Bug report:
- all of the images for the enemies and items (the 2d elements) aren't drawing correctly. they seem to stretch out of the level. most of them i can't even see at all. (making playing the game very difficult since i can barely see the enemies. here's a screenshot of what it looks like)

- Music/Sound can go over 200? what does this mean?

- Many blocks around me seem to not be rendering.

- the keys A, D do not strafe correctly. It just kinda slowly moves diagonally instead it should be moving me to my left/right.

Other stuff:
- Sword attack doesn't look like much of an attack and has a huge delay between attacks.

- the help screen is a overly long way of telling the controls. (read me works better)

Overall:
well i couldn't get passed the first level because i could barely see the enemies and some halls had huge sprite stretching covering most of my visibility. The sword didn't seem to be a good enough weapon to kill some of the more powerful enemies either. I read you have a staff but couldn't figure out if i could use it or not. I would like to play this the way it was originally intended up i can hardly see anything =(

Some bugs I haven't mentioned: some of the doors in level 3 are transparent (you can walk through them without opening them), and I managed to get completely out of map in level 4 (a section of the wall was missing in one area). Also, starting a new game after beating it once made me start with all the runes and the messed up XP bar.

Oh god, that's horrible. Mine didn't do that.

8/10
Okay so this game is awesome. It's pretty hard though; I got to a point after fighting the mecha bird thing where I kept dying and there wasn't much I could do differently, unfortunately that tends to be the nature with games like this. Gameplay-wise, it's great, if I had to explain it simply, "Arena, if Arena was fun and pretty."
Which brings me to the graphics; I like them.
Which brings me to bugs/suggestions; I was getting a bug with your occlusion that seemed to be occluding objects that were directly to my left but still within my peripheral vision, I didn't have the any problems with the right side though. The cooldown between attacking is kind of annoying, I think it'd be better to attack faster for less damage. I couldn't figure out what to do with mana, or the ice rune, I thought they went together somehow but I couldn't make it work. Final point; Variable Sensitivity? :D

I'll probably tweak the occlusion a lot in the next update (After the comp is over).
The readme tells you how to use Runes and the Staff. Hit '3' to select the staff, select your desired Rune with Q and E, then fire when ready.

The readme does not state that you need to hit 3, or 2 or 1 to select anything. In fact, it says that wasd, space, qe f and enter are ALL the controls you need...

Oh dang. Well, I had to overlook something... Hmph...

personally i think controls are better explained IN GAME than anywhere else. even if it's just a brief text in the beginning. (though i always seem to avoid doing this as well. i usually just keep F1 for info)

Haha, you weren't kidding about nostalgia. =D

Right off the bat, though, I found that a lot of models were stretched out. Here's a screenshot. Note the stretched enemy and health vials.
I have an external Radeon 7850 (ASUS) for a video card. I don't know what more I can really tell ya'.

I couldn't figure out how to switch to my staff before reading the comments. I recomend adding it to the help/readme. =P

The slow sword thing was frustrating, but when I read that you can increase the attack speed by leveling up, I kept at it, and it felt really good when it sped up. On the plus side of things, it wasn't a bad game. It was a bit difficult with the wonked graphics, but enjoyable enough to keep trying after dying several times. Good effort for a month and a half!

there is a bug when my soundcard is disabled the game crashes on the intro page, cool game thow

I guess it would crash; I didn't exactly think of the case where somebody might purposefully disable their sound card... Will add a fix for that with the next update... Yes, I'm updating this. Room-over-Room support and such :D

He made an account just to tell you that.

Just noticed... I feel torn between wanting to feel highly amused and somewhat creeped out right now.

How do you play level you make in the editor? or is that impossible?

Oh. Edit medres.txt and look for the levels. Change the first in the list to your level name.

OK figured out how to load custom levels now. Though i got the weirdest results lol. The grass tile turned completely white/transparent while in-game. Also all the objects were on the floor and stretched downward as far as the eye can see. even the pillars did. nothing was built upward like a wall should be. Not sure what i did wrong o_o

Might be that I included the wrong version of the level compiler in the release package. I'll probably release an update soon, with a few bug fixes and some instructions.