Local scoreboard

Want to brag in front of your friends and family? The April edition of Lode Runner Online: The Mad Monks' Revenge/Rewrite will allow you to! *Bragging rights*The scoreboard has been a long-time coming. I've had many requests to add a scoring system but it wasn&…

Feature requests

We often get emails asking to add new features, tweaks, or content to this re-write of Lode Runner Online: The Mad Monks' Revenge and we happily welcome them! Below you'll find a sum up of what's been added that's been asked for but…

Attention keyboard ninjas!

In January (this year), tester Jared suggested adding TAB key support to dialogs for keyboard lovers. It had been on my TODO list since he suggested it. It was one of those things I dreaded doing thinking it would take a very, very long time and be tricky. It wasn&…

New feature: exit phase

The Xbox Lode Runner [http://www.tozaigames.com/loderunner] doesn't have exit ladders, instead it has exit phase blocks that either phase in or out once when you complete the level. I liked the idea so I've added it to Lode Runner Online: The Mad Monks&…

March 2016 update now ready!

Welcome to the March 2016 build! Nearly 90 bug fixes, updates and improvements were made to Lode Runner Online: The Mad Monks' Revenge rewrite in the last two months. This round-up post covers the highlights from the last 8 weeks of work. The main thing feature you'll…

Where is the February update?

I've decided not to update the builds this month. The main reason is the 43 errors and 18 warnings stopping the game from compiling over the weekend. The actual reason is LAN gameplay is not working and the content management system is being swapped over. To make up…

Goodbye AVI - Part 3

This is the last in the three part series on converting the Lode Runner Online: The Mad Monks' Revenge extra cut-scenes from their original AVI format into the 1994/5 era propriety Presage format - the same format the other cut-scenes use in Lode Runner: The Legend Returns. *Mad…

January 2016 update now ready!

Welcome to the 1st build for 2016! Over 40 bug fixes, updates and improvements were made to Lode Runner Online: The Mad Monks' Revenge rewrite. Of these, 29 were submitted by testers. Although this month is rather light, quite a lot of inconsistencies with the original were fixed. This…