New Champions TD Level, You decide what happens! and the Sinnoh Invasion!

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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!

Sinnoh Invasion - Released!
This week we will get the Sinnoh Invasion! Just like the Hoenn invasion it will be unlocked after you beat the game. Unlike the Hoenn invasion this invasion will only be active on certain days of the week. Then each invasion will cycle weekly. There will be many new pokemon to catch so look forward to that!

New Champions TD Level - Released!
A new level will also come out this week for Champions TD, that means more units to recruit, more loot and new challenges. This level will also have a new story companion (like timothy). Her code name right now is the Liar Mage. I hope you are all looking forward to it.

New Level Layout: The Cave

You decide what happens! Player Poll (Vote Above)
After the next level of Champions you will face a boss. I wanted to involve you guys and gals in shaping the story of the game. You will fight the boss and bring it down to 0 health and earn loot but it is up to you to vote whether you really defeated the boss for good or if it comes back and chases you out of its cave! This will definitely change the story after that event so choose wisely!

Weekly Progress

PTD2 v1.80  - Sinnoh Invasion - Released!

• Pokemon Spawns around the map (100%) - Assigning pokemon to each map loosely based on the generation they belong to.
• Add Moss Rock and Ice Rock Evolution to certain spots (100%)
• New Pokemons (100%)
• Graphics and Stats (100%) -Bidoof, Bibarel, Kricketot, Kriketune, Burmy, Wormadam, Mothim, Cherubi, Cherrim, Shellos, Gastrodon, Drifloon, Drifblim, Glameow, Purugly, Bronzor, Bronzong, Chatot, Carnivine, Finneon, Lumineon, Leafeon
• Evolution methods (100%)
• Add to Breeding Center (100%)
• Add to Trading Center (100%)
• New Attacks (100%)
• Chatter (100%)
• New Abilities (100%)
• Flower Gift (100%)
• Flare Boost (100%)
• Heatproof (100%)

Champions TD v0.04 - New Level - Released!

• Be able to skip a cutscene after you have seen it and haven't beaten that level (100%)
• Map (100%)
• Cutscenes (100%)
• New Units (100%)
• Graphics (100%)
• Equipment (100%)
• Attacks (100%)
• Waves (100%)
• Loot Drops (100%)

So that's what we are working on this week, got any ideas or feedback for this week's update let me know!

2015 Roadmap - What's next?

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Welcome to the Sam and Dan Games Developer Blog!

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!

2015 Roadmap - What's Next?

Hi guys/gals with 2015 right around the corner I wanted to talk about our goals for 2015. I really think 2015 is going to be an amazing year for us. I'm really excited about our journey together. So I will talk about what I have in mind for PTD2 and Champions TD and even other projects beyond that.

What's Next for PTD2? (and PTD1)

Pokemon Tower Defense 2 story is done but there is still some content I want to add. Along with the Hoen Invasion you can expect an invasion day for each generation (including the first generation) along with a day that the map will have the normal Gen 2 pokemon that are supposed to be there. The Gym Challenges will still be coming out also. Something I've been wanting to add also is a map and the ability to fly to different locations for quick travel. The Iphone/Ipad version of PTD2 is also something I want to get done. Lastly I want to make an offline version of both ptd1 and ptd2. So if for any reason our servers can't survive any longer the game will still be available for all to play. (PTD2 having all generation is also good if trading is not available.) 

As far as making a PTD3, I've really wanted to make an original game for years now but unfortunately things have never worked out due to a lot of reasons. Now with Champions TD I'm finally making that step. Perhaps in the future there might be a chance to do another pokemon game but Champions TD will definitely come first.

What's Next for Champions TD?

Champions TD just come out! Play it by clicking here if you haven't played it yet and let me know what you think. In the coming year we will be adding many new levels, new loot, new bosses, new units to recruit, just new new new. I'm very excited about this game and I hope you will like it as much or even more than I do! Since this game is more unique we might have biweekly and some weekly updates to it. I also want to put it on steam, apple and android app stores. I just want as many people to enjoy it.

My thoughts right now is that the game will be free. There will be somethings you can buy but you will never have to pay to win. I want to get the auction house started soon but with so few items there isn't much of a reason yet. The next level will bring in more items and weapons so after a few more items an auction house will make sense.

I'll mainly be focusing on Champions but I haven't forgotten about Cosmoids. Originally I wanted to make Cosmoids TD right away but in Game Development things change very rapidly and you have to be able to adjust. My goal is to make a Cosmoids game in the next few years. I might not be a Tower Defense game but I promise you it will be great. Again Champions is my focus so I might not talk much about cosmoids. I do think it will be cool to see some cosmoids in Champions TD. So I might add some of them for fun into the game.

Weekly Progress

PTD2 v1.78.3 Mystery Gift Druddigon and Hall of Fame Reward Virizion Released!

• Fixed Stats on Durant and Shaymin
• Drastically incrased the levels of pokemon of the Hoen Invasion on Icy Path and Route 45

Champions TD next update - New Level - Meet the Hunter - Released!

PTD2 v1.78.2 Mystery Gift Durant and Hall of Fame Reward Terrakion Released!

PTD2 v1.78.1 Mystery Gift Maractus and Hall of Fame Reward Cobalion Released!

I'm very blessed to have all of you enjoying my games, let me know what you think! Sam out.

Presenting Champions TD Alpha!

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Presenting Champions TD
After about a month of work we are finally ready to present our next game in the making. Hero TD has evolved into Champions TD. Below is a clip of  a live stream that I did that explains part of the game.


You can play this very same build on this blog right now. Just click on the Champions TD Alpha tab at the top of the blog.

I encourage you guys to play around with it. Right now you can't do much, you can't lose or win.
Next week I will talk more what will happen next and how you guys and gals will be able to help shape the game going forward.

Let me know what you think of the game in the comments below!

PTD2 Continued
PTD2 will still get weekly updates as I make a mystery gift every week. I still want to add a few more things like more HoF rewards among others things. So look forward to that!

Weekly Progress

PTD2 1.70.6 Mystery Gift and more HoF Rewards! Released!

• Mystery Gift (100%) -Shroomish
• Graphics (100%)
• Stats (100%)
• Evolutions (100%)
• Add to Breeding Center (100%)
• Add to Trading Center (100%)
• Create Code Hunt (100%)
• HoF Rewards (100%) - Regigigas
• Graphics (100%)
• Stats (100%)
• New Ability (100%)
• Slow Start (100%)
• New Attack (100%)
• Crush Grip (100%)
• Add to Trading Center (100%)
• Add to Reward Center (100%)

PTD2 1.70.5 Mystery Gift and more HoF Rewards! Released!

• Mystery Gift (100%) - Surskit
• Graphics (100%)
• Stats (100%)
• Evolutions (100%)
• Add to Breeding Center (100%)
• Add to Trading Center (100%)
• Create Code Hunt (100%)
• HoF Rewards (100%) -Deoxys (Normal Form, he will transform to other forms later on)
• Graphics (100%)
• Stats (100%)
• New Attack (100%)
• Psycho Boost (100%)
• Add to Trading Center (100%)
• Add to Reward Center (100%)

PTD2 1.70.4 Mystery Gift and more HoF Rewards! Released!

• Mystery Gift (100%) - Wingull
• Graphics (100%)
• Stats (100%)
• Evolutions (100%)
• Add to Breeding Center (100%)
• Add to Trading Center (100%)
• Create Code Hunt (100%)
• HoF Rewards (100%) -Kyogre and Groudon
• Graphics (100%)
• Stats (100%)
• Add to Trading Center (100%)
• Add to Reward Center (100%)

PTD2 1.70.3 Mystery Gift, more HoF Rewards, and Bug Fix Released!

• Mystery Gift (100%) - Zigzagoon
• Graphics (100%)
• Stats (100%)
• Evolutions (100%)
• Add to Breeding Center (100%)
• Add to Trading Center (100%)
• Create Code Hunt (100%)
• HoF Rewards (100%) - Latias and Latios
• Graphics (100%)
• Stats (100%)
• New Attacks (100%)
• Luster Purge (100%)
• Mist Ball (100%)
• Add to Trading Center (100%)
• Add to Reward Center (100%)
• Bug Fix (100%) - Budew should evolve correctly during the day when holding a Friendship doll and leveling up.

The final stretch! Round 3 and beyond!

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Sam and Dan Games: Fundraiser! Phase 4



Help us keep making games and earn awesome prizes like Shiny Rayquaza, Cosmoid Starters for PTD 2, Shiny Heatran and Shiny Pokemon X and Y Legendaries!  

Our Goal: $50,000

The final stretch! Round 3...
So my original estimates were off. It will take longer to finish up the story in PTD2. This is mainly due to really trying to put everything I can into these last few fights. I could have made them pretty typical without adding any new enemy attacks and just give everything protect + a lot of HP and speed but I really wanted to end the game with a bang. One of my regrets with PTD1 was that I had to cut out a lot of ideas because I tried to stick to the 1 week limit for creating a level. For these last few fights I want to take my time and get them right. With Round 2 I made it a bit too easy and so I had to reword it a few times (countless times just me testing it) and I also reworked some moves that seemed to be way too good at the time.

..and beyond!
After PTD2 I plan to work on a small game about Dinosaurs Heroes! It's a really small game so once PTD2 is finished I hope to start talking more about it and we can start working on it together as a community. I really value what you guys think and I think together we can make it a pretty fun game. So I'm looking forward to that.

Weekly Progress

PTD2 1.70.2 - Easier World Tournament and More Hall of Fame Rewards! Released!

• Remove requirements from World Tournament fights and allow items (100%)
• New Hall of Fame Rewards (100%) - Regirock, Regice, Registeel
• Graphics (100%)
• Stats (100%)
• Add to Trading Center (100%)
• Add to Hall of Fame Rewards page (100%)
• Deevolution Ray - A new Pokecenter Website feature. It can turn your pokemon back to its first stage and bring it back to level 1. It also remove the Hall of Fame Ribbon from your pokemon. Making filling up your Hall of Fame easier than ever!
• Your pokemon will now lose its Hall of Fame Ribbon when it evolves.
• Bug (100%) - Bug with your female pokemon passing along its HoF Ribbon to the male when you breed.

PTD2 1.70.1 Mystery Gift - Lotad Released!

• Graphics (100%)
• Stats (100%)
• Evolutions (100%)
• Add to Breeding Center (100%)
• Add to Trading Center (100%)
• Create Code Hunt (100%)

PTD2 1.70 Legendary Collection, Hall of Fame, Pokedex Upgrade - Released!

• Mystery Gift (100%) - Poochyena
• Graphics (100%)
• Stats (100%)
• Evolutions (100%)
• New Attack (100%)
• Thief (100%)
• Add to Breeding Center (100%)
• Add to Trading Center (100%)
• Create Code Hunt (100%)
• Fixing your pokedex forgetting pokemon you caught but then traded (100%)
• Your pokedex will now be properly shared between all 3 of your profiles (100%)
• The Pokedex will now cover all 6 Gens (100%)
• Register your Pokemon in the Hall of Fame after you have beaten the game and get Legendary Pokemon as rewards! (100%)
• Note: You will have to have these pokemon in your profile to register them.
• More Rewards coming soon!
• Next up Lugia and Hooh!
• Attacks: Aeroblast and Sacred Fire (100%)

PTD2 1.69.1 Mystery Gift - Hawlucha Released!
PTD2 1.69 Save the World - All hope is lost... is there a way to save the world? Released!

• New Dialog (100%) - new dialog before the fight
• New Cutscene (100%) - Cutscene after the fight
• Battle Layout (100%) - The arena where you will fight
• Battle Design (100%) - The way the battle will unfold has been decided.
• Battle Waves (100%) - The actual waves for the fight.
• Add Shiny Victini and Glaceon for people who converted their regular into shiny (100%)
• Allow players to have pokemon higher than level 100 from trades before beating round 3 (100%)
• Fixed Klefki's Shadow graphic (100%)
• Shadow Mewtwo (Not Shadow Mewthree) will now display the correct graphic (100%)

Thanks for all your support! As always let me know what you think!

Birthday Legendary! Double Gym Battle!

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Sam and Dan Games: Fundraiser! Phase 4



Help us keep making games and earn awesome prizes like Shiny Rayquaza, Cosmoid Starters for PTD 2, Shiny Heatran and Shiny Pokemon X and Y Legendaries!  

Our Goal: $50,000

Birthday Legendary!
Every year on my the week of my birthday I like to give out a very special Legendary Pokemon as the Mystery Gift. So the time has come again (my birthday is on November 26) and it so happens that this week the Mystery Gift type is Dragon. So I present to you the Mystery Gift for this week.....

Kyurem!

The Mystery Gift will be a regular/shadow Kyurem and the Giveaway will be a Shiny Kyurem! I hope you guys enjoy this special gift!

Double Gym Battle (This part of the update has been pushed to the next one due to my birthday and the Thanks Giving Holiday)
This week we arrive in Olivine City and find that there is something happening in the city. Both Chuck (the Cianwood City Gym Leader) and Jasmine (the Olivine City Gym Leader) will be there. Will you be able to defeat both of them battling you at the same time?

Old Data Wipe 
In about 6 months from now we will be doing a data wipe to any accounts that aren't used in 6 months. If you are a regular player then you will be fine just make sure you log in every once in a while so you don't lose your accounts. There is a lot of old data in the system that is just sitting there collecting dust and slowing everything down. Your data will only be wiped if you do not log in for a whole 6 months or more. If you log in every 3 months or every 5 months you will be fine.

Sam and Dan Games Subscriber
Next year we will be coming out with a subscriber service. The service will cost about 1.99 a month with special discounts if you pay for a whole year in advance. The service will bring many benefits to the subscribers with more being added over time. Some of the benefits will include a higher shiny encounter rate, more breeding spots for breeding, better breeding items, a subscriber only server to ensure that subscribers have no problems playing at even the busiest times, automatically receive giveaway pokemon without having to be on at the right time and more! Future games will also give out benefits to subscribers and like I said we will be adding more and more over time.

What will change with the Subscriber service? Is the game no longer free?
The game will ALWAYS be free! You can do everything you can do now for free. The subscriber feature is just for players that want to support us plus get some great EXTRA perks. The game will stay just how it is now for free players.

So will non subscribers still get a chance at giveaways? What if you have over 500 subscribers?
The subscribers will automatically receive the giveaway pokemon without entering a code. This means that the 500 that I giveaway will still be available to non subscribers and only non-subscribers. Subscribers will not be able to enter the code into their account since they already get them automatically.

If you like our games and want to support us this will be a great way for you to get many benefits from it! Stay Tuned!

Weekly Progress

PTD2 v1.63.2 Bug Fixes - Released!

• Fixed a bug with the attack Punishment (100%)
• Fixed Pansear not evolving while using a Fire Stone (100%)

PTD2 v1.63.1 Mystery Gift - Fire! Released!

• Mystery Gift (100%) - Fire Pansear and Heatmor
• Graphics (100%)
• Stats (100%)
• Add to Breeding Center (100%)
• Add to Trading Center (100%)
• Moves like Whirlwind/Roar/Dragon Tail should only work once on a target (100%)
• Fix certain moves that crash/stop levels (100%)
• Remove Effective Level from the 5th gym battle (100%)

PTD2 v1.63 Double Gym Battle! - Released!

• Olivine City (100%)
• Map Graphics (100%)
• Map Music (100%)
• PokeCenter/PokeMart (100%)
• New NPCs (100%)
• Bug Fix (100%) Made the Mart's exit trigger more compatible with bikes.
• Shadow Lugia Movie Scene (100%) By Joel
• New TMs (100%) - Iron Tail and Focus Punch after beating the Gym Leader battle.
• Double Gym Battle (100%) Chuck and Jasmine vs You
• Level Layout (100%)
• Pokemon Waves (100%)
• New Boss Attacks (100%)

PTD2 v1.62Mystery Gift Kyurem! Released!

• New Pokemon (100%) - Kyurem!
• Graphics (100%)
• Stats (100%)
• New Attacks (100%)
• Galciate (100%)
• Add to Trading Center (100%)

That's what we have for you this week! Enjoy! Oh ya... as always, let me know what you think on the comments below!

Ecruteak City, Fairy Type Arrives, Phase 4 of the Fundraiser!

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Sam and Dan Games: Fundraiser! Phase 4



Help us keep making games and earn awesome prizes like Shiny Rayquaza, Cosmoid Starters for PTD 2, Shiny Heatran and Shiny Pokemon X and Y Legendaries!  

Our Goal: $50,000

Phase 4 of the Fundraiser!
Phase 4 of the Fundraiser starts this week. This will be the last phase of the fundraiser which will end on January. If you want to obtain these legendaries and cosmoid for your account make sure you get them before then. I'm happy to announce the new prizes for the new tiers of funding. They will be shiny Yveltal and Xerneas from Pokemon X and Y! If you donated 20 or more you will get to pick one of them and get 3 of the one that you pick (very useful for trading). If you donated 25 or more you will get another 3 of the one that you pick. For reaching 25 you get 6 total and potentially 3 of each.

Fairy Type Arrives!
Because of the new Fundraiser tier and adding Xerneas I will introduce the Fairy type into PTD 2. I will add the type to all pokemon that now fall under it (ex. Togepi, Jigglypuff, etc) but I won't be giving them all their attacks this week. Only the ones that they share with Xerneas. Also I'll be changing other types that changed in generation 6.

Saving problems
With more people playing the game the server sometimes has trouble keeping up which causes save files not to work. This week I will make it so if your save file works you can still save without it telling you that you saved somewhere else.

Ecruteak City
In an effort to push the story along we have made it to Ecruteak City rather quickly with 3 routes being created last week. This week I'm bringing the Gym match versus Morty. Morty encounters Shadow Pokemon that were brought by Mewthree's destruction. What will happen next?!

Mystery Gift
This week we will have the final type, Normal. So we will go straight into voting for it.

Weekly Progress

PTD2 v1.61 Mystery Gift Normal Type Released!

• Mystery Gift (100%) - Normal Type (Bouffalant and Taillow)
• Graphics (100%)
• Stats (100%)
• Evolutions (100%)
• New Attack (100%)
• Head Charge (100%)
• Add to Breeding Center (100%)
• Add to Trading Center (100%)

PTD2 v1.60 - Route 38, Route 39 Released!

• Add New Fundraiser Rewards (100%) - Shiny Yveltal and Xerneas
• New Graphics (100%)
• Stats (100%)
• New Abilities (100%)
• Dark Aura (100%)
• Fairy Aura (100%)
• New Attacks (100%)
• Geomancy (100%)
• Moonblast (100%)
• Mysty Terrain (100%)
• Horn Leech (100%)
• Nature Power (100%)
• Snarl (100%)
• Oblivion Wing (100%)
• Phantom Force (100%)
• Add to Trading Center (100%)
• Add to Rewards Page (100%)
• Route 38 and 39 (100%)
• Route Music (100%)
• Pokemon Waves (100%)
• Map Graphics (100%)
• Trainer Battles (100%)
• New Pokemon (100%) Miltank
• Graphics (100%)
• Stats (100%)
• New Attacks (100%)
• Milk Drink (100%)
• Add to Trading Center (100%)
• Add to Breeding Center (100%)

PTD2 v1.59 - Ecruteak City and Mystery Gift Released!

• Mystery Gift (100%) - Bug Type (Larvesta and Anorith)
• Graphics (100%)
• Stats (100%)
• Evolutions (100%)
• New Attack (100%)
• Fiery Dance (100%)
• Add to Breeding Center (100%)
• Add to Trading Center (100%)
• Game Change (100%) - Remove Effective Level from earlier levels in the game
• Bug Fix (100%) - Fix the Saving bug that when a save fails it tells you that you already saved before and saves only certain parts of your progress.
• Bug Fix 2 (100%) - Pokemon that are trapped will now lose their trapped status when the attacker has fainted or is no longer on the stage.
• Add Fairy Type (100%)
• Ecruteak City (100%)
• Map Graphics (100%)
• New TMs (100%)
• Dark Pulse (100%)
• Shadow Claw (100%)
• New NPC Character Graphics (100%)
• Gym Battle (100%)
• Battle Layout (100%)
• Battle Waves (100%)
• City Music (100%)
• Poke Center (100%)
• Poke Mart (100%)

That's what I have for you guys and gals this week. As always, let me know what you think in the comments below!

Mission: SC 100

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Our Goal: $50,000

Mission: Soft Cap 100
This update the mission is very simple. Finish over 50 new moves to increase the soft cap to 100. This will mean that all your pokemon will learn all their moves once this is done. It also means every time I add a new pokemon I will have to add all their move set (if it is not in the game yet). The main reason I'm doing this is that this week I'm a little bit behind with doing the update so adding new moves is something I can manage in the shorter amount of time since it is not as complex as building new story and new pokemon, etc, etc. It will still take me a long time to make all the 50 moves so wish me the best!

Mystery Gift
Like every week we will have a mystery gift and a giveaway. Note: Mystery Gifts will no longer be shiny but you will still be able to get a shadow on Thursdays. Also all Giveaways will stay shiny (shadow on thursdays) For the time being getting pokemon that you wouldn't normally get for a while is a good reward. This week we have Water type as the winner. I added most of the water type pokemon with some few exceptions. Vote for which you want to win!

Weekly Progress

PTD2 v1.52.1 Released!

• Mystery Gift (100%)
• Graphics (100%)
• Stats (100%)
• Evolutions (100%)
• Add to Breeding Center (100%)
• Add to Trading Center (100%)

PTD2 v1.52 Released! (It says 1.51 but it's the correct one)

• Bug Fix - Wild Pineco will no longer have the move selfdestruct (100%)
• Bug Fix - Cofagrigus will now have it's own stats instead of the same as Yamask (100%)
• Rayquaza can now learn V-Create at level 100 (100%) - Based on a Japanese Giveaway
• Soft Cap to 100 (100%) - WOOOOHOOOOOOO!!!!!!
• 41 Crabhammer (100%)
• 41 Final Gambit (100%)
• 41 Dive (100%)
• 41 Sky Uppercut (100%)
• 41 Grudge (100%) - Increases your attacker's cooldown by 4.2 sec
• 42 Overheat (100%)
• 42 Role Play (100%)
• 43 Coil (100%)
• 43 Stored Power (100%)
• 43 After You (100%) - Decreases your whole party's total attack cooldown by 0.6 sec
• 44 Sludge Wave (100%)
• 45 Extrasensory (100%)
• 45 Wild Charge (100%)
• 45 Punishment (100%)
• 45 Fissure (100%)
• 46 Quiver Dance (100%)
• 46 Focus Punch (100%) - 1.2 sec cooldown will only work when the user has taken no damage.
• 46 Outrage (100%)
• 47 Wring Out (100%)
• 47 Muddy Water (100%)
• 47 Weather Ball (100%)
• 47 Leaf Storm (100%)
• 47 Hyper Beam (100%)
• 48 Meteor Mash (100%)
• 48 Wonder Room (100%)
• 48 Magic Room (100%)
• 49 Gunk Shot (100%)
• 49 Psycho Shift (100%)
• 49 Trump Card (100%)
• 49 Sky Drop (100%)
• 50 Fly (100%)
• 51 Energy Ball (100%)
• 51 Aura Sphere (100%)
• 51 Heat Wave (100%)
• 52 Shell Smash (100%)
• 53 Hurricane (100%)
• 53 Entrainment (100%)
• 53 Circle Throw (100%)
• 53 Mega Kick (100%)
• 54 Giga Impact (100%)
• 57 Night Daze (100%)
• 58 Eruption (100%)
• 59 Zap Cannon (100%)
• 70 Doom Desire (100%)
• 71 Morning Sun (100%)
• 96 Magma Storm (100%)
• 98 V-Create (100%)
• 99 Fusion Bolt (100%)
• 100 Fusion Flare (100%)
• 100 Psystrike (100%)

Lots of new attacks this week, which attack are you looking forward to the most? As always let me know what you think in the comments section, twitter, or email. Thanks!

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!

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

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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!

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

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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!