Fogmarch

A new look

• A new hero. The cartographer is now a hand-drawn sprite with idle, walk and sword-swing animations, seen from the front and the back. Every upgrade still shows: cloak by armor, leg wraps by boots, lantern glass by lantern, feather by hero level.
• Nordic land. Painted ground, spruce and birch trees, mossy boulders with ore.
• New enemies' look. Grey wolf, draugr with helmet and shield, ogre, fog wraith and mossy troll.
• Nordic music. Warriors' drums in the base, a wandering tune outside, epic music in dungeons, a boss fight theme and a dark theme when the lantern runs low.

Play

• Bow switch. A button above the fury button (or key B) turns the bow off to save arrows. The bow now only shoots at enemies at a distance; close enemies always get the sword.
• Buildings open when you tap them, not when you walk past.
• Less on the screen: a compact HUD, a one-line goal card, building names only where something can be done.
• Building panels show everything up to the buy button without scrolling; the explanation is behind "Info".
• On a computer the first walking hint shows W A S D and the mouse.

iPhone

• The HUD and the base buttons sit beside the Dynamic Island; panels stay above the home bar and scroll by dragging.

New

• Start menu with three save slots and settings.
• Fog instead of night outside the base. It turns dark only as your lantern oil runs out.
• Little map in the corner with an arrow that always points home.
• Upgrade queue: line up to 3 more jobs behind a busy building.
• Fall screen: shows what you lost, where your pack waits and what the mule saved, then "Respawn at base". A fall costs a quarter of the current level's XP.
• Longer music with real songs instead of short loops.
• Dungeons are rarer and more special.
• Walking feels even in every direction on screen.
• The haul card on the base screen fades by itself.

The game has a name: Fogmarch

• New app icon and loading picture: the castle in a clearing of fog.

iPhone app

• Fogmarch runs as an iPhone app, with sound even when the silent switch is on.
• Crash-safe saves: progress survives app updates.

New

• Town life: a marketplace, houses with townsfolk who walk the streets, and rent every minute.
• Trade at the marketplace: buy stone, wood and iron, sell hide, crystal and iron.
• Base levels up to 20, from tent to the Throne of the Fog, with new gear tiers, the Observatory and the Treasury.
• Bosses guard a map piece every 5 stages.
• World map of everything explored so far, on parchment.
• Sound and music.
• Battle fury: 10 seconds of double-speed attacks, trained at the forge.
• Expeditions resume where you left off after closing the game.
• Falling keeps your world: you wake at home and fetch your pack from where you fell.
• Dice for random hero and base names.

Balance

• Gear matters more than hero levels.
• Health heals fast only at the base; outside only slowly, and only away from fights.
• Camps are small campfires that refill the lantern.
• Richer land far from the base; a slower late game and smoother level costs.
• Enemies find their way around trees and rocks.

The first version

• Explore an endless fog with your lantern around a base that grows from a tent into a castle.
• Gather wood, stone, iron and crystal by standing next to trees and rocks; fights swing on their own.
• Bow and arrows from the Fletcher (base level 4).
• Building and upgrading take time, with progress bars.
• Name your cartographer and your base.
• Camps in the fog from base level 6.
• A game clock with days.
• Dungeons: caves, crypts and mines with their own maps, a chest and a relic.
• Every upgrade shows on the hero.
• Pictures instead of text: tap any picture for its meaning.
• Plays in portrait and landscape, and from the iPhone home screen like an app.