You can play Crawl over on BadHed’s site or here at The Wasabi Project.

Crawl is a pretty standard kill-all-the-monsters shooter with some basic upgrades to purchase between levels. You can safely say you’ve won the game if you can complete all 20 levels, but you’re also free to keep playing for as long as you like — the monsters get stronger with each 20-level loop.

The game has players searching through a trap-ridden labyrinth in an attempt to find the keys and runes required to unlock the path to the Deeplight stone. A fairly detailed history of the Deeplight stone and the guild of rather untrustworthy mages responsible for it’s creation is also available for those willing to search out all of the 20 tablets scattered throughout the game.

Here are a few screenshots from the game, along with a trailer video:

http://www.thewasabiproject.com/addicube/prototype-2/

This version of Addicube was put together just before the Kickstarter project was launched, and was the first to include some preliminary sprites, which let us get an early sense of both the perspective and scale of the game, as well as a feel for how the color tinting system would interact with the artwork.

There are a number of incremental development versions of Addicube that I’ll be posting in the near future, but before getting to those, I wanted to go back to the very beginning of Addicube’s development.

Here’s a link to the very first working prototype of Addicube, which predates the Kickstarter project.

This version of Addicube was just a very rough experiment, and even some of the most basic concepts seen in this version have changed quite a bit; none-the-less, this has been a useful first reference point during the game’s development.

I also found myself building some simple editing tools, since I wanted to transition from hard-coded interactions between characters, locations, and items to a more flexible system based on XML descriptions of all the objects in the game. This added quite a bit of tool-building time to the project, but it has made editing the behaviors and responses of characters in the game a considerably smoother process.

Some screen shots of the new look and feel of the game, as well as a couple of images from the editor, are below:

Once I had the sprites put together, I felt it would really be unfair not to build an updated version of Father O’Malley Part 3 using the new art assets. I also adjusted the difficulty a bit (people seemed to have trouble with the sheer volume of zombies on the later levels of the original), and rebuilt the level generation from scratch, adding pits and crumbling bridges to the mix. I gave the entire game a faster, snappier feel as well — playing the original version of Part 3 feels very sluggish to me now.

The public release of Father O’Malley Part 3 – Born Again Edition will probably land in early April, but in the mean time, here are a few screenshots of the new look and feel of the game:

If you’d like to try it, please bear in mind that this is a very early release, and hasn’t been as thoroughly tested as the flixel 1.45 and 1.47+ export targets (you can help by reporting any bugs or issues you find with the exported code, or any trouble you have with installing the export plugin).

The update is available here: http://www.thewasabiproject.com/downloads/wasabi-m/WasabiM-Alpha3-2-Flixel200.zip

To install it, simply replace the existing “Export_Flixel.dll” file in Wasabi M’s plugin folder with the new DLL from the download. As long as you’re running the most recent version, you should see “flixel 2.0″ as an export target in the Project Details window the next time you start Wasabi M.

This version is still an alpha release, but it does have quite a few bug fixes, updates, and new features.

You can jump right to the download here: http://www.thewasabiproject.com/downloads/wasabi-m/WasabiM-Alpha3-1.zip. As before, Wasabi M is free for non-commercial use, and is pretty reasonably priced for commercial use.

The detailed changelog for this release follows:

• NEW: Brush support added for tile painting
  • Supports circular, square, rectangular, and stair-step brushes
  • Circular and stair-step brushes also support inverted mode
  • Brushes interact correctly with the three painting modes

• NEW/FIXED: Added Wasabi M application and main window icon
  • This should resolve issues with the icon changing when Wasabi M is pinned to the Windows 7 taskbar

• NEW: Relative path support for embedded assets
  • Applies to the flixel 1.47+ and flixel 1.45 export plugins

• FIXED: Removed CsvPath from exported per-Layer data (it’s redundant and is always recalculated during export, so it was just bloating the XML file)

• NEW: Added internal support for file type association
• NEW: Added default “.WasabiM” extension when loading and saving files
• NEW: Added options panel to add or remove file type associations
  • This should enable recent items and Windows 7 jump list items for Wasabi M

• NEW: Added a new “Layer” menu, to distinguish layer operations from map operations
• FIXED: Tileset image files should no longer be locked while Wasabi M is running
  • NOTE: Sprite images may still be locked — this will be resolved soon

• UPDATE:  Wasabi M now prompts for confirmation when you attempt to exit
  • This is a temporary approach until proper change detection is in place to prompt only when there are unsaved changes

• NEW: Options window added

• NEW: Right click can now (via the options window) be set to select the tile under the cursor, or to paint with tile zero
• FIXED: Exporting a project containing a map containing a sprite with an empty import value no longer crashes the flixel or FlashPunk exporters

• NEW: Added layer fill tool; filling supports tile stamps and random painting mode

• NEW: Added flood fill (ALT-Left click) with support for tile stamps, origin aligned painting, and random painting

• NEW: Added internal option to export individual layers to CSV files

• NEW: Added internal option to import CSV files into individual layers
  • Note: Out-of-range tile indices are (silently) set to zero after the import
  • Note: Importing may or may not lead to sensible layers, depending on the currently configured tileset

• NEW: A basic progress window is now displayed when exporting projects

• NEW: Preliminary auto-edging tool implemented with three modes: flixel, flixel-alternate, and WasabiM

• NEW: Added “$class” replacement variable to sprite code generation — $class will be replaced by the sprite’s class name, eliminating the need to specify the class name in two places when creating sprites
• UPDATE: The default code for a new sprite is now “new $sprite($x, $y);” instead of “new foo($x, $y);”

• FIXED: Resizing sprites out of existence should no longer be possible — the minimum size for sprites should now be 1×1 even when resizing while ignoring the sprite grid

• NEW: Optional and adjustable (see the Tools -> Options window) translucent layer rendering
  • This is not exported — it’s just a design-time convenience

• FIXED: Some tile alignment and scaling issues should be resolved (gaps should no longer appear at >100% zooms, and tiles should no longer be distorted at 100% zoom)
  • NOTE: I’m not sure if this resolves all the tile alignment and scaling problems, so please feel free to report any issues that you run across here

You can also check out the new dedicated Tropical Dragon Slaughter page if you’d like to see all four of the gameplay videos side-by-side in one place.