Still getting it done! Champions TD game fixes!

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!

PTD2 Trainer Pass! Get it today!

A great way to support us while getting amazing rewards!

So let's talk about what you get:

• Increased chance for Shiny/Shadow pokemon to appear in the wild
• No ads while you play the game
• Get a copy of shiny giveaway pokemon automatically every week
• Faster Breeding - Breed with only one visit instead of 2, essentially breed something everyday!
• Faster Leveling - Get twice the experience on every battle!
• Giveaways for pass holders only

You get all of this for only $1.99! One time payment! Get it today!

Auction House and Champions Item Variety

These are coming! Check the last blog for more info on them.

Game Fixes
Thanks to some great fans (who am I kidding you are all great!) we've managed to find some pesky bugs that I want to fix plus some changes to some abilities for units.

Drag Flag Colors - Right now you always see a blue flag when you drag a tent flag. I'm making it so it will show the proper color and remove the massive confusion this causes.

Summoned Units Not Taking Level Lives - The Lacky that the Bandit Boss summons is very weak and so he dies pretty quickly. This change makes it so you won't lose a level life when a summoned minnion like the lacky dies.

Changing attacks to be more viable for player - When I design enemies I make sure their attacks are appropriately strong but slow enough to give you time to dodge the attack. Once you recruit an enemy their attack becomes part of your arsenal, and while very strong they are too slow for actual play and so I will make these slow attacks be faster but only when you play the unit, the enemies themselves will still have their version.

There are other changes that will happen but these are the ones that I'm focused on this week along with the Auction House and Item Variety.

Weekly Progress

Champions TD - Item Variety and Auction House  Released!

Same item but different stats under the new item variety system

• Game Fixes (100%)
• Drag Flag Colors (100%)
• Summoned Units Not Taking Level Lives (100%)
• Changing Attacks to be more viable for player minions (100%)
• Item Variety (100%)
• Creating Item Level System (100%)
• Prefixes (100%)
• Dealing with current gear (100%)
• Apply to Auction House (100%)
• Made Selling prices consistent based on item rating (100%)
• Item comparison screen will now compare the item's rating to each other (100%)
• Auction House (100%)
• Add Check Sum for sending and receiving (100%)
• Money Text Stuff (100%)
• Others (100%)
• Transferring Items/Currency over to Auction Box and back to account (100%)
• Creating Auctions from Game (100%)
• Sending Money from Game (100%)
• Receive Items and Money from Auction House Storage (100%)

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

New Multiplayer Feature for PTD2, Trainer VS! Champion Items Variety and Auction House Opening!

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!

PTD2 Trainer Pass! Get it today!

A great way to support us while getting amazing rewards!

So let's talk about what you get:

• Increased chance for Shiny/Shadow pokemon to appear in the wild
• No ads while you play the game
• Get a copy of shiny giveaway pokemon automatically every week
• Faster Breeding - Breed with only one visit instead of 2, essentially breed something everyday!
• Faster Leveling - Get twice the experience on every battle!
• Giveaways for pass holders only

You get all of this for only $1.99! One time payment! Get it today!

Trainer VS!
A much requested feature will make an appearance in Pokemon Tower Defense 2. You will be able to battle other trainers in 1v1 battles! Here is how it works:

Battle other Trainers

• In the Story Mode in the game pick 3 pokemon in the order that you want them to come out with the attacks that you want them to have.
• Pick from available command styles (This will determine what pattern of attacks your pokemon will use when battling other trainers. The default and only one available when I realease will be to do the first attack once then switch to the second attack. More will be added in the future. Fun fact: This is the behavior of a lot of the enemies you fight in the game.)
• Pick Ability for that Pokemon.
• After you do that go to your Pokepad and press Trainer VS press the battle button and you will be paired up with another trainer to battle!

Once you get into a battle you won't get to switch out your pokemon or change attacks. You will have to rely on the order that you place them in and the attacks, abilities and command style you picked in order to win the battle.

Eventually there will be different things like different ranks and different avatars you can win for this mode! So look forward to that!

Champions Item Variety

A much needed feature will be added to Champions TD. Item Variety! What does it mean you ask? Well it means that the same item can now have different stats. For example you can get a Sword of the Bear that has stamina and strength or you can get the same Sword but it will be called Sword of the Wolf and instead of stamina it will just have strength but more of it. This will add more variety and more reasons to possibly replay levels to get the loot just the way you want it. If the loot isn't right then you can put it up for Auction or search for the item in the Auction House that has the stats you want.

Auction House Opening!

Speaking of the Auction House, after a looooonggg lonnnggg looonnggg time the Auction House is almost ready to be opened! I look forward to it so I hope you guys do to!

Lots to do this week so keep checking out my progress and cheer me on Twitter!

Weekly Progress

Pokemon Tower Defense 2 - Trainer VS Released!

After setting up your team in PokeStorage go to Trainer VS

You can see your total wins! This is my team at the moment, still need to work on it...

• Saving Trainer's Setup (100%)
• Saving Trainer's Winning Stats (100%)
• Showing your wins (100%)
• Screen for selecting and saving your team (100%)
• Battle Set up (100%)
• Loading Trainer's Pokemon and putting them in battle (100%)
• Removing options for selecting pokemon or their attacks (100%)
• Putting your pokemon in battle (100%)
• Recording your result (100%)

Champions TD - Item Variety and Auction House Moved to Next Week

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

Gym Challenge Heats Up! VS Blaine enter the battle! Auction House progress!

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!

PTD2 Trainer Pass! Get it today!

A great way to support us while getting amazing rewards!

So let's talk about what you get:

• Increased chance for Shiny/Shadow pokemon to appear in the wild
• No ads while you play the game
• Get a copy of shiny giveaway pokemon automatically every week
• Faster Breeding - Breed with only one visit instead of 2, essentially breed something everyday!
• Faster Leveling - Get twice the experience on every battle!
• Giveaways for pass holders only

You get all of this for only $1.99! One time payment! Get it today!

Gym Challenge Heats up! VS Blaine enters the battle!
Late last week I got some great ideas for how I would do the Blaine battle for the Gym Challenge. I've been watching a lot of World of Warcraft on Twitch (while I work), especially guilds trying to beat Mythic Blackrock Foundry (the latest raid dungeon in World of Warcraft). So I think this battle is very influenced by different MMO bosses that I've seen lately. I hope you guys will enjoy! I'll try to make it pretty challenging without making it feel unfair. That is the ultimate goal for game development. I've also added a new poll so that you can vote on what reward you will want for the gym.

Blaine - Cinnabar Gym Leader

Auction House Progress
The Auction House is still in progress, it is slow and steady but things are coming together, I didn't think it would be fair for you guys that I spent another whole week just on it so I'm also doing the gym challenge for PTD2. I'm very excited for the auction house, it won't be super pretty at first but it will be functional.

Work in progress

Weekly Progress

Pokemon Tower Defense 2 - VS Blaine Released!

• Background Graphic (100%)
• Level Layout (100%)
• Blaine Graphic (100%)
• Level Menu Setup (100%)
• Oak's Helpful dialog (100%)
• New Boss Attacks (100%)
• Molten Rock Throw (100%) - User focuses on a target for a while then throws a Molten Rock at their last location. The rock hits and creates a lava puddle around the location. The less damage the user has the more molten rocks it will throw at more targets.
• Level Waves (100%)
• Mega Evolutions Pokemon (100%) 
• Graphics (100%)
• Stats (100%)
• New Item (100%)
• Server Code (100%)
• Made Legendary Dogs less likely (but still pretty available) to show up once you beat the game (100%)

Champions TD Auction House Moved to Next Week

• Log In (100%)
• Creating/Changing your Auction House Nickname (100%) - This shows up in your auctions and bids.
• Pagination for certain pages (100%)
• Creating an Auction (100%)
• Ending Auctions (100%) - this happens as needed
• Sending notifications (100%)
• Sending Items (100%)
• Sending Money (100%)
• Bidding/Buying on Auction (100%)
• Buyout (100%)
• Bidding (100%)
• Return Money to person that was outbid (100%)
• Send Notification to person who had bid on item (100%)
• Return Money to person that was outbid when somebody else buys out the auction (100%)
• Send notification of a successful auction to auction owner (100%)
• Send money to auction owner after buyout (100%)
• Don't Allow bidding or buyout on your own auctions (100%)
• Don't Allow bidding if you are the highest bidder (100%)
• Removing an Auction (100%)
• Most things (100%)
• Sending a notification to person that was bidding (100%)
• Returning money to whoever bid (100%)
• Auction Notifications System (100%) - You will get messages on the outcome of your bids and auctions in the Auction House Website.
• See all notifications page (100%)
• Removing Old Notifications (100%)
• Delete All (100%)
• Other Stuff (100%)
• Sell Storage Items (100%)
• Searching for an Auction (100%) - more searching options will be added in the near future.
• Game Change (100%) - Trogg Leather will now be called Cave Leather.

Have any questions, idea, feedback? Let me know in the comments below or on twitter! Thanks!

Let's Get it Done: Champions TD Auction House v1!

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!

PTD2 Trainer Pass! Get it today!

A great way to support us while getting amazing rewards!

So let's talk about what you get:

• Increased chance for Shiny/Shadow pokemon to appear in the wild
• No ads while you play the game
• Get a copy of shiny giveaway pokemon automatically every week
• Faster Breeding - Breed with only one visit instead of 2, essentially breed something everyday!
• Faster Leveling - Get twice the experience on every battle!
• Giveaways for pass holders only

You get all of this for only $1.99! One time payment! Get it today!

Let's Get it Done: Champions TD Auction House v1!
It's that time of the month again when things take longer to make that usual and so we need to have a laser focus to finish them. In using the fabulous Flox Game Service and it really is great! It is however a big departure from what I was doing in PTD and so to create this Auction House I have to come up with new ways of doing things. I do love solving these problems, they are like puzzles for me but they do require much time be spent on them to solve properly. I'm also trying to prevent certain exploits to work in the game so more time is needed.

In the end it will be worth it as you will be able to have this great service that will help keep us making great games for all of you.

Weekly Progress

Champions TD Auction House Postponed

• Log In (100%)
• Creating/Changing your Auction House Nickname (100%) - This shows up in your auctions and bids.
• Pagination for certain pages (100%)
• Security Stuff (70%)
• Transferring Items/Currency over to Auction Box and back to account (50%)
• Creating an Auction (50%)
• Bidding on Auction (0%)
• Removing an Auction (50%)
• Auction Notifications System (50%) - You will get messages on the outcome of your bids and auctions in the Auction House Website.
• Searching for an Auction (100%) - more searching options will be added in the near future.
• Game Change (100%) - Trogg Leather will now be called Cave Leather.

Have any questions, idea, feedback? Let me know in the comments below or on twitter! Thanks!

vs Sabrina and the Auction House Begins!

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!

PTD2 Trainer Pass! Get it today!

A great way to support us while getting amazing rewards!

So let's talk about what you get:

• Increased chance for Shiny/Shadow pokemon to appear in the wild
• No ads while you play the game
• Get a copy of shiny giveaway pokemon automatically every week
• Faster Breeding - Breed with only one visit instead of 2, essentially breed something everyday!
• Faster Leveling - Get twice the experience on every battle!
• Giveaways for pass holders only

You get all of this for only $1.99! One time payment! Get it today!

Blog Poll! You decide which Mega Stone! (Poll Above Blog)
For the next Gym Challenge there are many possible mega stones that can be given away. So I'm leaving it up to you to decide which one will be given out! Vote wisely!

vs Sabrina
As promised this week we will have a new Gym Challenge Fight for PTD2 and it will be versus Sabrina the Saffron City Gym Leader. She specializes in Psychic Pokemon so we can expect some sneaky stuff happening on her end since they have much power. The way I'm planning it right now you will have one pokemon only but you will be able to move around as there will be many spots. How will you fare against her Alakazam?

Auction House Begins
Also this week I want to start building the Auction House of Champions TD as I feel we are getting to the point were we have enough items for it, it will work a lot like the PokeCenter except instead of trading one thing for another you will trade item for in game gold/silver/copper. Players will also be able to bid or buy out items so think of it like an ebay for Champions. Along with these eventually you will be able to message other players and even trade with other players. Please look forward to it!

Weekly Progress

PTD2 Gym Challenge vs Sabrina Released! Hope you enjoy!

Healing Orb, Psycho Cut and Teleports are shown.

• Fixed Fairy Type Filter (100%)
• Fixed issue with Ditto not losing his transformation while invasions are set (100%)
• Fixed Diancie Bug (100%) - will be fixed when v1.83 comes out.
• Fixed Weedle and other Waves in the invasion (100%)
• Level Background Graphics (100%)
• Level Layout (100%)
• Sabrina Graphics (100%)
• Level Menu Setup (100%)
• Menu button (100%)
• Level Intro Tip (100%)
• Mega Evolution (100%) - Mega Mewtwo X! Thanks for voting!
• Server Reward (100%)
• Add the correct badge graphic to vs Koga (100%)
• Attack Design (100%)
• New Attacks (100%)
• Recovering Orbs (100%) - Part of Alakazam's life will manifest as recovery orbs that your pokemon can touch to regain health.
• Disabled Escape (100%) - Once your pokemon is in the arena it cannot be removed but it can still swap spots.
• Teleport Room (100%) - Swapping to a spot will send you to another predefined spot.
• Psychic Blast (100%) - Every once in a while Alakazam will fire off a psychic blast that cannot be avoided.
• Psycho Cuts (100%) - Psychic cuts are aimed at different spots in the room and then fired doing lethal damage.

Champions TD Auction House Incomplete

Have any questions, idea, feedback? Let me know in the comments below or on twitter! Thanks!