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Posted August 13, 2015
Compatible with your own tracks & USB dance pad!

<span class="bold">Crypt of the NecroDancer</span>, a musical roguelike dungeon crawler with GOG Galaxy integration for Windows and Mac OS X, is available now, DRM-free on GOG.com with a 33% launch discount.

Dance, dance, dance the night away. Dance the evil ghosts and skeletons into loot puree. Crypt of the NecroDancer is one of the weirdest games you will ever play, and not because it’s filled to the brim with sporks and quirky tweens. It's a rhythm-based roguelike that has you matching a song's beat to beat the crap out of baddies. It's a straightforward experience that sounds like one of the most innovative things in gaming, but it's not just a gimmick as underneath the notes and tunes you'll find a full-fledged roguelike with plenty of loot, replayability and challenge. Crypt of the NecroDancer let's you import your own music as well, so can you beat it on Through the Fire and Flames?

Practice at home, at work, or on the bus, with the two bonus soundtracks: the original Danny Baranowsky tracks, and Extended Soundtrack (in two remixed versions, by A_Rival and FamilyJules7X) all available in extreme FLAC, and optimal MP3!

For even more NecroDancer digital-swag, check out the extras pack with a behind-the-scenes Director's Cut video, super-high-res Dance Pad covers, and a bunch of other random stuff.




Got questions for the developers? You’re in luck - Ryan and Heather from Brace Yourself Games will be hanging out on the forums on Monday, August 17th, for a special Q&A session from 8 to 10pm GMT (10pm-12am CEST, 4-6pm EDT, 1-3pm PST) to answer all your pressing questions about the game, the life behind game development, or their favorite cat video of all time.





Unleash your killer dance moves in <span class="bold">Crypt of the NecroDancer</span> with GOG Galaxy support for Achievements and Leaderboards. So dance! Dance the dance of the NecroDancer DRM-free on GOG.com! The launch discount will last for one week, until Thursday, August 20, 12:59 PM GMT.
Posted August 14, 2015
Very tempted to buy myself this for my birthday.
Posted August 14, 2015
good to know I guess...

superior = achievements + no linux

galaxy ruins customers and devs
Posted August 14, 2015
Hooray! Guess my policy of "wait until it comes to GOG" really is a good one! =D
Been passing up Steam sales on this game for a while, really happy to see it finally show up DRM-free.
Posted August 14, 2015
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Redfern: From release description it was mere of 10% off on release. Dont feel as big discount for me...3-6 months you can hope for 30-40% off on occasion.
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Ganni1987: I know, the discount was petty, for me it's more about principle than price. Windows got the 10% discount, Mac got the 10% discount and as such I expect Linux users get the same treatment, the devs knew they would release a game on GOG and the Steam Runtime can be bundled for non Steam use, completely free of charge. 2 weeks have passed now, the Linux version is still not here while they're all jolly happy announcing some new expansion for the game.

It doesn't take 2 weeks to make the non steam version run without Steam on Linux.
Well, technically you was able to get game as is during discounted release and hope they will add Linux port...later. Yeah, i know, sound pretty sad.
Probably developers dont feel its very important to build Linux version without Steam libs, cause (Gog is smaller Then Steam and Linux users on GOG is, in best hopes, 10% from whole customers), Probably they will do it, but it may take much more then 2 weeks. We all know that there is tons of port released without any problem, but developers is very lazy with adding them here.
Posted August 14, 2015
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BillyMaysFan59: No native Linux version when there's one available, so I will pass for now. Nice looking game though.
Hmmm, if Galaxy for Linux is going to take a while, and the devs decided to wait until it's done to add the Linux version, I think I'll pass indefinitely, and take my (potential) future gaming business elsewhere.

(to other games I mean, not a boycott of GOG)
Post edited August 14, 2015 by BillyMaysFan59
Posted August 14, 2015
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BillyMaysFan59: No native Linux version when there's one available, so I will pass for now. Nice looking game though.
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BillyMaysFan59: Hmmm, if Galaxy for Linux is going to take a while, and the devs decided to wait until it's done to add the Linux version, I think I'll pass indefinitely, and take my (potential) future gaming business elsewhere.
I'm truly considering cutting my losses (by downloading only updates) for the games I own and not buy any until things clear up.

GOG - Lack of Linux versions that are available elsewhere
Humble Bundle - Lack of updates for some DRM-Free games
Steam - DRM o'galore
Anywhere Else - More Steam promoters
Posted August 14, 2015
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Ganni1987: I'm truly considering cutting my losses (by downloading only updates) for the games I own and not buy any until things clear up.

GOG - Lack of Linux versions that are available elsewhere
Humble Bundle - Lack of updates for some DRM-Free games
Steam - DRM o'galore
Anywhere Else - More Steam promoters
Well I didn't mean a full GOG boycott - but you have good points there. I've been getting annoyed with the lack of Linux versions here, when they're available elsewhere. I vote with my wallet when that happens.
Posted August 14, 2015
Excellent. Off the Steam wishlist it goes, and into my GOG library. Very pleased to see this turn up here.
Posted August 14, 2015
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real.geizterfahr: You know... There was a time where GOG added wallpapers and avatars as free "goodies". Today you have to purchase them as a DLC. A regional priced DLC! This is sad :(
Despite that even by GOG's current standards this is such a weird way to release content for the game, first there is the game itself then two separate soundtrack DLCs and if that wasn't enough there is even an extras DLC. Whatever happened to releasing a complete Deluxe edition like other devs/publishers instead of these bits and pieces that have to be bought individually.
Posted August 14, 2015
What is an "USB dance pad"? Is it like this old game "Twister" but with uhhh... a USB port and more rhythm? :D
Posted August 14, 2015
cool
Posted August 14, 2015
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WARNING: Currently Galaxy needs to be installed to run the game.

Grabbed the game via the Downloader, and after installing was perplexed why it wouldn't run when I tried to start the game from either shortcut or the actual executable. A bit nosing around in the game folder and due to an earlier mention in this here thread I saw that weird log folder within that kept mentioning that the game was trying to initialize Galaxy's API, but I didn't have the latter installed. After I installed Galaxy the game ran fine even without Galaxy running.

Still, I shouldn't have to have Galaxy installed at all to run this game. GOG needs to fix this ASAP.

Edit: Hm. After closer inspection of the logs again it may have opted to run through Steam API, even though that wasn't running either. WTF?!? Either give me an untethered game or I shall ask for a refund.

This is not what I was paying for. I also blame the devs who seem to be hung up on forcing one client or another to run this game.
Post edited August 14, 2015 by mistermumbles
Posted August 14, 2015
And thats why we can't have Linux version, hah ^
Posted August 14, 2015
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mistermumbles: WARNING: Currently Galaxy needs to be installed to run the game.

Grabbed the game via the Downloader, and after installing was perplexed why it wouldn't run when I tried to start the game from either shortcut or the actual executable. A bit nosing around in the game folder and due to an earlier mention in this here thread I saw that weird log folder within that kept mentioning that the game was trying to initialize Galaxy's API, but I didn't have the latter installed. After I installed Galaxy the game ran fine even without Galaxy running.

Still, I shouldn't have to have Galaxy installed at all to run this game. GOG needs to fix this ASAP.

Edit: Hm. After closer inspection of the logs again it may have opted to run through Steam API, even though that wasn't running either. WTF?!? Either give me an untethered game or I shall ask for a refund.

This is not what I was paying for. I also blame the devs who seem to be hung up on forcing one client or another to run this game.
0_o

I've got a bad feeling about this
Posted August 14, 2015
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mistermumbles: WARNING: Currently Galaxy needs to be installed to run the game.

Grabbed the game via the Downloader, and after installing was perplexed why it wouldn't run when I tried to start the game from either shortcut or the actual executable. A bit nosing around in the game folder and due to an earlier mention in this here thread I saw that weird log folder within that kept mentioning that the game was trying to initialize Galaxy's API, but I didn't have the latter installed. After I installed Galaxy the game ran fine even without Galaxy running.

Still, I shouldn't have to have Galaxy installed at all to run this game. GOG needs to fix this ASAP.

Edit: Hm. After closer inspection of the logs again it may have opted to run through Steam API, even though that wasn't running either. WTF?!? Either give me an untethered game or I shall ask for a refund.

This is not what I was paying for. I also blame the devs who seem to be hung up on forcing one client or another to run this game.
I made a small test - uninstalled Galaxy, downloaded setup_crypt_of_the_necrodancer_2.0.0.1.exe via browser link and game works just fine for me...

log looks like this:
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WINDOW SUCCESSFULLY INITIALIZED
NecroDancer version v1.12 loading...
OnCreate: Initializing Steam
GoG: Initializing galaxy API
OnCreate: Updating screen size
Updating screen size: 960x540
OnCreate: Starting FMOD
Initializing FMOD values
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OnCreate: Setting update rate
GLOBAL_SCALE_FACTOR: 2.0
Loading ControllerMainMenu...
LoadPlayerDataXML(), cloudTimestamp=0
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so yes, it's trying to initialize Steam and GOG Galaxy, but when they are not found, game runs just fine without client too....
Post edited August 14, 2015 by cyboff
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