Manala: patch notes for October 30th

Everything below is in the free demo today, and in the full game when it comes out on November 5th. This is what I've been duct-taping since Next Fest:

I make dying sounds

• Recorded new voice takes for deaths, NPC speech, growls, barks and attackers' run-ups
• Added birdsong outdoors, sounds for eating and drinking - the last ones sound pretty nasty

I also made the game's sounds play Chopin's funeral march.

Mixels removed

• Items, characters and rooms now share one pixel grid
• Some items in the world are redrawn with more detail

NPC rebalancing

• Ordinary enemies go down faster, elites are stronger than ever
• Hostiles run at you once you stop in their room, not while you walk through it

A tidier bag

• The backpack now lets you filter for each kind of item
• Reworked the backpack's grid to show more items at once

Deck editor

• You can no longer add Block without a shield in your deck, or Parry without a weapon

Merchants on the map

• Merchants are marked on the minimap and the world map

Wishlisting is what tells me the work is worth continuing:

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