Expansion packs and DLC have long been an avenue developers have pursued in order to keep gamers engaged in their product. In early times (circa the late 90s) expansion packs were often small additions to games which may have included new levels or a story line from the view of an alternate character. As of late, triple-A developers have begun to consider DLC before the retail game has even hit the store shelves (or digital ones), but indie developer Gaslamp Games has taken a different approach.

The most recent DLC for their PC hit Dungeons of Dremdmor is titled You Have to Name the Expansion Pack, and will be released “very soon.” Include are a breadth of new features, many of which are provided by modders within the community. Some highlights include:

• Steam Workshop; mod integration with Steam! We’re turning it on! It’s Steamy!
• Battle Geology, a wizard-like warrior skill with earth-shattering consequences by the terribly mysterious Null (how mysterious? terribly.)
• Clockwork Knight and Rogue Scientist, a pair of crafty steampunk skill lines by the too-clever-by-half Ruigi
• Warlockery, the wizard skill for wizards who would rather by warriors, by the utterly mad Essence — he wrote over 500 lines of xml for one spell.
• A mess of twisty little rooms, all different, created by the deranged architect our mortal speech renders “Bergstrom“; The geometry is all wrong.
• And to inhabit the renovated Dungeons of Dredmor we’ve summoned a pack of new monster variations dug up by one FaxCelestis, from the existentially troubling Poorly Cloned Hero to the lofty Diggle Rocketeer.

A few rounds of testing and connecting “all the Steam Workshop internet-pipes” are all that’s left before release. Players will have the ability to participate in the beta by heading over to Dredmor’s IRC channnel.

We’ll be sure to keep you in the loop when this community-focused piece of DLC hits the Steam pipes hard.

Source: Gaslamp Games