The Embark Update is live! With it comes a slew of changes, additions, and improvements to Turk's Crawling Dungeon. With it debuts the embark screen, in which players will be able to select a class and allocate talent points before beginning the game!

• The embark screen has arrived!
  • Choose a class...
  • Select your talents! Allocate points to upgrade your abilities..
• 3 new environments have been added to the endless dungeon...
  • "Rubble" takes you to the warped streets of Willow City, Turk's place of residence.
  • Explore the labyrinthine concrete halls of "Construction".
  • Wander the torchlit "Dungeon" in search of an escape!
•  New talents have been added:
  • Weave - increased chance to dodge enemy attacks for a few turns...
  • Strangle - immobilize your foes and deprive them of lifegiving air...
• Talents can be upgraded with talent points, increasing their level and amplifying their effects (and costs!)
• 3 new enemies have joined the fight - all goats!
  • Roast, Crispy, and Charred goats - the stuff of Turk's nightmares!
• Loading screen art! To make those couple of seconds between levels a little easier on the eyes...
• Some bug fixes I can't remember now but will probably be important later!

Additionally, French players rejoice! The floating point variable parsing error that plagued Turk's Crawling Dungeon has been fixed! Warning for technical talk, but this is fascinating to me.

Decimal values in France are represented differently than in other parts of the world ("0,06" as opposed to the American "0.06"). This meant that some of the parsing methods in my code would throw exceptions after receiving the incorrect format of floating point number (at least, according to the localization settings) when running on French operating systems. Whoa!

This should fix an asset loading bug that froze the game on French PCs. Hopefully...

Turk's Crawling Dungeon continues to grow in ways I never could have originally envisioned. This is all thanks to the support of everyone who's given the game a shot, everyone who's offered feedback and criticism. I love you all and I couldn't do it without you!