We are so happy to be taking part in Gamescom 2022 (24-28 Aug).

Hi Pilots, We will be taking part in Save&Sound festival! I will be live streaming so there is a chance to talk / ask question. Artur

Good day everyone, First of all, I would like to apologize to every one of you who expected me to be sending my devlog more regularly, shame on me as I realized it has been nearly half a year since my last Dev Diary. These past 5 months have been a mixture of some time off, due to Xmas and Easter, and focusing on implementing new ideas to the Prologue that I really would like to release ASAP. So what have I been doing except for resting, you may ask???

New resources

• Spare parts are used to change mech loadout and repair body parts.
• Credits will allow you to purchase items from orbital trade platforms.
• Experience Points will contribute to the pilot level and will allow you to earn skill points. Skill points are necessary to unlock new skills or update current ones.

Trade platform

Scrapping

New Heat / Stability / Energy HUD

New warnings HUD

Energy - no more action points

Arenas

• Plain deserts.
• Military bases.
• Mines & industrial areas.
• Pirate bases.

A little piece of us One of Rock&Bushes team members is Agnieszka, privately Arturs (developer) wife. She has two jobs:

• First - mom, payment method - love, usually
• Second - marketing support - payment method - real money.

Release notes

Improvments

• GJM-432 Chinese localization

Good day everyone, I'm sorry for double post if you saw previous one, Valve changed my previous post to cross promotion post, which is pretty much hidden. I fixed problems and I'm reposting it as proper news Another 2 months have passed, so time to tell you what was going on in October and November. I have to admit that those 2 months have been very busy, but also very different from each other.

Bug family

• Equipment shop.
• Deck size perks for Mechs frame.
• Pilots archetypes and skills.
• More enemies archetypes.
• New effects, cards and items.
• Reworked action points and heat mechanics.
• New battle arenas.

Pixel Heaven was one of them and took place on October 8-10, 2021 in Warsaw. My indie basement booth was modest, but it was not a very big event, so most of the small exhibitors looked similar to our booth.

PGA 2021 event took place in October (21-23) in Pozna. The route to get there was not easy. We met a sandstorm and driving to Pozna was quite a challenge. Fortunately, we finally managed to arrive in the evening the day before and prepare our booth for the event. I think it turned out pretty well, don't you think? [/olist]
Greetings, Artur

[ 2021-12-03 19:02:51 CET ] [ Original post ]

Good day everyone, Another 2 months have passed, so time to tell you what was going on in October and November. I have to admit that those 2 months have been very busy, but also very different from each other.

Bug family

• Equipment shop.
• Deck size perks for Mechs frame.
• Pilots archetypes and skills.
• More enemies archetypes.
• New effects, cards and items.
• Reworked action points and heat mechanics.
• New battle arenas.

Wishlist free prologue now!

Pixel Heaven was one of them and took place on October 8-10, 2021 in Warsaw. My indie basement booth was modest, but it was not a very big event, so most of the small exhibitors looked similar to our booth.

PGA 2021 event took place in October (21-23) in Pozna. The route to get there was not easy. We met a sandstorm and driving to Pozna was quite a challenge. Fortunately, we finally managed to arrive in the evening the day before and prepare our booth for the event. I think it turned out pretty well, don't you think? [/olist]
Greetings, Artur

[ 2021-12-02 10:46:13 CET ] [ Original post ]

We just game back from PGA in Pozna, first big physical event since ancient times. Big thanks to all that tried our demo on the site or stopped to chat! I will be live-streaming at 14:00 CEST today, a new demo build with some tweaks to UI. Please jump in and provide feedback! Dev.Play 2021 conference also started today where I will be showcasing our demo!

Please also vote for Jupiter Moons: Mecha for Most Popular Game on Dev.Play conference: Vote Form

Tabletop Fest RE-BROADCAST 2021

TableTop Fest RE-BROADCAST 2021

Release notes

Bug

• GJM-415 Card draw bad sync can cause "Collection was modified; enumeration operation may not execute."
• GJM-414 Card can be played twice accidentally? (double drag or something)
• GJM-413 Player should properly die in the inventory screen, battle hangs when this happens
• GJM-412 Dragging card when battle or turn ends, don't clear drag status
• GJM-411 Card can stay in hand and cause phantom movements (cancel when battle ends or turn ends)
• GJM-410 Item tooltips sometimes don't hide when taking loot
• GJM-407 Item can hang when you try to equip it - disabled limb?
• GJM-406 Card can hang when you try to play them
• GJM-404 When cards are queued to play, they will be cancelled when battle ends but are not properly discarded
• GJM-257 If you draw cards, in same moment as End turn than cards will not be discarded properly

Demo update 2021-10-04 - new enemy: small spider & big spider, - new tooltips and card descriptions, - new tactics card, - mech selection - preview, you can only play default mech frame

Hello, my dearest followers, It's about time to share the latest news about August/Septembers work, events, and everything else that has happened to JMM. In the coming weeks, I will release two demo updates. The first one will focus mostly on the quality of life changes like additional tooltips, text updates, and some bug fixes. A second larger update will introduce new mechanics and more varied enemies. When the second demo update is out, we will start preparing for beta release for free Prologue, you should expect closed beta signups for prologue around November. Details of the changes. New and improved tooltips

• Cards - explanation of keywords and mechanics,
• Statuses - explanation of statuses that affects player and enemies,
• Intentions - you will get a full breakdown of enemies' actions, including the body part from which enemy action is coming from.
• Body parts stats - full details stats for each body part on player and enemy mechs.

Gamescom RE-BROADCAST

Gamescom RE-BROADCAST

Gamescom RE-BROADCAST

Gamescom live stream

Gamescom live stream

Hello folks, This year's August is full of great opportunities for Indiedevs like me.

Tiny Teams has been so great!

Gamescom & IGN

Indie cup

Hello everyone again, I have not realized that it has been 2 months since my last devlog, my deepest apologies! I'll try not to let it happen again, I promise! So let me show you what I have been working on during this time and what is going to happen in August: [olist]

Mech selection screen - this new feature will allow the player to see a preview of his/her mech as a wireframe. The base of the mech is a frame, and afterward there will be a selection of armaments to choose from. Take a look at the gif below, I am still improving some details, but more or less that will look like this.

DreamHack Beyond took place from Jul 24th to Jul 31st of 2021 and Jupiter Moons: Mecha took part in it.
This festival was pretty successful in terms of collecting new wishlists on Steam, as they increased by 1,300! In this place I would like to thank all of you who wishlisted my game during this event and not only, of course, I am so happy because my game has recently crossed the magical line of 10k wishlists, yey!

Tiny Teams - another great event that my game has managed to join. This will be a week-long celebration of some fantastic games made by micro studios such as Rock&Bushes. I hope this festival will support my game to raise its awareness among fans of roguelike deckbuilders as The Prologue is about to be released very soon! [url=https://www.yogscast.games/tiny-teams]
[/olist] Hope to see you there! Artur

[ 2021-08-06 14:04:25 CET ] [ Original post ]

Update from Developer - June

• French
• German
• Spanish - Spain
• Japanese
• Korean
• Polish
• Russian
• Simplified Chinese
• Portuguese - Brazil

We took part in Indie Expo 2021 - https://store.steampowered.com/sale/indieliveexpo2021 [/olist] Last but not least, we also continued working on the campaign map, here is how it looks at the moment:
If you find any mistakes or better expressions to use in our localizations, you are very welcome to share them with us, so that the game meets your expectations! We want YOU players to be happy, keep it in mind! steamhappy Please join our Discord to provide feedback to localization: [url=https://discord.gg/sHNysXG]

[ 2021-06-07 13:56:36 CET ] [ Original post ]

News from Developer - May

Please remember to wishlist both, our prologue and main game:

If you have any suggestions, please feel free to tell us about them.

This time the dev diary is later than usual. Unfortunately, not much progress has been made with the game in March. We mostly worked on the graphic side of things. I hope next I will be able to show more new features we are working on, like the campaign map. Let me introduce you to the new Mech line: Gendai Spec. Those are Mech that specializes in surprise attacks, covered operations, and stealth. They are equipped with melee weapons but one of Gendai's frames supports sniper rifles. We have discord, join us for some exclusive development news!

The first one is Shadow, and his cloak animation.

Blade master. Mech frame equipped with an energy blade.

Death Archangel. Mech frame with wings for a glider surprise attack and energy whip.

Eagle Eye. Support Mech frame that stays hidden until the target is engaged and exposed.

Grim Reaper. Heavy frame, that can withstand prolonged melee combat.

Meet your new nemesis, knights of Furry Kingdom!

Pilots!

Emergency broadcast

Jupiter Moons: Mecha - March Developer Update

Dear Steam Players, The February Festival has been an amazing experience for our upcoming project. steamhappy We have released demo of Jupiter Moons: Mecha - Prologue and we would like to say a BIG THANK YOU to all of you, who have downloaded and played it. Here is what Steam statistics say:
So now, being so motivated by you, we continue the hard work to release the full version of the Jupiter Moons: Mecha. Lets keep our fingers crossed for success! Best regards, JM:M Team

Demo

Jupiter Moons: Mecha Devblog January Let me start by saying Happy New Year! I hope you all had a wonderful holiday period and took some time to relax. While I did manage to squeeze in needed family time, I was also continuing with work on the Jupiter Moon: Mecha demo, which is nearly here (I know, I say that every month). Throughout December I focused a lot on the (boring) back-end of the game, which isnt the most exciting but is extremely important. This mainly included finding and patching bugs that kept popping up with the addition of new content. On the visual front, I managed to get some UI work done (the start screen (below) is now in the game), item tool-tips, a game over screen, and some design work on the nano corrupted arenas youll be fighting in.
Battles need a worthy arena A few months back I shared the random arena generator, which is working really well. However, as you venture through the story of Jupiter Moons: Mecha I wanted the growing presence of the corrupted mechs to become apparent. For this, I decided to manipulate all the current arenas to become corrupt. You can see a preview of the new nano corrupted arenas below.
A Powerful mech deserves some powerful items In December I shared the new post-battle reward screen where youll be received powerful items. I spent the last month updating these items and making them more cohesive with my final vision of the game. The balance of the items will no doubt change once the demo is available and I can see whats potentially too powerful or slightly underwhelming. Heres a shot of all the items currently in the game.
So, how far away is the demo? As I keep saying, the demo is nearly ready. I want to be transparent with you and let you know exactly whats missing, which is what Im going to be focusing on in January and February. At its core, the demo build needs more content, mainly in the form of campaign generators. This will allow the demo to offer a scaling difficulty with progression, cards and items that scale with rarity, and an increase in the variety of post-battle rewards. Included in my more content list is also the addition of 3-4 more card mechanics. I would love to introduce a new card type for every 5 minutes of gameplay, with the whole demo aiming for a 20-25 minutes play through. Finally, the demo needs a shop. This will not reflect the shop in the final game, but, as I write this, any currency earned in the demo is about as useful as a destroyed corrupt mech! The in-game shop will provide a little bit of variety to playthroughs, allowing you to experiment with different items and mech builds. Its pretty safe to say that not all of this will be done before February. Ive had an overwhelming number of offers to test the game/alpha demo. Its possible I have an alpha build ready very soon, but this will be missing some of the features mentioned above. Once again, I want to take a moment to say a massive thank you to everyone who has read this/these developer blogs, interacted with me in Discord, shared any of my content on social media, or even shown an interest in Jupiter Moons: Mecha. The progress I made as a game developer in 2020 was amazing, and a big part of that was down to knowing people are interested in Jupiter Moons: Mecha. I hope you all have a wonderful start to the year. Take care, Artur

To all Mecha fans out there. Ho ho ho, Mecha Christmas!

Hello pilots!

Updated items and weapon graphics

Full gameplay loop...it works!

Its really starting to look like a game!

Whats next?

Consider joining our Discord for some bonus wallpaper pack!

Update progress

Arena generator

Rewards UI

Inventory

Battle mechanics

Heat

Stability

Shields

Final thoughts

Hey everyone, What a month it has been for Jupiter Moons: Mecha! Throughout August I have been working hard with Wojtek Krolik (JM:Ms freelance artist and animator) to pave the way for future game development. This months focus was mainly on sprite design and cleaning up animations.

Our new animations are explosive!

Im a REAL mech now

Full speed to Ganymede!

Introduction

Story

Art

Corrupted Mechs

Alient artifacts concepts

Corrupted environment

Introduction

Body parts and damage

General rules

• Each Mech body parts has it's own health and armor pool.
• Mech has a global health pool. Mech is destroyed when global health is 0.
• Armor behaves like bonus health. Each damage lowers armor by damage amount on the given body part.
• Armor regenerates after battle. Health needs to be "healed" by spending resources in the Mech workshop.
• When body part armor is 0 then all damage to this body part lowers both body part health pool and global Mech health pool.
• If body part health is 0 then the body part is disabled. All items placed on this body part stop working. Cards are disabled and are dead weight in your deck.
• If Mech has more than 50% body parts disabled than it is destroyed even if global health is more than 0.

Damage

Card effects

• Aim - Aiming effect allows attack card to choose which body part is hit. This is powerful effects reserved for specialized weapons like sniper rifles.
• x4,x5,x6 - High damage multiplier on attack card allows to hit almost all body part on enemy Mech, stripping its armor and draining global health pool more easily.
• Piercing - Attack that ignores armor, works best if you don't combine normal and piercing attack cards together.
• Armor / Health Regeneration - stacking effect that regenerates armor and health each turn.
• Armor / Health Repair - instant effect to regain some lost armor or health.

Introduction

Equipment

Items

Features

• 30+ different weapon types. All weapons and items are randomly generated ARPG style loot.
  
• 20+ support items types.
  
• 200+ unique cards.
  
• 20+ enemy Mechs and their corrupted variants.
  
• 6+ unique bosses and their corrupted variants.

Story

• OS: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
• Processor: 2GhzMemory: 4 GB RAM
• Memory: 4 GB RAM
• Graphics: 2GB memory
• Storage: 1 GB available space