Greetings! Welcome to another amazing week of Sam and Dan games! Last week we almost completed our goal of releasing both a 1v1 level and a story level but we didn't quite make it. I did release it yesterday night which is pretty close I guess. This week again we will attempt to do a Story levels among other things! We love to give you guys content and we love making it. We will also talk a little bit about the starting towns/cities/villages for the first 3 starters in Creature Universe TD. Sound good? Great! Let's get to it.
New Story Level
This week we will finally get out of New Bark Town and into Route 29! You might have noticed that once you defeat a battle you aren't able to repeat this battle over and over like you could on PTD1. Well on Route 29 you will be able to repeat battles, catch new pokemon, hunt for shinys! I'm looking forward to making this and finally be able to see pokemon walking around in the wild instead of just having random battles. You will also get your PokePad which will act as a pokedex, a computer and it will also heal your pokemon between battles. Along with this I'll be working on getting your first party pokemon to walk behind you. If I have time I'll be adding the first Mystery Gift and the Trading Center for PTD2. Lots to do!
Look! 1v1 is evolving!
I've decided to make some big changes to 1v1, remove a lot of the grinding and focus more on strategy and choices. This requires some shifts on how things work. I'm still thinking about it so not everything is finalized yet. But here are some of the things that will change:
- There will be no more experience gained from defeating the enemy.
- You will level up by using rare candies that are given out by beating levels.
- When you use a checkpoint you will get the same amount of candies that you would have received if you have beaten all the way up to that point. So you can skip the previous levels and still have a powerful team.
- Every pokemon will now start at level 5 and evolutions will not be available for unlocking.
So that is a little preview of what we have coming for you this week. Check out the weekly progress below to see how I'm doing during the week. I also added a new "My Status" which will tell you if I'm currently working or not.
Weekly Progress:
My Status: Not Working. Sleep time. Hoping to release Route 29 by Friday.
Alpha v1.19 Progress List:
- Note: There was a bug with previous versions of the game. Some people when they play 1.18 Story Mode will be prompted to start their profile over again because of this bug. It will not affect everyone. The other option I had was to delete everybody's Story Mode Profiles which I don't want to do. So if you see the message just start your profile over again and everything will be fixed. If you don't see the message then just play as usual. Thanks!
- Fix some typos (100%)
- Slightly Decreased the HP boost on your rival's starter (100%)
- Make the pokemon in your first party slot follow you in the map (100%) - Fun stuff but you won't be able to talk to it like in the other games.
- Fix Map Issue in Elm's Lab on Story Mode (100%)
- Fix Issue with Speed resetting between waves in Story Mode (100%)
- Make Story level music stop playing when you leave story mode (100%)
- New Story Level - Route 29 (70%)
- Level Intro (100%)
- Before you get the PokePad (100%)
- After you get the PokePad (100%)
- Implement PokePad (100%)
- New Map (100%)
- Battle Layout (100%)
- Swarm Layout (100%) - Normal Tower defense fight
- Single Layout (100%) - 1v1 style fight
- Battle Waves (0%) - Both 1v1 and normal version for each pokemon
- Pidgey (0%)
- Rattata (0%)
- Sentret (0%)
- Pokemon Map Behavior (0%) - how the pokemon will behave in the map
- Pidgey (0%)
- Rattata (0%)
- Sentret (0%)
- Level Ending (100%)
- Saving Extra Info for Pokemon (0%)
- 1v1 Mode Changes (0%)
- PTD 2 Pokemon Center (0%)
- Mystery Gift Screen (0%)
- Add a graphic for removing a pokemon from the field (0%) - To better tell what is going on when fighting and NPC trainer.
- Add new Level Item interface graphics for the ui (0%)
- Added which pokemon you will be battling in the next battle in 1v1 mode (0%)
- Make pressing Enter to trigger a lot of the menu buttons (0%) Pressing enter to log in instead of clicking on it.
Like I've mentioned before each starting creature will have it's own starting location instead of have all 3 available in one town. What this means is that we can really do something special for the starting locations. Giving each of them their own unique style and appearance. For Creature Universe we really wanted to do something different. Instead of realistic towns that are... well kinda boring. We really wanted to do something interesting for each town. Below I will show you some sketches that our artist made to create the mood of each starting location. Keep in mind that these are concept sketches they don't represent the final look of the locations. Also some of these are there to strictly show an idea and not intended to look amazing. Keep that in mind!
First is the grass starter zone. The grass starter is the chameleon, they mostly live on trees so why not make the town live on top of trees. Not shown in the concept is the flooding that occurs during the rainy season which is the reason they build higher up and the water that is under the trees.
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| Work In Progress Concept of the Grass Starting zone |
Lastly the water starter zone. This place is more outdoors in a place surrounded by mountains. Not shown in the concept is a zone that is dried up due to recent droughts. This zone will be divided between a rich part and a poor part. The water buffalo need water to use water so even with them around they don't completely solve the drought problem as they can only use water in their supply to defend themselves and keep themselves hydrated while doing work like pushing carts and what not.
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| Work In Progress Concept of the Water Starter Zone |
That is all we have for you this week. As always let us know what you think!
