Worklings 0.1.0-alpha.7

Apple Silicon prerelease (build 7). Adds the first playable dungeon encounter — the Cache Warren vertical slice — end to end, from a deterministic combat engine to a juiced-up face-off arena.

What's new

• Enter the Cache Warren. A new paw-menu delve takes your Workling off the desktop and into a dungeon arena for its first fight — against a Dungeon Scamp — then returns it when the fight ends. Unlocks at level 3 once your Workling is cared for.
• A face-off arena. The Workling and its foe stand off over a painted cave backdrop with a drifting parallax atmosphere, posed beat by beat — striking, recoiling, bracing, unleashing — with real family sprites.
• Combat that reads and hits. A 3-2-1 countdown builds anticipation before each action; impact juice (shake, flash, rising damage numbers, crits) lands every hit; scene-setting narration now shows in a centered banner distinct from the combatants' speech bubbles, and each line holds long enough to read.
• A clean finish. The loser puffs away in smoke at the moment of defeat, and a winner-only Victory/Defeat screen shows the exit tier and XP earned.
• Under the hood. A seeded, fully deterministic combat engine (Strike / Brace / Signature, approaches, exit tiers, and reward write-back) with 633 automated checks.

Install

Unsigned-for-distribution alpha: on first launch, right-click the app and choose Open, then confirm — or use System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway. Do not disable Gatekeeper globally.

Verify the download:

shasum -a 256 -c Worklings-0.1.0-alpha.7-macos-arm64.dmg.sha256