Cosmoids Win or Lose! 10% Reached in the Fundraiser! Route 32 Continued! Pink Pokemon! and Egg Hunt!

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Welcome to the Sam and Dan Games Developer Blog! Where we work non stop to keep you entertained!

Sam and Dan Games: Fundraiser! Phase 3
Help us keep making games and earn awesome prizes like Shiny Rayquaza!  

Last Week's Update
For the last update I focused again on increasing the level cap and adding new pokemon to the game. We increased the level cap to 35 adding over 20 of moves in the process. In addition we added the PTD1 to PTD2 transfer of Eevee, Jolteon, Vaporeon, and Flareon. A much requested transfer which opened up the possibilities of getting Espeon and Umbreon in PTD2 using the Friendship doll. On top of all of that we had our Fire Mystery Gift and Giveaway. Darumaka was the Mystery Gift which brought him and his evolution Darmanitan and the eagerly awaited Zen Mode ability. The Giveaway was Torkoal. On the Cosmoids side of things I worked a lot on the first level, trying to make it exciting and somewhat challenging. I still have a couple of more tweaks to add but you can check out what I have so far in the Funding Rewards Page of the PTD2 Trading Center. A good week overall in my book!

Live Streaming Update
I had a lot of fun live streaming for you guys, unfortunately as you might have experienced my computer couldn't handle it. Thankfully I will be getting a new computer thanks to your guy's support! Once I get that and set it up then I will be streaming all the time! Wooo! 

Cosmoids Win or Lose
If you have played the Cosmoids Early Alpha you will notice that you can't win or lose. The game just kinda stops there. So this week I will be adding Win and Lose conditions. Win or Lose screens are a staple in all video games and it's about time they come to Cosmoids. On top of that Evan, one of our freelance artist, did some grass graphics that I will implement. I will also be adding more graphics to the caterpillar's small bite attack as well as other small tweaks to the level. The game is progressing nicely and I can't wait until more of it is done!

10% Reached in the Fundraiser!
It's a great day today! We reached (and passed) the 10% mark of our fundraiser. With over 6,037 funders we have reached this goal. It is only the beginning and we will slowly reach our goal. The thing to remember that it's just Dan and I working on things here and with taxes coming up we have been busy taking care of that part of the business. Anyways.. Looking at the poll right now Heatran is winning to be the 10 dollar giveaway legendary. On top of getting the legendary, people who donate 10 dollars will also get their choice of Cosmoids starter for their PTD2 account!

Pink Pokemon!
When choosing this week's PTD1 to PTD2 transfers I noticed something. All the ones I picked are pink! That was awkward! Anywho the main thing here is that they all have evolutions that are from different generations. The three that I choose were: Chansey, Lickitung and Clefairy! Naturally all their evolutions will show up if the items/attacks are implemented in the game (meaning no Happiny for now).

Route 32 Continued..
I promised another story level this week and well I'm keeping my promise. This week we will wrap things up in Ruins of Alph and head back to Route 32. This time we will meet with a peculiar Fisherman who seems to be catching different water pokemon depending on the day of the week. The way I hope it works out is that the battle you will face will change every few days based on who can be fished in that spot.

Egg Hunt
It's Easter! Easter has many meanings to different people, but for PTD2 it means an Egg hunt and a new pokemon prize at the end of it. This egg hunt will only be available for one week so make sure to be part of it and receive your Buneary!

Mystery Gift
Like every week we will also have a Mystery Gift! Psychic has won and it looks like Ralts will be the mystery gift but the giveaway pokemon (the runner up) is not as clear yet.

Weekly Progress
Now that we looked at everything that is coming this week (possibly over 20 new pokemon!) let's look at the list.

Cosmoids Released!

• Win/Lose Screen (100%) 
• Adding Subtle Grass Graphics (100%)
• Adding Small Bite Graphics (100%)
• Not allowing the player to place their tower outside of the screen or close to the outside (100%)

PTD2 v1.40.1 Released!

• Mystery Gift (100%)
• Female Avatars will now be able to enter Route 32's second section (100%)

PTD2 v1.40 Released!

• PTD1 to PTD2 Transfers (100%)
• Egg Hunt (100%)- Egg hunts starts in New Bark Town, talk to the Scientist in the middle of the town!
• New Story Level (100%)
• Intro (100%)
• Map (100%)
• Level Layout (100%)
• Level Waves (100%)
• Ending (100%) 
• Police Battle 2 (100%)
• Add a way to repeat the battle with normal Unown (100%)
• Test New Pokemon, Attacks, Abilities and Evolutions (100%)
• New Pokemon (100%) - Chansey, Blissey, Lickitung, Lickilicky, Clefairy, Clefable, Cleffa, Tentacool, Tentacruel, Magikarp, Gyarados, Qwilfish, Buneary, Lopunny, Heatran, Ralts, Kirlia, Gardevoir, Gallade, Solosis, Duosion, Reuniclus! SO MANY! 22!
• Graphics (100%)
• Stats (100%)
• Attacks (100%)
• Bestow (100%)
• Cosmic Power (100%)
• Metronome (100%)
• Stomp (100%)
• Softboiled (100%)
• Fling (100%)
• Bubblebeam (100%)
• Barrier (100%)
• Spikes (100%)
• Brine (100%)
• Frustration (100%)
• Jump Kick (100%)
• Mirror Coat (100%)
• Magic Coat (100%)
• Return (100%)
• Teleport (100%)
• Heal Pulse (100%)
• Calm Mind (100%)
• Healing Wish (100%) 
• Psywave (100%)
• Snatch (100%)
• Recover (100%)
• Psyshock (100%)
• Future Sight (100%)
• Pain Split (100%)
• Abilities (100%)
• Healer (100%)
• Own Tempo (100%)
• Magic Guard (100%)
• Liquid Ooze (100%)
• Trace (100%)
• Telepathy (100%) 
• Regenerator (100%)
• Evolutions (100%)
• Add to Breeding Center (100%)
• Add to Trading Center (100%)
• Bug Fixes (100%)
• You can only pickup certain items using the Pickup ability (100%)

So much to do, so little time! As always let me know what you think! Twitter, comments below or email. Thanks for visiting!

Wild Eevee appears! Soft Level Cap to 35! Cosmoids First Level making it exciting!

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.

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Sam and Dan Games: Fundraiser! Phase 3
Help us keep making games and earn awesome prizes like Shiny Rayquaza!  
Our Goal: $50,000

Last Week's Update
For the last update I focused on adding new transfers from PTD1 that could be breed to obtain new baby pokemon. We added Magmar, Electabuzz and Jynx to the PTD1 to PTD2 transfers. We also added the dawn stone to let female snorunt evolve to Froslass. Besides that we increased the level cap to 30 adding a bunch of new moves. Not only that I changed the way the learning moves system works too. If a move is in the game and ready to go and your pokemon can learn it or relearn it then it will be able to do so. It is no longer limited by the soft cap. The soft cap still remains in place to dictate which moves need to be added next. The last thing we added for PTD was the new Mystery Gift Shiny Absol and Giveaway Shiny Scraggy.

For Cosmoids, last week I added the swapping mechanic for your creatures and the new targetting move type. If you haven't played it yet, check out the Funding Rewards page on PTD2's Pokemon Center to find out how to try it out.

Wild Eevee appears!
The much requested PTD1 to PTD2 transfer will finally show up in this week's update! Along with Eevee you will know be able to transfer over all his evolutions from PTD1 (Jolteon, Flareon, and Vaporeon), plus using the Friendship Doll you will be able to get Espeon and Umbreon depending on the time of day that you use the doll in! All rejoice!

Soft Level Cap to 35!
I really want to reach the glorious level 100 soft cap. Having all the moves there really helps with figuring out more exciting levels to challenge you guys. It also helps with giving me extra time to work on Cosmoids. Story Levels really take up a lot of more time. Building the maps as you will eventually see in one of my streams takes up a good chunk of time. Reaching 35 will require 25 new moves!

Mystery Gifts
Like every week we have our Mystery Gift giveaway, it is my way of saying thanks for sticking with us week after week. We will also have the Giveaway which is our new tradition for this year. Right now it looks like Fire is dominating and there are quire a few good fire pokemon that will make it into the poll.

Live Streaming
I got my webcam and so the live streaming adventures begin! I will be posting on twitter when I'm live streaming. (I'm currently live streaming as I type this) So stop by and say hello, I'm always happy to answer questions and listen to suggestions. The link to my channel is  http://www.justin.tv/samsndgames

Cosmoids First Level making it exciting!
This week I will be focusing on making the first level of Cosmoids. Unlike what you might have seen so far in the first level you won't have a creature to help you. It will just be you and your bug bombs against those pesky bugs. First levels are tricky because it is the first time a player starts playing your game, you have to start teaching them things slowly so that they don't get overwhelmed by everything that is happening in the game, but you also have to make it exciting so that they want to keep playing. My goal for this level is to make it easy to understand but exciting to play. Hopefully by the end of this week you will be able to see the results of my effort.

Weekly Progress
Now that we have talked about it, let's look at the specifics for this week.


Cosmoids Released! - Play it at the Funding Rewards page in PTD2's Trading Center.

• Level 1 (100%) - Make it exciting!

PTD2 v1.39.1 Released!

• Mystery Gift (100%)
• Shadow Entei will now pick random targets attacking the unown to throw it's fireball at (100%)
• Taking too long to defeat Shadow Entei will now cause you to lose the level (100%)
• Eevee can now properly evolve to Vaporeon, Jolteon and Flareon (100%)

PTD2 v1.39 Released!

• PTD1 to PTD2 Transfer (100%) - Eevee, Jolteon, Flareon, Vaporeon!
• Test Moves, Abilities and Evolutions (100%) - Thanks livestream folks for watching!
• New Pokemon (100%)
• Graphics (100%)
• New Abilities (100%)
• Adaptability (100%)
• Anticipation (100%)
• Synchronize (100%)
• Magic Bounce (100%)
• Volt Absorb (100%)
• Quick Feet (100%) 
• Zen Mode (100%) 
• White Smoke (100%)
• New Attacks (100%)
• Incinerate (100%)
• Work Up (100%)
• Belly Drum (100%)
• Flare Blitz (100%)
• Hammer Arm (100%) 
• Flamethrower (100%)
• Stats (100%)
• Evolutions (100%)
• Add to Breeding Center (100%)
• Add to Trading Center (100%)
• Soft Cap to 35 (100%) - 25 new moves!
• Rage Powder (100%)
• Facade (100%)
• Acid Armor (100%)
• Dig (100%)
• Worry Seed (100%)
• Skull Bash (100%)
• Hail (100%)
• Captivate (100%)
• Hi Jump Kick (100%)
• Petal Dance (100%)
• Cotton Guard (100%)
• Ancient Power (100%)
• Roost (100%)
• Air Slash (100%)
• Earthquake (100%)
• Dream Eater (100%)
• Memento (100%)
• Gyro Ball (100%)
• Flatter (100%)
• Zen Headbutt (100%)
• Gastro Acid (100%)
• Sonicboom (100%)
• Dragonbreath (100%)
• Ice Beam (100%)
• Thrash (100%)
• Fixed a bug with Counter users not properly getting exp when it is the only moved used (100%)
• Adding Missing Move Names to the Pokemon Center (100%)

That's all I have for you this week, as always let me know what you think! Sam out!

Live Streaming, Baby Pokemon Incoming! Soft Level cap Increased! Dawn Stone 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!

Welcome to the Sam and Dan Games Developer Blog! Where you get all the latest news about our games and their updates and stuff... yeah!

Sam and Dan Games: Fundraiser! Phase 3
Help us keep making games and earn awesome prizes like Shiny Rayquaza!  
Our Goal: $50,000

Latest PTD2 Update v1.37.1
The last PTD2 update again brought us some great new things. We kicked it off with Ditto, Onix and Scyther as new pokemon that you could transfer from ptd1 to ptd2. It goes without saying that Ditto is a great addition since you will be able to breed some of the previously unbreedable pokemon like golett and beldum. I hope their numbers will go up as time passes on. In addition to those I added the Metal Coat item that will enable you to evolve your Onix and Scyther into Steelix and Scizor respectively. The twist is that you need to find the Metal Coat somewhere in the game's story mode maps before you can unlock it to buy in the Item Store. I hope I can add more item hunts in the future like this. Like every week we also had a mystery gift which was Shiny Spheal which you can get all this week (as many as you want!) and we had a very limited giveaway for shiny snorunt. Last but not least I added a new story level to the game. You will battle with a Shadow Entei, watch out for his devastating Mean Lock/Fire ball combo. A small tip is to use pokemon like the Mystery Gift Spheal to take hits of the fireball for other pokemon. Good luck!

Fundraiser.. slow and steady
I haven't forgotten about the fundraiser but I feel like the prize for the 10 dollar mark just aren't as interesting as Rayquaza was at 5 dollars. What do you guys think would be a worthy prize for the 10 dollar mark? In case you don't know the current prize for 10 dollars is all the previous prizes plus your choice at Cosmoid Starter for your PTD2 account. Let me know in the comments below or on twitter.

Live Streaming
We all know I like to keep you guys updated on all my game development efforts. I updated the blog with my progress, I have a current status in the blog that I update. The next logical step is to show you guys directly and live what I'm doing. Nowadays live streaming is very simple to do. So the question is would you guys want to see a live stream here and there of me working on games? Obviously I would have to cut out certain things that I wouldn't want to show you. But again let me know what you think of this.

Baby Pokemon Incoming!
Originally with PTD1 to PTD2 transfers I wanted to go in pokedex order, but after last week of kind of picking and choosing I think it's more fun that way. So while reading some comments of last week's blog I noticed somebody mentioned magmar and electabuzz and that got me thinking. They have something in common which is they have prevolutions! (They also have evolutions but we won't get them this week) As a third pokemon to transfer it made sense to bring in Jynx which also has a preevolution! Babies for everyone I say!

Dawn Stone and other items
Like the week before I plan to bring the Dawn Stone to let you evolve your female Snorunts into Froslass. I don't however plan to add many more evolution items in the next week as I want to feature them in the story at other points in the game. So you won't be evolving your Magmars and Electabuzzes any time soon. Please don't ask :)

Mystery Gift
This week it looks like it's Dark's turn. Vote on the poll to see who will be the shiny Mystery Gift and who will be the Shiny Giveaway! I will hopefully be able to slow down people that are getting more than one set by using multiple accounts. Stay tuned. 

Soft Level Cap Increased to 30! Plus get the moves that are in the game!
I'm also increasing the soft level cap to 30! (Aren't I nice?) I'm also changing it so that if the move is in the game then your pokemon can learn it regardless of the soft cap. This is something I've been wanting to do for a while and this week I will be tackling it. What this means is that lets say I increase the level cap to 30 like I am this week that means Gible can learn Dragon Claw at level 27. This is great news for somebody with a gible but what about somebody with a Gabite or Garchomp? They learn it at level 33. So before this meant that even if the move was there ready to be used, you didn't have access to it due to the soft cap. So I'm removing that limitation. If the move is ready to be used in the game then your pokemon will learn it. I will however be sticking to adding new moves based on the soft cap so keep that in mind.

Cosmoids Progress
I'm pretty happy with my Cosmoids progress for last week I got the creature swapping mechanic down and I"m pleased with my efforts. Sadly I didn't get much time to work on the new move mechanic but I hope to crush that down this week. In games usually you spend a lot of time building the base of the game. The core mechanics that the player will have to keep doing over and over so I take great care in trying to make these the best that they can be. Once you nail the basics down it is all about making the content which goes by a lot faster. In ptd this is similar to how long it took ptd2 to release and then how quickly I can make new moves now. Patience is the key but after you pass that stage everything starts speeding up.

Weekly Progress 
Ah yes, the progress part of the blog. Like every week I will post the details of everything I'm working on and then throughout the week I will update it as I make things. So keep checking back and cheer me on as I complete the task for this week.

Current Status: Not Working. Update is out!

Cosmoids Progress Released!

• New Move Type (100%) - Targeted moves

PTD2 v1.38.1 Released!

• Mystery Gift (100%)

PTD2 v1.38 Release!

• PTD1 to PTD2 New Transfers (100%)
• Testing new abilities and attacks (100%)
• Dawn Stone (100%)
• Learning a move is no longer limited by soft cap restrictions (100%) - This will open up a bunch of moves for evolved pokemon.
• Add Luvdisc Giveaway pokemon to the adoption center (100%) - Out now!
• Soft Cap Increased to 30 (100%) - 31 new moves!
•  Payback (100%)
• Mirror Shot (100%)
• Leaf Tornado (100%)
• Attract (100%)
• Dragon Claw (100%)
• Double-Edge (100%)
• Super Fang (100%)
• Rest (100%)
• Acrobatics (100%)
• Flame Chage (100%)
• Bug Buzz (100%)
• Me First (100%)
• Hex (100%)
• Aqua Tail (100%)
• Wake-Up Slap (100%)
• Selfdestruct (100%)
• Shadow Ball (100%)
• Spider Web (100%)
• Leaf Blade (100%)
• Aqua Jet (100%)
• Foul Play (100%)
• Iron Head (100%)
• Tailwind (100%)
• Endeavor (100%)
• Fire Punch (100%)
• ThunderPunch (100%)
• U-Turn (100%)
• Night Slash (100%)
• Hone Claws (100%)
• Dynamic Punch (100%)
• Autotomize (100%)
• New Pokemon (100%)
• Graphics (100%)
• Stats (100%)
• New Abilities (100%)
• Snow Cloak (100%)
• Cursed Body (100%)
• Vital Spirit (100%)
• Forewarn (100%)
• Dry Skin (100%)
• Super Luck (100%)
• Moxie (100%)
• New Attacks (100%)
• Ominous Wind (100%)
• Low Kick (100%)
• Shock Wave (100%)
• Heart Stamp (100%)
• Ice Punch (100%)
• Razor Wind (100%) 
• Brick Break (100%)
• Evolutions (100%)
• Adding to Breeding Center (100%)
• Adding to Trading Center (100%)
• Bug Fixes (100%)
• Fixed a typo on Ash's dialog after beating Shadow Entei (100%)

Well that's all folks! As always, let me know what you think!

The latest ptd2 update, the amazing breeder, story level and cosmoids UI and move types!

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 & Dan Games Developer Blog! Another week of updates and long blog post! Woohoo!


Sam & Dan Games: Fundraiser! Phase 3
Help us keep making games and earn awesome prizes like Shiny Rayquaza!  
Our Goal: $50,000
Raised so far: $3,822.70
Percentage so far: 7.645%
Total Funders so far: 4,241
Last updated: 3/4/13 (3:51 PM EST)

Latest PTD2 Update
The last PTD2 update v1.36 and 1.36.1 brought a whole lot of new things. I want to quickly go over them. Last week we added 4 new families to transfer from PTD1 over to PTD2. The Pikachu, Sandshrew, Nidoran Female, and Nidoran Male families. A really great side effect of bringing over the Pikachu Family is that you can now breed Pikachus to get your very own Pichu! If you don't know how to transfer from PTD1 to PTD2 visit our FAQ page for more information. We also added 2 new evolution items. The Dusk Stone and the Reaper Cloth. These items will evolve the Ghost Pokemon we recently had for the mystery gift. Speaking of Mystery Gift we added the Steel pokemon week Shiny Aron as the Mystery Gift for this week. A new tradition I started is to give away the runner up from the Mystery Gift pool in a series of giveaways during the week. This week we gave out shiny Beldum. Today I will do another giveaway after 10PM Eastern Time for more Shiny Beldum so stay tuned on my twitter to find out when. Last but not least we increased the Soft Level Cap to 25! This added 37 new moves to the game that your pokemon can now relearn!

The Amazing Breeder, Rock Solid and Slice and Dice!
So the next update v1.37 will bring in more PTD1 to PTD2 transfers this time one of the most requested pokemon will show up. That pokemon is Ditto! The reason people want Ditto is that Ditto is able to breed with most pokemon especially those that don't have gender like Beldum and Golett. The other pokemon that I'm bringing over is the rock solid Onix and the slice and dicer Scyther! Why those two? Well I think you can figure that out. They both evolve by trading them with the item Metal Coat. Which means the Metal Coat will be available in the game. This time it will be different, instead of it just showing up in the item store you will have to find them hidden in the game then once you find the item, they will be unlocked to buy in the item store.

Story Level
I have been recently been focusing on  adding new pokemon to the game and adding new attacks. That is still my focus but I have to agree that it has been a while since we had some story action. This level will have the gang finally head over to the Ruins of Alph after your encounter with the Unown. What secrets will you discover and why where the Unown grabbing the stones away? Maybe we will find out!

Mystery Gift
Like every week we will have a Mystery Gift. So far it looks like Ice type is winning but let's see if somehow things change. Like last week we will also have the runner up pokemon giveaways. I'm aware that people that created multiple accounts can receive a giveaway pokemon for each account. I'm going to look into ways where I can limit that. Also I'll try to do the giveaways at different times so that people in different time zones can have a chance at getting them. Some have mentioned to have the giveaway available for a whole day but I think that will greatly reduce the value of the giveaway. Lastly some of you have mentioned adding the giveaways in the adoption center and I believe I will slowly add them starting this week with Luvdisc.

Cosmoids UI and Move Types
Didn't get a whole lot of work done on Cosmoids. The soft level cap increase took a lot longer than I expected so I didn't get that much time. This week I'm going to focus on smaller more specific goals so that I can tackle them much easier. A big thing about Cosmoids that we are planning to do is to only allow you to have one creature out at a time. Meaning you will always have your characters tower plus one creature. You can swap at any time to a different creature. So this week I will be setting up that functionality in the early alpha and seeing how it plays out. Sometimes when you are making games you really have to build your idea out before you can say for sure if it is good or not and I think this is one of those cases. The other thing I want to work on for Cosmoids this week is a new type of move type. This move type will have you dragging the attack to the spot you want the attack to happen. Your character will have an attack like this with a long cooldown.

Weekly Progress
Now that we have looked at what we will be working on this week, let's take a look at the specifics. I will be updating this during the week as I work on it all week.

Status: Not Working.

Cosmoids

• Swap Mechanic UI and Functionality (100%)
• New Move Type (0%) - Targeted move

PTD2 v1.37.1 Released!

• Mystery Gift (100%)

PTD2 v1.37 Released!

• PTD1 to PTD2 Transfers (100%)
• Story Level (100%)
• Intro (100%)
• Level Layout (100%)
• Waves (100%)
• Ending (100%)
• New Attack (100%) - Fireball
• New Enemy Pokemon (100%) 
• Made it easier for big pokemon to fit into spots that are close to other spots (100%)
• Fixed a bug that would not allow you to transform into an Unown either by Illusion, Transform or Imposter (100%)
• Metal Coat (100%) - You have to find the item in one of the maps before it is unlocked in the Pokemon Center's Item Store.
• Fix how Genderless is shown in game (100%) 
• Testing new attacks and abilities (100%)
• Ditto Breeding Rules (100%)
• New Pokemon (100%)
• Graphics (100%)
• New Abilities (100%)
• Thick Fat (100%)
• Oblivious (100%)
• Moody (100%)
• Technician (100%)
• Limber (100%)
• Impostor (100%)
• New Attacks (100%)
• Powder Snow (100%)
• Encore (100%)
• Ice Ball (100%)
• Body Slam (100%)
• Aurora Beam (100%)
• Vacuum Wave (100%)
• Bullet Punch (100%)
• Transform (100%) 
• Stats (100%)
• Evolutions (100%)
• Add to Trading Center (100%)
• Add to Breeding Center (100%)

That's what we have for you this week. As always let me know what you think in the comments below or toss me an email at sam@sndgames.com or if you want to message Dan email dan@sndgames.com!

Cosmoids Early Alpha is out! Funding Phase 3! PTD 2 updates!

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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Blog updates
I want to apologize for not having blog updates the last few weeks. As my wedding get near things start to get hectic and I have less and less time to sit down and work and so by not doing blog post I saved those precious hours, however things seemed to have calmed down a bit and so I plan to continue with blog updates every week like before. There is much to talk about.

Fundraiser lives on!
The fundraiser is alive and kicking. The last few weeks I made it a point to add new ways for you to donate and the fundraiser has gained dramatically from this. If you haven't heard about the fundraiser basically we are asking you guys to help us keep making PTD2 and Cosmoids while giving out great prizes. Some of the prizes include access to the Cosmoids Early Alpha, Shiny Rayquaza and Cosmoids Starters for your PTD2 account. Instead of going over every detail here on the blog we have made a page exclusively for the funding. You can find it here. Check it out, if you feel like we deserve to stay alive making games then give us a little help.

Phase 3 of the Fundraiser
Today we start Phase 3 of the fundraiser. What does it mean? NEW PRIZES! For funding $10 or more you will receive in the near future your choice of one of the 3 starters from Cosmoids (you can check them out in the Early Alpha). You will get to pick your favorite and they will stats and move set similar to other starters in pokemon. They won't however evolve right away since we don't have the graphics done for the evolutions. You will also receive 2 of the one that you choose so that you can trade it with somebody. Lastly if you are wondering they will not be able to breed with each other or with any other pokemon.

Cosmoids Early Alpha Released
I'm super excited to announce that for those who funded us any amount now have access to the Cosmoids Early Alpha. If you don't have access and would like to check it out it is very simple. Go to the Pokemon Center's Funding Rewards page and watch a video ad to fund a few cents to us and get access.

Okay so now that you checked it out I wanted to talk about a couple of things that you might have noticed. First of a lot of the graphics are not final and some are close to final. Mostly everything is not final except for the creature units. Those are pretty close to the final graphic besides a few tweaks on size and some minor details. Another huge thing is that there is a lot missing. The UI which is always important is not set up yet.

So you might ask what is the point then? Well there are plenty of points. What I want you to check out is that you can put units in any spot on the map, units have different ranges depending on the attack they are doing. Also unit's attack speed will be based around the base speed of the creature. In PTD I always wanted to do that so that electric pokemon would attack very fast and slow pokemon like slowpoke etc would have a long time between attacks. The problem with pokemon is that attack stats are not balanced around speed since speed in pokemon only means who gets to go first. For cosmoids I do want the base speed to affect attack speed and so we will be balancing around that. In the alpha you can see that the chameleon has a high attack speed but doesn't inflict as much damage. While the koala has a lower attack speed but does more damage per hit. All the numbers still need to be tweaked so the balance is not there yet but it should show a little of what I want to accomplish for this game which is...

Cosmoid Creatures should feel different from one another
I think long and hard about the games that I'm making. On one hand I have PTD a game that I have already established so I don't want to add too much or remove things. Then on the other hand I have Cosmoids which is something new. I don't have anything that tells me how the stats should work or what levels and creatures I need to have. This is both a curse and a blessing. Mostly a blessing in my eyes. So I started to think about what Cosmoids is about and in the same thought what is PTD about. Is the whole point of the game to just capture all your favorite creatures? Do you just set a unit down and watch it all unfold? I thought a lot about it and came to some conclusions, but most importantly I came to the conclusions as to what I wanted the game to be about. I want the game to be about you discovering new creatures, trying them out in battle and picking the ones that suit your playstyle and taste and using them to beat the challenges that I lay in front of you. Using the combination of attack speed, attack ranges, defense, hp and attack stats to create very unique creatures that all play a little differently. I hope that the alpha can give you a little sense of how I want to make each creature feel a little different.

Pokemon Tower Defense 2 updates!
Many of you know that I've always wanted to make a Pokemon MMO but obviously I would need the copyright to make it happen. Cosmoids is a way to creature my own original creatures so that I can still make a creature MMO in my lifetime. Cosmoids is very important to the future of Sam & Dan Games cause it make it our first truly original game that we distribute to any place we want. Steam, Android, Appstore etc. So in many ways Cosmoids is going to get a lot of my attention from here on out. That doesn't mean that I'm not going to be working on PTD2. I will continue to do updates for PTD2 but with a slight change in focus.

My focus now is more on getting more attacks and more creatures into the game each week. You might have noticed I'm doing giveaways the last few weeks starting with Luvdisc and then Litwick. These particular giveaways are a sort of experiment. I'm curious to see if eventually these 2 will be common among users as more and more are breed. Luvdisc will take longer in my opinion because right now it can only breed with itself. Another way I'm adding more pokemon is by starting to allow PTD1 transfers over to PTD2. Each week I want to add at least 3 new families that will be able to transfer. Also I want to reach the mighty level 100 soft cap so that most of the attacks are added in the game and will make transferring from PTD1 and adding new creatures faster as more attacks are added. Also this week I'm adding the Dusk Stone and the Reaper's Cloth so that you can evolve your recently new Ghost Pokemon. The story mode is still very important to me and even 1v1 is important. But these take a lot of time to create, this week I won't be doing a story mode level but next week I will.

So let's look at what I will be working on this week.

Weekly Progess

PTD2 Alpha v1.36.1 Released!

• Mystery Gift (100%) 

 PTD2 Alpha v1.36.1 Released!

• Testing! (100%) - Super Important to test out things before I hand it over to you guys. 
• Bug Fixes (100%)
• Rough Skin Fix (100%)
• Flame Burst AOE Fix (100%)
• New Evolution Items (100%)
• Reaper's Cloth (100%)
• Dusk Stone (100%)
•  PTD1 to PTD2 Transfers (100%) - Pikachu, Sandshrew, Nidoran Female and Nidoran Male Families
• Soft Level Cap Increase to 25 (100%) - 37 New Moves!
• Mirror Move (100%)
• Roar (100%)
• Mega Punch (100%)
• Stockpile (100%)
• Swallow (100%)
• Spit Up (100%)
• Sweet Scent (100%)
• Horn Attack (100%)
• Thunder Fang (100%)
• Fire Fang (100%)
• Rock Blast (100%)
• Baton Pass (100%)
• Cross Poison (100%)
• Water Pulse (100%)
• Protect (100%)
• Crush Claw (100%)
• Amnesia (100%)
• Chip Away (100%)
• Assurance (100%)
• Psybeam (100%)
• Metal Sound (100%)
• Dual Chop (100%)
• Imprison (100%)
• Toxic Spikes (100%)
• Silver Wind (100%)
• FeatherDance (100%)
• Air Cutter (100%)
• Smack Down (100%)
• Bulldoze (100%)
• Steamroller (100%)
• Echoed Voice (100%)
• Refresh (100%)
• Torment (100%)
• Swagger (100%)
• Revenge (100%)
• False Swipe (100%)
• Slash (100%)
• New Pokemon (100%) - Pichu, Dusknoir, Chandelure, Aron, Beldum
• Graphics (100%)
• Stats (100%)
• New Attacks (100%)
• Electro Ball (100%)
• Nasty Plot (100%)
• ThunderBolt (100%)
• Magnet Rise (100%)
• New Abilities (100%)
• Heavy Metal (100%)
• Light Metal (100%)
• Clear Body (100%)
•  Evolutions (100%)
• Add to Breeding Center (100%)
• Add to Trading Center (100%)

That was a lot to read! Thanks for sticking with us and let's make Cosmoids the best that it can be! As always let me know what you think!

Friendship and Happiness! Evolution Stones, Unown Problem 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!

Welcome to the Sam & Dan Games Developer Blog! Let's begin!

Fundraiser Continues!
The fundraiser continues on this week, the first 1% took a loooong time but the second % took only 3 days, maybe things are picking up, only 98 more to go! Let's look at more information for the fundraiser, if you already read it then feel free to skip ahead since I didn't add anything new this week. This is mainly for those who haven't read anything on it and to remind you that we are still doing this. :)

Sam & Dan Games: Fundraiser! Phase 2
Our Goal: $50,000
Raised so far: $2,700.84
Percentage so far: 5.401%
Total Funders so far: 2834 (Number drastically increased due to new ways to donate!)
Last updated: 2/20/13 (5:44 PM EST)

What is this fundraiser about?

Dan and I love making games and we want to continue to make them. If you are reading this then I suspect you have enjoyed PTD and PTD2 quite a bit. Right now Dan has another full time job since we don't make enough to support him. I work full time on the games, relying heavily on ad revenue from the trading center/blog and a part of the SnD coin sales. While those sources provide some help they are far from steady. If ads and sales go down it could potentially lead to me having to stop making games or spend considerably less time working on them. Meaning less updates for you guys. We really don't want it to get to that point so we decided to humble ourselves and ask you, the fans, for help.

The 50k amount might seem like a lot but in reality it is the bare minimum we need to be able to keep working on games for the rest of this year.

Do I get anything for funding?

Yes! Absolutely! We always want to reward our fans when they give to us. Like I mentioned before on a previous blog we will have many prizes for those that donate to us. Some of the prizes include:

• Cosmoids Creatures for your PTD2 account
• Shiny Legendary Pokemon only available to people who help us fund
• Special Exclusive Creature for Cosmoids
• Special Titles for your Trading Account
• Access to the early Alpha version of Cosmoids

The current announced prizes are the following:

• Donate any amount - Access to the Early Alpha Version of Cosmoids with Sam's Graphics
• Just for donating you will get a code that will let you play Cosmoids and give feedback on the game before anybody else. Note: The Early Alpha Version is not released yet.
• Donate $5 or more - Shiny Legendary Rayquaza for your PTD2 account + Previous Prize
• You will get 2 Shiny Rayquaza for your ptd2 account. Note: These will be given out next week.

What is are the Phases?
Since we are constantly working on updates for you guys we have to take everything we do little by little. So the funding will have different phases.

Each phase will come when new prizes are announced. Regardless of when you donate if you have donated enough to qualify for a prize you will receive it once the prize is available.

Sounds good! I want to support you guys, how do I do it?
Thank you! To support us just click on the donate amount below and enter the amount you wish to donate. We will send you the activation code for your donation in an email.

Is there a way to donate without needing a credit credit card?
Yes! You can now watch a short video to donate a few cents and get access to the rewards. You can also complete free offers and surveys to donate. Go to the Pokemon Center's Funding Rewards page to watch the video or complete the offers.

Questions?
If you have any questions at all, email me at support@sndgames.com

Common Questions:

• What if my paypal email is different from my PTD2 email? How will I get the prizes to my PTD2 account?
• Easy! When you make a donation we will reply with a code to your paypal email. On your PTD2 email you can use the code in the near future to activate your prizes. So the paypal email does NOT need to match your ptd email since you will just need the code itself.
• It has been more than 24 hours since my donation but I haven't received any emails?
• First check your Junk Folder for any emails from us. Second if you have nothing on your Junk Folder or you accidentally deleted it then email us at sam@sndgames.com with your paypal email and we will get you your code.

Please allow us up to 24 Hours to process your donation. Cosmoids Early Alpha will begin next week. Hold on to your codes until then. If you haven't received your code and it has been more than 24 hours then check your Junk Folder for the email. Also add orders@sndgames.com to your contacts so that it won't enter your junk folder.

Friendship and Happiness!
One of the most requested things to add to the game is a way to evolve pokemon that need a high friendship value to evolve. This week I hope to bring that into the game.The way I will implement it is that you can buy a friendship item in the pokemon center using snd coins or daily coins to increase their happiness. Once their happiness is high enough you can evolve that pokemon without having to level up!


Evolution Stones
Just like happiness it's time to add in Evolution Stones. These will also be acquired using daily coins or snd coins.


New Daily Coin Activity
Because we are adding new items to buy with daily coins we will be adding at least one new daily coin activity that you can do to earn your daily coins. I don't have the exact details of it figured out yet but I will talk about it more as the week progresses.


An Unown Problem and a Hidden Power Solution
So Story wise on PTD2 the next spot is the Ruins of Alph which feature the mysterious Unown pokemon. In the original games you would have an Unown for every letter in the alphabet and for ! and ?. The way PTD2 is coded does not support having these different forms so I run into the problem of how I'm going to do it. Unown also learn only one attack called Hidden Power. This move changes depending on the Individual Values of your Pokemon. IV is something that I don't have in PTD2 either. So here I am with two things that don't really fit what I have here. One solution is to add these features into the game but that will take a long time and it's not something I had planned to do. So instead I came up with my own solution. Many might not like it but it is how it's going to be.


So basically the solution is that your Unown will not have a specific form. His form will be randomize every time you play the game. So when you log in the Unown will pick a random letter and become that form while you are playing. Next time you log in it will again randomly pick which form. The same thing will happen with the move Hidden Power. It will change it's type and attack power randomly when you start a battle. So every battle you could get a different type and power but once the battle is going it will stay the same.

Mystery Gift Shelmet
Last week you guys choose Karrablast as your Bug Mystery Gift but as many of you know and mentioned you need Shelmet to make Karrablast evolve. So this week we will get Shelmet and evolutions will be possible! All rejoice!

Funder's prize Shiny Rayquaza
So Rayquaza won the poll and this week I will work on giving those out at the end of the week. Stay tuned! 

Cosmoids Evolution
Cosmoids is still under development, I think when I say something like that a lot of you might imagine me and our artist putting many hours into it but the reality is that there aren't enough hours in the day to really give each project a lot of time. The development that is happening for Cosmoids are different conversations about how the game should play. What changes do we want to make from the PTD formula? How should we present changing moves during a battle? Talking to artist about needing a specific designs, getting updates about their progress. The actual work going on is me making some graphics and starting to put together the basic programming for the game that will be the foundation for the project. There is so much to do but so little time, especially when I'm working on PTD2.

Other ways to donate
UPDATE: You can now donate by watching a short video ad or completing free offers and surveys. You get access to the Cosmoids Alpha once that is released and you can eventually accumulate enough to earn other rewards.Go the the Pokemon Center's Funding Rewards page to watch them or complete the offers.


So let's look at the specifics for this week!


Weekly Progress
My Status: Not Working.

PTD 2 Alpha v1.34.1 Released!

• Mystery Gift- Shelmet!
• Added Shelmet and Karrablast Evolution when traded for eachother

PTD2 v1.34 Released!

• New Pokemon
• Graphics
• Stats
• Move List
• Evolutions
• Add to Breeding Center
• Add to Trading Center
• New Attacks
• Dark Pulse
• Detect
• Metal Claw
• Bone Rush
• DoubleSlap
• Bide
• Struggle Bug
• Mega Drain
• Hidden Power
• Acid Spray
• Double Team
• Quick Guard
• Twister
• Crunch
• Hyper Voice
• New Abilities
• Justified
• Hydration
• Overcoat
• Sticky Hold
• Air Lock
• Fixed 1v1 Ekans Battle
• New Story Level
• New Map
• Ruins Of Alph Outside
• Ruins Of Alph Inside
• Battle Layout
• Unown Map
• Police Map
• Battle Waves
• Unown Map
• Police Map
• Testing New Moves and Pokemon
• New Daily Activity - Breed a pokemon!
• Friendship
• Implementing item in-game
• Implementing in Pokemon Center - Item Store
• Evolution Stones
• Implementing item in-game
• Implementing in Pokemon Center - Item Store

Cosmoids PreAlpha v0.01 Progress

•  Level 1 (0%)
• Graphics (0%)
• Backgrounds (60%) 
• Title Screen (100%)
• Authentication Screen (0%)
• Room (100%) - Movie Scene
• Island (100%) - Movie Scene
• Level 1 (0%) - Island Path Area
• Units (100%)
• Boy (100%)
• Caterpillar (100%)
• Moth (100%)
• Man (100%)
• Attacks (0%)
• Bug Repellant Bomb (0%)
• Programming (30%)
• Framework (100%) - Basic code that handles changing screens, adding popups, mouse clicks, keyboard input and running the game.
• Title Screen (100%)
• Authentication Screen (0%)
• Movie Scenes (100%)
• Tutorial (0%)
• Level 1 (0%)
• Attacks (0%)
• Bug Repellant Bomb (0%)
• Tiny Bites (0%)
• Waves (0%)
• Win Screen (0%)
• Lose Screen (0%)
• Pre-Level Information screen (0%)

So that's what we have coming this week! Keep checking back to see how I'm doing during the week! Thanks for coming! As always let me know what you think!

Best Brower Defense game of 2012! Fundraiser continues, other ways to donate! Soft level cap to 20!

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 & Dan Games Developer Blog! This is a really late blog post this week. Like every week I was very busy but I did get some things done which is good. First of all let's talk about how great you guys are.

PTD 1 was voted BEST Browser Defense game for 2012!
We couldn't have done it without you guys voting for us! We really appreciate it! For those of you asking you don't really win anything for this but it is an honor to be recognized :)

Fundraiser
The fundraiser is still ongoing and will be around for a while. The good thing about doing this on the blog instead of a site like Kickstarter or Indiegogo is that we don't have a strict deadline. That is not to say that we won't bring our funding to Kickstarter at some point, just right now isn't the right time for us. The funding has been picking up, mainly due to the Shiny Legendary prize that I recently indirectly announced with the poll above. We passed the 1% point which I'm happy about, on to the next percentage :) With the new prize announced this also means we are in phase 2 of the funding. Each new prize will mean a new phase. The phases just means that there are new prizes yet to be announced. So let's look at some info!

Other ways to donate
Many of you have mentioned that you don't own credit cards or that you don't have money to donate but would still like to help out and get some prizes. Well I stumbled about a potential way to make this happen. Pretty soon I will be able to offer a way that you can watch an advertisement video and in return I get tiny amount of money (usually 1 cent or less) that I will count as a donation from you. Granted to reach $5 or more it will take a lot of video watching and time but at least you will be able to get access to the early alpha and help us get closer to our funding goals. I will also use this as a way to get daily coins and possible other items for the games such as berries or tms. It's a way that you can help us keep going while only spending a few minutes of your time.
 
Still working on Cosmoids

I honestly barely got any work done on cosmoids last week. The most I've been able to do is make some story scenes for the beginning of the game. Game development is not easy, it has a lot to do with momentum. You want to get the ball rolling on a project and then it becomes much easier to keep going on it. On the other hand I don't want to rush this project just to meet my own deadlines. Deadlines are important to help push a project but if you have to sacrifice the quality for it then it might not be worth sticking to those deadlines. There was a saying "A delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is forever bad."

Pokemon Tower Defense 2

This week for PTD2 we have the soft cap level raised to 20. Incase you don't know the soft level cap is the level in which pokemon will stop learning new moves. For the pokemon that we have in the game so far including Karrablast it took 27 new moves to reach this level cap. I did a giant list and to go from 20 to 100 it would be 172 new moves. It would take a long time for the soft cap to reach 100 and that would also mean that there would be no new levels to play. With developing PTD2 the way I am and with you guys being able to play the game at this point I can't just focus on one area in the game and push that all the way through. For example if I continued the story levels but didn't add to the soft cap we wouldn't have great moves to pick from. If I just added 1v1 levels then you would never be able to catch any new pokemon. It is a tricky balance. 

Like Cosmoids I didn't get to look at any of the bug fixes this week. They are still in my radar but I'm not sure exactly when I will be able to take care of them.

Weekly Progress

My Status: Not Working.

Cosmoids: The Legend of the Wish Maker

Early Alpha v.001 Progress

•  Level 1 (0%)
• Graphics (0%)
• Backgrounds (60%) 
• Title Screen (100%)
• Authentication Screen (0%)
• Room (100%) - Movie Scene
• Island (100%) - Movie Scene
• Level 1 (0%) - Island Path Area
• Units (100%)
• Boy (100%)
• Caterpillar (100%)
• Moth (100%)
• Man (100%)
• Attacks (0%)
• Bug Repellant Bomb (0%)
• Programming (30%)
• Framework (100%) - Basic code that handles changing screens, adding popups, mouse clicks, keyboard input and running the game.
• Title Screen (100%)
• Authentication Screen (0%)
• Movie Scenes (100%)
• Tutorial (0%)
• Level 1 (0%)
• Attacks (0%)
• Bug Repellant Bomb (0%)
• Tiny Bites (0%)
• Waves (0%)
• Win Screen (0%)
• Lose Screen (0%)
• Pre-Level Information screen (0%)

PTD2 Alpha v1.33.1 Released!

• Mystery Gift
• Change link in game
• Change Graphic in game
• Change Server Code
• Get link and code from sponsor
• Change Blog Links
• New Pokemon - Karrablast

PTD2 Alpha v1.33 Released!

•  Soft Level Cap to 20!
• New Moves
• Whirlwind
• Wing Attack
• Aerial Ace
• Round
• Flame Wheel
• Copycat
• Faint Attack
• Acupressure
• Razor Shell
• Iron Defense
• Sucker Punch
• Mud Bomb
• Confuse Ray
• Natural Gift
• Follow Me
• Shadow Sneak
• Cotton Spore
• Bullet Seed
• Reversal
• Avalanche
• Swords Dance
• Pluck
• Acid
• Ice Fang
• Magical Leaf
• Sky Attack
• Psychic

  The next blog post will be on monday. As always let me know what you think!