Hero Tower Defense Tuesday: Day 10 - Story

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Welcome to Hero Tower Defense Tuesday!

Sketch of logo

Go here to read the Day 9 of Hero Tower Defense Tuesdays.

Today let's talk about the story for a bit.

This area of the game is still rather open-ended and undetermined at this point, more so than most other aspects of the game. So I wanted to tell you guys a little bit about what we had in mind for HTD's story and single player and then get your feedback and suggestions on it.

Elements are a key part of the HTD world which I'm sure is rather clear at this point. We have 5 elements (Fire, Water, Nature, Light, and Shadow) each with their own advantages and disadvantages against eachother as well as their own physical and magical skills that specialize in categories like offense, defense, and utility. You also have a native element that gives you a bit more power with that element and you also gain combination elemental attacks when you make certain matches in the elemental trees. With that in mind it's pretty easy to say the elements should tie into the story and world rather heavily.

The game is of course based in a fantasy world so that opens up a lot of paths. That also means there is a lot to consider.. how much technology is there and how advanced is it? Is the current state of things peaceful or chaotic? Is there some major event currently taking place? etc. The same goes for your character and characters you meet in single player.. how old are you? Are you a king's son or a lowly peasant? Is there something unique about you or your family? Do you have some hidden past? etc. I personally don't like things being too cliche but it's a bit difficult to avoid because there's so much out there that people have already seen but, hey, we'll try.

We have some ideas in mind but without giving away too much I can say you'll be old enough that you're out on your own doing things like adventuring and exploring and whatnot. During single player you'll meet other characters that may join you, probably some from your past and some new. At least part of the story will be about you seeking out something related to your native element, perhaps how to master it so you can acquire greater skills with that element. During your quest there will probably be trials that test your skill with the elemental system. So there might be like a crazy shadow boss you have to fight or a water cavern you have to get through. While I wouldn't say there's a doomsday character who's out to destroy the world you'll definitely come across characters/creatures that are much stronger than you and are terrorizing that area or blocking your way.

So as you can see there's a lot up in the air story-wise. As I mentioned we have a several things in mind that are more solid but I don't want to give it all away. This is also mainly for single player. The multiplayer will continue the story to an extent but have a wider scope. We're interested in hearing what you guys would like to see though. Do you like the uber, evil, insane guy wanting to take over the world? The mysterious past that you gradually uncover? Perhaps just the idea of going out and discovering the unknown?

There will also be side quests and such as well that will probably be completely unrelated to the main story but that's why they're side quests right? I know we have some writers out there with ideas they'd like to share as well. Let us know what you have on your mind! But try to summarize it. ;)

Also don't forget to check out Kevin's blog, KXN @ HTD for all things art related to HTD! You'll find additional concept art, polls to help us decide on certain art aspects (currently which female hairstyles to start with), and he recently added a progress list. Here's a new WIP logo design Kevin made:

WIP HTD Logo

As always let us know what you think and leave your feedback in the comments, thanks!

-Dan

Weekly Progress and v4.5.1 release

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

What's new in v4.5.1

Level Cap up to 60 - Last level increase until the next chapter!
Fast-Forwarding x3 and x4 - Speed up even more!
New Mystery Gift Pokemon Krabby -Get your own cute little krabby!
12 new moves added to the game - For Krabby and pokemon going up to 60.
New Pokemon Evolutions (1) - Kingler.
Fixes:

• Added hints on how to get Flash to the Rock Tunnel level
• Fix an issue with not being able to put Gastly on the field after catching it
• Fixed Perish Song
• Fixed Curse
• Fixed Dragon Tail makes the target turn around before hitting them
• Earthquake's attack info will now include that it will hit your own towers
• Adding more space on Mt. Moon 2 and Cerulean Gym so that you can see pokemon coming before attacking
• Adding Speed x3 and x4
• Using a Shiny Golem and Steamroller, the regular golem graphic shows up
• Fixed Dragonite not learning Wing Attack at 55
• Fixed Lick Attack's text color being the wrong one
• Fixed Shiny Sprites for Ivysaur, Magnemite, Venusaur, Electrode
• Fixed pokemon evolving will say Bulbasaur evolved into Ivysaur
• Added Scope to inventory list in the Pokemon Center
• If a pokemon faints while you are dragging it, it will now not be able to be placed on the field
• Gave Curse a different effect if a ghost pokemon uses i
• Fixed the move description for Outrage, the cooldown is off
• You guys voted! Speed will slow down to x1 when a shiny or legendary popup shows up.
• Fixed bug that the speed text would not change back to x1 when a shiny shows up.
  
• Security Fixes to prevent shiny hacking.

Where can I play?

• Play here on the blog by clicking on the "Play PTD!" tab.
• Download the EXE, SWF or APK by clicking on the "Game Downloads Link" tab.
• PlayTowerDefenseGame
• FreeWorldGroup
• Gamerfish
• OneMoreLevel
• NewGrounds
• MiniJuegos

Well that was a long list! How are you guys? It's been a week since I've posted something here.I traded my Mew yesterday and I put up an Entei up for trade this week. My trade account name is samO so give me an offer. I can pretty much get any pokemon in the game instantly so don't ask for what I want specifically just think about making me a unique offer.

My brother is still hard at work on the next PTD video episode two. Check out his blog and show him your support for the videos. Aperture Eye Films.

Dan is also hard at work on the next Ninja-ja Update. Not sure when he will be done but he is working at it. He is also working on the game design for Hero Tower Defense and it's coming along great. I've been working more and more on HTD and I'm very excited to finally reach a point that we can finally let you guys play.

In a more personal level, I've decided to focus more on College and on creating games so I ended up resigning my job. It was kinda crazy how it all happened but now the dust is settled and I'm ready to move forward.

Speaking of moving forward I have totally failed on even starting the Avatar Chat, that 0% is completely true. To get it done I have to dedicate the whole week to it. So again this week we will take it a bit slow, yet providing you with new things to do. I want to implement a new feature but I'm not sure which of the two I will implement. Help decide which one, but before you vote read the descriptions below.

Option 1:
Held Items - Your pokemon will be able to hold on to different items like the everstone, charcoal, etc. Items will be found in the wild when you defeat a pokemon, in the daily code, the game corner, and by using snd coins to get them.

Option 2: Winner!
Pokemon Abilities - Each pokemon will have their passive abilities like in the game, pokemon might randomly be assigned one of their abilities when you capture it. There will also be some unique abilities pokemon offered in the daily code, the game corner and by using snd coins to get them.

So think about which of these you like to see first (The "loser" will be added in a later date to the game) and vote today!

Okay so here is the list so far!

v4.6 is now out in the blog, the official release along with the Goldeen Mystery Gift will be available by Monday.

Avatar Chat (100%) - Done! Go check it out! *points at new tab on the blog
Pokedex Remembering what you catch even if you release or trade away (100%) - You must first save your game on v4.6 for this to take effect.
New Mystery Gift Pokemon (100%) - This pokemon is shiny, bright, expensive and heavy! Or is that just his name...it's Goldeen!

• Graphics (100%)
• Shiny Graphic (100%)
• Add this pokemon's stats into the game (100%)
• New Moves (2) (100%)
• Waterfall (100%)
• Soak (100%)

New Evolution (100%)

• Graphics (100%)
• Shiny Graphic (100%)
• Add this pokemon's stats into the game (100%)

New Feature (100%) - Abilities - More abilities will be added each week. The reason for this is things like evasion and accuracy attacks are not properly implemented yet and some of the abilities are related to these stats. So I need to add those before I add those abilities.

• Added Abilities for the starter pokemon (100%)
• Overgrow - Bulbasaur, Ivysaur, Venusaur - Increased damage by x1.5 on Grass attacks when you are below or at 1/3 of your total life. Your pokemon will glow Green when this ability is activated.
• Blaze - Charmander,Charmeleon, Charizard - Increased damage by x1.5 on Fire attacks when you are below or at 1/3 of your total life. Your pokemon will glow Orange when this ability is activated.
• Torrent - Squirtle, Wartortle, Blastoise - Increased damage by x1.5 on Water attacks when you are below or at 1/3 of your total life. Your pokemon will glow Blue when this ability is activated.

Trading Center - trades will last a max of 10 days before being taken down (100%) - Logging into the trading center will refresh the days left of your trades back to 10 days.
Trading Center - Sort the pokemon when you are offering a trade by number (100%)
The move Spark now correctly shows the right attack color when attacking (100%) 
Slow down speed to x1 when an achievement shiny pokemon shows up (100%)

Weekly Questions from the Forums!


1. Hypermania/Samzy: Do you plan to be FINISHED with the game after Mewthree? Will there be any post-game things to do, so after the main story is completed?

Sam: The main story will be finished, things to do after are playing multiplayer and trying to catch them all.


2. mudemude12: Will more legends from other regions help in the game? (e.g. Celebi, Entei, Raikou, Suicune)

Sam: Since Generation 1 has a limited amount of legendaries, I will introduce some from other generations.

3. JohtoTrainer: Why do you recolor the walking sprites with shiny colors from battle sprites instead of simply using the shiny walking sprites?
Sam: When I first looking for the sprite I didn't find the shiny ones so I had a friend (Haplo) create them. For a possible sequel I will just grab them from there :D

4. JohtoTrainer: Have you considered adding, in some way, Pokemon with event-only moves? (e.g. Surfing Pikachu and Flying Pikachu)
Sam: Yeah, I do think about that, it's more about finding a good timing for it.

5. NinjaGod: Can we possibly get some type of ignore function for the trade center? (I get a lot of spam/lowball requests from the same users and I'd like to be able to auto ignore them.)
Sam: Yes! When will it happen I don't know yet.

6. Marth: When we beat the game will there be a challenge mode where you implement yourself in to the game as the game creator and send every pokemon out one by one shiny and non-shiny until you have sent out every pokemon in shiny and non shiny form and then give us a special avatar? o.o to show we beat the game and the really hard challenge mode

Sam: Sounds interesting, I might do something like that after the game is done.

7. ninja_trainer: Are you going to make challenge mode versions of every gym?

Sam: Not necessarily, but when the story is over I might go back and add more challenge levels.

8. ninja_trainer: Are you going to use some of the Fan-made levels in the game as story levels?
Sam: Probably not, most fan made suggestions are for challenge levels. I enjoy making the story levels myself :)
9. Ace: If, by any chance, Nintendo takes a sudden liking to PTD and would give you tons of dollars to buy it off of you, would you accept and why?
Sam: I think I would accept, one because it's their property and two because they have a lot more resources than me and the game can be a lot more polished and appear on the DS.
10. NinjaGod: Will there be mini-games in PTD for various prizes? (e.g. Duck Hunt -> Pidgey Hunt)
Sam: Sure, this is more about finding the time to create the mini games. There is a lot to be done in the game before I can think about adding mini games.

11. yamamitai: Will we have another chance to catch the weekly code only Pokemon like regular Staryu and Tentacool?
Sam: Yea! Once we get to the spots where they show up in the game or when you get a better rod you will be able to catch them like any other pokemon.

12. gogogogo99: Will you add more things to buy at the game corner?

Sam: Yes! Held items and pokemon with different abilities will show up in the game corner.

13: aleony: Will you ever do special holiday events and give out a special pokemon for that reason?

 Sam: Yes, I think people enjoy things like that :)

14: Crazymerio: If this company ever expands, will you consider hiring another programer in order to decrease the work load and get more done in a week, or however long you plan on programming something? If this company does get larger, do you still plan on trying to listen to your fans to the best of your ability?

Sam: Programmers are really hard to hire because it's hard to really measure how skilled they are. The ideal candidate is somebody who has made a game in flash before in Action Script 3 and that their game is popular and played by many people. Also it is hard because PTD has tens of thousands lines of code so just hiring a programmer and expecting them to start working right away is not realistic. It would take months before they could work on it without much hand holding. But having said that we are always in the look out for talent and plan to expand more in the future. Also we would always try to listen to feedback and make the creation of our games be something kind of like a journey between us the developers and you the fans :)
As I get more done I will add more to the list, as always let me know what you think!

Hero Tower Defense Tuesday: Day 9 - Character Stats

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Welcome to Hero Tower Defense Tuesday!

Sketch of logo

Go here to read the Day 8 of Hero Tower Defense Tuesdays.

Last week we talked a bit about character creation so this week let's talk about character stats.

So since this is part RPG and part TD we of course have to give the characters some attributes that increase and make your character stronger. We decided to go along with the traditional strength, stamina, etc stats because everyone is familiar with them and they work well. However, the actual affect of each stat tends to vary from game to game but they usually follow a general idea. We'll be doing the same in HTD.

Here are what we have as the Primary stats:

• Strength (STR) - Increases Physical Damage
• Stamina (STA) - Increases Health Points
• Agility (AGI) - Increases Speed
• Dexterity (DEX) - Increases Skill
• Intelligence (INT) - Increases Magical Damage

Pretty straight forward however something to keep in mind is that Magical Damage does not refer to elemental damage. Physical Damage covers the Physical side of the elemental skills while Magical Damage covers the Magical side of the elemental skills.

You might be asking, what does Speed and Skill do? For that we have the Secondary stats:

General:

• Health Points (HP) - Your amount of life
• Speed (SPD) - How fast you are at attacking and dodging
• Skill (SKL) - How skilled you are at hitting and recovering

Attack:

• Physical Power (PP) - How strong you are with physical weapons and skills
• Magical Power (MP) - How strong you are with magical weapons and skills

Armor:

• Physical Defense (FD) - How much physical damage you mitigate
• Magical Defense (MD) - How much magical damage you mitigate

Attunements:

• Fire Attunement (FA) - Your ability to control and resist Fire
• Water Attunement (WA) - Your ability to control and resist Water
• Nature Attunement (NA) - Your ability to control and resist Nature
• Light Attunement (LA) - Your ability to control and resist Light
• Shadow Attunement (SA) - Your ability to control and resist Shadow

Speed basically increases how fast you are dashing up to the enemy (if you're meleeing) then attacking and your projectile speed whether it's phyiscal or magical. Speed also increases your chance to dodge physical attacks.

Skill increases your chance to get a critical hit, possibly increases your chance to hit with a physical attack (if we even have missing possible which we are still figuring out), and cooldown rate. If you look at the Skill stat you can see it's pretty awesome, but this is a stat that will be difficult to raise and won't have an abundance of it so don't think you'll be able to make a character with nearly 0 cooldown.. well if you managed to expect something to get nerfed :P

We changed our use of the word attunement, when we first mentioned it we referred to it as the element you initially picked that defined your character's starting point. We'll just call that your Native Element or something instead because the term is better used here. So your attunement stats are dual purpose. They represent both how strong you are with that element and your resistance against it.

Now here's where we add in some S&D flavor and change things up a bit. You won't be getting any actual attribute points to assign to these stats specifically. Instead these stats get raised by items and what we refer to as Class Skill Points (CSP) that you get every time you level up. CSPs are used to get class skills which follow a similar Physical/Magical set up with 5 categories on each side with skills for each. This is how you'll be choosing your class essentially and how you use these points will determine your Class Title (like Warrior, Paladin, Mage, etc). I won't be going into details about this yet but basically what happens is as you level up and build your character by assigning the elemental and class points you have earned your Class Title will change accordingly.

On the art side of things Kevin is working on the female animations and hair which you can find more of at Kevin's blog, KXN @ HTD. He also has a poll up on which hairstyle you guys would like to see first, be sure to put in your vote! Here's some sketches:

Human Female Sketches

That's all for now, sorry for the end-of-day post but we were both busy most of the day.

As always let us know what you think and leave your feedback in the comments, thanks!

-Dan

Weekly Progress and v4.4.2 official release

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

  v4.4.2 has been out for a while but here is the official post about it.

Possible Solution to not being able to log in: Thanks Anon!

SOLVING LOG IN ERROR:

right click on the game,
click local settings editor (flash settings editor window should pop up),
click local storage settings by site.
Delete www.snd-storage.com from that list and confirm,
refresh the page (or restart your browser, just to make sure) and now your error page is gone, log in like always.

What's new in v4.4.2

New Story Level - Poke Tower 1 - Begin your climb up he poke tower, catch yourself a Gastly and Cubone!
Level Cap up to 55 - New moves are introduced into the game because of this level cap increase. It is now possible to get Dragonite!
Fast-Forwarding x2 - No longer must you wait for waves upon waves at their slow pace. Speed up the game to level up faster. (This also caused a huge bug with evolving, but it now fixed :D )
New Mystery Gift Avatar -Get your very own Cubone Helmet!
New Adoption Pokemon -Shiny Gastlly, Cubone and Magnemite are now available.
19 new moves added to the game.
New Pokemon Evolutions (4) - Marowak, Haunter, Gengar, and Dragonite.
Fixes:

• Daily Code will give out more casino coins.
• Fixed issue with Chapter five showing as chapter 4, and chapter 4 having the wrong picture when locked.
• Levels and Chapters that are locked are now faded out more to hide details of that level. - Thanks Andy!
• Psybeam causing confusion on a target before completing the attack- Thanks LaserLuke4 from Twitter!
• Shiny Blastoise Graphic fix.
• The achievement Star Wars will only trigger on Cerulean Gym.

Where can I play?

• Play here on the blog by clicking on the "Play PTD!" tab.
• Download the EXE, SWF or APK by clicking on the "Game Downloads Link" tab.
• PlayTowerDefenseGame
• FreeWorldGroup
• Gamerfish
• OneMoreLevel
• NewGrounds
• MiniJuegos

Okay well down to business. Tomorrow as you all know will be Hero Tower Defense Tuesday, Dan will be bringing you some more new info on the game and some art from our artist Kevin. I addition to that I will be giving HTD it's own tab up on the blog. It will be an easy way to access all the information so far on the game and eventually you will be able to play the game there.

Another tab that I will be adding soon is a "Labs" tab. The mind of a creative person never shuts down. As a game designer I'm always looking for what's next. While juggling due dates and updates, I constantly think of ideas for games that I want to work on. The "Labs" tab will provide a place where I can post some of those ideas that are floating in my head for you guys to check out and tell me which ones kinda sound like something you might want to play or you think other people might like. I don't have a specific date for the Labs tab but you should expect it some time this week. Also keep in mind that not all ideas will be gold, I assure you they all won't be. :D

Weekly Progress: 

This week I will be taking it a little bit slow. Trying to get the chat up while still giving you guys something to do.

New Mystery Gift Pokemon (100%) - Had to fish this guy out for you guys!

• Graphics (100%)
• Shiny Graphics (100%)
• Add Stats for this Pokemon (100%)
• New Moves (4) (100%)
• Metal Claw (100%)
• Stomp (100%)
• Brine (100%)
• Crabhammer (100%)

• Evolution (100%)
• Graphics (100%)
• Shiny Graphics (100%)
• Add Stats for this Pokemon (100%)

New Level Cap 60 (100%) - Last Level Cap increase until chapter 6 of the story mode.

• New Moves (8) (100%)
• Flare Blitz (100%) - Growlithe
• Magic Coat (100%) - Porygon
• Psyshock (100%) - Drowzee
• Trump Card (100%) - Eevee
• Smog (100%) - Flareon
• Megahorn (100%) - Nidoking
• Zap Cannon (100%) - Magnemite
• Amnesia (100%) - Mew

Adding hints on how to get Flash to the Rock Tunnel level (100%)
Fix an issue with not being able to put Gastly on the field after catching it (100%)
Fix Perish Song (100%)
Dragon Tail makes the target turn around before hitting them (100%)
Earthquake's attack info will now include that it will hit your own towers (100%)
Adding more space on Mt. Moon 2 and Cerulean Gym so that you can see pokemon coming before attacking (100%)
Adding Speed x3 and x4 (100%)
Using a Shiny Golem and Steamroller, the regular golem graphic shows up (100%)
Dragonite not learning Wing Attack at 55 (100%)
Lick Attack's text color is the wrong one (100%)
Fix Shiny Sprites for Ivysaur, Magnemite, Venusaur, Electrode (100%)
Pokemon evolving will say Bulbasaur evolved into Ivysaur (100%)
Add Scope to inventory list in the Pokemon Center (100%)
If a pokemon faints while you are dragging it, it will now not be able to be placed on the field (100%)
Give Curse a different effect if a ghost pokemon uses it (100%)
Fix move description for Outrage, the cooldown is off (100%) 
You guys voted! Speed will slow down to x1 when a shiny or legendary popup shows up (100%)

More Security stuff (100%)
Avatar Chat (0%) - Let's see if I can start working on this!
Pokedex Remember what you can and seen (0%) - Let's see if I can have time for this!
Trading Center - if a user doesn't log in to the trading center after 3 days all their offers and trades will be taken off the trading center (0%)
Trading Center - Sort the pokemon when you are offering a trade by number (0%)


That's what we have for this week, let me know what you think! I'm crossing my fingers I won't have anymore evolution bugs!

Hero Tower Defense Tuesday: Day 8 - Character Creation

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Welcome to Hero Tower Defense Tuesday!

Go here to read the Day 7 of Hero Tower Defense Tuesdays.

This week we're going to take a look at Kevin's WIP human female design, talk about character creation, and answer some related questions that are likely to be asked after reading this.

Kevin has started working on the human female character which I know some of you have been waiting for. It's still early in development though and we're making adjustments as we go. Check out Kevin's blog, KXN @ HTD for some additional information and concept art he's working on. He'll also be starting on some hair styles and is interested in some suggestions for them from you guys. Here's the latest version of the human female character:

Early render of a human female in full plate armor

You might notice the usual characteristics that distinguish a female from a male are absent in this initial image. We intentionally started out this way because we want to be sure that you can easily tell the difference between the genders just from their contour and shape even when they are fully suited in armor. This is important for being able to glance at things quickly and knowing exactly what it is.

Male characters can also share a lot of the same features that are typically used to identify females, e.g., long hair, light colors, etc so we don't want to be restricted by these things by fixing them to a specific gender for the sole purpose of differentiating them from eachother. Another thing that falls into this category is having all the females showing a lot of skin regardless of how much armor they are wearing. To me that's a cheap way out for making a female identifiable in heavy armor.. or lack thereof. It makes more sense for lighter armor to look that way since it allows you to be more agile.

Another reason we don't want to restrict specific colors, hair styles, etc to genders is because we want there to be as many options available as possible during character creation so you can create the characters you want. We're still figuring out what you'll be able to customize exactly but right now we're thinking race, gender, skin color, hair style, and hair color (remember this is just for your character, not their armor, weapons, effects, etc). We would like to have some facial features as well at some point but it's a lot for a little so it's not a high priority right now.

Now I'll address a few questions that are bound to be asked eventually:

"What about eye color?"

The style Kevin is current going with doesn't really involve significant detail to the eyes so they are generally just black ovals. They will be quite small as well so only a few colors would be really be noticeable and the rest would kind of all look the same as those.

"Can I change the character's height, size, or proprotions?"

This is very unlikely unfortunately because all our graphic assets are sprites and changing any of these attributes, even a little, would cause all kinds of conflicts with the armors and such.

"Will you see the hair when wearing a helmet?"

This is an interesting topic because it's one of those simple things that is actually quite complex to implement. As of right now we are going with no visible hair while wearing a helmet, even if you have long hair. However, we would allow you to turn off the helm graphic without actually unequipping it and thus still taking advantage of it's stat bonuses.

The reason for this because you'd not only need to create the hairstyle itself but you'd also need to customize every hair style for every helmet in every angle and that adds up to a lot of work very quickly for something that isn't really that significant.

Although something that just came to mind is maybe we could have just a generic "long hair" look while wearing a helmet and that would be applied to all long hair styles and their share their color of course. Shorter hair styles would just show no hair while wearing a helmet. A problem you might realize though is that if your character has a ponytail and it switches to this generic "long hair with helm on" look it wouldn't be in a ponytail anymore. A possible solution could be to just have a couple different "long hair with helm on" looks to cover the majority of the hair styles but we'd probably only start with one for now. We'll have to see, I'm rambling now though so I'll stop there :P

As always feel free to leave us feedback, give us suggestions, ask us questions, or just let us know what you think in the comments!

-Dan

Pokemon Tower Defense: Weekly Progress for v4.4

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

Hey guys, Sam here bringing you the latest updates for Sam & Dan Games. Let's get right into it.

Progress Report:

New Story Level (100%)- Pokemon Tower - After training you pick up the scopes and head back to Lavender town to catch some ghost!

• Level Intro (100%)
• Level Layout (100%)
• Level Waves (100%)
• Level Ending (100%)

New Pokemon to catch (2) (100%)

• Gastly (100%)
• Graphic (100%)
• Shiny Graphic (100%)
• Pokemon Stats (100%)
• New Moves (5) (100%)
• Night Shade (100%)
• Shadow Ball (100%)
• Dream Eater (100%)
• Dark Pulse (100%)
• Destiny Bond (100%)

• Cubone (100%)
• Graphic (100%)
• Shiny Graphic (100%)
• Pokemon Stats (100%)
• New Moves (3) (100%)
• Bone Club (100%)
• Bonemerang (100%)
• Bone Rush (100%)

Level Cap to 55 (100%) - Finally Dragonite! New Moves (8)

• Hurricane (100%) - Pidgey
• Drill Run (100%) - Fearow
• Final Gambit (100%) - Mankey
• Circle Throw (100%) - Poliwrath
• Meteor Mash (100%) - Clefairy
• Brave Bird (100%) - Farfetch'd
• Perish Song (100%) - Jynx
• Outrage (100%) - Dratini

New Pokemon Evolutions (100%)

• Dragonite (100%)
• Graphic (100%)
• Shiny Graphic (100%)
• Pokemon Stats (100%) 
• New Moves (2) (100%)
• Thunder Punch (100%)
• Fire Punch (100%)
• Haunter (100%)
• Graphic (100%)
• Shiny Graphic (100%)
• Pokemon Stats (100%)
• New Move (1) (100%)
• Shadow Punch (100%)
• Gengar (100%)
• Graphic (100%)
• Shiny Graphic (100%)
• Pokemon Stats (100%)
• Marowak (100%)
• Graphic (100%)
• Shiny Graphic (100%)
• Pokemon Stats (100%)

New Mystery Gift Avatar (100%) - Cubone Avatar!

Boy Cubone Avatar

• Graphics (100%) - Thanks Kimmy Lube!
• Implement in game (100%)

Daily Code will give out more casino coins (100%) - This is ready right now!
Fix issue with Chapter five showing as chapter 4, and chapter 4 having the wrong picture when locked (100%)
Levels and Chapters that are locked are now faded out more to hide details of that level (100%) - Thanks Andy! 
Psybeam causing confusion on a target before completing the attack (100%) - Thanks LaserLuke4 from Twitter!
Shiny Blastoise Graphic fix (100%)
Fast Forward button (100%) - After all the request, I will work on getting this out!
The achievement Star Wars will only trigger on Cerulean Gym (100%)
Avatar Chat (0%) - Didn't get to work on this at all will try to give it another try this week.
Pokedex remembering what you saw and catch even if trade your pokemon (0%) - Not sure if I will have enough time this week but I do intend to get this done in the near future.
Security Fixes (50%)

• Game (100%)
• Pokemon Center (0%)

Top 10 Forum Questions of the Week:

1. ZKS:  Have you ever thought of opening up development to the community, like Valve does? Specifically, letting developers who know what they're doing build "Fan-Made" challenge levels? Releasing 1-2 with each update will allow you to focus on the story/enhancements while keeping hardcore fans entertained between updates.

I think that would be a great idea but an idea that would take a long time to develop, considering the game is only half way done and I haven't even started on multiplayer. Something like this will have to wait unless, you guys the players would want this before multiplayer.

2. Marth: Will we be able to fight Gary and Ash?

Yes and yes! That is all I will say.

3. Garuthebest24: If u were able to live in any region in Pokémon for the rest of your life what will it be?


Kanto Region!

4. Ume: When/Will you give out a Sneakpeak/Demo/Teaser of Hero Tower Defense? >: As in Video xD or a short Flash Game ;3


As soon as we have something we will post it here right away, that picture that you saw at the end of the last HTD tuesday is literally where the game is now. Right now you fight against an endless supply of whelps until your two characters die then that's it. Not a lot to do yet.

 5. Professor Smeargle: Since you can't include all the egg moves for pokemon in Daily codes, how do you plan to incorporate the other Pokémon with egg moves? (eg: Close Combat - Growlithe)

In the daily codes, I will add more in the near future.

6. ultraube: How many hours do you spend on most of these updates?

It's hard to really keep track of it all since I don't have a set schedule but I would say over 20 hours for each update.

7. Dollyface61: Will all of Kimmylube's avatars be in the game?

I'll try to find a way to fit them all when possible, v4.4 will have one :)

8. Cheatfreak208: Have you thought of the idea of Pokémon dropping items, which you can pick up. They would go away after a certain amount of time. And rare candies that have a small rate of falling from Pokémon and which you can not buy.

Pokemon will hold items in the near future, so I suppose if they are holding something and you defeat them that it would drop.
 
9. Hypermania: Will Kevin, at some point, work on the art for PTD if the chance comes?

He might, but we would rather he make HTD art for the time being.

10. Richard Harper: Hey Sam, Will all the past Postponed items/areas/bugs/extras ever be added? And will it include some of the bugs/suggestions from your own blog page?

Whenever I need to fill in some space on what to add to the game I will look at the suggestions and bugs pages. Most of the time just the story level and level cap can fill up the whole week. 

Well that was fun! Head to the forums if you want to submit your question and have them posted next week. 

So that's all I have for now, tomorrow will be Hero Tower Defense Tuesday so look forward to that. As always, let me know what you think.

Pokemon Tower Defense: v4.3 is out now!

Want to get the legendary dogs? Shiny Mew? or any other shiny pokemon in the game? Adopt them today using SnD coins! Purchase some SnD coins and get Ninja-ja bonus items free! 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!

Hey guys, Sam here, v4.3 is now out! Here is a summary of what is new and changed.

What's new in v4.3

New Story Level - Team Rocket Hideout - Meet a certain video game creator that will train you for your next battles. On this level even if all the candy is taken you will still win. Later on I will add achievements for actually beating the level correctly.
New battle song from The Kira Justice - http://youtube.com/thekirajustice2
Level Cap up to 52 - New moves are introduced into the game because of this level cap increase.
New Mystery Gift Pokemon -Venonat and it's evolution Venomoth!
New Adoption Pokemon -Venonat is now available for adoption!
4 new moves added to the game.
New Pokemon Evolutions (1) - Venomoth.
Added Keyboard Controls for scrolling the map - Arrow keys or WASD.
Potion upgrade - When you beat the latest level.
New TMs

• Hyper Beam

Fixes:

• Pokemon that level up will regain all their health.
• Added steamroller for Golem.
• Added Swagger to Hypno and Drowzee at level 45- Thanks Tyd from the blog comment!
• Geodude now properly learns Stone Edge at level 50
• Made Tri attack faster so it shows all the components and lower the amount of particles in the attack so it will hit faster.
• Using the attack Double Hit will no longer freeze the game.
• Pikachu can now learn and relearn Thunder at level 50.
•  Game Corner now takes 5 coins to play, you only get 50 turns, but you win x10 more coins on each prize (80, 150, 1000, 3000) - This change was made to alleviate the server from too many request. Since you only get 50 turns instead of 100.

Where can I play?

• Play here on the blog by clicking on the "Play PTD!" tab.
• Download the EXE, SWF or APK by clicking on the "Game Downloads Link" tab.
• PlayTowerDefenseGame
• FreeWorldGroup
• Gamerfish
• OneMoreLevel
• NewGrounds
• MiniJuegos

On monday I will post the top 10 forum questions of the week along with the new weekly progress list. Next week we are going back to the Pokemon Tower! Gastly and Cubone!

That's all I have for now as always, let me know what you think!