Hello, headmasters and headmistresses of magic schools! :cutedragon:

It’s been a long time! Sorry for the long silence. Here’s a small balance and bug-fix update (see the non-exhaustive list at the bottom of this post). This is also a technical update, paving the way for a major expansion coming later this year. This expansion will allow us to deliver the final, definitive version of Spellcaster University.

This game has been a labor of love for us, but the time has come to move on to new video game projects. This expansion will let us wrap up the adventure properly.

A quick word as well for those who interacted with us throughout development: for the past two years, we’ve been very quiet. Various family reasons (and perhaps, paradoxically, a need to take a breather after the incredible reception Spellcaster University received—thank you again!) led us to gradually step back from communication, though not from development, which continued at a slower pace.

For a long time, we hesitated to create an expansion for Spellcaster University. We had plenty of ideas but feared overloading an already rich game. However, as time passed, we refined our vision and arrived at something we truly like. I’ll be sharing some visuals of what’s coming “soon.”

Balance:

• The chance to gain the Heroic trait from the Heroic Statue increases from 3% to 4%.
  
• Increases the efficiency of the Future Heating Boxes by 25%.
  
• Increases the effects (both positive and negative) of the Tentacle artifact by 20%.
  
• Doubles the effect of the Old-fashioned trait.
  
• Doubles the effect of the Ugly trait.
  
• Doubles the effect of the Aggressive trait.
  
• Doubles the effect of the Unshakable trait.
  
• Doubles the effect of the Resilient trait (outside of dungeons).
  
• Doubles the effect of the Brave trait (outside of dungeons).
  
• Increases the effect of the Green Dragon's Blessing by approximately 30%.
  
• Increases the effect of the Blue Dragon's Blessing by approximately 30%.
  
• Increases the effect of the Black Dragon's Blessing by approximately 30%.
  
• Increases the effect of the Purple Dragon's Blessing by approximately 30%.
  
• Increases the effect of the White Dragon's Blessing by approximately 30%.
  
• Increases the effect of the Turquoise Dragon's Blessing by approximately 30%.
  
• The Bloody Curse now accelerates reputation loss by 20% instead of 10%.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a bug that caused excessive CPU usage when displaying the in-game date.
  
• The student information panel no longer briefly appears with incorrect stats before updating on the first frame.
  
• In all languages (except French), fixed a missing space in the graduation ceremony text.
  
• Reduced the risk of students getting stuck on certain maps (especially in the mountain and volcano).
  
• General optimization by disabling unnecessary background debugging tools.

Hello everyone! Just a quick note to let you know that Spellcaster University is 50% off for Deckbuilder Fest!

Get ready to build the greatest school of magic the world has ever known.

Happy holidays to all school headmasters!

We're continuing to prepare new products for you, slowly but surely, despite the ups and downs of life.
A few hints of what's to come have crept into this image. ːsteamhappyː

We wish you lots of happiness and magic! :cutedragon:

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Just a short message to announce the release of a new update for Spellcaster University. On the program, various optimizations and bug fixes, some visual improvements (especially for clouds), some comfort improvements (possibility to save your coats of arms/houses, summary panel of your school's teachers), and finally possibility for a fee to fire your teachers to get a new draw.

:fatpegasus: :fatpegasus: :fatpegasus:

It has now been roughly 1 year and 9 months since we came out of early access, and about 3 and a half years since Spellcaster University existed with its first appearance on Steam. That's... a long time. So, it's time for us to move on. We'll be announcing good news about the future of Spellcaster University soon, which we hope you'll enjoy. We'll tell you more soon!

:councillor: :councillor: :councillor:

The teachers panel, with the possibility to fire them

Coat of arms save options

Hello all mages, witches and other demonists, :fatpegasus::fatpegasus::fatpegasus:

Today we made available a major new content update. We talked about it in terms of free DLC, but concretely everything is added directly into the game, you don't have to do anything.

To benefit from all the new features, it is better to start a new game. If you are in the middle of a campaign, most of the new features will only be available from the next level. The new features do not change the main mechanics, you may have to explore the decks to discover them.

The big new features are two new rooms with unique mechanics, fifteen new pieces of equipment and the cards that go with them. A new artifact and brand new futures as a bonus. I won't go into details, I'll let you discover. This is the biggest update since 1.0.

If you want to find out what's new, you'll find a changelog (absolutely not complete) in English in the game.

:cutedragon: We hope you will like it! :cutedragon:

Hello to all magic school directors!

Just a quick announcement about the new free content we've been talking about for a while. We're in the final stages of completion, with the final translations still to be added. The good news is that we can announce a final release date. The bad news is that it's still a bit delayed. The update will be released between April 7 and 14.

We thank you for your patience. We're sorry, but the team is very bad at restricting what is reasonable to do, and we always have a little tidbit we want to add, a little improvement, etc...

In the meantime, here are a few more pictures of what's coming in April:

Two days ago we released a special update that introduces a series of small seasonal events spread throughout the year. We've also made some fixes, optimizations, and added some graphical variety to the castle balconies. It's a small update while waiting for the free DLC.
On the other hand, we are still working on this free DLC, which should be released in the near future, and this is the opportunity to show you some of the new features to come.

First of all, this free DLC will double the number of pieces of equipment available for your students. They bring new powers to maximize the performance of your students, and some will help you in the dungeon phases!
We are also preparing the arrival of two new rooms.
First of all, the much requested common room, which will be associated with one of your houses and will take its colors (image of the room under development):
And then, the stadium, the first room occupying four boxes. We'll keep you guessing about the sport that is practiced there, but I promise it doesn't involve flying brooms (image of the room under development).
And on top of all that, there will be new dungeon encounters, new futures, a new language (Korean), and always new fixes.

We've been a bit ambitious with this update, and it's taking a bit longer than expected. We're sorry about that, but we're putting all our heart into making sure you like it!

This is the 1.00! The whole team would like to thank all the players who participated in the Spellcaster University early access. The game has evolved a lot in almost two years thanks to you. But this is not the end of the road. We will continue to work on Spellcaster University: in addition to the updates that will fix the inevitable bugs that will be reported to us, we will be releasing a free DLC in autumn that will focus on magic items and student equipment. And we have other ideas for the future. Thanks again to everyone!

New(major): Some events offer your students the opportunity to go on an expedition. Select your champions and guide them through the dungeons to collect loot. This brand new module includes spells, illustrations, specific events, and many other things.
New(major): New music, for days, nights and dungeons.
New: New variable objectives to renew your games.
New: Many new languages.
New: New events.
New: Display of the levels won on the global map.
New: Possibility to take back in hand the played artifacts.
New: The speed can now be controlled with the numeric keys.
New: Phoenix artifact boost dungeon expeditions.
New: Orc hound beat your students to motivate them.
New: New UI sounds.
New(major): Soundscapes for each region.
New: Barricaded doors for unused access to rooms (purely aesthetic).
New: Unique first names and surnames for each type of student.
New(major): Help book with a lot of information.
New: The stat book has been revamped, with more and more stats!
New: The general stat panel is accessible from the game.
New: New sounds for animations (like guinea pigs roaming the corridors).
New: New animations of injury and madness for students.
New: More equipment on the 2D portraits.
New: New 3D visual for graduating students. They no longer mysteriously disappear from your school.

Balance(major): Lots of adjustments on the effect of rooms, artifacts and equipment.
Balance: Some artifacts have a new effect that increases the efficiency of students in dungeons.
Balance: Some traits have a new effect that increases (or decrease !) the efficiency of students in dungeons.
Balance: The witch cat is now less effective (approximately 33% less effective).
Balance: Speed of advance of the evil adjusted to correspond to the modifications of the 1.0.
Balance: Resource quests are now more difficult.

Fix(major): Fixed a serious problem that made the game have a 1 in 5 million chance (precisely!) of crashing each time the random number generator was used.
Fix(major): Optimization of CPU consumption by reducing the number of operations performed in each cycle (such as unnecessary UI refresh).
Fix: Lots of various small fixes that we haven't seriously listed.
Fix: Pieces of equipment require at least one point in the magic involved to be equipped.
Fix: The Fir Ent card is now in the Nature deck rather than the base deck.
Fix: Changes in the advance of the forces of evil are now expressed as a percentage.
Fix: Organic rules now work as expected.
Fix: Full screen is not inverted anymore (it was a very stupid bug anyway...).
Fix: Forbidden characters on the different OS can no longer be used to name a school.
Fix: Improvement of the navmesh of the mountain level.
Fix: Easier (a bit) to place gazebo.
Fix: It is easier to select sleeping students (even if it is disrespectful to their sleep).

And a lot of other stuff that we didn't take the time to list in this changelog!

Just a little announcement to let you know that the release time is 07:00pm (Europe), 01:00pm (USA) and 01:00am (June 16) (Beijing). If you are interested in the game, wait for this time to buy it, there will be a 20% discount ːsteamhappyː.