Greetings, fellow Keepers!
This week we are presenting you an important interface boost and a new game mechanic implemented based on your wonderful feedback!
Building Spot Warnings
First of all, it's been a very common case among the players to plan a new Tower on a cell that would be shoot through by the opponent, which resulted in very frustrating wasted turns, with that aforementioned Tower being immediately destroyed before it could even be built. Indeed, this does not feel fair to make a mistake because of not seeing the threat rather than being unable to handle it. So we have added a
UI warning for you whenever a potential building spot is unsafe:

In the picture above, one can see
red cells, which are being under attack. Any Towers placed on those will be destroyed immediately. Besides, there are
yellow cells, that are safe to build on - for the time being, at least. However, at some point in the future, those cells will become red as well, since the threat is there and will eventually reach them. In other words, proceed with caution!
Tower Removal Mode
Ultimately, it's no news for anyone that many matches eventually reach a point of one player being blocked in by the other player's Towers, completely unable to do anything useful due to all the available space being occupied by his very own Towers. As you can imagine, this is not exactly a fun situation to get into. Thus, we decided to provide a comeback mechanic:
Whenever players can not place a new Tower without it immediately destroyed, they are allowed to remove one of their existing Towers to free up the building space.

While it might not sound like a lot, in a match that has been more or less equal for the opponents up until a certain miscalculation, it could become a huge turning point. Also, it's important to always allow for some kind of action, as long as the game feels like it still could be won.
So, with these changes, we aspire to provide you with a pleasant Keep the Keep experience.
If you'd like to test it out in multiplayer mode, welcome to our
Discord Server!
Stay tuned!
Nebulate.me team
[ 2021-09-15 00:03:50 CET ] [ Original post ]