Working on the animation for the event where you peacefully trade 3 Automons of the same type for a badge of that type.
Needs some more juice. Maybe some liquid coming out of the machine when they go in there? Tears of joy perhaps?
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Geldya is a pretty fun addition to the team - his thing is that he counts as more than his 2 types (Grass/Swole) for party bonuses.
You can have an absolute mess of a team, but throwing a Geldya in there will certainly activate a bonus or two. Or six.
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Another new Event added, the Dump!
Select an Automon to dig through the trash (animation later) to get a random outcome.
The outcomes aren't the most innovative ideas you've seen in a game, but all features added from now are an opportunity to add something to the Dump! #gamedev #indiegame #automon
ANOTHER Event Type added! The Watch Tower reveals the contents of areas within 2 move radius of it, including players who are there
Instead of yelling " You strong now, fight" like some other events, this one whispers "The rare you need is over there"
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Added another event type to the map, the Mercenary Camp! Here you can hire a super overlevelled, upgraded Automon with some bonus stats, but it will only hang around for 5 turns!
You can't upgrade, release or use it in events either, but you CAN obliterate a boss! #automon #gamedev #indiegame
Added a new event type - the grinder. It's an alternative way to get badges - all you need to do is sacrifice a chunk of your team, specifically 3 Automons that share a type. No biggie.
The delay there is not a bug, it's where I'll insert a very colorful animation
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Yes hello, just released a HUGE update to Automon Arena Demo. Play it here:
store.steampowered.com/app/3879790/...
or here:
automondev.itch.io/automon-arena
talk about it here:
discord.gg/GJaUxRp2U2
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In Automon Arena, finding duplicate wild Automons is actually a great thing - capturing duplicates merges them into one, and it's the only way to upgrade abilities!
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Battles speed up over time to get things moving. When they are REALLY long and stally, it keeps accelerating until it gets stupid. They attack like machine guns at the end!
There's also a fatigue mechanic that doesn't come in play very often, made for this exact scenario
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Fire type has the monopoly on being able to damage enemies that are not in combat, heavily disrupting backline supports and Automons that need time to get going
Look at this, the last enemy Automon comes out with most of its HP gone
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Poison builds are kinda all-in but when it works, it really works
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Updated the Wonder Trade event a bit - now there's a bigger incentive to throw in higher rarity Automons. The one you get in return will have higher level and if you happen to get a worse rarity, it'll come with bonus stats. Capturing rares just to trash them is now a strategy! #indiegame #automon
Added a random 0-2 second lag to the server to see what happens. Turns out, it causes a lot of bugs and makes the game look like it's about to have a stroke.
I will not fix anything and will instead demand that players get better internet
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Finished another Event type - the Safari
Here you can capture rare Automons, but you can't use your own Automons to fight? So what do you do?
Throw bait? Throw a rock?
Nah
You beat the piss out of them with your own hands
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Tried messing around with map generation, to make more interesting shapes. It kinda sometimes works, but really breaks at high player counts, creating a ton of chokepoints and imbalance. Back to the drawing board!
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Trying to change trainer sprites to use less colors, max 16 like actual GBA sprites
I am bad at this and should stop, but I will not
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As the game goes on, the map shrinks, making it increasingly likely for players to run into each other. It's like that game where people shoot each other and have a pickaxe. Minecraft I think?
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If you enter a gym, you can fight a mono-type team and if you win, you'll get a badge of that type, boosting its type bonus as if you had one more Automon of that type.
Be ready for a tough fight and bring some hard counters (which I did not)
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In Automon Arena, you can create a game with up to 16 players (or bots, because you do NOT have 15 friends, let's be honest). Map size scales with player count so it gets silly fast. Look at this continent!
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Working on some crucial Quality of Life features right now. For example, if a player refuses to enter a name, they will be given a random one. This is the mildest example, believe me
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Removed strategy from the game. It's all fights now. No more resting. Instant upgrades. Release is something you do at will. Refuse is a reroll.
It's more like the first Automon now, just in case you thought you're getting something new!
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Disappointed by an Automon's performance in an important fight? Picked some trash early and it doesn't fit the team anymore?
You can always "release" your unneeded Automons so they can live a happy life on a farm
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Wasn't posting much because that one guy had a birthday and also because I was working on some UI improvements and who the hell would get excited about UI improvements (I would and I did)
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Made 2 new battle backgrounds just for some visual variety.
I'm not sure if the urban one isn't too busy. Is it?
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Had a GENIUS idea to use 3 Noskops instead of combining them into one
(Don't do it, it's bad)
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Spent some time refining bots' intelligence. Now they know how to build a team and kick my ass so I guess I succeeded at the task
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Fully upgraded Geldya is so fun! Dude gives you like, all type bonuses in existence so any time something happens, a bunch of other things happen
Wishlist Automon Arena today (tomorrow is ok if you are busy)
store.steampowered.com/app/3810160/...
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Just made this TUBULAR Match Start screen
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Continuing my saga of miniscule changes that no one really cares about but they please me so I will continue:
Map icons are not just colored circles now, they have different shapes depending on what they are.
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