Blight Devlog

Release notes and development stories, newest first.

• 29 Oct 2026v2.0.1

  Strings Attached

  Strings Attached

• 27 Oct 2026v2.0.0

  Medals All Round

  Blight grew up. The story runs four acts and actually ends: down through the catacombs to the Crack, three bosses, and a King with a box of medals and a loose grip on everyone's names. Everyone in it looks like who they are, the gold arrow

• 8 Oct 2026v1.6.0

  Cog in the Machine

  Blight grew a cog. Press it and you get a menu, which on a phone means there's finally a way out of a match other than losing it. The blight doesn't pause while you're in there, mind; it has places to be.

• 7 Oct 2026v1.5.2

  Losers Weepers

  Death in Blight now has teeth, or at least it keeps your axe.

• 6 Oct 2026v1.5.1

  Unpacked

  1.5.0 brought Blight back to Mac, and then it wouldn't start. This one does.

• 5 Oct 2026v1.5.0

  Signed, Sealed, Delivered

  Blight is back on Mac, and this time Apple has checked our paperwork. Mac releases paused after 1.4.9 while a Mac for us to build on was in the post; it arrived, it builds every release, it won't ship a Mac build that can't start, and it si

• 13 Aug 2026v1.4.10

  Get a Grip

  A release about holding things properly: your weapons, and our own crash reports. One fix for your hands, one for our sovereignty; both overdue.

• 11 Aug 2026v1.4.9

  Forged at Home

  No new corner of the village this time; this release is the housewarming. Blight now builds, tests and ships entirely from our own studio infrastructure, and this version exists to prove that whole line end to end with a real release. If we

• 13 July 2026v1.4.8

  The One That Opens on Linux

  For our Linux players, this release delivers the most fundamental feature a game can have: starting. The desktop build had been crashing before the window ever appeared, which made the rest of the release notes somewhat academic. That's fix

• 28 May 2026v1.4.7

  Mudbury Comes to Life

  Mudbury stops feeling like a ghost town. The tavern has patrons and a few heroes nursing their drinks, the pumpkin patches finally read as kitchen gardens rather than cairns, and a swarm of invisible walls that had been quietly forcing your

• 12 May 2026v1.4.6

  Bots Find Their Bearings

  For a while now the bots have been swinging at thin air, swords pointed roughly at their own kneecaps. As of this release they've remembered which way they're facing, so fights with bot-controlled units are once again fights rather than int

• 5 May 2026v1.4.5

  The Crash Diary

  When the game falls over, we'd like to hear about it. Up to now the only feedback loop has been the goodwill of players willing to write the bug down somewhere; from this release the game tells us itself, scrubbed of anything we don't need

• 5 May 2026v1.4.4

  Take Two

  1.4.3 hit a snag mid-flight: the AAB landed on Google Play's internal track, but a stray cancellation skipped the GitHub Release tag and the website devlog sync, leaving the world half-shipped. 1.4.4 carries the same code as 1.4.3, but with

• 5 May 2026v1.4.3

  Cheaper Phones, Angrier Goats

  Two unrelated favours this round. Budget Android handsets with 32-bit ARM finally get their own slice in the AAB, so the A13 crowd can stop watching everyone else play. And the village livestock has remembered it's meant to be hostile; prev

• 4 May 2026v1.4.2

  Mobile Blight Lifted, Again

  Turns out the phone version had been shipping without any of its fonts, splash, or banner art. Without fonts there are no words, and without words there is no game; just a polite crash on the doorstep before the tavern even opened. Bug had

• 25 Apr 2026v1.4.1

  Deliveries All Round

  Mac folk finally get their own proper crate delivered to the tavern door, one for Apple Silicon and one for Intel, each stamped so no one picks up the wrong one. First time you open yours, right-click -> Open to get past macOS's "who sent t

• 19 Apr 2026v1.3.9

  Mobile Blight Lifted

  Something nasty had crept into the mobile version. Players launching Blight on Android got a crash instead of a pub, which is arguably the wrong kind of suffering.

• 19 Apr 2026v1.3.8

  Quests first

  ​The Create Game screen now leads with Quest mode, and new games default to Quest. Horde's still there, just in the second slot.

• 19 Apr 2026v1.3.7

  Broken song

  The song 'Pixel Quest' was broken, but we fixed it with some glue.

• 18 Apr 2026v1.3.6

  Respecting the Stones

  Adventurers have sworn off drifting through castle walls like ghosts; from now on, they walk around them like the rest of us.

• 18 Apr 2026v1.3.5

  Android MIDI fix

  Android MIDI fix

• 16 Apr 2026v1.3.4

  Bugs and missing files

  Missing quest files for desktop build, also Linux wasn't getting the .NET versus 9 upgrade yet, it was still building on 8.

• 16 Apr 2026v1.3.3

  Under the Hood

  Upgraded the entire project from .NET 8 to .NET 9 to meet Google Play's new 16KB page alignment requirement for Android 15+ devices. No gameplay changes; just making sure the game keeps running on modern hardware.

• 16 Apr 2026v1.3.2

  Re-upload for mobile

  Re-upload for mobile.

• 16 Apr 2026v1.3.1

  Big Slots

  Weapon slots moved to the right side of the screen and made much larger on mobile so you can actually see and tap them. Tapping a slot switches your active weapon.

• 16 Apr 2026v1.3.0

  Click, Fight, Repeat

  Combat got a complete overhaul. Click an enemy, your character runs over and starts swinging. Kill it, and they'll turn on the next thing trying to eat you. Same controls whether you're on a phone or at your desk; tap or click, that's it. H

• 13 Apr 2026v1.2.5

  Horde Polish, Menu Facelift, and Quest Blueprints

  Horde mode got a proper coat of paint. Buildings now have south-facing wall quads so the barricades read as solid structures instead of floating rooftops. A bonfire, lanterns, and campfires light the central plaza, and the whole mode runs i

• 3 Apr 2026v1.2.4

  Quests, Android, and the Road to Google Play

  The quest begins. Twelve encounters span three acts of escalating darkness; chickens scatter in the village square, bandits spring their ambush in the Whispering Wood, and something far worse grins back at you from the blight. Every encount

• 30 Mar 2026v1.1.53

  Lua Screenshots and Timers

  New Lua commands: screenshot([name]) saves a PNG to screenshots/, after(seconds, fn) schedules delayed callbacks. Enables scripted visual test scenes that capture frames automatically.

• 29 Mar 2026v1.1.51

  43 Songs; Richer Arrangements

  Added 22 new songs spanning gothic organ, Celtic folk, space ambient, industrial metal, jazz, military march, percussion showcase, and more. All use advanced synth features: expression swells, sustain pedal, pitch bends, modulation vibrato,

• 29 Mar 2026v1.1.50

  Lua Music Engine

  All 21 songs ported from hardcoded C# methods to Lua scripts in scripts/songs/. MidiPlayer.cs is now a clean playback engine with a registry; no song data in C#.

• 29 Mar 2026v1.1.49

  Creature Name Labels

  Dev-mode enemies now show their species name (Orc, Skeleton Warrior, Demon) instead of their internal ID. A missing key in ParseString was returning a garbage substring that clobbered the correct label. Also added Demon to the name lookup,

• 29 Mar 2026v1.1.48

  NavGrid Out-of-Bounds Fix

  Entities outside the NavGrid's coverage area (e.g. in dev mode at non-centre coordinates) would have their positions clamped to the grid edge, causing A-star to trace a bogus path along that edge and all enemies to drift rightward. NavGrid

• 29 Mar 2026v1.1.47

  Socket-Aware Combat

  Attacks now carry the socket index through the network so the server uses the correct weapon per hand. Grenades, molotovs, spears, and other throwables work from either socket. Shields early-return from attack handling since blocking is sep

• 29 Mar 2026v1.1.46

  Dual Weapon Sockets

  Creatures now have a configurable number of weapon sockets instead of a single weapon slot. Players get two hands; warriors carry sword+shield, rogues dual-wield daggers, slimes and animals have zero sockets. The system supports any number

• 29 Mar 2026v1.1.45

  Creature Unification Complete

  Finished merging player and entity systems into one shared codebase. All creatures now use ICreatureController for input; PlayerInputController handles real players, BrainController handles AI. Damage, hit detection, i-frames, knockback, an

• 29 Mar 2026v1.1.44

  Unified Creature Class

  Merged PlayerState and SimEntity into a single Creature class. Players, enemies, and NPCs are now the same type, distinguished by a Disposition field. Phase 1 of creature unification.

• 29 Mar 2026v1.1.43

  Entity Weapon System

  Enemies now carry real weapons. Orc warriors wield swords, rogues carry daggers, the demon swings an axe. Melee range and cooldown come from the weapon stats instead of flat constants.

• 29 Mar 2026v1.1.42

  Pixel-Perfect Melee

  Punching now uses the exact sprite fist-tip position for hit detection. The collision point is derived from the same pixel math that draws the arm, so what you see is what you hit. A red debug dot marks the exact contact point.

• 29 Mar 2026v1.1.41

  Bot Scripting and Weapon Rendering

  bot.add now spawns real bot players instead of broken entity type 0. Bots accept weapon, at, facing, and count options from Lua; facing takes a string ("up", "down", "left", "right") or a vector table. Dev-spawned bots are frozen in place s

• 29 Mar 2026v1.1.40

  Beer Mug Hand Alignment

  The beer mug now sits correctly in the player's hand from all four directions. Side-facing and back-facing views had the grip point too close to the body; all directions now use a consistent offset matching the forward view, which was alrea

• 29 Mar 2026v1.1.39

  Draggable Lua Console

  The Lua console has been unchained. Drag it by the title bar, fling it to any corner of the screen, stretch it open from the bottom-right handle until it fills your entire monitor. It appears centered on first summon and grows its output to

• 29 Mar 2026v1.1.38

  Lua Console Polish

  The Lua dev console gets a round of polish. help() lists all available commands. load("scripts/foo.lua") runs a script file from inside the console; --exec-file now routes through it so the console shows exactly what was loaded. time() read

• 29 Mar 2026v1.1.37

  Dev Mode (blank field)

  --mode dev is now a completely empty field; no scenery, no walls, no waves. Player spawns at world center with fists. Use the Lua console to build the scene from scratch.

• 29 Mar 2026v1.1.36

  Dev Mode

  --mode dev starts a blank scene for isolated testing; quest village layout, no waves, no objectives, match never ends. Drop in, open the Lua console with ~, and conjure exactly what you need. Works for anyone, not just the host machine.

• 29 Mar 2026v1.1.35

  Lua Dev Console

  The dev console is now a full embedded Lua REPL powered by MoonSharp. Open it with ~ while hosting and write real Lua; spawn enemies, NPCs, weapons, bots, and whole scenes with named arguments and loops. spawn("villager", { name="Old Hodge"

• 28 Mar 2026v1.1.34

  Tavern Weapons & Dev Tools

  The tavern now has a proper starting weapon; a Beer Mug sitting on the bar, ready to pick up and swing. Farming weapons (Pitchfork, Rake, Scythe) are scattered as static drops across the first two encounters, giving players something to gra

• 27 Mar 2026v1.1.24

  Village Roads & Wall Polish

  The quest village finally has a proper road network. Every building connects to the central crossroads with paths that route around buildings instead of through them. The south buildings get L-shaped roads wrapping around their sides, and t