Boss 101
2017.11.29 Video look at Boss 101 himself!
Right here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-7FxjJe-mk
Enjoy and thank you for your support!
-Tim
2017.11.26 Boss 101 Team News and More!
Hello everyone and welcome to the latest Boss 101 Update
Today’s Topics:
- News from the Team
- Videos for you!
News from the Team
We’ve been busy working on some new items in preparation for an announcement we expect to be giving you in the coming weeks. Perhaps even a COUPLE of announcements! This is Boss 101 related stuff folks so it won’t be long till you know!
We’ve also been playtesting and looking for bugs in the game. There’s a planned patch with a few quality of life upgrades and also an asset update which I want to talk about for a moment.
Boss 101 has a LOT of animation assets, close to 4000 if you can believe it. Most of those are Spine .json files. So you might imagine that we have TONS of files across almost four years of development in various versions of Spine. We recently did a huge sweep to update these files and bring them all up to a recent uniform format.
The idea here is we are now in a MUCH better position to fix any problems and also bring Boss 101 to other platforms. Great news for us and great news for you! As a reference we have some files that were about three years old banging around in Boss 101. Most of these were old core systems like the Make a Boss and parts of the UI. The rest were things like environmental art and some super old cinematic assets.
We expect to push this update out soon but first we will be testing to make sure everything works well!
Videos and Reviews for Boss 101
A bunch of new stuff went up this week for you to check out.
First off we have an interview with Indie Game Riot and yours truly (Tim). This was from earlier in the week and it was awesome to talk with Josh again. He has been a supporter from WAY back and we really appreciate his help!
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/203565083
Next we have The_Jaydles with a Boss 101 livestream!
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/203481101
Finally we have DJ Tiger Fox with the next to last video of their Boss 101 complete playthrough
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyogBkSWDCA
Great stuff from all our friends and we do appreciate the looks!
OK – talk with you soon and remember……..
LIVE YOUR DREAMS!
-Tim
Boss 101 Info Roundup
Out now on Steam!
Price: $9.99
Boss 101 Steam Store Page:
2017.11.22 Two New Boss 101 Playthroughs!
Boss 101 Playthroughs
First up is the Boss 101 edition of Indie Game Riot Podcast!
Check it out here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/203565083
Next is a Boss 101 playthrough with The_Jadles on Twitch
Link here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/203481101
More to come and thank you so much for stopping by!
-Tim
Boss 101 Info Roundup
Out now on Steam!
Price: $9.99
Boss 101 Steam Store Page:
Twitch Livestream with Boss 101 dev on Indie Game Riot
https://www.twitch.tv/indiegameriot
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYY!!
Video will be posted afterwards!
-Tim
Boss 101 Livestream with The_Jadles up right now!
YAY!!
https://www.twitch.tv/the_jadles
Enjoy!!!
2017.11.18 Reviews and more for Boss 101
Welcome back to the latest Boss 101 update!
We are still going strong folks and bringing you the latest magic.
We’re a little over two weeks into our Steam release! We have a solid set of positive reviews there and people seem to be enjoying the game. If you haven’t already we recommend you check out the latest and greatest. We have been working to clean up little bugs and issues we and our fans have found. Minor stuff to be sure but all good quality of life improvements.
Upcoming Announcements
Apologies in advance for being coy but we expect to be having some exciting news for you in the coming weeks. While we can’t speak specifically to the announcement at the time sine things are still in motion, we are happy about what’s coming and expect you will be also. Trust us – we’ll be keeping you posted.
Man, look at some of these leaderboard scores on the arcade machine! A few of you are pretty freaking good at our games. Maybe we have to drop back in there and see if we can pass you up. Though looking at the high scores, I don’t think it would be easy to beat any of those!
We have some reviews from friends and fans to share too! A video review and a writeup!
First up is Daniel Weissenberger reviewing Boss 101 for Game Critics. Let’s be frank – Daniel gets it and his review is a great look at our game!
Link to Write up
https://gamecritics.com/daniel-weissenberger/boss-101-review/
Next up is a video look at Boss 101 from Chef Fitaurus. He also really gets the game! One thing we wanted to add here is we added in difficulty settings around the time he posted his review so just remember you CAN adjust Boss 101 to be harder or easier if you like. It’s really up to you!
Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFXXgauAL4A
Ok folks – we have more coming and thank you for all the support. Expect some news from us soon and remember to always – LIVE YOUR DREAMS!
-Tim
Boss 101 Info Roundup
Out now on Steam!
Price: $9.99
Boss 101 Steam Store Page:
2017.11.17 Another Boss 101 Review Up!
Another Boss 101 review up! Daniel Weissenberger sums up Boss 101 really well! Check out his latest
Link: https://gamecritics.com/daniel-weissenberger/boss-101-review/
Boss 101 Info Roundup
Out now on Steam!
Price: $9.99
Boss 101 Steam Store Page:
2017.11.15 Boss 101 Available in your region? It should be!
OK folks - we did a little digging and if Boss 101 isn't available in your region (specifically Poland/Ukraine or a few others) it should be soon. Ideally it's already up or will be in a few hours.
First off - apologies if you had any trouble. We set Boss 101 to be available everywhere at launch. We then double checked things and hit "Go" on November 2nd. As far as we knew then, it was available to all.
After hearing from a few of you we rechecked the regions and just to be safe resubmitted the prices and availability settings. Hopefully that does the trick and you will be able to purchase it now. We'll keep you posted with any news.
From our end we never turned anything 'off' or set restrictions. What we're doing now is making sure the game is up for all.
Thanks again for your support and look forward to hearing what you think!
Best,
-Tim
2017.11.14 Boss 101 Playthroughs and more!
First up is DJ-TigerFox with a fine set of playthroughs, fun commentary and lots of good looks at the game.
Check them out here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ6iHi9fnQ4
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RetromationYT
Then we have Retromation, another set of AWESOME Boss 101 action packed playthroughs with great commentary!
Check them out here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abUaBBRTBm4
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RetromationYT
Boss 101 Info Roundup
Out now on Steam!
Price: $9.99
Boss 101 Steam Store Page:
2017.11.11 Boss 101, our first week and more for you!
What a week!
Boss 101 has been out a week and thank you for everyone who purchased and supported the game. If you haven’t yet got your copy then we have some really good news. Apparently Steam has more copies available for purchase – in fact we understand the amount of copies is near unlimited! That doesn’t mean you can’t rush right over there and get one now. Do it!
Thank you for your support!
We appreciate the letters, comments and reviews for Boss 101. We really are glad many of you are enjoying the game and we are looking forward to bringing you more!
So – what’s been going on SINCE the release?
Well, Boss 101 is still our number one priority and that is what we have been working on! Guess what? We’ve been doing bug fixes and even adding some features!
Difficulty Settings!
Check this out! We added the ability to change your difficulty in Boss 101. If you want you can go EASY to ULTRA now! From our build notes!
From the options panel
Three settings you can change on the fly!
Easy - this is what the game shipped as. All settings are the prior version of Boss 101. Personally speaking this is a good choice if you want to enjoy the story and have some easy fun. It can be challenging at times but more than likely you will have a few relatively easy to beat bosses early.
Normal - This setting has a few thing new. The normal story mode has an adjusted curve where the early bosses hit a little harder and have more hitpoints. The overall scaling ends up at the same point the old game does but the early game is more of a challenge. This mode does rely a lot more on picking a good hat to help you against a boss.
Also - the Endless Boss has a tweaked curve to make it a lot more fun and challenging. I HIGHLY recommended checking out the Arcade Mode. We've been testing it and it's a blast. It only drops level 3 guns now BUT the bosses are much hard and subsequently much more fun.
Ultra - This is things cranked up a bit. The normal story mode is a bit harder than the Normal setting and bosses have more HP and hit harder. Also the scaling ends up way past the normal game. In other words - the level 20-31 bosses are on a new level of tough. Additionally all the status effects (freeze, webbed, etc) last a little longer. Again - hats will help counter these.
This mode also has Endless Boss tweaks and the bosses hit hard in here. Should be fun to use arcade and iron bot if you want to earn some cash for the main campaign.
So we listened folks! We want Boss 101 to be a fun game for you and if there is more we can reasonably do – we will. Mostly we wanted to preserve the game people were enjoying but add things for people who wanted a little (or a lot) more challenge.
Extra adds and fixes
We also did a lot of quality of life fixes. One of our later boss fights got some visual indicators to help players. We did tweaks and tunes to fights and power levels to make things a lot more fun.
Endless Boss
Check this out. We did a bit of reworking to the tuning in this area. Personally I think it’s a LOT more fun and probably closer to the original arcade experience we imagined when we made it! It’s actually tuned to be harder BUT we only give you the most powerful guns in the game now. More power for your blasting!
Some clips from me getting shellacked by a tough boss combo!
Boss 101 Playthroughs with ToborPrime
Two more videos in the series!
Part 5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Znh4_-OvEwE
Part 6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2idcBWJBwE
That’s all for now folks and thank you for being there for us! We’ve got more news and continued support of Boss 101 coming your way! Thank you and remember to always. . .
. . . LIVE YOUR DREAMS!
-Tim
Boss 101 Info Roundup
Out now on Steam!
Price: $9.99
Boss 101 Steam Store Page: