Ahoy!! As Erik mentioned in our last update, we've been super-duper-heads-down-focused on finishing up Story Mode Chapter 3 -- our most ambitious update yet -- a multi-stage adventure chock full of fresh new gameplay elements!
And we've set a final date for release! The Story Mode Chapter 3 update will be available on Steam and Itch on...
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Until then, we thought you might appreciate a sneak peek at:
Armor!!
Armor, which will be introduced in chapter 3, covers sections of your body -- stopping blade cuts and breaking apart on impact.
Yes, YOU get to wear it, too!
"But wait...", you might ask. "Can ALL the enemies wear armor?"
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Come visit us at #TwitchCon, & ticket giveaway!
Next month, we will be hosting a live Clone Drone Twitch Mode stream from our booth at TwitchCon 2017! If you'll be there this year, come visit us!! Otherwise, play along online at http://twitch.tv/doborog during the event!
On top of exhibiting the game and Twitch Mode there, Twitch has kindly given us two TwitchCon tickets to give away!!
If you stream Clone Drone's Twitch Mode between now and September 25th and tweet out a clip from playing, you'll have a chance to get one of the tickets!
To participate:
And we'll contact the winners that week! It's a great excuse to try streaming on Twitch, or Clone Drone, for the first time!
Chapter 3 Teaser!
Did you know that we are hard at work on the next installment of Story Mode??
Chapter 3 is slowly taking shape, and we finally have a few images to show you!
Click away if you don't want to know what happens in Chapter 3.
Here we go:
Some highlights:
We're aiming to launch the update in mid-September.
It's taking a bit longer than many of our smaller updates have, in part because we want to create something super cool, but also because Erik (that's me) has a new side project:
(from: https://www.twitch.tv/doborog)
We're having a lot of fun building this update. :)
0.9.1 â The Twitchy Update: Suggest Workshop Levels, Big Stream Support, and Bug Fixes!
Surprise, it's a mini-update!
While Doborog starts in on building Story Mode Chapter 3 (and begins teaching his own clone how to do things), we couldn't help but release our latest batch of Twitch improvements ASAP!
Share Your Workshop Levels With !suggest
Sharing your sweet workshop levels with Twitch streamers used to be a pain -- you had to:
Not good enough!!
Now you can send levels directly to your favorite Twitch streamer! Just type:
!suggest [workshop ID]
and streamers will instantly see:
When accepted, levels will auto-download and become the next level in the rotation. Neat!
To get your workshop level's ID, go to its workshop page and grab the number from the id= part of the URL:
Level Editor: Twitch Spawn Areas and a Raptor Statue!
Tired of Twitch enemies spawning to their deaths or to un-reachable locations on your levels? Now you can configure Twitch spawn areas, so all Twitch enemy spawns on your level will target the areas you set!
What you do: Just drag a few of these areas out, and Twitch enemies will spawn there!
Pro tip: the vertical position of the spawn area is ignored, and spawn positions are found from top-down, so you can put these hints floating above the level if it's more convenient to lay them out like that.
How it works on Twitch: when spawning an enemy, the game will randomly select one of the spawn areas you've laid out, and then randomly select a position within that.
"Remember Me" for Twitch Logins
There's now a handy checkbox to save your Twitch username/auth token! No more fumbling around with your browser and clipboard when trying to connect live on stream.
Twitch "Up Next" and "Spawning Allowed" Notifications
Twitch mode will now tell the audience what level is up next (and if it's from the workshop, a link to the level), and when it's OK to start spawning. Especially on big streams, it used to be hard to know exactly when to begin !spawning to get in before the limit gets hit.
We've included a built-in delay roughly matching the stream delay so it doesn't spoil the outcome of the round you're watching.
Happy !spawning!
Big Stream Throttling & High Traffic Mode
Before this update, Twitch Mode on gigantic streams would usually result in streamers being temporarily global-banned from Twitch chat due to high # of messages the bot would send in a short period of time. đ
With 0.9.1, Twitch mode will queue and throttle messages to keep you under the 80-message-per-30-seconds-in-your-own-channel limit, and when things get busy, enter a high-traffic mode, where:
If you've got a really big stream and still see issues, email us support@doborog.com and we'll figure out how to tweak it to make it work for you! (And if you'd like to be added to our streaming press list for updates as well, let us know!)
Bug Fixes!
C'mon, you know we can't help smashing at least a few bugs!
Go check out some Twitch streams streams, find some cool levels in the workshop and suggest them! And watch for our next post with details on Story Mode Chapter 3, coming late August!
