Hi everyone! Last week we had the second level of the story mode released. We got to walk around and talk to the citizens of New Bark Town and go on a little quest to save our starter. This is but the tip of the ice berg for story mode and hopefully you got a taste of what is to come. Did you like it better than the PTD1 style of just watching an intro playing the level and watching an ending? Let me know! Your feedback here in the comments, twitter, emails, facebook and on the forums help shape this game. Like I've said before I spend a good amount of time reading everything you guys write. I might not have enough time to answer them all like I used to but I do the best that I can to answer ones that are crucial or easy enough for a quick answer.
Okay so moving on to this week we will have both a new 1v1 level and a new story level! Lots of new content coming your way.
For both the Story and 1v1 level I will be adding some new technology to the game engine. I've been meaning to add this for a while but haven't had a lot of time. The new technology will be for the trainer you are battling against. Usually they will bring out a pokemon and you defeat that pokemon then they bring out their next one. It's very similar to how the waves work in PTD1 because I'm using the same engine for the trainers that I use in the waves. The new tech will be to allow for the trainers to have a team like you do and to be able to switch out pokemon in battle just like you can. Which will make the fights more interesting and dynamic.
Other than the new tech, 1v1 will now be headed to Route 3, we got some trainers to fight there and also a new pokemon to unlock. Can you guess who it is? All I can say is that it likes to sing a lot.
Speaking of sing, I will be making some changes to how the sleep mechanic works. Previously it would just put you to sleep for a certain amount of time regardless of how much damage you took. Now it will put you to sleep for a longer amount of time but taking damage will most likely cause you to wake up. Making it better for use against somebody that is attack you.
For the Story mode you will be challenged to your first fight. Speaking of this fight I've had reports of people finding an interesting way of leveling up your starter past level 7. This is pretty much my mistake so don't worry if you did it, I will be fixing it in the next version so it should no longer be possible.
Speaking of leveling, I also want to announce a new feature (inspired by my playing of Guild Wars 2)! In PTD1 you could very easily just level up enough so that a level was incredibly easy. In PTD2 there will be a limit as to how high you can be for each level to preserve that level's difficulty (to a point). So for example, lets say your starter is level 12 and you go into Route 29 (The first route in Johto). That means you would massively out level this stage. Most pokemon on this level will be level 2-4. What the game will do is temporarily turn your level 12 pokemon into a level 6 pokemon. Your pokemon will keeps its attacks, evolution, and abilities but it will have stats like it was level 6. Notice that the cap is higher than the highest level in the area but it is still within a certain range. Also since you get to keep your attacks and evolution you will still have an advantage. It just makes it so you can't simply steam roll everything once you get level 100 pokemon. What do you think?
I also plan to bring out the first Mystery Gift! We had a poll a while back and the first Mystery Gift for PTD 2 will be Zorua! Mystery Gift codes will be done a tiny bit different, you will still go to PlayTowerDefenseGames.com and try to figure out the code and you will also enter the code on that site's version of PTD2. Before you could go to any site and enter it but now it is exclusive to their site. Since most people would just find the code on a different site and just use it straight off without visiting our great sponsor.
Lastly I'll also be working on the PTD2 Pokemon Center. It will be very similar to the PTD1 but I still have to do a lot infrastructure changes. I don't think it will be out this week since I have so much to do but I hope to get a good amount done and who knows maybe it will be out too.
Alright so that was quite a bit of info. Let's look at the Weekly Progress list next. Also remember I update this while I'm working so make sure to come back every once in a while to see how I'm doing :)
Weekly Progress:
Alpha v1.18 New Story Mode Battle: Released now!
- Fixed a bug with the Ability Intimidate that was preventing it from being applied to enemies that swapped into the battle
- Fixed a bug that is preventing the Arena Trap Ability and other attacks that trap you from working on Enemie
- Made it so Arena Trap will not work on pokemon that are immune to ground attacks
- New Level Modifier Feature - This only applies for Story mode and not 1v1 mode.
- New Story Level
- New Character
- Quest Intro
- Properly load your pokemon to the profile
- Properly saving Pokemon Information like leveling up, learning new moves and gaining experience
- Get Pokemon Unique ID after saving
- Get and Give Pokemon Position
- Sending Info
- Receiving Info
- NPC AI for battle
- Battle Layout
- Battle Waves
- Quest Ending
- Implementing a level cap at 10 for Story Mode
- Lowering any pokemon that went over 10 back to 10
- Implementing in the server
- Implementing in the client
- Fixed a bug that was preventing players from completing the second quest on Story mode
- Added Sponsor Intro
- Made starters have a chance to be both female and male instead of just male
- Fixed a bug that allowed you to keep leveling up your starter
- Moved the Back button in the story level to a different spot
- Made it so if you aren't facing an NPC then you won't talk to it
- Made it so bumping into an NPC will now make it stop and face you
- Changed the Police officers text for when you are a female character
- Limited the amount of potions you can have on you in 1v1 mode to 15 - This won't be like the rare candy where you can only buy 2. This means that you can only have a max of 15 on you at a time but if you use any of them you can go back to the max for the next level.
- Made the Sleep status effect last 12 second but any damage taken has a 50% chance to awake up the target
- Increased the cost of Kakuna, Metapod, Beedrill, and Butterfree in 1v1 mode to 25, 25, 45, and 45 respectively
- Added New Pokemon to the game (3)
- Graphics (100%)
- Shiny Graphics (100%)
- Shadow Graphics (100%)
- Stats (100%)
- Attack list (100%)
- Evolution Information (100%)
- Added New Attacks to the game
- Sing
- Pound
- Disable
- Wrap
- Glare
- Fake Tears
- Fury Swipes
- Added New Abilities to the game
- Cute Charm
- Friend Guard
- Intimidate
- Unnerve
- Illusion
- Added Gym Leader Checkpoints to 1v1 - Once you reach a gym leader you will be able to start playing at that gym leader battle.
- Added New Trainer AI Feature - Very basic trainer AI, when his/her pokemon faints he will take out the next one. Implementing feature into the game engine.
- Increased Coin rewards for any level that gave less than 20 coins to 20 coins - This is help reduce the feeling that you need to grind a lot for coins. This also helps balance the fact that you can only hold a certain number of potions on you in this update. I'll be keeping an eye on the numbers and will tweak as necessary.
- Added New 1v1 Level
- Intro
- Level Layout
- Level Waves
- Previous Level Ending Text
- Added New 1v1 Trainer AI - This is the AI for the trainer in the new level.
- Changed PTD 1 link on the main screen to point to the sponsor's website.
Normal/Neutral - Unlike Pokemon this type will actually be Neutral to all other types. It has no weaknesses but also no advantages. This type will also be more limited than I pokemon where a bunch of creatures had this type along with another one.
Fire/Flame - Pretty self explanatory.
Water/Aquatic - See Fire.
Grass/Plant - See Water.
Electric/Lightning - See Grass.
Air - This type is pretty much what flying is in pokemon.
Ice - See Electric.
Ground/Earth - This type combines what pokemon would have as Ground and Rock into one type.
Metal - This is kinda like Steel, but it can be different metals. Basically very strong and sharp.
Toxic - Like Poison type in pokemon but a lot better.
Dark - Like Dark in Pokemon but this is the type you would see ghost show up in.
Light - This type is something completely new. It's the counterpart of Dark. You would see more magical creatures like psychic show up with this type.
Mythical - This is the type for legendary creatures. The plan we have for it is that it is very defensive against all types except for Neutral, Light and Dark. It also has no offensive advantages.
So these are out types! Something old, something new, something combined. It's got a little bit of everything. The only types advantage we have figured out are Mythical and Neutral since those are really different from the rest. We are still working on specific type charts for the rest so stay tuned for that later on. Or what kind of type charts can you guys come up with? I would love to see them with explanations as to why you did what you did.
Also creatures will have almost like secondary "types" we are calling it species. For example your creature can be a type Fire but it can also be a bug species. Being a bug will carry certain advantages or disadvantages. Other species might be like "reptile", "mammal". We are still working on this part but I just wanted to mention it so you guys knew about it.
Well that was a lot of info! I hope you guys have a good week this week and as always, let me know what you think!