions for the wizards towers, including a crafting system that can have effects between runs. It also, potentially overzealously, cleans up the dictionary, with around 86k words being removed from the dictionary after cross referencing with Wiktionary.
With this update, the number of events in the game is now 10. New ones include, a one-off event that can reward you a gear item, three wandering trader events, two of which can happen more than once, one serving as a warning for an area hazard, two mutually exclusive soft-tutorial events based on what the player does leading up to the first dungeon, and an alternative hidden-path event and a follow up to it. The previous beggar hidden path event can now trigger at any node type in rare situations where non-crossroads lead to secret nodes. Some events now have images, and many now have pre- and post- screens with additional lore.
The previously useless secret wizards tower locations now have two purposes; firstly they now have the ability to combine some gear items, for a cost, and combine half-used potions, for free. This means the infinitives gauntlet added in a previous version is now legitimately obtainable. Crafting a gear item permanently removes the components from the gear drop tables, and permanently adds the result to the gear drop tables. This affects all future runs.
Wizards towers also have the ability to clear a sizable area of the fog of war. Oh yes, also this version adds fog of war. The main reasons for doing this are: It gives a sense of exploration, it allows me to direct the players attention, and it lowers the amount of distractions players have right at the start.
Wizards towers now have 8 additional variations.
There are 4 new gear items added this version, 5 if you count the infinitives gauntlet that's now actually obtainable. They are: