Major changes

• Allowed starting Test Mode with fewer than the maximum number of bots. This should make it easier to run quick tests.
• Tutorial and campaign improvements
  • Shrunk the width of the Arena in A Bag of Chips by 5 tiles.
  • Adjusted flavor text of some missions.
  • Decreased the maximum number of turns from 4000 to 700 for A Bag of Chips so that battles don't take forever to simulate.
  • Added a warning in A Bag of Chips for when you lose due to not having any weapons equipped.
  • Changed wording in Blockly script of The Floor is Lava to make it clearer that you have to attach blocks to the comments, not just place them anywhere.

Minor changes

• Artillery now lists its minimum range (5) in its tooltip.
• Made the Landmines bots in Challenge Mode actually use their Artillery. This should make Challenge Mode ever so slightly harder.
• Stopped asking for guest feedback during tutorial or campaign. This caused way too many bugs. Guests will now be asked for feedback if they've been logged in for at least 8 minutes and go to the battle-log page.
• Expanded hardware details height on desktop from 250px to 300px as long as the window is at least 800px tall.
• Fixed a bug in the second tutorial on mobile where an element was being highlighted that was off-screen.

[ 2019-12-31 23:01:54 CET ] [ Original post ]

Do you like strategy games? Are you a regular human who still hasn't figured out how to move at the speed of light? THEN OH BOY IS BOT LAND THE GAME FOR YOU!

In Bot Land, all of your bots follow scripts (so you can snap your controller in half for all we care). You'll tell your bots how to perform actions ahead of time, that way they don't need a lousy human to control them mid-battle. This allows your bots to fight even while you're offline; they'll protect your CPU against other players' attacks.

Now, let's be honest... you're a great gamer—that's why you're reading this description—but even you might still lose a match or two. That's where replays come in handy. Maybe your opponent cloaked, bypassed your bots, and destroyed your CPU while your own bots were busy calculating prime numbers with a billion digits. You can use that information to improve for next time.

Then, after improving your defense, you can attack other players' CPUs in the same way. Maybe you've got a killer strategy involving LANDMINES or TELEPORTATION or OTHER BOLDED WORDS, the likes of which no one has ever seen before. You finally find the perfect chump on which to unleash this onslaught. They've got measly bots with artillery and shields, so you teleport behind them, misquote a meme, and punch them in their shiny metal backs. You're the top dog-bot now.

And when you win...? Oh, don't even get us started. You'll earn Botcoin, which, through a myriad of steps, roughly translates to fame and fortune in real life (the steps are really just a sense of satisfaction and a profound feeling of "the courage was within me the entire time!"; Botcoin isn't a cryptocurrency). You'll buy new items, make new strategies, teach a wasp bot how to love, ponder whether we're all just living in a simulation, and then look up how to remove wasp-bot stingers from your arm. It's great fun.