Road To Paradise - The Staircase

I sincerely and dearly hope this launch will go more smoothly than that of The Staircase's sister game (which is a pretty damn low bar).

Road to Paradise: The Staircase - Episode I: Downstairs done officially got released. As of now. Please play it when you get a chance. Everyone, like every single person. I made this thing. It was hard. No one paid me. I made it for you to enjoy so enjoy it. Hopefully you will all enjoy it very much. The word of the day is enjoy.

Um, right, yeah, let me get slightly more official.

RELEASE

Release Notes
* Up until the last minute there was a known bug with potion identification: enemies on the fifth floor always drop un-ID'd potions. Well, I sort-of patched it. They still drop the un-ID'd potions but when you go back downstairs from the fifth floor, the potions get auto-ID'd.
* There have been some reports of file corruption so if something is borked check for that. I'd say step 1 in the face of any weirdness, try a re-download. Similarly if it throws a 'font x is missing' error, it's most likely something effed up in the download process: there is a Fonts folder included with all necessary fonts.
* That said I'm sure my game is crawling with bugs. Help me identify them!
* There are two difficulties. Hmm. Talking about difficulty in games can feel kind of like a minefield. In this case, you have the opportunity to experience the game's events as a rookie or as a more experienced veteran. Obviously, playing as a veteran is harder. It's also how the game was originally intended to be played but puh-leeze like whatever on that phrase. It's not like some invisible...let's call him a "Game Genie" is secretly watching you, judging if you're playing the game in the correct, kosher, and sacred way. Play however you want.
That said if someone literally put a gun to my head and demanded I give them a more straightforward, unalloyed explanation of the game's difficulties, well first off, I would be TERRIFIED and i would scream and scream and Oh My God how did they get into my house???? how did they get into my house??

* Oh, and finally, I'm aware that the *actual spoilers* are kind of a hodge-podge of different clashing artistic styles. Having cool, unique/different looking dragons was more important to me than being stylistically coherent here.

Le Crow
12:59 AM EST 12/12/2018