1.1 Design Manifesto & Patch Notes — Hell Clock Steam update #921145

Hey backlanders,Today we want to show the (extensive!) patch notes for our upcoming “Clockmaker’s Tools” update, coming September 29th!By posting as much information as we can early, we hope we can have a conversation about the changes, and also allow you to prepare ahead of time.Since this update brings significant overhauls to several systems, items and skills, we thought it would be valuable to also do our very first Design Manifesto explaining our reasoning behind each of these changes. We believe that transparency and communication (as well as us being humble and changing things when we are wrong) are the key for us to make Hell Clock the best game it can be.We won’t get into Crafting in this Manifesto, since we already did a deep dive on it last week, which you can read here! So without further ado, let’s get into it! Why are we even making changes?The game’s been out for a relativ...