Haha I hope that's somehow a good reaction face... Thanks for the comments so far though guys Should have a short teaser video up in the following week or 2 as well...
Well, you earn money by killing enemies, and also by completing side quests (which range from saving slave ants, collecting coins, killing mini bosses, playing as only one hero for a certain amount of time, and a bunch of other stuff). Side quests are randomly offered to you throughout the game at, which are optional to complete, but give you big rewards if you do. And then of course there are tons of things you can spend your cheese on (which are bought on the fly at any time in the game -- no "shop screens" in between levels or anything like that)... The main things to buy are the equipment/abilities to beef up your heroes. You can see you have 4 slots per character on the right of the screen to equip stuff in. You can also spend your money on turrets, of which there are 7 types, each with 5 levels of upgrades. You can also upgrade the food stash itself, which increases the amount of food you can store. We have a nice progression so that in an average game you will not be able to buy everything and have money to spare. Its not like you'll be hurting for money, but you wont be mindlessly buying anything and everything and be at max capacity in like 10 minutes, that's for sure. So the really cool part is you can play Bug Heroes however you want. You can spend all your money on your heroes (or one hero if you want), or play a defensive game buying tons of turrets and upgrading them. I think this will be one of the few games where you can actually play a bunch of different ways and still be successful. But yeah, we are really excited to get this in peoples' hands, and are working really hard to get to beta stage
We haven't had anything huge to update on... was going to wait to wait to post a gameplay video and then announce beta when we're ready. Progress is good though Right now we're pressing down on finalizing all the effects and really tightening the game up. Hopefully you'll see some Bug Heroes videos on some sites soon too... its hard to really get a feel for the game without seeing it in action -- trust us we can't wait. Until then, here are a few more screens.
Beta hasn't quite started yet, but it is getting VERY close. Don't worry we will definitely announce it here first to gather some tester applications (those who we have worked with before and those who have been active on this thread will get priority, but hopefully we can get a nice mix in). As for the game itself, development is going great. Really at this point we are ironing out a few crashes, doing some optimizing, and finishing up some effects before we are beta ready. We are also in the middle of creating the official trailer, so that should be out in the next week or so -- we are VERY excited to finally show off some game play footage to everyone Pics are nice and all but you really can't tell jack about a game until you see some video.
That's great to hear! I just wasn't sure what happened when you stepped out of the office, so to speak And I also agree with you that nothing can be seen about a game until it is in motion!
Haha, does that post count as your third? No seriously, there won't really be using some algorithm or something to figure out who can beta test. Those who we have seen giving valuable feedback on Touch Arcade forums (esp this thread) we feel we can probably count on more in beta. In our N.Y.Zombies beta we had a few awesome beta testers that we really hope we can get more of! @ Wired Yeah sorry for lack of updates recently, but to be honest we're kind of in that "dead zone" where there just isn't much new news. I think people will have some things to discuss once the trailer is released though
When you announce the beta testing this thread is going to blow up and the hype machine will start rolling!!
like me who suggested that beast seeing thing that when u kill more u can see more info about that bad guy
Well, here is the game play trailer Please give feedback, comment, and ask questions! Bug Heroes Game play Trailer Subscribe to the TouchArcade YouTube channel
Absolutely brilliant. Top of my anticipation list. Thing is, I'd really like to beta test but trying it early would ruin the excitement...whoever tests it please make sure the game is brilliant for everybody, whether it's me or you.
