100 ROGUES IOS 11 UPDATE
100 ROGUES IOS 11 ANDROID

This was no small undertaking I’m sure, but bringing Auro from its foundation of popsicle sticks and chewing gum into a widely-used engine like Unity means that it can now more easily be maintained by Dinofarm across all platforms. As Dinofarm detailed on their blog back in July, solo developer Brett Lowey aka BrainGoodGames aka creator of the excellent Solar Settlers ($3.99) (among others) decided to just up and rebuild Auro in Unity entirely from scratch. That was until about a month ago when people in our forums began to notice Auro showing back up in the App Store.

100 ROGUES IOS 11 UPDATE

The mobile version of Auro received its last update in June of 2015 and remained stuck on version 1.3 until finally being yanked from the App Store altogether sometime in late 2017. Heck, even adding basic things like fullscreen support to the then-new PC version was basically impossible.

100 ROGUES IOS 11 ANDROID

The plan was to bring all those big changes to the mobile versions of the game, but due to the various tools and frameworks that Dinofarm had used to build Auro over the course of the previous 5+ years, it just wasn’t really even possible to provide updates to the iOS or Android versions anymore. That majorly overhauled Auro would be known as Auro version 2.0 and it arrived on Steam in April of 2016. Dinofarm worked diligently on Auro following its release on iOS and Android, honing in on the design and making some rather sweeping changes in preparation for the game’s launch on PC. Well, the design of Auro may have been enduring, but its technical pieces certainly were not. It really was a masterpiece of design and emergent gameplay, the kind of game you’d never remove from your device. We chose Auro as our Game of the Week when it released and awarded it 5 stars in our review. After several years in development, Auro finally made its way to the Android platform in September of 2014, and due to some strange technical issues, didn’t arrive on iOS until February of 2015. The gameplay in Auro was far more tactical and quite unlike your typical dungeon crawler with its focus on literally bumping monsters off of the map.

Like 100 Rogues, Auro was a rogue-like dungeon crawler, but that’s pretty much where the similarities stopped. The following year in 2011, Dinofarm began working on a new tactical turn-based game called Auro: A Monster-Bumping Adventure.

We first came to know Dinofarm Games and lead game designer Keith Burgun by way of their “rogue-like for the masses' 100 Rogues which released on iOS a little over a decade ago.

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