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I got a downtime during self-testing here too. I almost lost a home I had already invested over 40k in, but luckily I got a response from the server in the 5th try. Phew!

I don't even know what fells better: That or logging in and seeing that your home is still standing and that you have won 15k in just 12 hours.

And the best part is when you watch the tapes and see that little victim cornered by a legion of pitbulls sawing a wooden wall only to find an even bigger legion of pitbulls behind it.

There are so many things about this game that make me want to throw an evil laugh. :3

Yet the dog would pass through the open door. What I was hoping for was something that would let the burglar be followed by a pet behind a wall without letting the burglar know the pet is there. I guess that's impossible, though.

I saw that article where Jason criticized Steam sales and said Castle Doctrine would never be on sale after the launch week.

EDIT: I had also played Passage some years ago and when I saw that it was from the same guy I became interested in CD.

And here are some Indie games I like:

Dwarf Fortress has a lot to do with Castle Doctrine and it is free.

Iji has a cool story and some points to make. It is also free.

Papers, Please seems to be heavily influenced by George Orwell's 1984, it's not as boring as it sounds.

Dead State is a zombie survival tactical RPG that looks a lot like the Fallout classics and is from the same guy who wrote Vampire Bloodlines. I have a lot of expectations for that one.

Rogue Legacy has a somewhat different approach to the roguelike genre and is up on GOG if you care about the DRM-free thing. It's devs also make some pretty good flash games.

The Swapper is the brainiest video game I have ever played. I have played Planescape Torment.

Amnesia A Machine for Pigs is the most heavily atmospheric horror game out there. It is from the same studio that gave us Dear Esther.

Toren is still a long way from release, but it's already looking freaking beautiful.

-Buttocks are true art.
-A single brick costs $150, but an entire goddamn concrete wall costs only $92. Cheers for wholesaling!
-Pitbulls have developed X-Ray sight and due to this their eyes now have a devilish red glow to them.
-Paintings are something you hide in coffers and yet visitors are still able to see them by taking just one step into your home.
-If a tall bald man in his 50's decides to become a thief he will turn into a slim man in his 20's.

If you want to start with a decent house you need to rob someone first. Buy tools with your initial 2k and try your luck on the houses in the 6k to 15k range, if you fail on all the houses then wait a day for the chills to pass and try again, at some point you will succeed.

It is also a good idea to have the house design you want on hands before you go robbing. Draw your future home on Castle Draft and you will have a reference that can make your actual home building much faster. And if you're unsure about some aspect of the home you have designed you should test it with safe placeholders (chihuahuas in place of pitbulls, red indicator lights in place of electric floors and green indicator lights in place of powered pits and powered doors) and then exit back through the entry door so the design won't be saved.

And if you like some home design you have made and are afraid to lose it you can always save a mapshot from it: Press '+' and a map image of your entire house will be saved in the game directory.

Also: Pet movement is relative to the burglar's movement whereas family movement is constant and predetermined, so you can use panic button traps that would not work the same way if you used pets.

-Thieves only ever act alone.
-Vaults filled with riches can double up as teleportation devices.
-If you successfully commit a robbery you will need to empty your backpack for the vault's contents even though your backpack has infinite space inside it.
-Scientists have invented some fancy new power source that can generate infinite power! You can buy your's for only half the price of a brick!
-If you kill a thief god will give you money.

Oh. I had previously visited this home about a week ago. Cool thing you did with the cats and doors thing, I preferred your older version of the dog container though, it was scarier.

Nope, not on the list. You're editing your home?

Every single house in the middle class range has comb locks now... Sigh... They effectively render successful starting robberies impossible.

More protected than any vault. I'm telling ya.

http://castledraft.com/editor/yBKeOX