Blight

Devlog

• Release 1.4.5 - The Crash Diary
  May 05, 2026 by resinhead

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  When the game falls over, we'd like to hear about it. Up to now the only feedback loop has been the goodwill of players willing to write the bug down somewhere; from this release the game tells us its... Continue reading

  
• Release 1.4.4 - Take Two
  May 05, 2026 by resinhead

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  1.4.3 hit a snag mid-flight: the AAB landed on Google Play's internal track, but a stray cancellation skipped the GitHub Release tag and the website devlog sync, leaving the world half-shipped. 1.4.4... Continue reading

  
• Release 1.4.3 - Cheaper Phones, Angrier Goats
  May 05, 2026 by resinhead

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  Two unrelated favours this round. Budget Android handsets with 32-bit ARM finally get their own slice in the AAB, so the A13 crowd can stop watching everyone else play. And the village livestock has r... Continue reading

  
• Release 1.4.2 - Mobile Blight Lifted, Again
  May 04, 2026 by resinhead

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  Turns out the phone version had been shipping without any of its fonts, splash, or banner art. Without fonts there are no words, and without words there is no game; just a polite crash on the doorstep... Continue reading

  
• Release 1.3.9 - Mobile Blight Lifted
  April 18, 2026 by resinhead

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  Something nasty had crept into the mobile version. Players launching Blight on Android got a crash instead of a pub, which is arguably the wrong kind of suffering. We tracked the gremlin down, drove i... Continue reading

  
• Release 1.3.8 - Quests first
  April 18, 2026 by resinhead

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  The Create Game screen now leads with Quest mode, and new games default to Quest. Horde's still there, just in the second slot. Behind the scenes this is also the first release built and shipped entir... Continue reading

  
• Release 1.3.7 - The broken song
  April 18, 2026 by resinhead

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  The song 'Pixel Quest' was broken, so we stuck it together again with some glue... Continue reading

  
• Release 1.3.6 - Respecting the Stones
  April 18, 2026 by resinhead

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  Adventurers have sworn off drifting through castle walls like ghosts; from now on, they walk around them like the rest of us. OSX now ships as a tarball to preserve execute permissions. We'll convert... Continue reading

  
• Release 1.3.5 - Music sweet music
  April 18, 2026 by resinhead

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  Quiet patch: the bards remembered the chorus, the floorboards stopped wobbling, and we sacked the slow ravens. Translation from Ken: Listen I messed up the midi on android, but thats all good now. I'v... Continue reading

  
• Release 1.3.4 - The missing quests
  April 16, 2026 by resinhead

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  Missing quest files for desktop build, also Linux wasn't getting the .NET 9 upgrade yet, it was still building on 8... Continue reading

  
• Release 1.3.3 - Google Play release
  April 16, 2026 by resinhead

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  This release is mostly changes to make it more compatible with Google Play, updated to .Net 9 from 8 for everything so that for the mobile side we can support 16 kb page alignment and some other minor... Continue reading

  
• Release 1.3.1 - Big Slots
  April 15, 2026 by resinhead

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  Weapon slots moved to the right side of the screen and made much larger on mobile so you can actually see and tap them. Tapping a slot switches your active weapon... Continue reading

  
• Release 1.3.0 - Click, Fight, Repeat
  April 15, 2026 by resinhead

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  Combat got a complete overhaul. Click an enemy, your character runs over and starts swinging. Kill it, and they'll turn on the next thing trying to eat you. Same controls whether you're on a phone or... Continue reading

  
• Release 1.2.5 - Horde Polish, Menu Facelift, and Quest Blueprints
  April 12, 2026 by resinhead

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  Horde mode got a proper coat of paint. Buildings now have south-facing wall quads so the barricades read as solid structures instead of floating rooftops. A bonfire, lanterns, and campfires light the... Continue reading

  
• Release 1.1.52 - Songs, Swords, and Sockets
  March 29, 2026 by resinhead

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  Something has changed in the air above Mudbury. The wind carries melodies that no living bard remembers writing. 43 Songs Rise from the Deep A strange magic has taken root in the world's foundations... Continue reading

  
• Release 1.1.34 - Tavern Weapons & Dev Tools
  March 28, 2026 by resinhead

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  The tavern now has a proper starting weapon — a Beer Mug sitting on the bar, ready to pick up and swing. Farming weapons (Pitchfork, Rake, Scythe) are scattered as static drops across the first two... Continue reading

  
• Release 1.1.23 - Village Roads & Wall Polish
  March 26, 2026 by resinhead

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  Video: The quest village finally has a proper road network. Every building connects to the central crossroads with paths that route around buildings instead of through them. The south buildings get L-... Continue reading

  
• Release 1.1.17 - The Village is Alive
  March 26, 2026 by resinhead

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  The village of Mudbury has never looked so alive. We've switched to a full oblique 3/4 view, and the difference is night and day. Buildings have proper wall faces and depth now. The ground has been re... Continue reading

  
• Release 1.1.7 - Village Uplift
  March 22, 2026 by resinhead

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  The village of Mudbury has had a makeover! This release focuses on making the quest mode village feel like an actual lived-in place rather than a collection of boxes. Quest Mode New encounter: Mudbury... Continue reading

  
• Release 1.1.2 - Beyond the Village Gates
  March 22, 2026 by resinhead

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  The Blight doesn't stop at the village walls, and neither do our heroes. Quest mode now stretches beyond Mudbury into the surrounding farmland. A dirt road winds east from the village to a T-junction... Continue reading

  
• Release 1.1.0 - Quest Mode
  March 22, 2026 by resinhead

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  Something's wrong with Gerald. We don't know who Gerald is, but it's your problem now. Blight 1.1.0 introduces Quest Mode, a cooperative story campaign where your party stumbles through four encounter... Continue reading
• Release 1.0.58 - Arsenal Expanded
  March 21, 2026 by resinhead

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  The armory has been restocked with four deadly new weapons scattered across the battlefield. Seek out the Halberd for sweeping reach, the Dagger for quick stabs up close, the brutal Ball and Chain for... Continue reading

  
• Release 1.0.50 - All Roads Lead to Blight
  March 19, 2026 by resinhead

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  A quick dispatch from the battlefield. This one's for the penguin riders. The Gate is Open Blight now ships as a Linux AppImage — a single enchanted scroll you can download and run. No arcane depend... Continue reading

  
• Release 1.0.44 - Bottled Fury
  March 18, 2026 by resinhead

  A new weapon has found its way into the village armoury. The Molotov cocktail sits among the weapon drops, a glass bottle stuffed with a burning rag. Hurl it into a crowd of enemies and watch the glas... Continue reading

  
• Release 1.0.39 - The Village Awakens
  March 18, 2026 by resinhead

  Adventurers, What was once a scattering of walls in an endless green void has become a place worth defending. A Village Takes Shape The outpost now sits on a cobblestone plaza with roads radiating thr... Continue reading

  
• Release 1.0.37 - The battlefield grows stranger
  March 17, 2026 by resinhead

  A new horror stalks the horde — the Orc Fire Mage has arrived. Cloaked in crimson robes and clutching a staff tipped with living flame, these cunning casters hang back from the melee and hurl fireba... Continue reading
• Release 1.0.31 - demons, speech bubbles and chatter
  March 16, 2026 by resinhead

  We now have a bigger boss, the Entity, speech bubbles and NPC chatter... Continue reading
• Release 1.0.28 - sound effects
  March 16, 2026 by resinhead

  We got sound effects... Continue reading
• Release 1.0.27 - all new art
  March 16, 2026 by resinhead

  All new monsters art, brand new tree!... Continue reading

  
• Release 1.0.26 - new player characters
  March 16, 2026 by resinhead

  Player characters are now procedurally generated hooded warriors. Each player gets a unique tunic and hood color derived from their assigned player color, so you can always tell who's who at a glance... Continue reading

  
• Release 1.0.24 - the village awakens
  March 15, 2026 by resinhead

  The village of Blight has come alive. Where once there was only darkness, the ground is now covered in grass and dirt, with small stones and tufts scattered about. The buildings and walls that defend... Continue reading

  
• Release 1.0.21 - slimes!
  March 15, 2026 by resinhead

  A new threat lurks in the later waves. Big Slimes are slow and tough, but don't celebrate too quickly when you kill one, it splits into two fast little Slimelings that swarm toward your tree. A well-t... Continue reading

  
• Release 1.0.20 - music and holy handgrenades
  March 15, 2026 by resinhead

  Added some music, and now we have added holy hand grenades... Continue reading