Demon's Rise

This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon. - Updated UI so as to be optimized for iPhone X - Fixed bug in prior release that would cause aspect ratio to be incorrect during battles on some devices. - Added touch control sensitivity options in the pause menu during battle. - Added a 2-finger vertical pan touch gesture that allows the player to vertically rotate the camera. - Fixed a bug where a player would lose control of his character if it moved onto a position of a recently defeated enemy. - Fixed a bug where some spells would cause the game to hang if cast in an area that included the original caster.

- Fixed bug where camera zoom level would not return to player-defined position at start of player turn. - Added a button to allow players to undo a movement (provided they have not attacked or performed an ability from the new position) - Added a confirm end turn button to prevent accidental end turn button presses. - Significantly improved camera touchscreen controls. - Rotate touch controls changed to a 2-finger rotate instead of a 2-finger pan gesture. - Added several new quality options for higher graphics on newer hardware. Improvements include anti-aliasing, higher resolution shadows, etc. - Added the option to select new low graphics options for those users that would prefer to reduce battery consumption. - Added option for players to change resolutions on supported devices.

- Added new smooth pathfinding and movement for all characters. - The cost of changing characters in your party is now free. - Players can now freely choose which patrol mission to play instead of it being random. - Animations improved for several characters and enemies. - Improved bloom and lighting effects (on supported devices). - Several bug fixes. - Minor game balancing changes.

Enhancement: New App Icon. Enhancement: New, higher polygon character model for the Minotaur character class. Enhancement: New animations that are more realistic for the Half Giant. Enhancement: New minotaur character added to the main menu in place of the Ogre. Bug Fix: Fixed crash that occurred when loading campaign levels 32 to 35. Bug Fix: Reduced crash rate on older iPads. Bug Fix: Shop now includes high quality items. Bug Fix: Shop now displays item quality filter button correctly. Bug Fix: Cover icons now display properly and cannot be obscured by terrain.

Enhancement: iCloud synchronization of save game data added. Data from your device will be automatically synchronized to any other devices, allowing you to play the same save game on multiple devices. Enhancement: Characters can now move multiple times during battle provided they do not move more than their maximum movement range in a single turn. Enhancement: Significant redesign of HUD with many enhancements. Enhancement: HUD elements now slide on and off screen when no longer needed. Enhancement: UI enhancements added. Turn counter display has been enhanced to show the current turn in a more impressive manager. Enhancement: The attack summary in the GUI has been increased in size and shifted to the right side of the screen to make it easier to read. It also now indicates if the target is behind hard or soft cover. Enhancement: Sylvan Elf Rancher, Pyromancer and Mage Hunter character models redone for better appearance and higher polygon count. Enhancement: Store now categorizes items by quality so players can search through cheap, medium and expensive items more easily. Game Balance: Minor changes to character abilities and stats. Bug Fix: Several minor bugs fixed.

Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where patrol levels would not load correctly and would instead always load the same patrol. Bug Fix: Fixed a crash bug at the start of the 4th patrol level when they user clicked the "Enter Dungeon" button.

- (New Content) New world map showing the locations and history of the various factions. - (New Content) A new patrol map added where players face the Demon Knight, a mighty hero from the upcoming Demon’s Rise 2 game. - (New Content) Magic item database approximately doubled. Thousands of new items added to the shop and dungeons to collect and equip. - (Enhancement) Improved lighting graphics that make characters brighter and more easily distinguished from the background. - (Enhancement) Audio Mixer added to the audio that prioritizes character voices over sound effects and background music. - (Enhancement) Completely revamped divine favor list to effects that are much more balanced. - (Enhancement) Optimizations in memory to reduce RAM usage and thus lower frequency of crashes on 1GB devices. - (Enhancement) Improvement to graphics settings so the high polygon versions of characters are shown more intelligently. - (Game Balance) Some summoning spells have been replaced with new abilities for game balance. - (Bug Fix) Fixed a bug where sometimes the game would crash or behave strangely when selecting a target for a “line” or “cone” ability. - (Bug Fix) Fixed an issue where magic items would be lost randomly. - (Bug Fix) Large number of minor bug fixes.

New Content: Divine favour can now be granted for free during battle when the player kills a large number of enemies and / or enemy leaders in a single turn. Enhancement: Lighting redone throughout the game to look more realistic, show greater details and show better reflections on metallic surfaces. Enhancement: Significantly reduced performance penalty of dynamic shadows. Enhancement: GUI improvements to make more screens fade in and out. Enhancement: Removed global fog for performance reasons. Game Balance: Several characters' abilities have been updated for balance / variety. Game Balance: Improved hit chance of ghouls. Bug Fix: Fixed GUI scaling issues on the iPhone SE that caused "Return to Camp" button to be off-screen on patrol levels. Bug Fix: Character and enemy stat sheets will now always display buffs / debuffs in play. Bug Fix: Flying creatures now end their death animations on the ground rather than slightly above it. Bug Fix: Several minor bug fixes.

New Content: The Shadow Ghoul has been added as a new playable character class. It brings powerful plague magic, ethereal powers and the ability to feed on the dead. New Content: The Void Dragon has been added as a new playable character class. It is a nimble flyer that can spew fire, fight with its claws and cast powerful magic. New Content: Several new enemies have been added to quest 4 onwards, including the Orc Champion, Grand Plague Priest, High Ratmen Sorcerer, Goblin Guard, etc. These new enemies significantly increase challenge in the latter half of the player campaign. New Content: New counter attack mechanic added that allows some melee fighters to fight back a limited number of times when attacked by an enemy within range. This makes melee combat much more bloody and adds greater tactical depth. New Content: Quest levels now have short cinematics that provide greater immersion and more narrative. New Content: The barracks have been added that allow players to make changes to their inventory in between battles. Enhancement: Updated bloom camera effect improves visual quality. Enhancement: Walk animations and slower walk speed added to all characters. Characters now walk short distances rather than running at all times. Enhancement: Improved touch controls. Enhancement: UI improvements for on-screen camera controls and unit life / action point displays. Enhancement: Many abilities have been updated to use the new counter attack mechanic. Enhancement: Added a toggle in the options menu to hide corpses of defeated characters. Enhancement: Added a low ram mode toggle in the options menu. This mode reduces ram usage by compressing textures and should any random memory-related crashes on lower memory devices. Enhancement: Added a toggle for global fog, which can now be enabled / disabled independently of all other special particle effects. Enhancement: Touching the character portrait in bottom left of HUD now brings up character stat window. Enhancement: UI screens, windows and menus now fade in and out when opened or closed. Enhancement: All gold in a level is now automatically picked up when finishing a level successfully. Enhancement: Improved position of action camera. Game Balance: All units now start with zero action points plus whatever they gain from items instead of full action points. This reduces the benefit that the player receives for moving first. Game Balance: Several characters have had changes to abilities to reduce overpowered abilities and increase effectiveness of weaker abilities. Game Balance: Several of the damage spells now do less damage per level. Game Balance: Several abilities have been adjusted for balance. Game Balance: Area effect skills that do damage have been reduced for melee fighters. Bug Fix: Enemies appearing on the level and creatures being summoned by enemies will now be visible immediately. Bug Fix: Player characters will now no longer face odd directions at the start of certain levels. Bug Fix: Loading / Saving a mid-battle save now works correctly on the Reaper Lord quest level. Bug Fix: Fixed a rare crash where some characters would attack while affected by terrain that increases attack range. Bug Fix: Several minor bug fixes.

Bug Fix: Loading a mid-battle saved game now applies character stat bonuses from level / XP and character equipment properly. Bug Fix: Several bugs fixed that caused mid-game saves to not load properly. Bug Fix: Characters with 2-handed weapons (staves, great weapons, etc.) no longer receive double stat benefits from that item. Bug Fix: Improved animations of several characters to make the animations smoother and more consistent. Bug Fix: Corrected a bug where, on rare occasion, a character would be removed from the game without being killed. Bug Fix: Golem and Pyromancer abilities that prevent them from moving no longer prevent adjacent friendly units from moving as well. Bug Fix: Corrected several bugs that resulted in crashes during certain levels. Bug Fix: Completing battle 5 of quest 6 now increments progress correctly. Player progress no longer need to replay battle 5 to play battle 6. Bug Fix: Enemy wizards will no longer summon creatures (skeletons, demons, etc.) on inaccessible tiles. Bug Fix: Skeleton sorcerer's Dark Power ability no longer causes the game to become unresponsive and now executes properly. Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where the "Leave Area" button would never appear. Now pressing the "End Turn" button will bring up the "Leave Area" button if all enemies are slain. Bug Fix: Fixed numerous minor bugs. Enhancement: Added a "Fast Forward" button that appears during enemy turns to allow the player to speed up enemy turns. Enhancement: New bloom and color toning image effect applied to all levels. Can be turned off in options to conserve battery and improve frame rate. Enhancement: Corpses of slain enemies and allies will now remain on the battle field with new blood splatter effects. Enhancement: Added approximately 50 new base magic items for players to find that results in approximately 2000 new items. Enhancement: Player abilities that modify life or action points now scale by the character's level. These abilities now become more effective as the character levels up. Enhancement: Improved audio clips for several special abilities / effects. Enhancement: Added 3 new quest levels in quest 1 to ease the difficulty curve and allow players a chance to level up once before the more difficulty battles at the end of quest 1. Enhancement: Added new poison abilities to most giant spiders. Enhancement: Reduced motion of dynamic camera to prevent motion sickness experienced by a small number of users. Enhancement: Increased resolution of light maps to allow for better looking shadows and lighting. Enhancement: Several minor changes to improve performance. Game Balance: Improved base hit chance of starting player characters. Game Balance: Modified goblin stats to reduce their dodge chance but increased their attack damage. Game Balance: Increased hit points of Ratmen Lord and several other higher-level creatures. Game Balance: Added a short range fear attack to the Illusionist's Mirror Image creature. Game Balance: Improved mind control abilities to make the effects permanent. Game Balance: Lowered the action point cost of several summon spells and / or made the summoned creatures more powerful. Game Balance: Lowered duration of Chronomancer Ritual of Chronos ability. Game Balance: Shadow witch's blind spell now prevents the target from performing abilities. Game Balance: Reduced starting hit points of Steel Golems. Game Balance: Numerous minor changes to unit stat lines and abilities.