Major changes

• Improved the tutorial/campaign.
  • Increased the size of the very first battle to give new players an idea of how Bot Land can look outside of the tutorial!
  • Cut down on text in many places.
  • Disabled the quick-edit buttons in the first tutorial.
  • Simplified the second tutorial so that players only have to add a single snippet for reflecting.
  • Fixed a critical bug in the tutorials/campaign where exiting wasn't possible.
  • Retrying the second tutorial puts you directly into the scripting view since that's the only place where the user can make a mistake.
  • After 6 seconds of having a tutorial dialog on the screen, the background will become darker so that your attention is drawn to the dialog rather than the rest of the screen.
  • Fixed a Blockly bug where dropdowns would sometimes automatically make a selection as soon as they were opened, which essentially made the campaign unbeatable from mobile devices.

Minor changes

• Guests can now explicitly delete their accounts through the settings menu.
• Clarified parts of the in-game documentation.

[ 2020-01-10 23:11:31 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.