Pokemon Tower Defense: Weekly Progress for v4.4

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

Progress Report:

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

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

New Pokemon to catch (2) (100%)

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

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

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

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

New Pokemon Evolutions (100%)

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

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

Boy Cubone Avatar

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

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

• Game (100%)
• Pokemon Center (0%)

Top 10 Forum Questions of the Week:

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

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

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

Yes and yes! That is all I will say.

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


Kanto Region!

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Weekly Progress: Why did you make this?, All your Mews are belong to me, and what's coming up next!

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Hey guys! Welcome to another week of Sam and Dan Games and Pokemon Tower Defense! Let's get this show rolling.

First of all a lot of people are confused about this latest update. Why are there generation 2 pokemon? Why can't I keep them? Why are there birds in Route 2? Why can't I use the dogs on the new Gym level? Why are you only giving away 10, it's not fair! Well I'm going to tell you!

Most of my success is going to be dependent on how much fun and enjoyment I can provide you guys. I have to keep you guys excited about the game, provide a good flow of content updates, and I also have to keep the game stable and secure. To make something fun you have to have an element of surprise. People are surprised by unexpected and new things. This update was an attempt to shake things up a little and add some nice but temporary surprises.

Guys I will let you decide the fate of the dogs for this game, please vote on the poll and let your voices be heard. I'm listening.

Think about it, it is better to have legendary dogs and lose them than to never have had them at all. Something like that...Also the birds, they are not meant to be captured, they exist to give the dogs meaning. It also plays into the story, Gary has escaped the birds (see the Vermillion Gym level for details on how) and now the birds are going all over the place to find him.

About the non Generation 1 pokemon, Generation 1 just doesn't have enough legendary pokemon to fit into the story I have in mind.

You can't use the dogs in the new gym level because it would have made the level a lot easier which I obviously didn't want.

About the contest, life is a lot about being in the right place at the right time. Those 10 people just happened to be there and they got the job done. The reason I didn't announce the contest is because I didn't have it planned at all. Still I know a lot of you want a reward for beating such a hard level. So next update I will be changing the hard Vermillion Gym into a challenge mode and the prize will be a new avatar for either boy or girl. The avatar will be your character wearing a mask of either Raikou, Entei, or Suicune. Special Thanks to Forum user KimmyLube for creating these mask! Please vote on the poll to pick which mask should be given out for beating the the challenge level. The other two mask will be given out as part of two new achievements that have to do with the challenge level.

Raikou mask, regular colors for boys, and shiny color for girls

Entei Hat

Suicune Hat

WHERE IS MY MEW???! By the time you are reading this all your Mew will be gone. Let me explain a bit of back story on the situation. There was a time not so long ago that you could duplicate your pokemon and even create pokemon out of thin air! Can you believe it?!?!?! Anyways, I want to make sure that everybody who bought Hero edition or Donated in the past doesn't feel like it was a waste a time since everybody was getting Mew. Since I can't really tell which ones are legit and which ones are not in the old system I have to completely erase them and start again. If you ever donated or bought Ninja-ja Hero edition please send me an email with the subject "Mew Permission" and inside include the email you used to pay with paypal and your account email for the game. I will insert 3 lvl 40 mew intro your trading account that you can pick up for any of your profiles. But Sam I traded for my Mew?! I'm sorry to say that I can't really help you with that since I can't tell if the person that traded you actually owned a legit mew.

Okay so on to the update this week! Here is what I have so far for the update:

• New Story Level (100%)
• Intro (100%)
• Level Layout (100%)
• Level Waves (100%)
• Ending (100%)
• 2 New Pokemon to Capture in the wild (100%)
• Graphics (100%)
• Shiny Graphic (100%)
• New Moves (8) (100%)
• Add pokemon's stats into the game (100%)
• 2 New Evolutions (100%) 
• Shiny Graphic (100%)
• Graphics (100%)
• Add pokemon's stats into the game (100%)
• 1 New Pokemon to trade with an NPC (100%)
• Shiny Graphics (100%)
• Graphics (100%)
• New Moves (4) (100%)
• Add pokemon's stats into the game (100%)

• New Challenge Mode (100%) - Original Vermillion Gym
• Level Cap up to 42 (100%)
• New Moves (6) (100%)
• New TM (100%)
• Substitute
• HM Cut and Flash (100%) 
• Getting the NPC Trade pokemon (100%) 
• Rename the Trading Center to Pokemon Center (100%)
• 2 New Achievements for the New Challenge Level (100%)
• 3 New Avatars (100%) - Raikou, Suicune, and Entei Mask
• Removing Legendary Birds from the levels (100%)
• Removing the boost in experience that was added for the event (100%)
• Removing the boost on shiny encounter rate that was added for the event (100%)
• Popup alert when a shiny or special pokemon (possibly the dogs) shows up on a level (100%)
• Pokemon that evolve by trading will now get their correct nickname if it didn't have a nickname before that. Ex (Kadabra will be correctly called Alakazam once he evolves) (100%)
• The TradeID for your pokemon now shows up in the "Your Request" section on the trading center (100%) Thanks Trevor!
• Adding a Save Confirmation Screen (100%) Thanks Darren! 
• Add an auto-save when pressing the trading button (100%) Thanks Mr!
• Making Story Mode Vermillion Gym level easier (100%)
• Ability to put who you want for a trade when posting a trade (Postponed until sometime this week) 
• Inventory (100%) - View your items and change your avatar, will be similar to the trading center page, meaning on a separate website.
• Search Trades by Account Username (100%) Thanks Drew L.!
• Version Check (100%)
• Bug Fixes (100%)
• Life bar is too big for some pokemon when you first catch them (100%) 
• Trading with the NPC will now give the pokemon the correct nickname (100%)
• Pokemon that evolve and have a default nickname will now get the correct nickname (100%)
• Fixed issues with stopping and starting the music that caused crashes in levels when opening the menu or leveling up and evolving your pokemon (100%)
• Removing Legendary Dogs from the profiles, minus the 10 winners (100%)
• Distribution (90%)

As the week goes by I will keep adding more details to the update, and will be updating with my progress. As always, let me know what you think. I'm listening!

Weekly Progress! Mid-week edition.

Welcome to this week's edition of the Weekly Progress, I'm your host Sam Otero here bringing you the goods! But first a word from our sponsors!

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Okay we are back on air and ready to roll. If you have read my past blogs you will know that right now I'm concentrating on security, so this week's update will be all about that. Unfortunately new content will have to wait while I make the game secure.

But just like last week I will squeeze in a new pokemon hunt along with a new achievement. The pokemon hunt and achievement will be like before the hunt will get you the non shiny version and the achievement will get you the shiny version and also like last week it will be a pokemon that you can't capture in the game currently. I will post a poll with 3 possible achievement challenges and you guys will decide what gets in the game.

Speaking of achievements, I made a change on my achievement server code. Now you can receive the achievement reward 3 times! You only have to do the achievement once for all your profiles but now you get 3 rewards instead of just one. Enjoy! Note: This works right now on v3.1.5, you don't have to wait for the new update to receive the rewards.

Also I wanted to publicly thank a good friend Haplo the owner of Haplo Rp Haven for helping me basically cut out most of the regular and shiny pokemon sprites. Thanks Haplo!

What's coming this weekend:

• Must have an online profile to play. (100%)
• Internet required to log into the profile (100%)
• Auto Saving online (100%) - The game will try to save your profile online at certain points in the game (example: After you quit or finish a level) if you are online the game will save automatically. If you don't have internet at the time the game will show a message asking you to try again or to cancel. Meaning you can play offline but if you don't save at some point and close the game all the progress you made won't be saved. So you have to be online to log in, but you can then play offline until you decide to stop. When you decide to stop go back online and trigger a save. If you are always online on the phone or computer then just play normally.
• Trading Center (Postponed for during the week)
• Transfer between profiles (Postponed for during the week)
• New pokemon for hunt and achievement (100%)
• Graphic (100%)
• Shiny Graphic (100%)
• Add this pokemon's stats to the game (100%)
• New move (1) (100%)

• New Evolution for hunt and achievement pokemon (100%)
• Graphic (100%)
• Shiny Graphic (100%)
• Add this pokemon's stats to the game (100%)

• Add Achievement (100%)
• Distribution (0%)

• Pokemon Tower Health (100%) - You will now notice a health bar on top of your towers. Right now none of the moves in the game will hit your pokemon. So this change really has no real meaning yet. In the future for "Advanced Mode" moves can hit your towers, and moves can heal your towers.
• Bug Fixes
• Making Staryu show up in the pokedex after you evolve it to Starmie (100%)
• Pressing back after selecting a level will now take you to the correct chapter (100%)
• Starmie will now learn the proper TMs (100%)
• Toxic Spikes and Stealth Rock not dissapearing (100%)
  

As always I will be updating this as I work on it during the week. Let me know what you think!