The original Crimsonland is over five years old now. Can you believe it? That's over two million minutes! That's as old as World of Warcraft! What's even more amazing to me is that we still keep getting regularly emails from people who've just discovered the game and obviously like it enough to tell us about it. The game is still definitely more popular than I could have ever imagined. It's hard to describe how great that feels being a small indie game developer. So Thank you.
Aanyway, all mushiness aside, and obviously to celebrate the occasion, we do have something for you. What I'm talking about is a new version, an upgrade to the original Crimsonland. I mean Blizzard just released Lich King upgrade, we've got keep up with those guys!
It's no secret that the version 1.9.8 still had a few minor bugs here and there. Nothing really nasty, but some features combined could simply break the game play in unexpected ways. For example picking the perk Angry Reloader and having Pulse Gun would shoot a constant stream of fire balls all around as Pulse Gun has no reload time. Not much of a challenge left there. DO NOT TRY THAT AT HOME. So that's one of the things fixed in the new version 1.9.9.
However, there's still (at least!) one especially strange bug living in the new version too. It's very simple to reproduce: Disable all sounds and you won't get any Fire Bullet powerups. You can clearly see that our friends Cause and Effect occasionally enjoy a small break from their daily routines. I'm not saying the source code of Crimsonland 1 is that pretty, but when the sound engine code is in a separate module with supposedly no shared memory space with the game part, how can this happen? In any case, it's pretty harmless and you can easily get around it, so I guess we can peacefully co-exist with the emerging machine intelligence that'd rather have no bullets than silent bullets. It clearly likes big boom. The glitch seems to be somehow connected to the Skynet module which has been acting really strange lately, but I don't think it's anything we should be concerned about.
Ok. Getting down to the good part. It wouldn't be a Crimsonland update if it didn't contain at least some new features. Two most notable additions are probably the three new Perks, and better support for XBOX360's excellent game pads. So those who're still with me in this needlessly long stream of words, please head down at the downloads section and give the new version a try. Thanks!