Press E to scan.

Great theories #29 defender, thanks for taking so much effort to try to solve it! Been looking into it the past 2 days, and as far as I understand it I think you might be right about the Sounds being a factor. There might be some unintended consequences of a change I made to the sword swing direction audio.

I have a theory, but I won't be able to test and fix it until after the 26th; I have some work I need to finish that is taking all my time now. So in about a week I'll be able to focus on this again.

#26 haha, that would be the dream Lirian. Definitely wanted a similar vibe to that. We actually have the systems in place for the player using Bows, knives and other weapons, but a bug stopped us from fully implementing it close to the finish line. Would like to try to fix it later.

#31 Really sorry to hear that Computergamer;
I think this is the same issue that Defender is having with the game crashing.

I'm going to Full-Time trying to fix this issue after the 26th of august; currently I'm finishing some work that I can't delay.
Please don't try the game until I've pushed the update.

I'm sorry your experience in the game has been such a hassle.

@steelcase, thanks for that. and I totally understand if you have other things to do. Don't stress yourself. i have Another feedback, I Think the sound for which direction you are facing could be louder. I have a hard time to hear what the  voice is  saying. I have to hit the q key a lot to hear what it is saying. Could there be a option to change the volume of this voice? or Another option to make it speak louder? Thqat's just a thing i thought about when I was playing.

@Dungeon Diver
Try pressing "1" and make sure your using a screen reader when running it.

Hey Computergamer; Been working on it for most of today and going to finish this patch tomorrow, so in less than 24 hours I will announce here that I've pushed the update.

This is going to be the big Quality of Life fix;

All of the options are now Serialized; that means they're saved to a text file so if the game crashes they won't need to be reconfigured. That means control settings and volume options. Options have clearer descriptions.

I'm also adding a Bunch of volume sliders for every conceivable thing, so that they can be adjusted based on preference.
In general I'm also boosting some sounds that people have found to be too low, so they're higher by default.

Theres now a toggle for turning off mouse input; if you're not using a mouse, turn it off so it doesn't affect the character rotation.

I am still trying to track down the EXACT crash bug, but I've done a bunch of Optimizations that I might have done it; My game hasnt crashed the last 10 times i ran through the first floor.

Here's a list of things I'm working on tomorrow:

1. Sound cue when you are close enough to an enemy that you can hit them. This is a big one that I think will improve the game drastically.
2. Sound Cue for when you are in range of an enemy attack; This one is something I suspect will make a big difference as well.
3. Sound cue for entering a new room
4. Fixing the fact that the Cardinal Direction Announcement doesn't speak everytime you turn around.
5. Scan should work on pickups, gonna fix it.
6. ESCAPE to get out of deep menus! I want this, hope I have time.

Going to bed now, it's 2 AM here, have a good one!

Thanks for the positivity, defender! I didn't manage to do everything, but I figured something is better than nothing;

Alright, Update is out! This is version 1.2.1

This is just a QUALITY OF LIFE update; It does NOT include new gameplay. If you've played through the content already, its gonna be a little longer until there's a content update.

Please Delete your old saveFiles before downloading this update: They are incompatible and will cause issues.
That means: Delete everything in the folder C:\Users\YOURNAMEHERE\AppData\LocalLow\Wiktor and Benjamin\Code Dungeon
This shouldn't be necessary for future patches, but this patch restructured the Saving System.

Main Order of business: The game SHOULD Crash less: I haven't been able to crash the game all day.

Escape now gets you out of Deep Menus, but will not resume the game. (Should make mistaken UI clicks less frustrating) (Requested by defender)
- Scan works on Pickup items. (defender)
- Sounds have a ton of options for adjustments. Go into Options > Audio Settings for a list of sliders that you can adjust.
-You can turn off Mouse Input
- All controls and options and audio settings are saved to Text Files, so if the game DOES crash, it's slightly less annoying. (Requested by defender #24)
-You can now rebind the arrow keys (Requested by Ghaith#23)
- Game no longer writes text logs for Collisions, attacks and taking damage; this caused a very slight performance hitch, and I don't need that data urgently anymore. Might turn on again at a later point if new features need to be tested.

I did not manage to implement the new features I mentioned: sound cue for in-range of enemy, entering new room, cardinal direction, etc. Splitting the Audio mixing and creating a system for updating all those volume settings separately ended up taking all day. I had a bug that was incredibly frustrating to track down that slowed things a lot.

I'm taking tomorrow off (Sunday) and continuing on Monday.

If the game crashes for anybody, please let me know and I will furrow my brow and call a friend to help track it down. I have no idea what it could be a this point if it still happens.

Hey #41 black_dog; I haven't removed any sounds from the game, I just wasn't able to add a new set of sounds that I was planning to add to make it easier to tell when the player should swing their sword. If the monsters don't make sound, that's a bug and not intentional.

I've been testing the game a bunch of times today to make sure that enemies make sounds, and on every play through for me they do; did you remember to delete your old save file folder? This might cause issues.

I've tried to play the build version of the game on my Desktop computer and downloaded it on my laptop through itch.io, and I can't make the monsters be quiet.

I did discover a couple of bugs though; By default, UI sounds and Hallway Swooshes volume is set to 0 now. Don't have a clue how that happens; They should be set to 1 at the start of the game the exact same way every other sound is given max volume.

Thanks for your report about the sound getting weird after a long game; I'm gonna leave the game running tomorrow to see what happens with it. Then I'll get to work on improving the game.

Thanks for playing, I'm sorry it doesn't feel like a "complete experience". Glad to hear that you still want to check it out when it updates.

@steelcase
So here are my thoughts on 1.2.1

First, great job on the direction voice, majorly reducing the effect of the HRTF on it while still allowing directional positioning was the best outcome I had hoped for.
I also really like the individual volume sliders, I had kinda hoped for something like that but thought it would be too much to ask.

I am still seeing that the mouse sensitivity and control scheme aren't saving though, and this is after deleting everything in the appdata.
I also noticed that with the control settings, even if you change the dialogue scrolling keys, you still can't actually use any of the arrows for other actions even if you set them that way.  They still try to scroll text.
Oh and, if possible, it would be good if the saved sound options (or at least the ones controling music and menu selection volume) would load before the game did.  I know this may add an extra second to the load time, but you could always have the game read out "loading" if the screen reader option is enabled, so that people know it's working.  This way you won't get way louder sounds for the first couple of seconds after the game starts.

By the way, I can confirm that the attack speed increase items now show up on the radar which is great, along with the louder and more central item pickup sounds which do their job perfectly.

I do have to unfortunately report that the game still consistently crashes for me at varying points after the second chomper though, and still with seemingly no pattern.  I know this must be incredibly frustrating for you but I promise you I'm more than willing to wait until it's fixed.  We don't get good new games with interesting mechanics often around here, so I'm confident that others are as well.  Don't worry about people losing interest too much.

Thanks for your continued work!

@Steelcase
Please don't be too hard on your self.  I respect how much you care about your project, but hearing you apologize so much for bugs in a free game makes me feel like you might be beating your self up for it, and I wouldn't want that to effect your day.
I know it sucks, but you've got all the time in the world to work on it.  Like I said we'll still be here when you figure it out and I for one really appreciate that you're continuing to work on this problem while also improving other things.  The pace isn't that important, and the lessons you've learned about accessibility along the way aren't going anywhere no matter how well the game works.

Hello,
Any plans for gamepad support in this? I'd love to play with a gamepad and have analogue support for movement speed etc.