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!

PTD1 Transfer Complete! New Evolutions!

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

PTD1 Transfer Complete!
The goal this week is simple. Add over 30 pokemon from ptd1 and completely finish all the transfer pokemon. Completing this task will also add over 15 new moves to the game.

New Evolutions!
Because of these transfers this will add new pokemon into the game. Tangrowth, Tyrogue, and Hitmontop.

Mystery Gift
Like every week we will have a Mystery Gift and a Giveaway, so look forward to that.

Cosmoids Update
Still not ready to show anything of the new Cosmoids but I've been thinking a lot about it. Excited to show you guys soon.

Weekly Progress

PTD2 Released!

• Mystery Gift (100%)
• Graphics (100%)
• Stats (100%)
• Evolutions (100%)
• New Attacks (100%)
• Dragon Pulse (100%)
• Add to Breeding Center (100%)
• Add to Trading Center (100%)
• PTD1 to PTD2 Transfers (100%)
• New Pokemon (100%) - Voltorb, Electrode, Exeggcute, Exeggutor, Cubone, Marowak, Hitmonlee, Hitmonchan, Koffing, Weezing, Rhyhorn,  Rhydon, Tangela, Kangaskhan, Horsea, Seadra, Pinsir, Tauros, Lapras, Porygon, Omanyte, Omastar, Kabuto, Kabutops, Aerodactyl, Snorlax, Dratini, Dragonair, Dragonite, Tangrowth, Tyrogue, Hitmontop, Missing No, Mr. Mime.
• Graphics (100%)
• Stats (100%)
• Evolutions (100%)
• New Abilities (100%)
• Download (100%)
• Filter (100%)
• Scrappy (100%)
• Aftermath (100%)
• New Attacks (100%)
• Conversion (100%)
• Conversion 2 (100%)
• Recycle (100%)
• Snore (100%)
• Sleep Talk (100%)
• Dragon Tail (100%)
• Power Swap (100%)
• Guard Swap (100%)
• Mimic (100%)
• Substitute (100%)
• Clear Smog (100%)
• Rolling Kick (100%)
• Triple Kick (100%)
• Bone Club (100%)
• Bonemerang (100%)
• Barrage (100%)
• Egg Bomb (100%)
• Add to Breeding Center (100%)
• Add to Trading Center (100%)
• Bug Fix - Destiny Bond bug (100%)
• Typo - Fixed a typo with Bugsy's Mom (100%)
• Bug Fix - Roar will now only work once per pokemon (100%)

I'm pretty excited to finally be able to have all the PTD1 pokemon inside of PTD2, as always let me know what you think!

Legendary Transfers, Ilex Forest, Game Rebalance

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Okay so here is the list of progress

Weekly Progress

PTD2 Released!

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

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

Back in action! PTD2 update released!

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Back in Action!

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

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

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

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

Getting Married! Going on Honeymoon!

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Getting Married! Going on Honeymoon!

As the title suggest this Saturday 7/27 I will be getting married around 5PM Eastern Time. It has been a long year of planning, blood, sweat and tears but it is finally here! I'm incredibly happy about this step in my life and I wouldn't do it with anybody else but Zaira, my fiance.

For our honeymoon we will be traveling for 2 weeks so I won't be around to make update for you guys :(. Like I mentioned on Twitter I will be doing the 3 Mystery Gifts in advance and the sponsor will release them on 8/2 and 8/9 on his blog. Once you find the code put it in and the gifts will be available to play on v1.48 of PTD2.

I didn't have enough time to do both the Mystery Gifts and the Giveaways so I will have to do the giveaway when I return.

Thanks!
Honestly without you guys this wedding would have not happened, so I wanted to say Thank you for playing our games and for always supporting us.

Soon I will be back and with the wedding behind me I will be able to refocus on the game and work harder than I ever had.

I will miss you guys!

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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Welcome to the Sam and Dan Games Developer Blog! Coming back from chaos!

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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!