Worklings 0.1.0-alpha.8

Apple Silicon prerelease (build 8). The combat update — the Cache Warren finally has teeth and a soundtrack.

What's new

• ⚔️ Distinct foes. Each encounter now fights differently: Snag grabs and snares your Agility, Flicker blurs and phases out of the way (then over-extends into an Unleash opening), and the Monolith mini-boss telegraphs a heavy Slam and hardens its armour at HP thresholds — on top of a new status-effect system.
• 🔊 Full combat audio. A driving dungeon soundtrack with a separate boss theme, a distinct cue for every action (hit, crit, slam, dodge, snare, telegraph…), a victory fanfare, and a mute toggle + volume slider in the paw menu.
• ✨ Combat feel. Fixed the combatants sliding sideways, and the action announcement now holds through the countdown and the swing so it reads.
• 🐾 Fight any foe. A per-foe picker under "Enter the Cache Warren" lets you take on each encounter (and the boss) directly.
• 🧱 Portable core. The game engine is now free of Apple-only frameworks — groundwork for future platforms.

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.8-macos-arm64.dmg.sha256