Back to the Story! Goldenrod's conclusion!

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Back to the Story! Goldenrod's conclusion!
We got the new server up and running! Hopefully things are running smoothly for all of you. This is a nice step in the right direction but it is not perfect yet. It took roughly two weeks to move everything over and transfer all the data. I had to do it alone so my apologies for the long delay between significant updates. At the very least I wanted to make sure you guys got Mystery Gifts and giveaways.

On a side note the Funding reached 20% wooo! Pretty soon I'll be adding more prizes but for now I will focus on PTD2 since we had 2 weeks of no new content.

So like the title of the blog says we will be concluding Goldenrod City this update. You will finish off Team Rocket and open of the poke mart which will have a large amount of new items to buy. It will also open up the other places even though some of them you won't be able to enter due to the destruction Team Rocket caused.

Percentage Damage Moves Change
There will be a change in how damage in moves like Fire Spin, Leech Seed, and statuses like Burn and Poison works. Instead of being based on a certain attack power they will be based on a percentage of health of the tower doing the attack. The reason it's based on the tower doing the attack instead of the target like the game is that if it's based on the target it will either do too much damage (like on bosses) or too little damage (when battling low level enemies). As an example Leech Seed will now do 1/8 of your total health as damage to the enemy instead of what it does currently. This should make these moves and statuses stronger than they are now.

Mystery Gift
Like every week we will have a Mystery Gift and a giveaway. This week Ground won and right now Hippopota and Numel are in the lead!

Lastly I want to give the first 50 people that read this a special giveaway for shiny Larvitar! The code is.... larvitar All larvitar have been taken! Thanks guys!

Weekly Progress

PTD2 v1.58 - Mystery Gift! Route 35, National Park, Route 36, and Route 37! Released!

• Mystery Gift (100%) - Poison Type (Venipede and Stunky)
• Graphics (100%)
• Stats (100%)
• Evolutions (100%)
• Add to Breeding Center (100%)
• Add to Trading Center (100%)
• Game Change (100%) - Capturing a pokemon will now give you experience.
• Bug Fix 1 (100%) - Goldenrod Cutscene not triggering after the fight when you haven't beat it before.
• Bug Fix 2 (100%) - Pokemon can no longer spawn on top of other pokemon or objects that prevent them from moving.
• Bug Fix 3 (100%) - You now have to beat the Azalea Gym before leaving to the next part.
• New Pokemon (100%) - Yanma, Yanmega, Sunkern, Sunflora, Sudowoodo, Stantler
• Graphics (100%)
• Stats (100%)
• Evolutions (100%)
• New Ability (100%)
• Sap Sipper (100%)
• Add To Breeding Center (100%)
• Add To Trading Center (100%)
• Route 35 (100%)
• Trainer Battle (100%)
• Map Background (100%)
• Wild Pokemon Waves (100%)
• Pokemon Map Behavior (100%)
• Nidorans (100%)
• Growlithe (100%)
• Yanma (100%) 
• National Park (100%)
• Map Background (100%)
• Map Music (100%)
• Wild Pokemon Waves (100%)
• Pokemon Map Behavior (100%)
• Scyther (100%)
• Pinsir (100%)
• Sunkern (100%)
• Trainer Battle (100%)
• Route 36 (100%)
• Map Background (100%)
• Wild Pokemon Waves (100%)
• Pokemon Map Behaviour (100%)
• Vulpix (100%)
• Stantler (100%)
• Sudowoodo Battle (100%)
• Route 37 (100%)
• Map Background (100%)
• Wild Pokemon Waves (100%)
• Trainer Battle (100%)

PTD2 v1.57 - A meeting with Giovanni - Released!

• Story Movie Scene (100%) - Made by Joel
• Game Chance 1 (100%) - You will now get +1 pokedollar after every battle, including non trainer battles.
• Bug Fix 1 (100%) - Fixed sometimes not being able to give a pokemon an item when they haven't taken damage.
• Bug Fix 2 (100%) - Enemy pokemon, since they had boosted HP, were doing burn and poison damage that was too high. The damage has been normalize as if they had the same hp boost as the player's pokemon.
• New Attacks (100%)
• Focus Blast (100%)
• Flash (100%) - Can only affect enemies. Lowers their accuracy by one level.
• Poke Center (100%)
• Poke Mart (100%)
• Item Menu (100%)
• New Items (100%) - X Sp. Attack, X Sp. Defense, X Accuracy, Guard Spec, Dire Hit, Revive, Full Heal, Burn Heal, Ice Heal.
• New TMs (100%) - Flash, Protect, False Swipe, Light Screen, Reflect, SolarBeam, Focus Blast, Thunder Punch, Fire Punch, Ice Punch, Rock Smash.

PTD2 v1.56.1 - Mystery Gift Released!

• Mystery Gift (100%) - Ground Type (Hippopotas and Numel)
• Graphics (100%)
• Stats (100%)
• Evolutions (100%)
• Add to Breeding Center (100%)
• Add to Trading Center (100%)
• Attack Percentage Change (100%)
• Confused damage will be based on a 40 power typeless physical attack done by the pokemon that is confused to itself (100%)
• The attack Outrage will now work similar to Thrash and Petal Dance (100%) - The confusion status will not be applied until the attack has been used 10 times.

PTD2 v1.56 - Executive Fight Released!

• Team Rocket Fight (100%)
• Hilarious Dialog (100%)
• Battle Design (100%)
• Battle Layout (100%)
• Battle Waves (100%)
• New Attacks (100%)
• Houndoom's Flamethrower (100%)

PTD2 v1.55.3 - Released!

• Mystery Gift (100%) - Rock Type (Tirtouga and Dwebble)
• Graphics (100%)
• Stats (100%)
• Evolutions (100%)
• New Abilities (100%)
• Solid Rock (100%)
• New Attacks (100%)
• Rock Wrecker (100%)
• Add to Breeding Center (100%)
• Add to Trading Center (100%)

That's what I have for you this week, keep checking back to see how I'm doing! As always let me know what you think!

Arriving at Goldenrod City!

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Arriving at Goldenrod City
Now that the soft cap is 100 and over 500 moves are in the game I'm ready to keep going with the story. Our hero might think that the past is pretty calm but he will soon find out that is not the case. Goldenrod is a big city so it will be done in two different updates. I look forward to bringing my ideas for the story to life.

PTD Fan Saga Episode 6 is now out!
Joel has been making great PTD fan videos on youtube showcasing his interpretation of the PTD1 story. He recently released episode 6 of his series and I encourage you to check it out if you haven't already. Check it out here.

Mystery Gift
We have over 370 pokemon in the game already! So this week we will add even more! Like every week, you vote and I listen. Both a Mystery Gift and Giveaway will be added. Looks like Grass is winning so far, looks like you guys are hoping for more starters :)

Weekly Progress

PTD2 v1.53 Released!

• Goldenrod City (100%)
• Map Background (100%)
• Map Objects (100%)
• Map Triggers (100%)
• Add NPCs and Dialog for them (100%)
• New NPC Graphics (100%)
• Gym Fight (100%)
• Battle Background (100%)
• Battle Layout (100%)
• Battle Waves (100%)
• Miltank Boss (100%)
• Graphics (100%)
• Stats (100%)
• New Attacks (100%)
• Miltank's Rollout (100%)
• Miltank's Defense Curl (100%)
• Bug Fix 1(100%) - Human characters that are in battles will no longer have health bars, level or gender stats displayed on them.
• Bug Fix 2 (100%) - Fixed a bug that could potentially crash the game after the Lugia or Faulkner fights.
• Bug Fix 3 (100%) - Fixed a bug with the attack Stored Power.
• Added some dialog to Lugia while in the Lugia fight (100%) - Similar to Mewthree talking on his fight.

As always let me know what you think!

Status Changes, Route 34, Headbutt and more!

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Status Changes
Something that has been bugging me for a while is that you can get paralyzed, poisoned, burned, put to sleep all at the same time in PTD. In the game you can only have one of these on you at a time. So my wish is to make it work like that on PTD 2. What do you think? Will it make things harder? Easier? Do you like the change?

Trap Mechanics
Another mechanic change that I want to make is to actually make the trap mechanic have an effect on pokemon while in battles. The new effect will be that pokemon will not be able to leave the level when you have trapped them (using mean look, or arena trap etc). They can still get the candy and take it away but they won't leave the stage. Pokemon with abilities like Run Away can still leave the stage.

Headbutt Mechanic
This week I'm going to introduce the headbutt mechanic into the game! This has been a much requested feature so I'm happy to finally be able to add it in. How I'm thinking about it is that you have to have the pokemon that knows headbutt follow you in the map and then simply you go close to a tree and you press the action button. Pretty similar to fishing. That will trigger a battle. Some new pokemon that you will be able to get with this process will be: Pineco, Aipom and Heracross!

Route 34
I'm also adding Route 34 to the game to continue pushing the story mode forward. This road includes the Day Care center. I'm still thinking about how I might handle this place since I already have the breeding center page. Have any ideas that wouldn't totally break the game? Let me know. Also Snubbull will be one of the pokemon in this route, so look forward to that.

Cosmoid Rewards
It's been a loooong time coming but this week I will definately add the Cosmoids Rewards to the game. If you don't know what this is I will explain it now. For our fundraiser if you donated 10 or more dollars you will get Shiny Heatran and your choice of Cosmoids Starter for your PTD2 account. For a while now we haven't added the Cosmoid Reward and now you will. Cosmoids is a new game that we are making that is a lot like pokemon but with our own unique creatures on it. For more information on the fundraiser click the link towards the top of this post.

Mystery Gift 
Like every week we have the mystery gift and giveaways.

Soft Level Cap to 40
Last but not least, I will be increasing the soft level cap to 40. This will add 19 new moves into the game and get us one step closer to the elusive level 100 soft cap.

As you can see we have a lot lined up for this week. Wish me luck!

Weekly Progress

PTD2 Released!

• Cosmoid Rewards (100%)
• Graphics (100%)
• Stats (100%)
• Evolutions (100%)
• Add to Trading Center (100%)
• Add to Rewards Page (100%)
• Route 34 (100%)
• Map Music (100%)
• Map Graphics (100%)
• Map Triggers (100%)
• Wild Pokemon Behavior (100%)
• Ditto (100%)
• Abra (100%)
• Drowzee (100%)
• Snubbull (100%)
• Wild Pokemon Battles (100%)
• Waves (100%)
• Trainer Battles (100%)
• Waves (100%)
• Change Route 32's Music to be the correct music (100%)
• Headbutt Mechanic (100%)
• Headbutt battles (100%)
• Waves (100%)
• Map Percentages (100%)
• Mystery Gift (100%)
• Graphics (100%)
• Stats (100%)
• New Attacks (100%)
• New Abilities (100%)
• Evolutions (100%)
• Add to Breeding Center (100%)
• Add to Trading Center (100%)
• Soft Level Cap to 40 (100%)
• Lava Plume (100%)
• Discharge (100%)
• Last Resort (100%)
• Retaliate (100%)
• Dragon Rush (100%)
• Brave Bird (100%)
• Metal Burst (100%)
• Waterfall (100%)
• Bounce (100%)
• Attack Order (100%)
• Head Smash (100%)
• Synchronoise (100%)
• Superpower (100%)
• Icicle Crash (100%)
• Wood Hammer (100%)
• Iron Tail (100%)
• Skill Swap (100%)
• Rock Climb (100%)
• Power Whip (100%)
• Status Changes (100%)
• Trap Mechanics (100%)
• New Pokemon (100%) - Snubbull, Grandbull, Pineco, Forretress, Aipom, Ambipom, Heracross
• Graphics (100%)
• Stats (100%)
• New Attacks (100%)
• Explosion (100%)
• Evolutions (100%)
• Add to Trading Center (100%)
• Add to Breeding Center (100%)
• Bug Fix - Confusion not working (100%)
• Bug Fix - Exeggcute not properly evolving with leaf stone (100%)
• Bug Fix - Stealth Rock not working properly (100%)
• Bug Fix - Arm Thrust will now be learned at the correct level for pignite and emboar (100%)

That's what we have for you this week, as always let me know what you think and what you want!

Legendary Transfers, Ilex Forest, Game Rebalance

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Weekly Update
Welcome once again to another week at Sam and Dan Games. Let's get it started!

Game Rebalance
It's about that time again to rebalance the game. The problem that happens is that many of you are higher level so I tend to make the latest levels be a lot harder than they should be at that stage of the game. The problem is that as I add even more content new players can get stuck since the difficulty curve might be too high. What I do to rebalance is start a new game and try to play all the levels. The moment where I feel like I need to start grinding to move on then that level needs to be made easier. Either make the enemy be lower level, or have less health. Ideally in the final game you would never need to grind to beat the story mode.

I'm also retroactively adding TMs for the Gym leaders that you might have beaten.

Legendary Transfers
Last blog I asked in the comments what you wanted to see for this update. Some of you wanted to see the Legendary Beast from PTD1 to be transferred over. So this week we will see Raikou, Entei, Suicune and Victini be added to the transfer list!

New Moves
I won't be able to reach Soft Level cap 37 this week but I will add some of the moves from it, plus a few extra fun moves. Are there any specific moves that you want to be added next week? Let me know in the comments below.

Ilex Forest
The next map will be Ilex Forest. There won't be any new pokemon in it but there will be some pokemon in the wild that we hadn't seen before so that means new behaviours for them. You can expect to battle a pesky Farfetch'd and gain access to HM Cut.

Mystery Gift
Like most weeks, there will be a mystery gift this week. It looks like Ice is winning right now. It is interesting because if Ice wins, there aren't many pure or primary ice type pokemon left. There might not be a choice to vote for.

Cosmoid Update
Some interesting things are happening in the Cosmoids world, I hope to have something new to show you guys in the coming weeks, but for now there is nothing new to announce.

Okay so here is the list of progress

Weekly Progress

PTD2 Released!

• Mystery Gift (100%)
• Graphics (100%)
• New Attacks (100%)
• Sharpen (100%)
• Haze (100%)
• Stats (100%)
• Add to Breeding Center (100%)
• Add to Trading Center (100%)
• PTD1 Transfers (100%)
• New Abilities (100%)
• Victory Star (100%)
• New Attacks (100%)
• Searing Shot (100%)
• Stats (100%)
• Add to Breeding Center (100%)
• Add to Trading Center (100%)
• Rebalance Game (100%)
• Reduced the amount needed to level up by 30% (100%)
• Fixed Zai's Unit Size in battles (100%)
• Added Bonus Experience to the Zai Berry Fight (100%) - Bonus experience for pokemon level 10 and under.
• Made the Shadow Pokemon have really high amount of HP in the Zai Berry Fight to prevent players from defeating it before being able to capture it (100%)
• Added Bonus Experience to the Zapdos Fight (100%) - Bonus experience for pokemon level 15 and under.
• Fixed a typo with Ash's Dialog on Cherrygrove City (100%)
• Added Bonus Experience to the Falkner Fight (100%) - Bonus experience for pokemon level 20 and under.
• Added TM Roost as a reward for beating Falkner (100%) - If you already beat Falkner the TM will automatically be added to your game.
• Changed Falkner's dialog after beating him for the first time to include him saying that he gave you the badge and the TM (100%)
• Added a missing Police Man for Violet City when you first enter the town (100%)
• You can no longer go to Route 32 (south of Violet City) until you beat the Lugia battle (100%)
• Added Bonus Experience to the Bellsprout Tower Fight (100%) - Bonus experience for pokemon level 20 and under.
• Boss Bellsprout's wrap attack now has a longer cooldown but he now spins for only half the time before throwing out his wrap (100%)
• Increased the cooldown on the small bellsprout's razor leaf attack (100%)
• Added Bonus Experience to the Lugia Fight (100%) - Bonus experience for pokemon levle 20 and under.
• Slightly increased the damage of Lugia's Gust Attack (100%)
• Made the first Unown Fight easier (100%) - Lowered the level, hp, and chance to attack for the unown.
• Made Entei's fight easier (100%) - Lowered the amount of damage the protector unit will take when taking entei's fireball attack. Lowered Entei's level. Lowered the Unown's level and HP. Lowered the amount of Unown that come out at a time and increased the time between unown coming out.
• Fixed a type with Gary's Dialog before the Mewthree battle (100%)
• Made Mewthree's battle easier (100%) - Lowered his total hp, lowered his damage to it's target unit.
• Added TM U-Turn as a reward for beating Bugsy (100%) - If you already beat Bugsy the TM will automatically be added to your game.
• Changed Bugsy's Dialog to mention giving you the TM (100%)
• Made Past Route 29 Lass easier (100%) - Made her pokemon more reasonable for the expected level at that stage of the game.
• Made Past Cherrygroove City Kid easier (100%) - Made his pokemon more reasonable for the expected level at that stage of the game.
• Made Past Route 30 Trainers easier (100%) - Made their pokemon more reasonable for the expected level at that stage of the game.
• Made Past Route 31 Trainers easier (100%) - Made their pokemon more reasonable for the expected level at that stage of the game.
• Made Past Violet City Trainers easier (100%) - Made their pokemon more reasonable for the expected level at that stage of the game.
• Fixed a typo on Falkner's Dialog on Past Violet City (100%)
• Made Past Ruins of Alph Trainers easier (100%) - Made their pokemon more reasonable for the expected level at that stage of the game.
• Made Past Route 32 Trainers easier (100%) - Made their pokemon more reasonable for the expected level at that stage of the game.
• Made Past Union Cave Trainers easier (100%) - Made their pokemon more reasonable for the expected level at that stage of the game.
• Made Past Route 33 Trainers easier (100%) - Made their pokemon more reasonable for the expected level at that stage of the game.
• Made Past Azalea Trainers easier (100%) - Made their pokemon more reasonable for the expected level at that stage of the game.
• Made the fight against Bugsy easier (100%) - His pokemon are lowered level, have less HP. Scyther starts out slower and now attacks longer before buffing himself again. Ariados now has an initial cooldown on his spider web attack.
• Ilex Forest (100%)
• Map (100%)
• Graphics (100%)
• Triggers (100%)
• Trainer Battle (100%)
• Waves (100%)
• Level Layout (100%)
• Wild Fishing Battles (100%)
• Waves (100%)
• Poliwag (100%)
• Magikarp(100%)
• Level Layout (100%)
• Wild Pokemon Battles (100%)
• Waves (100%)
• Caterpie (100%)
• Metapod (100%)
• Weedle (100%)
• Kakuna (100%)
• Pidgey (100%)
• Zubat (100%)
• Hoothoot (100%)
• Paras (100%)
• Oddish (100%)
• Venonat (100%)
• Psyduck (100%)
• Level Layout (100%)
• Farfetch'd Battle (100%)
• Waves (100%)
• Level Layout (100%)
• Wild Pokemon Behaviors (100%)
• Paras (100%)
• Oddish (100%)
• Venonat (100%)
• Psyduck (100%)
• New Attack (100%)
• Cut (100%)
• New Attacks (100%)
• Seed Bomb (100%)
• Drill Peck (100%)
• Gravity (100%)
• Giga Drain (100%)
• Cross Chop (100%)
• Extremespeed (100%)
• Hydro Pump (100%)
• Thunder (100%)
• Fire Blast (100%)
• Blizzard (100%)
• Solar Beam (100%)
• Your pokemon will now retain any extra experience they gained past the point of leveling up (100%) - They won't however instantly level up twice, you will need to gain more experience to trigger more level ups, but you won't lose experience as your previously did.
• Bug Fix  - Rapid Spin not clearing out Stealth Rock (100%)
• Bug Fix - Added Missing Attack - Lovely Kiss (100%)
• Bug Fix - Shrinking a few pokemon - Furret, Ekans, Arbok, Slowpoke, and Dunsparce (100%)

That's what we have for you this week. As always keep checking back to see how I'm doing and let me know what you think! Sam out.

Back in action! PTD2 update released!

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Back in Action!

It's good to be back! First I want to thank you all for all the kind words that you gave Zaira and I. We had a wonderful wedding and honeymoon. It was a much needed break from work. I'm fully refreshed and ready to make some content!

PTD2 Update 1.49 Released!
I just finished a new update it contains a lot of goodies for you guys and gals.

• Pokemon Size Adjustments - This was a long time coming. Usually I would resize pokemon manually and more or less estimate how big or small they should be. What I did was changed it so the sizes are automatically figured out using programming instead of me doing it manually. From 0 to 10 feet units will scale at a faster pace than from 10 or higher feet. If it all scales the same you end up with giant Steelix. So I used rattata to figure out 1 foot and your character represents 5 feet. Then I took my Steelix size and made that the measure for how the bigger pokemon should scale. The outcome is that sizes should be more consistent now. Some pokemon got smaller and some got bigger but should be accurate to the game.
• Soft Level Cap Increased to 36 - Added 11 new attacks to reach the 36 soft level cap. Please note that pokemon that can learn these attacks will be able to learn them even if they are learned at a higher level than the soft cap.
• X-Scissor, Megahorn, Shadow Claw, Flash Cannon, Dizzy Punch, Psycho Cut, Whirlpool, Stone Edge, Venoshock, Blaze Kick, and Sludge Bomb.
• The promised Giveaway Pokemon - This coming week I will be giving away Shiny Tepig, Gothita and Electrike.
• PTD1 to PTD2 Transfers - 15 new pokemon to transfer over! Go to the PTD1 Pokemon Center to transfer your pokemon from ptd1 to ptd2. Keep in mind you can't transfer them back to PTD1 once you transfer them over.
• Ponyta, Rapidash, Magnemite, Magneton, Farfetch'd, Doduo, Dodrio, Seel, Dewgong, Grimer, Muk, Shellder, Cloyster, Drowzee, and Hypno.

That's all I have for today, stay tuned for our next blog on Monday! As always let me know what you think!

Moving Forward one Step at a time

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Moving Forward one step at a time

It has been almost a month since I last wrote a blog post, making Pokemon Tower Defense changed my life quite a bit but the changes in the last few months have had a greater impact on me than anything else in my life and they aren't done. What changes are you talking about Sam? The biggest change was moving out from my parent's house. The move itself wasn't that bad besides having my computers stop working for a bit. The transition has been harder. You go from a place where most of the responsibilities are split among several people living in a home to just you. You are responsible for everything and everything takes time. Time away from doing the things you were used to doing. After about a month I feel like I'm getting used to it and I'm able to split my time effectively so that I can create content for you guys and girls. My wedding in also very near (less than 2 months away) luckily we have most of the preparations done and now it will be all about the final details. It has been a fun journey and I look forward to actually getting the wedding done. For the honeymoon I will be away for 2 weeks, so there won't be any updates during that time since I won't be around. That is why I'm not taking breaks now and I try to keep pushing forward one step at a time.

This week's update

For this week I really want to keep advancing the story mode of the game. We have been stuck at one badge for such a long time! I think it's time to reach Azalea Town and get our second badge! Along the way we will travel through South Route 32, Union Cave and Route 33. There will be new pokemon to catch, a new item to buy and some new PTD1 to PTD2 transfers! 

One of the pokemon that you can catch is Slowpoke. Slowpoke will have a chance to be holding a King's rock and that will be the only way to get one for now so look out for that. You will be able to evolve Slowpoke into Slowking and Poliwhirl into Politoed by trading them with the King's Rock so look forward to that.

Also this update we will finally be adding the Cosmoid Fundraiser rewards for those who donated 10 or more they will be able to choose one of the cosmoid starters for their PTD2 collection!

As usual we will also have the mystery gift and the giveaway pokemon. Right now it looks like Poison will win this week.

Weekly Progress

Cosmoids Progress

• Design Level 8 - 11 (50%)

PTD2  v1.47.1 Released! (100%)

• Mystery Gift (100%)
• New Graphic (100%)
• Change Links (100%)
• Add code to Server (100%)
• New Pokemon (100%)
• Graphics (100%)
• Stats (100%)
• New Attacks (100%)
• Defend Order (100%)
• Heal Order (100%)
• Toxic (100%)
• New Abilities (100%)
• Wonder Guard (100%)
• Speed Boost (100%)
• Honey Gather (100%)
• Evolutions (100%)
• Add to Breeding Center (100%)
• Add to Trading Center (100%)
• Fix being able to use the running shoes with Shift before you get them (100%)
• Fixed an error in the attack Scary Face's description (100%)

PTD2 future release

• Cosmoids Fundraiser Reward (0%)
• Graphics (0%)
• Stats (0%)
• Evolution Info (0%)
• Add to Trading Center (0%)
• Game breaking glitch that won't let you fight lugia (0%)
• Fix Metal Coat not showing up before you grab it the first time (0%)
• Added a confirmation page to adopting player's pokemon (100%)

PTD2  v1.47 Released! (100%)  (Download latest version on the Game Downloads Page)

• New Pokemon (100%)
• Graphics (100%)
• Stats (100%)
• New Abilities (100%)
• Drizzle (100%)
• New Attacks (100%)
• Perish Song (100%)
• Evolution Info (100%)
• Add to Breeding Center (100%)
• Add to Trading Center (100%)
• New Item (100%)
• Graphic (100%)
• Programming (100%)
• Implement on Pokemon Center Website (100%)
• Azalea Town (100%)
• Town Music (100%)
• Map Graphic (100%)
• Triggers/Collision (100%)
• People (100%)
• Houses (100%)
• Kurt Graphic (100%)
• Map Graphic (100%)
• Triggers/Collision (100%)
• People (100%)
• Gym (100%)
• Bugsy Graphic (100%)
• Map Graphic (100%)
• Triggers/Collision (100%)
• Trainers (100%)
• Battle Maps (100%)
• Background Graphic (100%)
• Double Battle Layout (100%)
• Single Battle Layout (100%)
• Bugsy Battle Layout (100%)
• Gym Battle (100%)
• New Attacks (100%)
• Spinarak Attack (100%)
• New Pokemon AI (100%)
• Metapod's Pattern (100%)
• Scyther's Pattern (100%)
• Ariados' Pattern (100%)
• PokeMart (100%)
• New Items (100%)
• PokeCenter (100%)
• Slowpoke Well (100%)
• Map Graphic (100%)
• Triggers/Collision (100%)
• Fishing Spots (100%)
• New Pokemon Behavior (100%)
• Battle Wave (100%)
• Transfers Slowpoke and Slowbro from PTD1 to PTD2 (100%)
• Fixed a misspelling with the ability Truant's name (100%)
• Certain fights will give double experience if your pokemon is under a certain level (100%) - For example if you are below level 35 during some of the new waves you will get double experience for that pokemon to help you reach the intended level.

PTD2 v1.46.3 Released! (100%)

• Mystery Gift (100%)
• New Graphic (100%)
• Change Links (100%)
• Add code to Server (100%)
• New Pokemon (100%)
• Graphics (100%)
• Stats (100%)
• New Abilities (100%)
• Immunity (100%)
• Toxic Boost (100%)
• Truant (100%)
• New Attacks (100%)
• Slack Off (100%)
• Evolution Info (100%)
• Add to Breeding Center (100%)
• Add to Trading Center (100%)
• Added the correct music to Union Cave (100%)
• Fixed a bug with Route 33 battles not showing the current time graphic (100%)

PTD2 v1.46.2 Released! 

• Union Cave (100%)
• Map BFloor 1 (100%)
• Graphic (100%)
• Triggers/Collisions (100%)
• Trainers (100%)
• Route 33 (100%)
• Map Graphic (100%)
• Triggers/Collision (100%)
• New Wild Pokemon Battles (100%) - Higher level while pokemon with evolutions included in waves to provide more experience.
• Trainer (100%)
• Fixed a bug when switching shoes and going into a new map would cause the game to be unresponsive (100%)
• Make the Shift key toggle running shoes (100%)

PTD2 v1.46 Released! (100%)

• Mystery Gift (100%)
• New Graphic (100%)
• Change Links (100%)
• Add code to Server (100%)
• New Pokemon (100%)
• Graphics (100%)
• Stats (100%)
• New Abilities (100%)
• Poison Touch (100%)
• New Attacks (100%)
• Aqua Ring (100%)
• Poison Jab (100%)
• Poison Tail (100%)
• Poison Fang (100%)
• Evolution Info (100%)
• Add to Breeding Center (100%)
• Add to Trading Center (100%)
• Route 32 South (100%)
• Map Graphic (100%)
• Triggers/Collision (100%)
• Fishing Spots (100%)
• Trainers (100%)
• Union Cave (100%)
• New Wild Pokemon Behavior (100%) 
• Onix (100%)
• Sandshrew (Gold Exclusive) (100%)
• Battle Map (100%)
• Fishing Battle Map (100%)
• Fishing Battles (100%)
• Wild Pokemon Battles (100%)
• Map Floor 1 (100%)
• Graphic (100%)
• Hiker NPC Graphic (100%)
• Triggers/Collision (100%)
• Trainers (100%)
• Battle Waves (100%)
• Trainer Positions (100%)
• Trainer Dialog (100%)
• Fixed a bug that would make the enemy stop attacking under certain conditions (100%)
• Transfer Goldeen and Seaking from PTD1 to PTD2 (100%)

That's what is coming this week, keep checking back to see how I'm doing and as always let me know what you think!

Going to the past: The next PTD2 Story Update and more!

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What's New
It has been chaos, to say the least, these past couple of weeks. For the first time in my life I moved out of my parents house and into my own apartment. All of this in preparation for my wedding which is 2 short months from now! Chaos might have been a soft word. With all the moving also came computer problems. I had to take my development computer to be fixed and now my old computer is giving me trouble. I've never had this much trouble before! While I haven't been able to really sit down and work on anything my mind has not stopped thinking about what and who is making all of this possible. You guys and gals are the reason I'm able to push my life into the next stage and I'm able to wake up every day and think about making video games instead of coding something I have no interest in for somebody I don't even really know. Because of that I will give it my all as long as you guys will have me.

I did manage a few things, Cosmoids got a small update, some tweaks on the first level to make it a bit shorter and some massive changes to the tutorials so they are easier to understand and more to the point.

Speaking of Cosmoids...

Designing a game before coding it
The way I make Pokemon Tower Defense is that each week I think about what to work on next and early in the week I will make a plan, write the blog with my plan and then I try to accomplish my plan. In more detail this means I'm making it up as I go. Each week I think about where the story could go. While I have some very basic plans for the overall story, the lines of dialog and the different events that will happen are not planned out months in advance. At the most I will have an idea like having Mewthree win, and then slowly during the week I will think about how this will happen. Same with the battles, ptd1 transfers, new attacks. Having been doing this for a few years now I can see that there are benefits to this method. The main benefit is the speed that you can put things out. There are however some drawbacks to this style. I think an obvious example is the Avatars in PTD1. Your player doesn't have an avatar until later in the game. This is the result of not having time to add it initially but then eventually getting the time and figuring out how to add it in. Going back and adding it to all the previous levels would have been a big undertaking that would have stalled the game updates so I was never willing to do it. At the same thing I think it is odd to add new things as you go and having the old content not take advantage of these things.

So for Cosmoids I want to design the game in advance before I make it. What this means is that I will be coming up with the levels and moves in advance before I actually code them. Then I will see what everything looks like and be able to implements new things into the whole game instead of just adding them as I go. So far I have designed up to level 5. My goal for the game is for it to have about 40ish levels before I consider it complete.

Designing a level doesn't take a very long time but making it interesting, challenging, and fun can be quite a challenge. For Cosmoids we are following a similar formula that PTD1 has. You watch a story scene then you play the level and you watch another story scene. So the first thing you have to think about is where is your story at. What happened in the previous level, in the previous story scene and where do you want the story to go and how will it tie into the next Cosmoids you want to use on the next level. Then you think about what attacks should this new Cosmoid have and how is it different from the others. What kind of different role can it take. Finally using those new attacks you create an idea for how the level itself will play. What will be the challenge on the level. How will you test the player. Will it be a puzzle or the ability to dodge moves. Or will he have to have Cosmoids that have high defense. A lot of thought goes into making each level. So being able to focus on just the design lets you do it quick and it also lets you see the big picture quicker which can hopefully lead to the game feeling more unified.

Going to the past: The next PTD2 Story Update
It's going to be a good one! Mewthree has taken over the world with his massive clones, your friends, family and heroes are about to be captured. Celebi, the time traveling pokemon, shows up and offers you a chance to save the world but you must go to the past to change it! This update will have you going to the past. You will be able to visit the locations that you have already visited but 10 years into the past. In the world you aren't born yet and Silver is still alive! What can do you to stop the events in the future? Only time will tell.

The past will be a different place, while the maps themselves will look the same, you can expect more people to be around, and different house and buildings to be accessible.

You will be able to enter the poke mart and buy items. You will be able to enter the pokemon center and rest until night time, day time or early morning. Essentially giving you control over the time of day. There will be more trainer battles in the Routes.

Another cool feature is that you can travel back to the future! Talking to celebi from your pokepad will allow you to travel back a few moments before Mewthree took over the region, allowing you to replay old battles or talk to people in the future after finding out more about them in the past.

There is a lot of content to be added to make this update possible and I hope you guys enjoy the things I have planned.

Weekly Progress

Cosmoids Progress

• Design Level 8 (70%) - Honey Badger vs Bees
• Design Level 9 (50%) - Electric City
• Design Level 10 (50%) - Electric City 2
• Design Level 11 (50%) - Electric City 3 Boss

PTD2 v1.45 Released!

• Mystery Gift (100%)
• Graphics (100%)
• Stats (100%)
• Attacks (100%)
• Block (100%)
• Stealth Rock (100%)
• Abilities (100%)
• Soundproof (100%)
• Evolution Info (100%)
• Add to Breeding Center (100%)
• Add to Trading Center (100%)
• Bug Fix - Can no longer use items that have zero quantity (100%)
• Traveling to the past (100%) - Travel 10 years into the past to save the world! 
• Past Route 30 (100%)
• New NPC Graphics (100%)
• House 1 (100%)
• House 2 (100%)
• Trainer Battles (100%)
• Past Route 31 (100%)
• Trainer Battle (100%)
• Past Dark Cave (100%) - No Changes
• Past Violet City (100%)
• People Outside (100%)
• Houses (100%)
• Map Graphics (100%)
• People Inside Houses (100%)
• Sprout Tower (100%)
• Trainer Battles (100%)
• School (100%)
• Map Graphics (100%)
• Trainer Battles (100%)
• Gym (100%)
• Map Graphics (100%)
• Gym Battle (100%)
• PokeMart (100%)
• Add new Items (100%)
• PokeCenter (100%)
• Past Route 32 (100%)
• Trainer Battles (100%)
• Past Ruins of Alph (100%)
• Trainer Battle (100%)

PTD2 v1.44 Released!

• Mystery Gift (100%) - Shiny Sandile!
• Traveling to the past (100%) - Travel 10 years into the past to save the world! 
• New Pokemon (100%) 
• Graphics (100%) 
• Stats (100%) 
• Attacks (100%) 
• Embargo (100%)
• Horn Drill (100%)
• Evolutions (100%)
• Add to Trading Center (100%) 
• Add to Breeding Center (100%)
• New Story Scenes and Battles (100%)
• Talking to Celebi (100%)
• Past New Bark Town (100%)
• Town (100%)
• Lab (100%)
• Gold's House (100%)
• Silver's House (100%) - Still locked!
• Crystal's House (100%)
• Special Spot (100%)
• Past Route 29 (100%)
• Trainer Battle (100%)
• Past Route 46 (100%)
• Trainer Battle (100%)
• Past Cherrygrove City (100%)
• Trainer Battle (100%)
• Houses (100%)
• Map Graphic (100%)
• Flower Trade (100%)
• Pokemon Center (100%)
• Map Graphic (100%)
• Allow you to change time (100%)
• Nurse Joy Graphic (100%)
• PokeMart (100%)
• Map Graphic (100%)
• Add new items (100%)
• Allow you to buy items (100%)
• Item Security (100%)
• Save Money on the Server (100%)
• New NPC Characters Graphics (100%)
• Fixed a bug that would not reset a map's music if you exited Story Mode (100%)
• The story maps will now show the name of the location that you are in (100%)
• Trainer Adoptions will now show if the pokemon is hacked in the Adoption Page (100%)
• Added a Trainer Adoptions link to the Adoption page (100%) - You can easily find the pokemon trainers are putting up for adoption on that page.

Thanks for sticking with us! That's all I have for you this week. As always let me know what you think!

Legendary Transfers, Adopt now Trades, Shadow Moves and more!

Want to get the Shiny Starters? Shiny Zorua? Shiny legendary dogs? Shiny Mew? or any other shiny pokemon in the game? Adopt them today using SnD coins! Click here for more info.

Visit the PTD: Pokemon Center - a place to trade pokemon, get your Daily Code, adopt Pokemon, view your items and change your avatar!

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No blog post last week
Sometimes the week starts to pass and you haven't written the blog post and before you know it you say okay I'm focusing on making an update rather than write a blog post. That's what happened. But this week it's Monday I have a game plan for the week so I'm here writing the blog post. All rejoice!

Last week's update
The week before I had set out to make the second level for Cosmoids and due to server issues I wasn't able to do that. So I took last week to focus most of my time on making the level. I'm really happy with the results and would love to hear what you guys and gals think so far of Cosmoids. I'm also considering bringing it out to the public so that you can play it even if you haven't contributed to the fundraiser (as easy as that is) so that more people can have access to it and I can get more feedback. What do you guys think of that?

On top of the second level for Cosmoids, I also added Meinfoo and Timburr into the game and they will be distributed as giveaways and mystery gifts for this week.

I also made a lot of adjustments to the server code to speed things up and I'm pretty happy with the results so far. Some people tend to mention that the "new" server is not good. The thing is we never switched servers or got a new server. We are still in the same one, I've been making changes to the way things work to speed things up.

This week's update

New Story Level
This week my focus is to advance the story in PTD2. I'm really excited about this next part and hopefully I will have enough time to make it as good as it can be.

Shadow Moves
I will be adding some shadow moves from Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness that your shadow pokemon will be able to relearn. Right now I'm not sure how many, who will learn what, and what type of effectiveness the moves will have against other types but I will keep you posted throughout the week.

Mystery Gift and Giveaway
Like most weeks, there will be a Mystery Gift and Giveaway. I've been pondering about giving out both shiny and shadow versions of each on different days as something that I could do. Either way vote on the polls to decide what you will get next.

PTD1 to PTD2 Transfers - Legendary Pokemon Arrive!
A much requested transfer is that of legendary pokemon from PTD 1 to PTD2 and it is finally time! I will be adding Articune, Zapdos, Moltres, Mewtwo and Mew to the transfer list this week!

Adopt Now for Trades
A feature I been wanting to try out for a while is for you guys to be able to put your pokemon up for adoption. Pretty much the way I'm seeing it now is that you can set an SnD coin price to your trade. A player that has SnD coins can either request a trade or straight up adopt your pokemon by paying your SnD price. You receive the coins and the other player receives the pokemon. With everything else that I have for this week I'm not sure if this will make it in time. Also you might be wondering why I don't use daily coins with this. The reason for that is the only way daily coins can exist is if they are hard to get or you can only get them at a certain rate per day. Allowing players to transfer daily coins from one account to another will open all sorts of exploits that I wish to avoid. I think this can be a great feature, what do you think?

Cosmoids
I try to move Cosmoids forward every week. I feel the more I work on it the more I want to keep working on it. I had a lot of fun just focusing on the second level. There are a few things that still need to be tweaked but I'm very excited for the future of the game. As the game becomes more developed over time, we will be talking about it more and more. For now you can play it at the funding rewards page in the PTD2 Trading Center. For this week we are tweaking the character graphic, making changes to level 1 to make it more compact and to the point, I will be figuring out ways to make the tutorial parts more understandable and easier to follow, and start work on level 3.

Weekly Progress

My Status: Not Working. Not Streaming. http://www.justin.tv/samsndgames

Cosmoids Released!

• New character graphic tweaks (100%) - adding gloves, changing hat style, different side angles
• Making level 1 more compact and to the point (100%)
• Added more details to emphasize that you are protecting your house on level 1 (100%)
• Making tutorials more easier to follow (100%)

Future PTD2 udpate Released!

• Adopt Now for Trades (100%)

PTD2 v1.43.1 Released!

• Mystery Gift (100%)
• New Pokemon (100%) - Tropius, Ferroseed, Ferrothorn
• Graphics (100%)
• Stats (100%)
• New Abilities (100%)
• Iron Barbs (100%)
• Harvest (100%)
• New Attacks (100%)
• Ingrain (100%)
• Evolutions (100%)
• Add to Trading Center (100%)
• Add to Breeding Center (100%)

PTD2 v1.43 Released!

• PTD1 to PTD2 Transfers (100%) - Legendary Pokemon!
• New Story Level (100%) - Gary makes a discovery, but is it too late?
• Intro Scene (100%)
• Battle (100%)
• Battle Layout (100%)
• Battle Wave (100%)
• Battle Attacks (100%)
• Target Takedown (100%)
• Return to Pokeballs (100%)
• Target Bomb (100%)
• Ending Dialog (100%)
• New Pokemon (100%) - , Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres, Mewtwo, and Mew
• Graphics (100%)
• Stats (100%)
• New Abilities (100%)
• New Attacks (100%)
• Ice Shard (100%)
• Mind Reader (100%) - Now last for 10 charges
• Psych Up (100%)
• Reflect Type (100%)
• Add to Trading Center (100%)
• Shadow Moves (100%) - More will be added in the future
• Shadow Blitz (100%)
• Shadow Wave (100%)
• Bug Fixes (100%)
• Shadow Unown will now stay as Shadow when you save (100%) - If you previously caught one you must catch a new one.

Thanks for visiting! As always let me know what you think! Comments below or Twitter or at support@sndgames.com (both Dan and I read that email) Thanks!

Coming back from a bad week, more PTD1 to PTD2 transfers, Sun Stone, Level 2 of Cosmoids!

Want to get the Shiny Starters? Shiny Zorua? Shiny legendary dogs? Shiny Mew? or any other shiny pokemon in the game? Adopt them today using SnD coins! Click here for more info.

Visit the PTD: Pokemon Center - a place to trade pokemon, get your Daily Code, adopt Pokemon, view your items and change your avatar!

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Last Week's Update/Server Issues
We had a crazy week last week, both in a good and bad way. Let's start with the bad. So instead of telling you the story how it unfolded I will just tell you what the problem was and how it caused all the issues that we had. Okay. So Databases need indexes. Imagine you have a giant book and it has no index. How would you find that page you are looking for without having to go through the whole book? You can't! So I had a tiny database (the one that keeps track of what events you had done in the story) that was missing an index. Initially the database was so small that it didn't matter. But as the game grew in size and in users this database grew. It has over 2 million entries and so every day as the database grew so did the slowdown. It got so slow that our host suspended our account. I told them to put it back up so I could disable all logins while I fixed the problem. I was really conflicted about all this. I'm no expert on databases or server administration so I had very little idea on where to start. Luckily I had bought this book called High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, and Replication. While I didn't have the time to read the whole book or follow everything it had to say, it did give me some ideas on trying to find the problem and how to fix it. After doing some test to see how long each thing took to load I found that loading events was taking way too long even when I was the only user playing the game, which brought the discovery of the missing index on that database. Other than that I made some upgrades to the database engines (I changed from mysam to innodb, for those with database knowledge) that should let more people in at a time. There might be some side effects to these changes that I will have to fix but I'm pretty happy that we are somewhat back to working order.

The good stuff is the new content that I was able to bring to the game. I finally put in running shoes into the game which let you move at twice the speed. (Your pokemon will also move fast, I did have a version where your pokemon wasn't as fast and he would be left behind) You can get the shoes by talking to an old man in Cherrygrove City after you defeat Zapdos there. Another big and daunting task that I had was to add fishing. I actually go the chance to stream while I was making the fishing part and frankly I had no idea how I was going to add fishing. Luckily I'm pretty quick at thinking about how to solve problems and so I thought of a way to add it in and it worked out pretty well. You can now get an old rod or good rod by defeating the fisher man on the second part of Route 32 (Read the FAQ page for more detailed info). Once you have a rod you can go to any water source available in the game and fish on it (press spacebar or z) this will trigger a battle. Things like which rod you are using, which location you are in, time of day will affect who you get to battle with. I basically set it up to mimic the actual game. I'm really happy with how it turned out so I hope you guys can enjoy it.

On top of all of this I added all the generation 1 pokemon that you can capture in PTD2 to the PTD1 to PTD2 transfers. This includes: Jigglypuff, Wigglypuff, Zubat, Golbat, Bellsprout, Weepinbell, Victreebell, Geodude, Graveler, Golem, Gastly, Haunter, Gengar, Poliwag, Poliwrath, Krabby, Kingler, Staryu and Starmie. As I do every week there was also a Mystery Gift and a Giveaway pokemon. The Mystery Gift was electric ghost type Rotom and the giveaway was Plusle and Minun. If you got the code in time you would get 2 of each Plusle and Minun. One male and one female.

Last but not least Cosmoids had a nice update. I added more losing conditions, if you let enough bug creatures pass you will lose the level. You can tell how many lives you have left by the heart graphic on the top left. Evan, one of our freelance artist, also did a revision on the grass graphic for the first level. While I thought the original ones looked fine, Dan thought they needed more work. And so Evan did the job and they look great! The other thing I added was a fainting animation to the units. Instead of disappearing you will now see them flip on their backs and then flash before they disappear. These types of details go a long way in making a game. Each of them bringing us closer to a full game.

What's happening this week:

Pokemon Center Bugs
I need detailed information about the Pokemon Center Bugs with Breeding, Trading and Picking up pokemon. The more step by step information you can give me the better.

Mystery Gift
Like every week we will have a mystery gift and a giveaway for the runner up of the poll. You have one day to vote for which of the remaining types should be the new mystery gift. Then I will post specific pokemon that can be the mystery gift and giveaway.

PTD1 to PTD2 Transfers
My goal this week is to add a lot of Generation 1 Pokemon into PTD2. So this week I plan to add: Vulpix, Ninetails, Oddish, Gloom, Vileplume, Paras, Parasect, Venonat, Venomoth, Diglett, Dugtrio, Meowth, Persian, Psyduck, Golduck, Mankey, Primeape, Growlithe, Arcanine, Abra, Kadabra, Alakazam, Machop, Machoke, and Machamp. Adding these will make it so that you can get more than half of the Generation 1 Pokemon into PTD2!

Sun Stone
Since we are adding the Oddish family and Bellossom is part of Generation 2 then I'm also adding the Sun Stone so that Gloom can evolve into Bellossom!

Cosmoids Level Select Screen and Level 2
For Cosmoids this week I want to start work on Level 2. I really want each level to feel different than the others so each level will take some time to create. On level 2 is when you finally get your first creature, but please note that you won't be able to save just yet. Since we will have multiple levels we also need a level select screen. Very similar to PTD1 there will be different chapters. I'm looking forward to making this!

Weekly Progress

My Status: Not Working. Not Streaming. http://www.justin.tv/samsndgames

Cosmoids Released!

• Level Selection Screen (100%)
• Added new Title Screen Graphic (100%)
• Added new Character Graphic (100%)
• Level 2 (100%)
• Added the level 1 intro cutscene (100%)

PTD2 v1.42.1 Released!

• Mystery Gift (100%)
• Make Bellossom's graphic bigger (100%)

PTD2 v1.42 Released!

• PTD1 to PTD2 Transfer (100%)
• Add New Pokemon to Trading Center (100%)
• Add New Pokemon to Breeding Center (100%)
• New Item (100%) - Sun Stone
• Implement in game (100%)
• Implement in Pokemon Center (100%)
• Test New Pokemon, attacks, and abilities (100%)
• New Pokemon (100%) - Vulpix, Ninetails, Oddish, Gloom, Vileplume, Bellossom, Paras, Parasect, Venonat, Venomoth, Diglett, Dugtrio, Meowth, Persian, Psyduck, Golduck, Mankey, Primeape, Growlithe, Arcanine, Abra, Kadabra, Alakazam, Machop, Machoke, and Machamp
• Graphics (100%)
• New Attacks (100%)
• Sunny Day (100%)
• Moonlight (100%)
• Aromatherapy (100%)
• Spore (100%)
• Signal Beam (100%)
• Earth Power (100%)
• Tri Attack (100%)
• Fake Out (100%)
• Pay Day (100%)
• Switcheroo (100%)
• Power Gem (100%)
• Soak (100%)
• Covet (100%)
• Karate Chop (100%)
• Seismic Toss (100%)
• Kinesis (100%)
• Miracle Eye (100%)
• Ally Switch (100%)
• Telekinesis (100%)
• Vital Throw (100%)
• Low Sweep (100%)
• New Abilities (100%)
• Drought (100%)
• Stench (100%)
• Effect Spore (100%)
• Wonder Skin (100%)
• Anger Point (100%)
• Defiant (100%)
• Marvel Scale (100%)
• Water Veil (100%)
• Stats (100%)
• Evolutions (100%)
• Bug Fixes (100%) 
• Fixed a bug with stat change buffs and debuffs (100%)

Thanks guys for sticking with us! As always let me know what you think on the comments below, on twitter or email us at support@sndgames.com Thanks!

Running and fishing arrive! The gang is all here! Three strikes and you're out!

Want to get the Shiny Starters? Shiny Zorua? Shiny legendary dogs? Shiny Mew? or any other shiny pokemon in the game? Adopt them today using SnD coins! Click here for more info.

Visit the PTD: Pokemon Center - a place to trade pokemon, get your Daily Code, adopt Pokemon, view your items and change your avatar!

Welcome to the Sam and Dan Games Developer Blog! Where we work non stop to keep you entertained!

Sam and Dan Games: Fundraiser! Phase 3
Help us keep making games and earn awesome prizes like Shiny Rayquaza and Shiny Heatran!  
Our Goal: $50,000

Last Week's Update
We had a huge update last week.We added over 20 new pokemon between the PTD1 to PTD2 transfers, the mystery gift, giveaway and the new fisherman level. On top of that we had a special easter hunt that will last all this week to get a Shiny Buneary. This also meant a lot of new moves that your other pokemon can also learn. We also had an unfortunate Bidoof epidemic that lasted a whole day! Those fools! There was also three new battles added with the happy fisherman. I added a new thing that will change the battle you will face with the fisherman depending on the day of the week. Shiny Heatran was added as an additional prize that you can now redeem for donating 10 or more for our fundraiser. Last but not least I managed to sneak in some Cosmoids time and added the grass graphics, the bug bite graphic, the win/lose screens, some tweaks on speed, hp and sizes for the enemy units. On top of that I tweaked the hitspot for the bigger bug to scale along with it's size so you don't have to be so close to attack it.

Running
A much requested feature for PTD2 has been the running shoes, so this week I will be adding them in. What I'm thinking now is that you will get them early on in the game, so you will have to go back to Cherrygrove City and talk to somebody to get them. But new players will get them right away after the zapdos fight. You will be able to toggle them on the pokepad menu.

Fishing
Not as highly requested but requested nonetheless is fishing. This week you will be able to get your old rod for just trying one of the fisherman's battles. Then to get the Good Rod you will have to beat all three of the fisherman battles. If you already beat them you won't have to do so again since I'm already keeping track of it. Once you have a rod you just step infront of a water source and interact with it (press spacebar).

PTD1 to PTD2 Transfers - The gang is all here!
This week I will be adding all the Generation 1 pokemon that you can already capture in PTD2 to the transfer. Specifically Jigglypuff, Wigglypuff, Zubat, Golbat, Bellsprout, Weepinbell, Victreebel, Geodude, Graveler, Golem, Gastly, Haunter, Genger, and Onix. On top of that any new pokemon added from Gen 1 will automatically get added to the PTD1 transfers. Since we are adding fishing this week. That means Poliwag, Poliwhirl, Poliwrath, Krabby, Kingler, Staryu, and Starmie.

Mystery Gift
It looks like Electric is going to win this week so we will get an Electric Mystery Gift and Giveaway. Make your voice heard in the poll above the blog.

Cosmoids - Three strikes and you're out!
Last week we added the win/lose screen. Winning is pretty straight forward. Defeat all the enemies. But losing is incomplete. Right now you will only lose if your tower faints, but in reality if you let too many bugs passing by then you will lose. The lucky number will be 3 for this first level. Another thing I want to add this week is a proper fainting animation for units in the game. In PTD1 and PTD2 when something faints it simply disappears. For Cosmoids I want a small animation to play when something faints before it disappears. Just small little touches that help make the game more complete.

Weekly Progress

Cosmoids Released!

• Lose when you let 3 bugs pass (the giant bug counts as 3) (100%)
• UI Graphic to show how many you have left to pass (100%)
• Fainting animation for units (100%)
• Add Revised Grass Graphics (100%)

PTD2 v1.41.1 Released!

• Mystery Gift (100%)
• Held Item Bug Fixed (100%)

PTD2 v1.41 Released!

• PTD1 to PTD2 Transfer (100%)
• Running Shoes (100%) - To get the shoes talk to an old man in Cherrygrove City after defeating Zapdos.
• Fishing (100%) - To get a the old fishing rod you must beat the Fisherman at Route 32. To get the Good Rod you must beat his Tentacool, Qwilfish, and Magikarp. To fish you use the spacebar or Z when close to a water source.
• Fixed a bug with the Pokemon Center showing a broken image for genderless pokemon (100%)
• Test New Pokemon, attacks and abilities (100%)
• New Pokemon (100%)
• Graphics (100%)
• New Attacks (100%)
• Rain Dance (100%)
• Submission (100%)
• Vice Grip (100%)
• Guillotine (100%)
• Wide Guard (100%)
• Camouflage (100%)
• Trick (100%)
• New Abilities (100%)
• Illuminate (100%)
• Analytic (100%)
• Minus (100%)
• Stats (100%)
• Evolutions (100%)
• Add to Trading Center (100%)
• Add to Breeding Center (100%)
• Remove Buneary Hunt (100%)
• Make Zai's Berry battle have less waves (100%)
• Made Zai's Berry battle have some dialog after the fight is over (100%)

That's all I have for you guys this week. I will be getting the part for my new computer this week so hopefully I can set it up and start streaming next week. As always let me know what you think!

Cosmoids Win or Lose! 10% Reached in the Fundraiser! Route 32 Continued! Pink Pokemon! and Egg Hunt!

Want to get the Shiny Starters? Shiny Zorua? Shiny legendary dogs? Shiny Mew? or any other shiny pokemon in the game? Adopt them today using SnD coins! Click here for more info.

Visit the PTD: Pokemon Center - a place to trade pokemon, get your Daily Code, adopt Pokemon, view your items and change your avatar!

Welcome to the Sam and Dan Games Developer Blog! Where we work non stop to keep you entertained!

Sam and Dan Games: Fundraiser! Phase 3
Help us keep making games and earn awesome prizes like Shiny Rayquaza!  

Last Week's Update
For the last update I focused again on increasing the level cap and adding new pokemon to the game. We increased the level cap to 35 adding over 20 of moves in the process. In addition we added the PTD1 to PTD2 transfer of Eevee, Jolteon, Vaporeon, and Flareon. A much requested transfer which opened up the possibilities of getting Espeon and Umbreon in PTD2 using the Friendship doll. On top of all of that we had our Fire Mystery Gift and Giveaway. Darumaka was the Mystery Gift which brought him and his evolution Darmanitan and the eagerly awaited Zen Mode ability. The Giveaway was Torkoal. On the Cosmoids side of things I worked a lot on the first level, trying to make it exciting and somewhat challenging. I still have a couple of more tweaks to add but you can check out what I have so far in the Funding Rewards Page of the PTD2 Trading Center. A good week overall in my book!

Live Streaming Update
I had a lot of fun live streaming for you guys, unfortunately as you might have experienced my computer couldn't handle it. Thankfully I will be getting a new computer thanks to your guy's support! Once I get that and set it up then I will be streaming all the time! Wooo! 

Cosmoids Win or Lose
If you have played the Cosmoids Early Alpha you will notice that you can't win or lose. The game just kinda stops there. So this week I will be adding Win and Lose conditions. Win or Lose screens are a staple in all video games and it's about time they come to Cosmoids. On top of that Evan, one of our freelance artist, did some grass graphics that I will implement. I will also be adding more graphics to the caterpillar's small bite attack as well as other small tweaks to the level. The game is progressing nicely and I can't wait until more of it is done!

10% Reached in the Fundraiser!
It's a great day today! We reached (and passed) the 10% mark of our fundraiser. With over 6,037 funders we have reached this goal. It is only the beginning and we will slowly reach our goal. The thing to remember that it's just Dan and I working on things here and with taxes coming up we have been busy taking care of that part of the business. Anyways.. Looking at the poll right now Heatran is winning to be the 10 dollar giveaway legendary. On top of getting the legendary, people who donate 10 dollars will also get their choice of Cosmoids starter for their PTD2 account!

Pink Pokemon!
When choosing this week's PTD1 to PTD2 transfers I noticed something. All the ones I picked are pink! That was awkward! Anywho the main thing here is that they all have evolutions that are from different generations. The three that I choose were: Chansey, Lickitung and Clefairy! Naturally all their evolutions will show up if the items/attacks are implemented in the game (meaning no Happiny for now).

Route 32 Continued..
I promised another story level this week and well I'm keeping my promise. This week we will wrap things up in Ruins of Alph and head back to Route 32. This time we will meet with a peculiar Fisherman who seems to be catching different water pokemon depending on the day of the week. The way I hope it works out is that the battle you will face will change every few days based on who can be fished in that spot.

Egg Hunt
It's Easter! Easter has many meanings to different people, but for PTD2 it means an Egg hunt and a new pokemon prize at the end of it. This egg hunt will only be available for one week so make sure to be part of it and receive your Buneary!

Mystery Gift
Like every week we will also have a Mystery Gift! Psychic has won and it looks like Ralts will be the mystery gift but the giveaway pokemon (the runner up) is not as clear yet.

Weekly Progress
Now that we looked at everything that is coming this week (possibly over 20 new pokemon!) let's look at the list.

Cosmoids Released!

• Win/Lose Screen (100%) 
• Adding Subtle Grass Graphics (100%)
• Adding Small Bite Graphics (100%)
• Not allowing the player to place their tower outside of the screen or close to the outside (100%)

PTD2 v1.40.1 Released!

• Mystery Gift (100%)
• Female Avatars will now be able to enter Route 32's second section (100%)

PTD2 v1.40 Released!

• PTD1 to PTD2 Transfers (100%)
• Egg Hunt (100%)- Egg hunts starts in New Bark Town, talk to the Scientist in the middle of the town!
• New Story Level (100%)
• Intro (100%)
• Map (100%)
• Level Layout (100%)
• Level Waves (100%)
• Ending (100%) 
• Police Battle 2 (100%)
• Add a way to repeat the battle with normal Unown (100%)
• Test New Pokemon, Attacks, Abilities and Evolutions (100%)
• New Pokemon (100%) - Chansey, Blissey, Lickitung, Lickilicky, Clefairy, Clefable, Cleffa, Tentacool, Tentacruel, Magikarp, Gyarados, Qwilfish, Buneary, Lopunny, Heatran, Ralts, Kirlia, Gardevoir, Gallade, Solosis, Duosion, Reuniclus! SO MANY! 22!
• Graphics (100%)
• Stats (100%)
• Attacks (100%)
• Bestow (100%)
• Cosmic Power (100%)
• Metronome (100%)
• Stomp (100%)
• Softboiled (100%)
• Fling (100%)
• Bubblebeam (100%)
• Barrier (100%)
• Spikes (100%)
• Brine (100%)
• Frustration (100%)
• Jump Kick (100%)
• Mirror Coat (100%)
• Magic Coat (100%)
• Return (100%)
• Teleport (100%)
• Heal Pulse (100%)
• Calm Mind (100%)
• Healing Wish (100%) 
• Psywave (100%)
• Snatch (100%)
• Recover (100%)
• Psyshock (100%)
• Future Sight (100%)
• Pain Split (100%)
• Abilities (100%)
• Healer (100%)
• Own Tempo (100%)
• Magic Guard (100%)
• Liquid Ooze (100%)
• Trace (100%)
• Telepathy (100%) 
• Regenerator (100%)
• Evolutions (100%)
• Add to Breeding Center (100%)
• Add to Trading Center (100%)
• Bug Fixes (100%)
• You can only pickup certain items using the Pickup ability (100%)

So much to do, so little time! As always let me know what you think! Twitter, comments below or email. Thanks for visiting!

Wild Eevee appears! Soft Level Cap to 35! Cosmoids First Level making it exciting!

Want to get the Shiny Starters? Shiny Zorua? Shiny legendary dogs? Shiny Mew? or any other shiny pokemon in the game? Adopt them today using SnD coins! Click here for more info.

Visit the PTD: Pokemon Center - a place to trade pokemon, get your Daily Code, adopt Pokemon, view your items and change your avatar!

Welcome to the Sam and Dan Games Developer Blog! Where we live stream writing blogs and stuff!

Sam and Dan Games: Fundraiser! Phase 3
Help us keep making games and earn awesome prizes like Shiny Rayquaza!  
Our Goal: $50,000

Last Week's Update
For the last update I focused on adding new transfers from PTD1 that could be breed to obtain new baby pokemon. We added Magmar, Electabuzz and Jynx to the PTD1 to PTD2 transfers. We also added the dawn stone to let female snorunt evolve to Froslass. Besides that we increased the level cap to 30 adding a bunch of new moves. Not only that I changed the way the learning moves system works too. If a move is in the game and ready to go and your pokemon can learn it or relearn it then it will be able to do so. It is no longer limited by the soft cap. The soft cap still remains in place to dictate which moves need to be added next. The last thing we added for PTD was the new Mystery Gift Shiny Absol and Giveaway Shiny Scraggy.

For Cosmoids, last week I added the swapping mechanic for your creatures and the new targetting move type. If you haven't played it yet, check out the Funding Rewards page on PTD2's Pokemon Center to find out how to try it out.

Wild Eevee appears!
The much requested PTD1 to PTD2 transfer will finally show up in this week's update! Along with Eevee you will know be able to transfer over all his evolutions from PTD1 (Jolteon, Flareon, and Vaporeon), plus using the Friendship Doll you will be able to get Espeon and Umbreon depending on the time of day that you use the doll in! All rejoice!

Soft Level Cap to 35!
I really want to reach the glorious level 100 soft cap. Having all the moves there really helps with figuring out more exciting levels to challenge you guys. It also helps with giving me extra time to work on Cosmoids. Story Levels really take up a lot of more time. Building the maps as you will eventually see in one of my streams takes up a good chunk of time. Reaching 35 will require 25 new moves!

Mystery Gifts
Like every week we have our Mystery Gift giveaway, it is my way of saying thanks for sticking with us week after week. We will also have the Giveaway which is our new tradition for this year. Right now it looks like Fire is dominating and there are quire a few good fire pokemon that will make it into the poll.

Live Streaming
I got my webcam and so the live streaming adventures begin! I will be posting on twitter when I'm live streaming. (I'm currently live streaming as I type this) So stop by and say hello, I'm always happy to answer questions and listen to suggestions. The link to my channel is  http://www.justin.tv/samsndgames

Cosmoids First Level making it exciting!
This week I will be focusing on making the first level of Cosmoids. Unlike what you might have seen so far in the first level you won't have a creature to help you. It will just be you and your bug bombs against those pesky bugs. First levels are tricky because it is the first time a player starts playing your game, you have to start teaching them things slowly so that they don't get overwhelmed by everything that is happening in the game, but you also have to make it exciting so that they want to keep playing. My goal for this level is to make it easy to understand but exciting to play. Hopefully by the end of this week you will be able to see the results of my effort.

Weekly Progress
Now that we have talked about it, let's look at the specifics for this week.


Cosmoids Released! - Play it at the Funding Rewards page in PTD2's Trading Center.

• Level 1 (100%) - Make it exciting!

PTD2 v1.39.1 Released!

• Mystery Gift (100%)
• Shadow Entei will now pick random targets attacking the unown to throw it's fireball at (100%)
• Taking too long to defeat Shadow Entei will now cause you to lose the level (100%)
• Eevee can now properly evolve to Vaporeon, Jolteon and Flareon (100%)

PTD2 v1.39 Released!

• PTD1 to PTD2 Transfer (100%) - Eevee, Jolteon, Flareon, Vaporeon!
• Test Moves, Abilities and Evolutions (100%) - Thanks livestream folks for watching!
• New Pokemon (100%)
• Graphics (100%)
• New Abilities (100%)
• Adaptability (100%)
• Anticipation (100%)
• Synchronize (100%)
• Magic Bounce (100%)
• Volt Absorb (100%)
• Quick Feet (100%) 
• Zen Mode (100%) 
• White Smoke (100%)
• New Attacks (100%)
• Incinerate (100%)
• Work Up (100%)
• Belly Drum (100%)
• Flare Blitz (100%)
• Hammer Arm (100%) 
• Flamethrower (100%)
• Stats (100%)
• Evolutions (100%)
• Add to Breeding Center (100%)
• Add to Trading Center (100%)
• Soft Cap to 35 (100%) - 25 new moves!
• Rage Powder (100%)
• Facade (100%)
• Acid Armor (100%)
• Dig (100%)
• Worry Seed (100%)
• Skull Bash (100%)
• Hail (100%)
• Captivate (100%)
• Hi Jump Kick (100%)
• Petal Dance (100%)
• Cotton Guard (100%)
• Ancient Power (100%)
• Roost (100%)
• Air Slash (100%)
• Earthquake (100%)
• Dream Eater (100%)
• Memento (100%)
• Gyro Ball (100%)
• Flatter (100%)
• Zen Headbutt (100%)
• Gastro Acid (100%)
• Sonicboom (100%)
• Dragonbreath (100%)
• Ice Beam (100%)
• Thrash (100%)
• Fixed a bug with Counter users not properly getting exp when it is the only moved used (100%)
• Adding Missing Move Names to the Pokemon Center (100%)

That's all I have for you this week, as always let me know what you think! Sam out!