My minions,

Over the last days I've worked very hard to upgrade te4.org to handle donations better and to allow many new things.

Balance Tab

First thing, you may have noticed a new "Balance" tab in your user profile which list all donations, DLC purchases, game purchases (like on Steam, Desura, ...) and so on.

Check that yours seems ok, if not please report it on ToME's forums.

Voratun Coins

Voratun coins are awarded for each donation you make, for each purchase on Steam, ... for 10 coins per euros.

Voratun Coins are used to acquire DLCs and to unlock donator features.

*Every* donators get the donator features unlocked, even if they donated less than the "default" cost (60 coins), to keep in-line with the way things worked and just because I like being nice.

This means if you donated 5€ your balance will show -10 coins remaining, this is not a bug.

DLCs

For people who go above the minimal donation there is now the possibility to acquire DLCs. Yes I've said the D-word!

But DarkGod I thought you were a nice guy!

Well I hope I am yes (a nice dark god of pain and withering obviously!) but this does not prevent me from thanking people that go out of their way to support the game, does it ? :)

But DarkGod, does this means you will never give anything for free anymore?

Not at all my good friend! Updates to Tales of Maj'Eyal have always happened and will keep on doing so, for it is something I like doing. New DLCs will come yes, but free will always be free as I hope I have proven more than enough :)

You can find all the available DLCs there: http://te4.org/tome/dlc

Steamtech UI DLC

This is the first, and currently only, available DLC which can be found there: http://te4.org/dlc/steamtech-ui

This is the very same you can get on Steam (for the same price too obviously), as many people have requested to be able to grab it even though they do not have Steam. Now they can!

I wanted to have this available sooner but it required all the other stuff to be working first.

Now my minions, go donate, go grab DLCs, and most importantly, go enjoy the game (and die many deaths to fuel my Throne of Tears!)

My minions, I am happy and pround to give you Tales of Maj'Eyal 1.1.4 ! See http://te4.org/

Your launcher should automatically update your game so no need to redownload it all (on Windows).

Enjoy and have fun in Eyal!

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

Release highlights:

• Many important fixes
• Tons of new artifacts

Expanded changelist:

• Altered the orc breeding pits encounter to make it a little less unconfortable and more obvious into what you're getting into
• If the stone wardens addon can not be enabled due to failed login, savefile loading will abord instead of damaging it.
• Buffed the rune of reflection to match the description
• Fixed Bloodspring log message
• Fixed Lichform doesnt preventing removing points from necrosis talents
• Fixed weird graphical bugs on windows
• Fixed insidious poison infusion description
• Fix push kick
• Name highlighting in chat works even for people with weird names
• Store dialog should fit better on small screens
• Melinda wont re-die randomly on the beach
• Improved Flameshock description
• Added BSD support
• Vor always gets his manasurge rune
• Fixed usable artifact gems
• When the server receives a donation, notify & thank the player that did it
• Tons of new artifacts to find & enjoy!
• Madness mode now features an HP multiplier on NPCs, scaling with level and rank.
• Insane and Madness difficulties now give random classes to fixed bosses
• In Madness difficulty the Hunted! debuff lasts much longer
• Added image for the No Way! achievement
• Unified speed displays in the character sheet
• Game will not warn you if you try to load an already tainted savefile in developer mode
• Speedup server connection on boot by ignoring empty commands
• Speedup hash validation

Have fun!

For this first year of the module contest we have 6 winners (because they all succeeded at making a game). However as was announced at the start the 3 top ones will get a reward. The order was determined by a weighted sum of the individual grades, with 'fun' being worth twice more. As such the lucky three are:

• Qi Daozei from Castler, earning him the 500€ reward and top position!
• Mosaic from Darren Grey, earning him the 150€ reward and second position!
• The Veins of the Earth from Zireael, earning her the 50€ reward and third position!

Each vote cast by each player is bound to her/his account and required the player to actually have played the game (as tracked by the server) so we can be relatively sure no funky vote-cheating was done.

I, DarkGod, would like to personally congratulate each and every participants. You have created great fun games, for many of you without any prior knowledge. Even if you were not in the lucky three, I want to tell you just a few things: continue, code, create fun and make people know about your games!

See the full details there: http://te4.org/contest/vote/2013/results

My minions,

I am happy to announce that ToME 1.1.3 is now available on the download page for OSX.

A huge thanks to doctornull who provided the environment to do it.

Hopefully there should now not be much delay in new versions :)

I will be away for the weekend but when I come back you can expect the Steam version to feature OSX too!