Letter Quest Remastered is now available on Steam!

If you own the original Letter Quest on Steam, you now own Letter Quest Remastered too - check your Steam library! If you don't see the game, you may have to log out of Steam and log back in, but it should show up automatically.

Enjoy the game!

- The Bacon Bandits

Letter Quest Remastered is coming to Steam at 4 pm PST today, August 5, 2015!

Letter Quest Remastered will be free for all existing owners of Letter Quest! All we ask in return is that you consider leaving a review for the game to help us get some visibility, and tell your friends and family about the game. :)

For more details, see this announcement.

We hope you enjoy the game! Cheers!

- The Bacon Bandits

Hi everyone!

I recently posted an announcement with some details about the new Letter Quest Remastered release that is coming on August 5, 2015.

I wanted to let everyone know that Letter Quest Remastered will be completely free for everyone that owns Letter Quest. I hope everyone enjoys the new features and changes in Letter Quest Remastered, it's been a six month labor of love, and I'm really happy with how it turned out!

Every time you finish a game in the new endless mode you will get a custom image showing the details of how you did. I hope to see some awesome scores and amazing words posted once the game is released. Here's an example image to show you what I mean:

Letter Quest Remastered will support Linux right from day one! It was completely rewritten with Unity, and should support all resolutions and run super efficiently! I'm able to get a solid 60 fps on my 2008 MacBook that has a built-in Intel graphics card!

All of the enemies are now animated as well. :)

Oh, and there's a brand new soundtrack from a really talented musician. It's not a remastered soundtrack either, it's completely new, from scratch! I've also included the original soundtrack, in much higher quality than what I could do in Letter Quest (since it used Adobe Air), and you can switch between them in the options menu.

There are lots of other changes too, and I'll be posting more updates as we get closer to the release date.

Cheers!

Hi everyone,

We've been working really hard to bring out a new, updated version of Letter Quest, called Letter Quest Remastered!

The entire game has been rewritten in Unity, and will support Windows, Mac, and Linux! We've also added an endless mode, a brand new soundtrack, animated enemies, and much more!

Letter Quest remastered will be released on August 5, 2015.

For more details, check out the Letter Quest Remastered coming soon page.

We look forward to bringing everyone a new and improved Letter Quest!

-The Bacon Bandits

This update contains several small bug fixes, a new Super Supporter word, and several more dictionary words and definitions.

• Added over 50 new words and definitions to the game's dictionary
  
• Added new Super Supporter word "HIME" - a huge thank you to the person that supported us for this one!
  
• Fixed up the definitions of over 200 words (I do this manually, word-by-word!)

• Several small bug fixes - thanks so much to everyone that pointed these out, and verified that they were fixed. :)

That's all for now, until next time everyone! Happy Gaming!

This is a minor Letter Quest update with a few bug fixes and a few new additions, including a new weapon!

• Added a 10th weapon to the game, that increases the amount of HP that potions restore
  
• Added almost 100 new words and definitions to the game's dictionary
  
• Fixed up the definitions of over 500 words (I do this manually, word-by-word!)
  
• Changed the description of the stat and achievement for destroying treasure chests to be more clear by indicating that it's for actually failing to open that many treasure chests, sorry for the confusion!

• Fixed a bug with the sixth set of letter tiles where the letters were too far down on the letters, and looked really broken when on a flipped tile
  
• Fixed a store bug that could cause a crash in really rare circumstances (thanks to the person that reported this and helped me test the fix!)
  
• Several small bug fixes

That's it for now! I want to say a huge thank you to everyone that has tried Letter Quest, you're all awesome! :)

This is a minor Letter Quest update with a few bug fixes and, as requested by a few players, a change to make the letter tile rarities identifiable by players that are color blind.

Instead of each letter just having a single dot in the bottom-right that is bronze, silver, or gold, there is now 1-3 dots that are still in those colors, so that letter rarities can be identified by either the color, or the number of dots. Hopefully this helps out the color blind players! Please let me know if there's anything else that needs changing! :)

• Letter tiles now have 1-3 dots in the bottom-right to indicate letter rarities (so that color blind players can identify the letter rarities)

• Fixed a crash bug if quit/restarted a stage while a treasure chest was being destroyed
  
• Fixed a bug with the final level of the "more gems from defeated monsters" book being a downgrade instead of an upgrade
  
• Several small bug fixes

The winter holiday update for Letter Quest is here!

Joining Grimm and Rose on their journey is St. Nick! He's got more armor (damage reduction) and a cool new weapon that's all wrapped up for the holidays!

• New character, St. Nick!
  
• New weapon, St. Nick's scythe, that increases gems earned from defeated monsters
  
• New weapon, the Light-Scythe, that reduces damage taken
  
• Several book effects have been increased so that they are more useful
  
• Weapon effects have been changed to be better balanced
  
• Weapon upgrade costs reduced
  
• Upgrade costs reduced
  
• Potion costs reduced to 100 gems per potion (were 250 before)
  
• Several balancing changes based on player feedback
  
• Several efficiency improvements to keep everything running smoothly even on modest hardware
  
• Several small animation tweaks for Grimm and Rose
  
• Over 200 more new words added to the dictionary
  
• Steam achievements now synced when import a save file into the game (from either an old version of the game, or from the demo)

• Fixed the definitions of several more words
  
• Fixed up some slight inconsistencies in some tutorial text
  
• Several tiny bug fixes - thank you to everyone that helped me find and fix these!

That's it for this update!

The Bacon Bandits (all two of us!) want to wish everyone a happy, safe, and relaxing winter holiday!

Hi everyone!

So far it seems like everyone has really been enjoying Letter Quest, and that is so great to hear! A huge thank you to everyone that has helped out by pointing out issues, missing words/incorrect definitions, and helping to solve problems - you guys (and girls!) are awesome!

I just released an update, see below for details!

• Added over 200 new words to the dictionary
  
• Updated incorrect/weird definitions of almost 300 words in the dictionary - thanks to everyone that pointed these out!
  
• Whenever at the pile of gems at the end of each stage, the bottom-right panel explains that you earn more gems by spelling longer/better (more rare letters) words since this wasn't made clear before
  
• Added details about the bronze, silver and gold icons on letters to the center tile's help icon
  
• Grimm and Rose now flash colors much more slowly (and less harshly) when low on health, since the frequency of the flashing was causing issues for people with epilepsy (sorry about that, please let me know if it's better now!)
  
• Changed description for "healing item" for the in-battle merchant to be "bacon" to avoid confusion
  
• Changed the description for achievements and quests for merchant items to specify "merchant items in-battle" to avoid confusion - these items must be purchased from the merchant that is encountered during battle, not from the main shop in the menus
  
• Lowered requirement for "spell 5000 words" achievement to "spell 3000 words" since 5000 was much too high - looked at global achievement stats and leaderboards to figure out what a fair value would be. Thank you to everyone that participated in the discussion that led to this decision!
  
• As detailed at the end of the announcement, replaced two of the letter tiles with easier-to-read fonts

• Fixed bug where sometimes toggling between windowed and fullscreen with the hot-key wouldn't properly update the in-game UI for the selected resolution
  
• Fixed bug where attempting to equip a book when all unlocked slots were already filled would show a dark overlay that only covered part of the screen - now it correctly covers the entire screen
  
• Fixed bug where the click handling for "click to continue" popups didn't cover the whole screen sometimes, so clicking near the screen edges wouldn't do anything
  
• Fixed crash bug where leaving a battle while at the in-battle merchant and then pressing TAB, SPACE, or ENTER would cause the game to crash

Also, some people were having issues with the readability (or lack thereof) of a few of the letter tile sets, so two of them have been updated:

Pine Tiles Before:

Pine Tiles After:

Future Tiles Before:

Future Tiles After:

I hope those seem more readable/usable!

That's it for this update! Stay tuned for more!