Major changes

• Improved the campaign
  • Simplified I Need a Doctor
    • Cut number of tiles down from 24 18.
    • When you lose, the "Retry" button is now "Edit script" instead.
    • Originally, you had two bots that could shield and only one that could attack, which meant that it could be confusing which bot was doing the shielding and which one was being shielded. Now, there's only one bot that can shield.
  • Simplified A Bag of Chips
    • You don't have to pick a weapon any longer; you're given Missiles lv. 3 by default and you can't edit your blueprint.
    • When you lose the mission, the "Retry" button is now "Edit script".
    • Changed the wording a bit on the mission (e.g. remove a reference to "Blockly", which players may not be familiar with).
  • Simplified In the Shadows
    • Got rid of Zapper since you have Inferno Zapper anyway
    • Made enemies taunt when they take damage
    • Repositioned enemies so that the visit-every-tile strategy is viable
  • We now prompt when you leave a mission with unsaved changes after losing that mission. Also, when you try leaving without losing, it'll prompt you only when you actually have unsaved changes.
• Fixed a bug where Adam's stream wasn't showing in the "Streams" tab in Bot Land when he was developing the game.
• Added a loader to the campaign-victory screen that will show while we're figuring out how much Botcoin to dole out.

[ 2020-01-21 00:57:25 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.