Today we are the 1st december, this is the last chance for module makers to release their games (remember is has to be uploaded to te4.org).
Hurry up fellow devs ! :)

In the meanwhile players can already play & start voting (do not worry about voting early, you can change your vote up until the end) there: http://te4.org/contest/vote/2013

Go have fun, and vote!

My minions, I am happy and pround to give you Tales of Maj'Eyal 1.0.5 ! See http://te4.org/

Your launcher should automatically update your game so no need to redownload it all.

This release is *huge* and I hope you'll have as much fun exploring it as I did creating it!

Enjoy and have fun in Eyal!

Don't forget to help ToME by with donations ( http://te4.org/donate ) !

Release highlights:

• Huge improvements to many visual effects, spells and tiles
• Combat log reworked to be far more readable, log heals, shiedsl, absorbs
• New special effects for each point accuracy over defence
• New difficulty mode: Madness, for those that mastered Insane ;)
• Training room in the Sher'tul Fortress
• Faster saves
• New Archers tree: Excellence (new tree), Poisons and Traps
• Many new hooks and tools for addons/modules makers
• Infinite scaling: talents should scale much better past 5/5
• Tons of rebalancing and improvements to many talents, objects, artifacts and zones
• IMPORTANT: saves are not compatible from 1.0.4

Expanded changelist:

• Added a graphical effect for healing and regen effects to most of those effects
• Using Aegis on shields will visualy change them
• Damage shields, absorbs, ... are now noted in the log
• Heals are now noted in the log
• Venom drakes can now appear in the noxious caldera and in gorbat pride
• Flat damage cap% is now applied after shields
• Disruption Shield now partially absorbs the hit that makes it explode
• New "punches" sounds for barehand combat
• NPCs can use Shoot Down
• Adventurers start with both gloves and gauntlets
• Unarmed 0.6 attack speed is bound to Empty Hands, not to being a Brawler
• New Actor:checkPool method to facilitate learning pools/... on talents learnt
• Adventurers now learn Empty Hands when learning barehand talents
• Swords, axes, maces, staves, daggers, whips, tridents, bows and slings now have special "unique" effects when hitting a foe for each attack you have over their defence
• Player can now tag objects with a name; tagged objects can not be dropped, destroyed or transmogrified until the tag is removed
• Fixed actor execution loop to crrectly resume at the next actor after the pause: aka this should fix Through the Crowd
• Automatic talents will be used in order: instant ones first, then higher CD ones first. Only one non-instant talent will be used each turn
• Orcs will search your buddies for the staff too
• Stone Walking and Gem Portal do not fail due to melee autotarget
• Corpses (from the curse) coming out in the middle of an attack will not be destroyed by said attack
• Improved combat logs
• New achievements for Normal (Roguelike), Nightmare/Insane/Madness (Adventure)
• Achievements list onyl shows the ones for the current difficulty to reduce clutter
• Add range to the map tooltip
• Temporal Augmentation Robes talent level reduced
• Nerf Colaryem a little
• Most summoned actors do not drop loot anymore
• Buffed starting gold to 15
• Marauder's Thuggery tree is now Generic
• Marauder's gained Bloodthirst tree (1.1, locked)
• Staff Mastery & Mindstar Mastery trainings now respect previous knowledge and do not screw you over
• When leaving a level with a dominated npc it will be freed from the control instead of waiting for your return
• Torment ammo doesnt have wielder bonuses and instead gets combat bonuses
• archery_projectile is now available to addons
• Alchemists can now unlock a golem replacement: the Drolem !
• Drolem is buffed a little
• Tannen's Tower level 4 has a different LOS system, making the Drolem obscure more of the field again
• Nourishing Moss tactical infos fixed
• Female Dwarves can unlock some cosmetic facial pilosity (because the lore says so!)
• Keybinds are displays more succinctly, so [A]+[S]+Keypad 6 will now appear as ASk6
• Actor's on_takehit and hook "Actor:takeHit" now get a parameter that telsl them the damage type, if available
• New Fortress feature to unlock for 50 energy: training room!
• Fixed mind talent procs happening more than once per turn
• Runic Golem can not be unlearnt
• New GameOptions:tabs hook
• New melee "whirlwind" effect
• New effect for Tempest
• When leaving a level all player originated projectiles are removed
• Ward talent lists available wards
• Wraithform now teleports if you end up in a wall
• Applied infinite scalingto prodigies
• Gem Golem can not be unlearnt
• Temporal Clone can not be used out of range
• Aether Beam and Gravitic Trap can not be placed in walls
• Nature's Pride goes on cooldown even if there was room for only one treant
• NPC are less confused by being LOS'ed
• Rares should be more interresting/powerfull
• Allow Gestures to respect Gloom status effects
• If the Weird Pedestals event can not generate an artifact it will make a randart
• Lost merchant will not generate antiamgic items for arcane characters
• Clarification to Heightened Senses/Infravision tooltips
• Scaling Bug fix in Darkness talent radius
• Scaling fix to hate generation
• Fixed typos in NPC definitions to prevent unintended agro
• Fixed bug in BattleTrance
• Fixed Grim Resolve not curing poison/disease
• Fixed Vimsense power when used with items
• Fixed tactical ai info for Mindlash talent
• Fixed character sheet to correctly show archery damage based on ammo
• Added addons url to the addons menu
• UIs can now have special mouse cursors
• Added two new hooks to the boot module "Boot:load" and "Boot:run"
• Fix maestrom
• Fix necrotic aura
• Infinite scaling applied to npc talents
• New gfx effect for Frostdusk
• New hook "GameOptions:UIs" to add new uis to the ui selector
• UIs definitions are now loaded from files in /data/gfx/ui/definitions/ so that addons can add new ones
• Attachement spots for particles can be read from a file per tileset
• Fixed Projectile class subclassing
• Tooltip for projectiles now shows who cast them and their self/friendly fire status
• Wards are now correctly colored by damage type
• Projectiles can be fired over chasms in the alt-maze
• Meteoric Crash can now crit (using the highest of spell or mind crit chance)
• New Uttercold visuals
• New Wings of Flames graphics! Find them!
• Argoniel learnt how to use Irresistible Sun
• Applied infinite scaling to afflicted
• New Flames of Urh'Rok gfx effect
• Juggernaut effect is now correctly classified as physical. For Zonk, with love
• Brawler's combo points last two more turns
• Fixed Pulverizing Auger in some zones
• Shields now "wooble" when hit
• Fixed crystal set proc
• Fixed slight particles display position error
• Added a slight outline to currently moused over item on the map
• New starfield shader is hungry, so a new video option to enable volumetric shaders is added. It is *off by default*, turn it on if you trust your GPU :)
• Fixed strange graphical artifacts around some texts
• Text outlines are much better now with shaders enabled
• Improved shields shader
• When disarmed the weapon will disappear from the character doll
• Buffs with charges (like Combo points) now display their charges
• Buff/debuff remaining time is correctly centered
• Added the Excellence tree to Archers, granting them more utility and survivability
• Venomous Strike works with ranged weapons too
• Implode has a distortion effect
• Archers now get access to both Poisons and Traps trees
• Poisons now work on both arrows and shots
• Distortion tree got .. distortion shader effects
• Irresistible Sun got distotion effects
• Added distortion effect to meteor crashes
• Added options to disabled "advanced" and distorting shader effects
• Improved water display (with a shader)
• Applied infinite scaling to chronomancy
• Particle systems can have a subparticle attached
• New fireflash and flame effects
• New Gravity Well effect
• Fast Curse Dispel is considered an important achievement
• Applied infinite scaling to corruptions
• Particle systems can now define a global use_shader={type="foo"} to attach a shader
• Particle systems can check availability of shaders
• Particle systems can now also the background that is under them, allowing things like distortion effects
• New distortion effect for the Repulsion Blast and Gravity Spike
• The final artifact from the final fight now requires less to wear so you can bask in its glory
• Applied infinite scaling to celestial
• Weapons can have multiple masteries talents, the best is used
• Added "Chat:load" and "Chat:add" hooks
• Through the Crowd now also makes you like being in the crowd, +10 all saves for each friendlies in sight
• Infinite scaling applied to psionics; solipsism mechanics have been adjusted
• Temporal Form only converts 50%
• Reduced Guardian of the Wood all resistance bonus
• Buffed artifact ammos
• Highscore core is less ToME-centric
• New difficulty mode: Madness (locked). More high level foes, stronger, with much more rares, more randbosses and a unique "Hunted!" debuff!
• Block is only used in melee by tactical AI
• Fixed bloated ooze damage absorb when using only one ooze
• Added an option to disallow online event pushes (but why would anyone do that is beyond me!)
• Online events can now happen in the Infinite Dungeon too!
• Thieves NPCs are now correctly competent with a dagger
• Dominant Will works on elites
• Burnt to the ground achievement is now achievable
• Prothotipe's Prismatic Eye correctly imbues its spell proc whem imbued on an item
• Grappling correctly checks no_breath
• Mitosis & Call of the Ooze correctly respect maxes
• Bear NPCs stats changed to str/con
• Bloodspring triggers at 15%
• Steamroller makes Rush cost only 2 stamina
• Revisionist History lasts 20 turns
• Corrupted Shell increases life by 250
• Fungal Blood also removes up to 10 magical effects
• Never Stop Running cost reduced to 12
• Vital Shot cooldown reduced to 10
• Windblade radius increased to 4
• Superpower grants 50% of strength as mindpower
• You Shall Be My Weapon and Massive Blow cooldown reduced to 10
• Windtouched Speed increased to 20%
• Mental Tyranny now only converts 33% of the damage
• Temporal Form prodigy temporal damage is now always *current* highest +30%
• Swift Hands prodigy allows wear/takoff for free only once per turn
• I Can Carry The World! prodigy also granst 20 strength
• Talents can now have properties: callbackOnAct, callbackOnActBase, callbackOnMove, callbackOnRest, callbackOnMeleeHit, callbackOnMeleeMiss, callbackOnArcheryHit, callbackOnArcheryMiss
• Altered/tweaked/improved many artifacts, keep your eyes open for new fun stuff!
• Special effects on artifacts can now be described with wielder.special_desc
• Achievement for killing all 4 slime tunnel bosses
• In cheat mode one can shift+left/right click on buffs/debuffs to adjust duration
• Ruined Dungeon can have a different set of clues
• Added infinite scaling to techniques
• Ruined Dungeon will not generate without the 6 guardians
• Orc babies do not drop loot
• Traps disarm & detection power scale with level
• Ruined Dungeon orb summons do not drop items
• Sludgenest wall poping slimes power now gradualy increases. Staying inside is not advisable.
• Added 5 achievements for staying in the sludgenest for many turns (one every 100 wall slime pops)
• Improved look of the huge sandworm burrower
• Yaechs and Nagas in Murgol lair have dropped damage by 35%
• The Ritch Hive Mother dropped damage by 30%
• Chant of Light now also increases fire damage
• Golem Power now also adds mastery with staves, daggers and exotic weapons (but not mindstars)
• Fixed Star Shot
• Prodigies dialog allows to unselect
• Huge tweaks to many ego items to make them more interresting
• Changed Evasion talents to not let characters become melee immune
• Applied infinite scaling to the cunning tree
• Saving happens in a separate OS thread, making saves much less painful
• Zones can have a temporary memory cache. ToME uses it to keep the last 3 visited zones (and associated levels) in memory, making switching between them much faster
• Bathe in the Light now provides a damage shield to all affected creatures and fire damage to all damage creatures
• Precognition dissipates when switching level
• NPC will not use automatic talents with hostile targets
• Eldritch eyes do not affect a yeek when they are destroyed when dominated
• Really, do not annoy Linaniil ... but if you do you get an achievement
• Yeeks can not dominate themselves
• Diggers now provide a dig talent and can be used while carrier instead of wielded
• Bone Shield looses a charge only if the damage is > 0
• Meteoric Crash stun chance uses spell or mind power, as the damage does
• Fixed anmalice proc
• Protective Aura correctly grants physical saves
• Combat Training talents split into two lines
• Object tooltip now shows which talent mastery affects them
• Last level of Reknor can not have obelisks and such
• Added "alter_level_data(zone, lev)" possible callback for level creation
• Alternate Daikara has pyroclasts falling whe nthe players getin range 6 instead of 3 and the last level has more trees
• Alternate Sandworm lair has more giant tunnelers
• Alternate Norgos lost Frozen Feet and the shivgoroths got a little damage penalty
• Alternate Maze "normal" horrors have been replaced by temporal ones
• Nerfed Shardskin damage and changed his talents a bit
• Air bubbles have a more explicit description
• Killing an aquatic horror will fill the surroundings with air bubbles
• Reduced Maleable Body effect
• Converted all wild gifts to infinite scaling
• Diggers should be instantly usale even at high speed
• Upgraded LuaJIT to 2.0.2
• getCharmPower now takes a first parameter "who"
• Objects from worldmap ambushes and farportal zones grant less money
• Birther can apply data to the party
• Easy mode now also halves all detrimental status effects
• Fixed traps in immediate melee mode
• Cavern generator can place doors
• Doors can have a "door_sound" field to tell which file to play when opened
• New hook "UISet:Classic:Resources"
• Fixed Prox halfling Feet when used on a halfling
• Allow quests to be in addons data folder, referncing them like zones with an "addonname+" prefix
• Chagned the particle effect for aerther vortex (thanks umbrall)
• In zones with walls on grass you can see small leaves of grass extending over the walls
• New dirt road gfx in the trollmire
• Roomer generator can now understand the = symbol to define tunnels, if not present it defaults as it did before to the floor
• Upgraded the grass to look like nice foresty grass
• Fixed stealth/invisibility: npcs could go straight to the target (it still hindered them though)
• Updated grass to look more like grass and less like golf terrain :)
• Ctrl+P (by default) now allows disabling/enabling all automatic talents
• Tentacles can not be summoned out of range
• Ambuscade shadow can not teleport
• When a summon dies/disappears, any NPCs targetting it will start looking for the summoner
• Added "infinite scaling" methods
• Applied infinite scaling methods to all spells
• Eggsack & crystal shard summons do not grant exp when killed
• Retch now also has a chance to remove a detrimental or beneficial (depending on undead status) physical effect
• Ghoulish Leap cooldown reduces with level
• Ghoul talent now provides a maximum damage cap. No blows can deal more than X% of their total life
• Animate Blade / Crystal Shard summons do not drop items
• Leveling up/down Mimic removes the effect
• Buffed Quick Recovery, Fast metabolism and Spell Shield, they now have bigger bonuses and scale with mastery
• Buffed the Eternal Night set
• Timed effect duration reduction from Time Shield and other such effectsonly affects detrimental ones
• Fixed Doomed unlock
• Removed Rain of Death vault
• Pulverizing Auger max range limited to 10
• Thalore Blight resistance reduced
• Fixed Receptive Mind debuff
• Rockwalk does not break Body of Stone
• Eldritch Stone now grants mana regen on rest
• Fix Deeprock Form preventing unlearning last talents
• Eldritch Stone now is affected by Aegis
• Eldritch Stone graphics updated
• Stone Wardens automatically unlocks Wilders
• Elemental Split only takes a turn if at least one half got summoned
• Mountainhewn Deeprock correctly grants immunities
• Eldritch Stone durations scale with talent
• Eldritch Stone effects have 100% chance to trigger
• Eldritch Stone effects apply power is based on the highest of spell or physical power
• Stone Wardens Stone Half now correctly knows Stoneshield
• Angolwen shops are finally free from their gfx glitch
• Mindlash psi cost now increases the more it is spammed
• Boosted Stealth initial value
• Lost Merchant artifact creation list is split into subcategories
• Birth screen will not spin the CPU madly
• Target tactical info now looks better!
• Addons in chardump will be stoerd differently to make the Vault able to search them correctly
• Wraithform has a graphical effect
• Increased font size on main menu
• Heat Beam Rune, Frozen Spear Rune and Insidious Poison Infusion will not affect crosstier effects anymore
• Resting will not spam the log with messages about party members healing
• Long chat dialogs will scroll
• Archery launchers can now have a damage multiplier and an on fire callback
• When in underwater levels the screen will very slightly .. hum .. wooble
• Buffed Mind Parasite
• Reduced Mucus equilibrium regen
• Natural Acid and Corrosive Nature now have a cooldown
• Mindslayer spiked shields have a new gfx effect
• Added a hook "GameOptions:generateList"
• Add new hook "ToME:runDone"
• New awesome graphical lore for Nur, made by "Impy"
• New achievement for winning the game without ever going west.
• When using a hotkey to trigger a talent/item that requires a target, pressing the hotkey again will validate the target just like enter and space
• Shatter won't stop at the first non-frozen foe it finds

Have fun!

I'm getting modern, I even have a twitter account now! :=)
https://twitter.com/darkgodone

Fellow participants of the contest, this is just a reminder, you only have one month left!

I've seen the alphas&betas of some of you and you are all doing amazing work, makes me proud.

For the last month I suggest you make yours this motto: "Polish polish polish and more polish" :)

Have fun, get coding!

Yes my minions!

Thanks to your votes ToME has been accepted on Steam!
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=93674769

I'll now go read up on what to do to make it appear there and post once more when it becomes available !

Mateys

'tis today the official talk like a pirate day!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Talk_Like_a_Pirate_Day

Ye should be ingame now for a surprise!

Raise the Jolly Roger!

The participants list is now in for the contest in no particular order:

Yufra: unknown module

XLambda: unknown module

lukep: unknown module (Robot Run ?)

Goblinz: unknown module

freykin: unknown module

jalmag: unknown module

eliotn: unknown module

chezzo: Hellfire (demon crawl ? ;) )

Orrus: unknown module

BDota: Startide (sci-fi themed module)

tiger_eye: unknown module

Zireael: Underdark (D&D themed underdark crawler)

GuyNamedJoe:  unknown module but shiren-inspired

Grazz: O.R.E. (scifi scavanger game)

Grey: Mosaic and/or Rogue Rage

Castler: Qi Dao Zei (oriental fantasy)

rabican: The Town (crime game)

soundofsatellites:  Roguishlike (classic ? dungeon crawl)

Xerion567: Multidimensional Mining Mercs (scifi)

Redragonfly:  Doctor-who themed

Leet: Candy Corn

VRBones: Notorious (card based)

edge2054: Runic (rune-based game)

Now good luck to all of you, remember the goal is to make a fun game, it doesn't have to be massive, it has to be fun !

Get back to your code and see you this winter!

Behold my minions, ToME is currently featured in yet an other bundle, this time: the IndieBundle!

Go grab it and the other cool games!

http://indiebundle.org/

*uses the mindworm to make people click*

Reminder to all those that didnt announce their project yet, you do not have much time left!

Contest reminder: http://te4.org/module-contest-2013

Forum thread: http://forums.te4.org/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=36083&start=0

Have fun, and make great games!

Behold my minions, ToME is currently featured in the Indie Royale bundle!

Go grab it and the other cool games!

http://www.indieroyale.com/

*uses the mindworm to make people click*