SHIPPED
Finished and in the current build.
- Catching systemv0.0.16
- Trainer battlesv0.0.53
- Save systemv0.0.71
- Online tradingv0.2.3
- Asobipediav0.2.5
- Expedition foundationsv0.3.0
DEVELOPMENT NOTEBOOK / 001–104
Still
being built.
This page covers what we’re working on now and how the game got here.
Asobimon is a Black Hole Collective project, developed by Nick Gray under Leftover Games.
- Current closed beta build
- 0.3.5
- Main game
- Core systems in closed beta
- Expedition
- Closed beta
- Online
- Trading active in closed beta
Additional online features planned. - Platform
- Playdate
01 / ROADMAP
What we’re
working on.
NOW
What we’re working on right now.
- Mountain biomeExpedition / almost complete.
- Floor 1 content passBuilding toward four biomes for a planned Floor 1 public beta.
NEXT
What we want to work on next.
- Fourth Floor 1 biomeExpedition / one more biome after Mountain would bring the total to four.
- FusionsMain game / system still to be built.
- Monster & world artMain game / fill missing monster art and refresh environmental assets.
- Battle content & balanceMain game / more moves, animations, and move and monster-stat balancing.
- World level designMain game / the map exists; individual levels still need to be designed.
- Memory optimizationMain game / optimize the build as content expands.
LATER
Things we want to get to later.
- Expedition Floors 2–8Seven more floors are planned after Floor 1.
- Complete ExpeditionFinish the art and combat balance after the required main-game systems are ready.
- Online battlesMain game / planned online feature.
02 / MILESTONES
The big
updates.
These are the builds that had the biggest impact on the game.
- 01
Battle foundations
The early battle build established type matchups, moves, varied monster stats, and random wild encounters.
- 02
Catching begins
Catch calculations and the first catch attempt sequence entered the battle loop.
- 03
Individual monsters
Natures, Genetic Values, and Dedication Values made individual monsters distinct.
- 04
Inspection view
A dedicated inspection interface began exposing monster data and statistics.
- 05
Trainer battles
The first two trainer battles arrived with opponent parties, battle intros, and victory text.
- 06
A world takes shape
The home town and Route 1 formed the rough starting area for the intended game world.
- 07
Persistent saves
Save files began storing the player, party, world position, progression, and other run data.
- 08
The Beta world
A reworked testing world, new route, encounter tables, arenas, and the first 74 monsters entered the build.
- 09
Battle systems expand
More than 60 moves, major status conditions, implemented abilities, and skill-based trainer AI arrived together.
- 10
Online services
Online save sync, leaderboards, and an in-world computer established the connected systems.
- 11
Online trading
The full code-based trade flow added review, approval, transfer, recovery, and completion states.
- 12
Asobipedia
The in-game field guide began tracking monsters seen and collected alongside their reference data.
- 13
Achievements
Playdate achievement support arrived with 42 achievements and an in-game viewer.
- 14
World redesign
Every interior space was redesigned alongside new world and interface art.
- 15
Expedition arrives
A new roguelike mode introduced rooms, floors, captures, events, bosses, and separate save files.
03 / LATEST BUILDS
Recent
builds.
Here’s what changed in the latest builds.
VERSION0.3.5
DATE
Fixes
- Fixed starter Asobimon being able to spawn in wild encounters.
- Fixed NPC turn timer not calculating correctly.
- Monsters now properly lose their held items when a run ends.
Expedition Updates
- Increased special room modifier spawn rate from 25% to 50%.
- On a new Expedition save, the three starters now go into your Deck instead of your party.
- The player now starts each floor inside a Card Shop.
- Added a shop NPC that provides information about the current floor.
Audio
- Added audio effects for rain and thunderstorms.
- Added Expedition Victory music (currently also used for Expedition failure)
VERSION0.3.4
DATE
Content
- Added visual effects for Rainy, Thunderstorm, Blackout, Snowing, Moonlit, Sandstorm, Bustling, Scorched, Hallowed, and Warped room modifiers.
VERSION0.3.3
DATE
Fixes
- Fixed all three starter monsters not generating into the player's party.
- Fixed subtype generation not triggering reliably.
Expedition Updates
- Rooms can now generate with modifiers that allow any monster type to appear.
VERSION0.3.2
DATE
Fixes
- Fixed text spacing when a monster faints.
Improvements
- Made the fallback event sprite more obvious by placing a sign next to the bald man.
Expedition Updates
- New Expedition saves now give the player all three starters.
- All three starters now begin with 8 GVs in every stat (average)
- Every run now starts with 5 Capture Cards in your inventory.
- Card Shops now spawn on every floor, guaranteed.
- Card Shops allow you to pay for healing services and purchase select items.
- Healing at Card Shops costs money, inventory is limited, and prices increase with each floor.
- Updated event spawning to ensure there is no overlap with other objects.
- Added new events: Map Scout, Field Researcher, and Sealed Cache.
- Floor recap screens now support D-pad scrolling.
VERSION0.3.1
DATE
Fixes
- Fixed trainer spawn directions in Expedition.
- Fixed crash caused by bad placeholder pathing.
Gameplay Updates
- Applied floor level cap (Level 15 on Floor 1)
- Updated some Boss Trainer data.
Save System
- Added autosave between rooms and when a run is lost.
VERSION0.3.0
DATE
Improvements
- Deck pages now populate when depositing your full party requires additional space.
- Stopped caching transitions to reduce memory usage (may cause a small CPU increase during transitions)
- Reduced cached fade images from 21 to 11 to lower memory usage.
- Massively improved how caught Asobimon are stored so large collections use much less memory.
- Completely refactored image asset folder structure.
- Added a verbose logging function for debugging.
Expedition Updates
- Added new Expedition mode.
- New Game screen now allows you to switch between Expedition and Beta saves.
- Expedition mode introduces a new roguelike gameplay loop.
- Start a run with one Asobimon, progress through floors, catch new Asobimon, and battle trainers.
- Each run ends with a Boss Trainer that must be defeated to complete the floor.
- Successfully completing a run allows you to keep your captured Asobimon.
- Successfully completing a floor allows your Asobimon to retain their gained DVs.
- Rooms can spawn special high BST monsters.
- Rooms can randomly spawn items.
- Rooms can spawn special events.
- Rooms can spawn recovery events.
- Adjusted the introduction text for Expedition mode.
Save System
- Save files are now split between Expedition and Beta modes (existing saves will automatically be converted to Beta saves)
VERSION0.2.19
DATE
Improvements
- Split tile sets into separate files to reduce memory load.
- Improved loading performance and reduced startup stutter.
- Made saved games load more smoothly and use less memory.
- Reduced memory usage during game launch.
World Updates
- Moved online computer into the Card Shop.
- Incorporated new interior sprites.
- Resized and reformatted exterior sprites.
- Restyled how interior walls are shown.
- Redesigned every interior space.
04 / FULL ARCHIVE
Older
builds.
Everything before that is here if you want to dig through it.
Showing 97 earlier builds
Version 0.2.18
Improvements
- Refactored project folder tree to better support the current scale of the project.
- Imported new Japanese translations and new Japanese fonts (additional code changes are still needed for full support)
- Updated Trainer Ley's text to be more accurate.
Content
- Added 18 unique placeholder trainer images.
World Updates
- Incorporated new world sprites including buildings, grass, and hills.
- Restructured starting area and city area.
Version 0.2.17
Fixes
- Fixed waterfall background sounds not stopping correctly.
Improvements
- Improved transition caching to help avoid memory leak.
- Adjusted batch loading to load all items per batch in one frame on simulator.
Features
- Added pdAchievement support and 42 achievements.
- Added pdAchievement viewer to start menu and options menu.
Content
- Added new attack animations.
- Added Forest music.
Personal Note
- I have not tested on device for the memory leak, please let me know if it persists.
- Some achievements are impossible to achieve at the current moment. Don't go achievement hunting.
Version 0.2.16
Fixes
- Fixed deck monsters not being able to be swapped into party (only the other way around)
- Fixed looping and audio compression on Water Route music.
- Fixed pause asset crashing on boot.
Improvements
- Updated some old animations.
Content
- Added new attack animations.
Personal Note
- New Attack animations are assigned to moves mostly at random right now, so some moves may not feel like they have the "right" animation. This will get sorted out as we continue to add animations and we rework our move pool assignments.
Version 0.2.14
Fixes
- Fixed "Out of Asobimon" text appearing prematurely.
Improvements
- Improved screen shake.
- Sped up area images.
- Made environment animation failures more graceful.
- Minor file structure refactor.
Gameplay Updates
- Added 4 new wild transitions and 4 new trainer transitions.
- New transitions are chosen at random.
Content
- Added part-time card shop employee.
- Added sprites for Dreadblade, Breezepork, Terrahog, Caverntula, Ignipeck, Stellarjay, TakTak, Tardegris, Frostwyrm, Glowisp, Luminicorn, Pixel, and Rockhoppeng.
- Added Venuserk, Frostworm, and Umbreclipse.
Version 0.2.13
Gameplay Updates
- Trainers now pay out money based on their type and monster level.
- NPCs will now continue attempting their pathing until they complete it.
- NPCs will push back the player if they collide mid tile.
- Capture Cards are now consumable items.
Shop System
- Added card shop next to Dev House.
- Added Shopkeeper NPC Moss.
- Added shop UI for healing and shopping.
- Implemented the ability to purchase items.
Changes
- Developer Nick no longer heals your monsters.
- Blacking out now takes you to the card shop.
Version 0.2.12
Fixes
- Fixed waterfall sound not stopping when leaving an area with a waterfall.
- Fixed deck movement to prevent empty spots in party while preserving them in deck.
Improvements
- Updated waterfall sound to loop better.
- Added placeholder sprites that align with monster shapes rather than generic ones.
Gameplay Updates
- Monsters now keep track of where they were met and at what level.
- Monsters without original capture data will show unknown info.
Content
- Added sprites for Seraphlight and Flameling.
- Added Aquatic Route music to Beta Route 23.
- Added dialup tone for connecting to online services.
Changes
- Removed a debug NPC that was not supposed to be there.
Version 0.2.11
Fixes
- Fixed issue where selecting trade would deny first selection.
- Fixed playdate not recognizing version/build updates.
Improvements
- Updated missing key translation paths.
- Added new Latin characters to fonts.
- Updated some debug tools.
Content
- Added sprites for Coraltide, Ratfaith, Ratzazel.
- Updated back sprite for Ratphael.
- Added new monster shape icons for menus.
- Added new backgrounds for start menus based on monster shapes (loads a different one each time)
Version 0.2.10
Fixes
- Fixed issue where stairs to second floor in house were missing their collision.
- Fixed issue where healing NPC was missing their text interaction.
Improvements
- Optimized initialization load times for online services.
- Refactored all boot systems to be more scalable.
Version 0.2.9
Fixes
- Fixed issue where all monsters were getting the 50% bonus for being traded monsters.
- Fixed spacing in monster summoning text.
- Fixed missing decision grid in starter selection (prevents crash)
Content
- Added Puntuff and Glob sprites.
Changes
- Monsters now show what moves they gain on level up.
Version 0.2.8
Improvements
- Updated backend server protocols to help support future version handling.
Gameplay Updates
- Monsters that are summoned into battle but not active when the opponent faints now gain 50% XP.
- Added NPCs that can give the player items.
- Added functional items: Potions (all tiers), Phoenix Feather, full set of status cures (Scorched, Blighted, Cursed, Paralyzed, Chilled, Drenched, Hexed), Total Remedy, and Region Map.
- Added support for using healing items out of the bag.
- Added support for using healing items in battle from the cards menu.
- Added support for equipping held items from the bag.
- Held item effects are currently not implemented.
Systems
- Refactored and re-enabled bag.
- Re-added Region Map.
- Added section for beta levels to Region Map.
Deck Updates
- Opening Deck now defaults to first party.
- Updated Deck view to show HP/Mana bars and status.
Localization
- Updated game with new Italian and German translations.
Version 0.2.7: Hotfix
Fixes
- Fixed healing in Dev House.
Changes
- Player now only pays out as much money as they have after battle losses.
- Added a handful of interactable objects into the world.
Version 0.2.6
Fixes
- Fixed small waterfalls and moving water animations rendering underneath the world.
Improvements
- Lowered complexity of save file decoding to prevent timeout on save file loading.
Audio
- Added waterfall sound effect with distance attenuation.
Changes
- New decoding will invalidate old saves (sorry)
Version 0.2.5
Content
- Added concept art for Taktak, Puntuff, Seraphlight, Tardegris, and Frostwyrm (all current concept art)
Deck System
- Deck is now the primary system for managing party Asobimon outside of battle (store, move, inspect)
Asobipedia
- Added Asobipedia: in-game tracking for Asobimon base stats, descriptions, behavior, habitats, trivia, and fusions (N)
- Asobipedia now tracks every monster you have seen or collected.
Changes
- Updated pause menu icons.
Version 0.2.4: Hotfix
Fixes
- Fixed party gaps when moving monsters out of the party so battle always has a valid first monster to send out.
Changes
- The party now always keeps at least one monster, so your last party member can be switched but not removed.
- Removed the denied sound when using the crank to page past the ends of the Deck and changelog screens.
Version 0.2.3
Improvements
- Player Run and other user settings now persist correctly between play sessions.
Online Features
- Added full online trading flow with trade code creation, code entry, trade lookup, trade review, and transfer screens.
- Added trade transfer animation when monsters are exchanged online.
- Added support for recovering active trade sessions and handling cancelled, disconnected, or timed out trades.
- Added trade completion and farewell messaging during monster transfers.
Localization
- Added Italian as a supported language.
- Your selected language now saves with user settings and restores on boot.
- Missing translations now fall back to English instead of showing raw localization keys.
- Expanded localization support for dynamic text so battle and trading messages can use full sentence templates with placeholders.
- Improved translation coverage so more player-visible text now runs through the localization system.
- Added stronger translation tooling and per-language translator sheets to support future human translations.
Version 0.2.2
World Updates
- Added interactable world objects that can display their own flavor text.
- Added a world computer you can boot up to access online features.
Online Features
- Added online services support.
- Added online save sync so trainer data uploads when you save.
- Added overwrite protection for saves so old leaderboard runs retire when you start over.
- Added save confirmation prompts before saving or overwriting a file.
- Added online computer menu in the world with Leaderboards, Trading, and Battles options.
- Added Top Trainers leaderboard with trainer score, battle record, karma, and game version.
- Added online trainer card viewing so you can inspect other players' teams from the leaderboard.
- Added online/offline connection indicator to supported menus.
Version 0.2.1: Hotfix
Fixes
- Fixed crash when trainer type isn't detected.
- Fixed misaligned trees between village and forest.
Version 0.1.11.7
Fixes
- Fixed issue where on KO abilities weren't triggering due to animations (i had only tested abilities in simulator where things were instant)
- Fixed Status abilities still being labeled as not implemented.
- Fixed Live coal giving bonus damage on non-flame moves.
- Made Static Anchor only prompt when it actually prevented a paralysis.
- Fixed issue where not having enough mana prompt was staying on screen too long.
- Fixed healing function not removing statuses.
- Added revive to the 100 skill trainer item pool.
- Applied skill levels and items to trains in beta levels (forgot to do this before)
Gameplay Updates
- Added a visual indicator for when an ability triggers.
Version 0.1.11.6
Improvements
- Improved how monster cries are loaded to be less demanding on startup.
Gameplay Updates
- Added over 60 new moves, including new status-inflicting attacks and techniques.
- Expanded and re-shuffled learnsets so monsters now build out much further toward level 50.
- Added new major status conditions: Scorched, Blighted, Cursed, Paralyzed, Chilled, Drenched, and Hexed.
- Added new status-inflicting moves to apply those ailments in battle.
- Added full status support across battles, menus, cards, inspection, pause, and save data.
- Added fully implemented monster abilities with unique battle triggers and effects.
- Added new healing techniques including Siphon Seed, Starwish, and Party Favor.
- Added skill-based trainer AI so stronger trainers make smarter battle decisions.
Debug / Simulator
- Added an in-game battle simulator for debug builds.
- Added simulator setup options for mode, battle count, team mirroring, rich movesets, AI skill, BST limit, and turn limit.
- Added simulator summaries for statuses, abilities, and Ability Aware decision tracking.
Version 0.1.11.5
Fixes
- Fixed trainers not detecting player on vision.
- Fixed trainers not showing alert when talked to.
Changes
- Updated battle flow for new move types.
- Multihit moves now animate per hit.
- Multihit moves now stop on first miss.
- Priority moves now have special text indicate they were priority.
Version 0.1.11.4
Improvements
- Improved how monster cries are loaded to be less demanding on start up.
- Optimized consent splash to be more efficient in loading text.
- Skip to continue shortcut now verifies save data first (prevents crash)
Version 0.1.11.3
Changes
- Added Cave Music.
- Added new move types: Multi-hit, Priority, Recoil, ManaDrain, Scaling.
- Reshuffled moves to diversify a bit.
Personal Note
- The new move types are EXTREMELY experimental and may not work as intended or may lack the visual feedback needed to indicate what's actually happening behind the scenes.
Version 0.1.11.2
Fixes
- Changed how debug loads monsters to avoid timeout on launch.
- Theres some backend stuff with moves that changed, but you shouldn't see any of it interact with you.
Version 0.1.11.1
Fixes
- Fixed player being able to stay off the right of a level screen.
- Fixed player being able to interact when not facing the correct direction.
- Fixed issue where levels were being loaded twice when changing scenes (improves transition times)
Improvements
- Optimized how the player object looks for interactable objects.
- Separated main game vs beta level registration so they're not all registering unnecessarily.
- Refactored cutscene logic to make new cutscenes easier to build.
Changes
- Added healing center music to Dev House.
- Added new area Dev Basement populated with high level trainers (20–30)
- Changed some fonts on move image to fit better.
- Cutscenes no longer require a level load at the end and can just release player controls.
Version 0.1.11
Fixes
- Fixed crash involving playerCurrency.
Improvements
- Optimized inspection view performance (slightly)
- Refactored Move inheritance and loading.
- Refactored MoveCell image loading to be procedural instead of manual.
- Refactored MoveInspection image loading to be procedural instead of manual.
- All moves now have cell images and inspection images automatically.
- A huge amount of backend changes that will improve how we bring in new content.
Changes
- Added ambient sound to areas without music.
Version 0.1.10
Fixes
- Fixed Trainer loss text showing up before the trainer sprite slid back out.
- Fixed player losing all their currency on game load.
Improvements
- Refactored Monster classes/inheritance system.
- Improved monster image loading.
- Updated stat spreads for all monsters.
- Diversified abilities for all monsters (effects not implemented yet)
- Diversified learnsets for all monsters (caps around level 16)
Changes
- Added new game flow when the player loses a battle (wild or trainer variations)
- Implemented monsters 76–109 (does not mean available in wild)
Personal Note
- Lots of changes to the way monsters are build means lots of opportunity for things to go wrong. I built in some new checks to verify that monsters aren't missing anything, but i also implemented a lot of new moves to monsters and moves don't have that same validation yet. So just be aware.
Version 0.1.9
Fixes
- Fixed spawning into Beta City.
- Fixed mana calculating incorrectly and overfilling mana.
- Fixed Speed stat not properly increasing.
- Blocked hole in cave wall.
Improvements
- NPCs no longer update if they are too far away from the camera view.
- Improved placeholder fallback loading for NPCs and Trainers.
- Improved NPC speaking sound to play more consistently.
- Improved textbox padding so it doesn't bleed off the edges.
- Enabled player to be seen by multiple trainers at once.
- NPCs now interact with ground effects.
Version 0.1.8.1: Hotfix
Fixes
- Fixed 'A' button press causing input sound after battle.
Version 0.1.8
Fixes
- Fixed battle input handler sticking around after combat (caused reset when pressing 'A' after battle)
- Fixed crash when pressing 'A' on Changelog & Credits.
- Fixed holes in maps that got re-added.
- Fixed waterfall not showing on the correct layer.
Improvements
- Further improved ground effect system to show stepped grass.
- Added footprint effect when walking on sand.
Version 0.1.7
Fixes
- Fixed player being able to have a fainted monster in spot one and have it summoned into battle.
- Fixed NPCs not responding to player input when trying to talk to them.
Improvements
- Refactored the dialogue system.
- Refactored the combat flow system.
- Refactored NPC class to be more reliable and scalable.
- Optimized Catching mini game further.
- Optimized grass walking animation.
Changes
- Updated Gramps trainer concept image.
Version 0.1.6
Fixes
- Fixed player being able to skip XP gain after battle.
- Fixed player being able to have a fainted monster in spot one and have it summoned into battle.
Improvements
- Optimized Battle Menu.
- Optimized Attack Menu.
- Optimized Catching mini game.
- Fully redesigned battle text boxes to be more efficient and scalable.
- Improved experience when leveling up more than once in a battle.
- Improved monster switching text order to feel more natural.
Temporary Changes
- Temporarily disabled Patch Up ability.
Changes
- Enabled Inspection Menu in battle.
Version 0.1.5
Debug / Simulator
- Same changes as Beta but debug.
Version 0.1.4: (Again)
Fixes
- Fixed issue where Beta Route 2 wasn't in level lookup (prevents crash)
- Fixed issue where Trainer battles weren't loading the correct arenas.
- Fixed scrolling issue on Card Inspection Move View.
Menu System Improvements
- Began refactoring of menu systems (huge performance improvements)
- Optimized New Game Menu.
- Optimized Continue Game View.
- Optimized Changelog Grid View.
- Optimized Pause Grid View.
- Optimized Options Grid View.
- Optimized Debug tools grid view.
- Optimized Cards Menu.
- Optimized Cards View.
- Optimized Cards Menu Selection.
- Optimized Card Inspection.
- Optimized Cards Inspection Move View.
- Optimized Trainer View.
- Optimized player input for menus.
Changes
- Added time & date back to pause menu.
Version 0.1.4: UPDATE 1
Fixes
- Fixed issue where Beta Route 2 wasn't in level lookup (prevents crash)
- Fixed issue where Trainer battles weren't loading the correct arenas.
Menu System Improvements
- Began refactoring of menu systems (huge performance improvements)
- Optimized New Game Menu.
- Optimized Continue Game View.
- Optimized Changelog Grid View.
- Optimized Pause Grid View.
- Optimized Options Grid View.
- Optimized Debug tools grid view.
- Optimized player input for menus.
Changes
- Added time & date back to pause menu.
Version 0.1.3
Fixes
- Fixed save files not tracking mana.
Gameplay Updates
- Removed un-implemented move from Psyshel.
- Adjusted Mana gain per level to be faster.
Features
- Added Ratfaith & Rockhoppeng into spawn pool.
Content
- Added in concept art for 14 monsters.
World Updates
- Blocked off un-implemented door in Dev House that let player walk through it.
- Changed entrance/exit of Beta Cave to make more sense.
Menu System Improvements
- Added scroll functionality to changelog view.
Save System
- Added version number to save files (will help keep save files from failing with future updates)
Version 0.1.2
Fixes
- Fixed issue where createMonsterByCode was generating the wrong Asobimon.
- Fixed issue where some Asobimon had the wrong moves (prevents crash)
Menu System Improvements
- Added changelog in game so you can view changes on start menu.
Changes
- Version number will now show you're in beta.
- Changed 2025 to 2026.
Version 0.1.0: Closed beta release
Fixes
- Fixed crash from route 1.
World Updates
- New NPCs.
Debug / Simulator
- Removed Debug ability.
Changes
- New Trainers.
Version 0.0.73
Fixes
- Fixed transition logic on doors that was broken a while ago when i changed how level lookups worked.
- Fixed issue that caused music to sometimes not play.
- Fixed issue where starting a new save wasn't wiping some of the saved data.
Gameplay Updates
- Disabled access to features that are still in development like the bag & edited the icon to make it clear.
- Added in the first 74 monsters (this is a tedious process, i'll get the rest in probably tomorrow, but i needed to move to something that let my brain think)
- Updated how encounters are loaded. Each area has unique possible encounters. Each monster has a weight applied to them to determine rarity/how often they'll pop up.
- Each area now loads a default arena based on where you are (ie. an encounter in the caves will start in the cave arena)
- Caves will now trigger encounters anywhere you walk (no grass in caves)
Content
- Added some sprites.
- Added a couple concept arts (also tedious)
World Updates
- Added area images for beta levels.
- Built a system that allows NPCs to run functions after their dialogue.
- Added an NPC in the right house that will heal your Asobimon for you.
- Added a cutscene for the first time the player leaves his house.
Save System
- Added a save flag for the player's starter so we can reference it in text (note this will make previous save files not work, so don't load an old save)
Debug / Simulator
- Added in new beta world (rework of old testing world with new route added)
- Refactored how i load monsters from the debug menu (should be smoother, but you probably won't notice much difference)
Changes
- Locked FPS tracker when in beta build.
Personal Note
- Note: this is still a debug build so you still have access to debug. This build is flagged as beta and debug.
Version 0.0.72
Gameplay Updates
- Items that have been picked up are now tracked so that they don't respawn when changing rooms.
- Saves now track collected Items so they don't spawn on load.
- Note: Despite the item pickups being saved, the actual player inventory is not currently saved so it will still be lost on reload.
Changes
- Saves now track defeated trainers so they dont retrigger on load.
- Saves now track Cutscenes so they don't retrigger on load.
Version 0.0.71
Fixes
- Fixed issue where game would crash after battles.
Gameplay Updates
- Removed manual "previous" data i would populate.
- PlayerPartyIds (a table holding each monsters value from the party)
- Health.
Features
- Added new function to reverse the Asobicodes (ie generate codes from existing monsters)
World Updates
- AsobiCode for rebuilding it.
Save System
- Added save functionality.
- If the game detects no save file, continue is disabled.
- If the game detects a save file it will load the data on first launch and set the values.
- The player can now select save from the pause menu (it has no animation to show saving yet)
- Upon saving it will generate a JSON file storing the following values.
Changes
- PlayerCurrency.
- PlayerName.
- XP.
- PlayerRank.
- PlayerScene.
- PlayerSerialNumber.
- PlayerState.
- PlayerXPosition.
- PlayerYPosition.
- When reloading the game the player will be put in the scene they were in, location they were in and direction they were facing.
Version 0.0.70
Gameplay Updates
- Player can choose their starter in the introduction.
- Player will be spit into the usual spot once starter is selected. They will only have their starter and their name will be set on their ID.
Content
- Title screen shows Training Simulator logo.
- Added new player sprite to title screen.
- Added Spokesperson sprite.
Menu System Improvements
- Tilte screen has "Simulator" background.
Changes
- New bundle name to seperate demo from main game (Asobimon Training Simulator)
- New Game option works now, taking the player to an introduction.
- Player can choose their name in the introduction.
- Note: Until i set up the actual file saves, i changed the "continue" option to be a single level 99 Forglord.
Version 0.0.69: (nice)
Fixes
- Fixed issue where bag could animate wheen in the selcetion menu.
- Fixed issue where pause menu grid was not updating until the minute passed over.
Version 0.0.68
Content
- Added new arena images for all types.
- Added new backpack sprite and animations.
Audio
- Added new title music.
- When transitioning from title screen, it will play the current monsters cry sound.
- Added some new cries.
Version 0.0.67
Improvements
- Improved how maps auto load cursor starting position.
- Improved pause menu logic to hopefully reduce frame drop when navigating menus.
World Updates
- Added all levels/areas in the game and connected all of the transitions.
Changes
- Reworked level inheritance.
Version 0.0.66
Gameplay Updates
- Added Region Map item (placed in key items)
World Updates
- Added map view with first pass at the full map / locations / routes.
- Cursor will spawn on your current location (unless in test area)
Audio
- Added cry and faint sounds for cairsom, cicader, faolicu and dunloper, oki, kuradae and yulong.
- Added new sounds for catch mechanic.
- There is a soul aura sound and new succes and failure sounds.
- Added victory music after catching wild Asobimon.
Changes
- Moving the cursor around will show the name of the location.
Version 0.0.65
Fixes
- Fixed issue where picking up multiple items too fast wouldn't trigger the sound.
- Fixed issue where you could access the Party Menu before loading into the game.
- Fixed an issue where card inspection wasn't finding the proper monster logo.
Gameplay Updates
- Added ability to take a monster out of it's card and have it follow you around.
- Added a monster catching mini-game.
- Monster catching mini-game spawns a "spirit" representing the monster. The harder the monster is to catch, the more chaotic the spirit will be.
- 3 orbs will spawn off screen and the player must press A when they overlap with the spirit (note: we will have an optional tutorial for catching mechanics, so the player will be told how to do this explicitly)
- The harder the monster is to catch, the faster these orbs will move and appear.
- Each successful hit increases the catch chance by 5% (this number may need to be adjusted)
Features
- Added a particle system ( we can use this in other places)
Content
- Added new sprite animations for monsters following you.
- Only a handful have animations. Some of them just stay facing the same direction (this is simply because these sprites are temporary pokemon sprites and i'm not able to animated them myself)
World Updates
- World Monster animations are determined by "monster shape" which is the shape / icon we use in the menus.
Menu System Improvements
- Added new card inspection option for "take out" to take the monster out of its card.
- Player will now face the correct direction when transitioning screens. If they are walking through a screen transition they will maintain the direction they went in with.
Audio
- Added compressed versions of attack sounds.
Changes
- This is going to go through many iterations / changes. Feel free to suggest things about it you like and dont like.
Version 0.0.64
Fixes
- Fixed issue where monster cries weren't triggering.
Improvements
- Optimize monster logos (reduced file size)
- Optimized frame rate on pause menu.
Features
- Added copywrite to title.
- Added a function to concatenate when needed (it's unavoidable in some places)
Content
- Added New Splash.
- Added Rival Trainer to Title Screen (will need to be replaced with player sprite)
- Assigned more accurate shape sprites for all monsters.
Menu System Improvements
- Added New Game / Save Select screen.
Save System
- The cycling Asobimon in title screen are based on player's save data. Otherwise it defaults back to the standard loop.
- Added view to New Game screen with the player's save data.
Audio
- Added Route 1 Music.
- Added new Wild Battle Music.
- Added new Wild Battle Transition Music.
- Added Forg Cries.
- Added Frostail Cries.
- Added sound effect for picking up an item.
- Added function to lower music volume when item pick up SE is playing.
Changes
- Currrently only continue is available.
Version 0.0.63
Gameplay Updates
- Added items that can be on ground on on grass.
- Added ability to pick up items and add to inventory.
- Added text when picking up item.
- Revamped movement system to be grid based.
- Adjusted trainer detection to accommodate new movement.
- Updated grass reaction to accommodate new movement.
- Updated door placements to accommodate new movement.
- Had to move a bunch of stuff back onto the grid.
Features
- Added version number to settings.
Menu System Improvements
- Added consent menu on launch.
Localization
- Updated German text.
Debug / Simulator
- Added debug option to toggle FPS counter.
Changes
- Adjusted a bunch of collision boxes.
Version 0.0.62
Gameplay Updates
- Removed Player Run from menu settings.
- Added functionality when control apponent is turned on. After you select a move a menu with your opponents moves will appear. Selecting their move will trigger the proper sequence.
- Changed pause menu to only show the label for the selected item.
Features
- Added functionality for SE Volume setting.
- Added functionality for Player Run setting.
Audio
- Added functionality for Music Volume setting.
Localization
- Added support for multiple languages.
- Option in settings allows you to switch between English, German, Spanish and Japanese.
- The way the translations work is that if a translation is available for your set language, it will use it, otherwise it will default back to english. Same goes for text images like Options labels and such.
- Note: Japanese requires different characters. I added Katakana and google translated the keys, no idea if any are right and some characters are still missing.
Debug / Simulator
- Added descriptions to debug settings.
- Added debug setting for controlling the opponent.
Version 0.0.61
Fixes
- Fixed issue where pressing A on trainer card would cause it to get stuck.
- Fixed issue with trainer battles freaking out on second summon.
Gameplay Updates
- Change starter has new grid view.
- When the user is out of battle (or in battle, but the player has not summoned their asobimon yet) it will show a summary of the party, their health, XP, Level, Type and so forth.
- When the user is in battle it will show a summary of the current arena and the current stage of the stats that can be adjusted in battle via moves.
- Added text descriptions for each arena (these may be too long, haven't tested them all)
- Gave the player a variety of asobimon with different levels, HP values and XP values to help show the menu.
Features
- Added a few placeholder Asobimon. Their descriptions are almost certainly too long, haven't tested them. (Inu, Swinlit, Tanukash, Wotter, Glob, Flolush, Flameling, Stellarjay, Glowisp, Ratzazel)
World Updates
- NPCs now freeze when menu is opened.
Menu System Improvements
- Revamped Menu system.
- Dither effect when opening menu.
- Menu UI is shown on bottom with images and labels.
- New options view.
- Options view has 4 sliders to adjust settings, 1 button and 1 inactive option for frame.
- Currently, only screen shake actually changes the settings (the other settings are made, the effects just aren't implemented)
- Added a new view forr when the player preseses the menu button (physical button on device)
Audio
- Added flee sound.
Debug / Simulator
- If you press right on the options screen you'll go to the "hidden" debug view.
Changes
- Time and date shown on pause.
Version 0.0.60
Fixes
- Fixed issue where victory music wasn't looping.
- Refixed issue with menu getting stuck after trainer summons second monster (actuallly tied to XP gain)
Gameplay Updates
- Removed extra stat text.
Content
- Adjusted sprite for stat ups.
Audio
- Added Rival alerted music.
- Added Rival transition music.
- Added Rival battle music (compressed)
Changes
- Made it so trainers always show 6 slots, even if they have less than 6 (the extra are empty)
Version 0.0.59
Fixes
- Fixed bug where leveling up via debug would cause the XP bar to not appear.
- Fixed issue where victory music would play out of combat.
- Fixed issue where the attack menu woulld get stuck after opponent summoned their second monster.
- Fixed issue where wild battles would crash because they thought they were trainer battles.
- Fixed issue where cutscene would crash.
- Fixed issue where calmWater wasn't animated.
- Fixed issue where XP up audio would continue playing when hitting level up.
Gameplay Updates
- Added trainer battle images for rival and tykeBoy.
- Added new Level up view to display stats.
Content
- Added 9 new NPC sprites.
World Updates
- Adjusted some NPC text.
Audio
- Added rival music into rival battle.
Changes
- Renamed a bunch of trainer models.
Version 0.0.58
Fixes
- Fixed bug where reward was causing trainer crash at end of battle.
- Fixed audio looping issue with some music loops and transitions.
Features
- Added new Asobimon: Frostail.
Audio
- Added victory music transition music.
- Removed some old music files i forgot to remove.
Version 0.0.57
Fixes
- One thing i realized during this is i need way more fallbacks / safe crashing. I implemented fallback / placeholder sprites for just about everything. NPC sprites, NPC portraits, Trainer battle sprites all have placeholders that are more clearly placeholders.
Gameplay Updates
- A couple things to note about the new starting area, there are some dialogue trees that are intended to be events, i haven't impleneted event management in LDTK yet for NPCs so bare in mind that text won't make full sense (it'll just all play out with no event)
Content
- Added a couple sprites we needed to help block things off.
- Started the player with a level 5 sparksprite to simulate game start a bit (this build would take place after obtaining your starter)
World Updates
- Added CJ's townd design!
- The home town and route 1 bones are in place with a ton of NPC dialogue. This is the rough starting area we expect for the final product (with more art obviously) so get a feel for the world scale.
- Note: most buildings have no interior. Only the card shop and the teleporter.
- There are still a few NPCs missing dialogue and one thats inaccessible (that i added, not CJ)
Audio
- Added octavios new versions of music!
- There is new alert music, transition into battle music, battle music and victory music.
Debug / Simulator
- You can still access the testing levels by entering the right north most house (the one surrounded by grass) this is a portal back to the test levels.
Changes
- Note: there is a slight pause at the end of some of the tracks that causes the transition to feel slightly off, octavio is aware and fixing it.
- Trainer card background "A" is slightly lighter.
- Some stuff from the test levels were lost in the great conflict war of last night, but i added important stuff back.
Version 0.0.56
Fixes
- Re-Fixed issue where leaving the house crashed the game.
- Fixed a crash when using Budakai.
- Fixed the order of XP gain messages to feel more natural.
- Fixed some NPC text.
Gameplay Updates
- This will show accurate serial number and current Money.
- Money is now properly awarded after battle and trainers have (mostly) unique amounts they give.
Features
- Added some paths.
Menu System Improvements
- Added TrainerCard view.
Audio
- Added "Gaining XP" sound.
- Adjusted XP gain speed so that one full bar fill will equal the sound length (much faster)
- Sound restarts after level.
- Added Octavio's temp battle music (for now just added the main music for wild encounters and rival music for trainer battles.
- Added some temp music for when a trainer is approaching you.
- Added some temp music for when you win a battle.
Changes
- Identified issue where triggering Trainer vision too close to them would cause the logic to freak out (haven't fixed)
Version 0.0.55
Fixes
- Fixed frame rate issue where Trainers were checking collisions too often.
- Fixed issue where the player would get stuck looping through summoning animation on second trainer battle.
- Fixed issue where leaving the house crashed the game.
Gameplay Updates
- Requires player to finish opponent summon animation before triggering their own summon.
- Moved a trainer to the forest area.
- Added movement programming to NPCs as well.
Content
- Most NPCs have some level of pathing (had to make some temp sprites)
Debug / Simulator
- Added a bunch of trainers to the left screen to stress test frame rate (there are 6 spinning old men over there)
Version 0.0.54
Fixes
- Fixed issue where music didn't stop during trainer battles.
- Fixed issue where triggering a battle in an area without music would crash.
- Fixed issue where you could back out of a forced swap after a summon fainted and continue battle with no summon.
Gameplay Updates
- Wasn't able to reproduce that infinite summon bug, so that may still exist.
- Trainers can now move / rotate / change direction based on instructions given.
- The game now remembers trainers you've defeated and won't let you battle them again (unless you lost)
World Updates
- Update to trainer NPC logic.
- Trainers have their initial text, their loss text, and new text for the overworld after they've been defeated.
- Added a visual pop up that will show when you enter a new area (this is very experimental and early in it's design process, it will change greatly) only applicable to home town and route 1.
Audio
- Added a sound to the trainer alert.
- Added a sound for when a monster levels up (haven't implented the gaining XP sound yet)
- Swapped out some sounds for their compressed versions (smaller file size)
Debug / Simulator
- Removed the stat inspection debug (we dont really need it anymore)
Changes
- Trainers have vision now.
- Trainers will walk to you once they've been alerted.
Personal Note
- Heads up there are a couple known bugs here, but nothing should be completely game breaking.
Version 0.0.53
Gameplay Updates
- Added Trainer Battles.
- There are two trainer battles in the game currently (both old men) The first is Marty right at the spawn, the second is Jeb in the route to the north. Marty has one monster with low GV and DV, Jeb has 3 with a decent spread.
- Added Alert symbol for when a trainer is triggered (no vision right now, they won't see you walk by and initiate battle yet)
- Added Trainer battle image at start of battle and new text for battle start (note, wild encounters differentiate from trainer encounters and shouldn't show any of this)
- Added party tracker for opponent. Filled means they have monsters, empty means it's fainted.
- Added victory text for winning along with the opposing trainer's loss text (money is currenlty not generated)
- When building levels, we can enter Asobicodes which bulid the trainer's party and specify all modular aspects of the monster like gender, ability, GVs and DVs.
- I opted to generate your party with Asobicodes so they can have a spread of specific GVs and DVs.
Changes
- Trainers right now reset automatically so you can keep battling over and over. In the future we'll have "post loss text" for them to say after being beaten and talekd to again.
- Asobicode support now implemented.
- Wild monsters are still generated randomly with these values and DVs for wild monsters are always 0s.
Version 0.0.52
Fixes
- Fixed issue where encounter rate was set to -1.
World Updates
- Added animations on water, waterfalls, calm water, calm waterfalls.
- Adjusted NPC walk animation speed.
Audio
- Adjusted text sound speed.
Version 0.0.51
Fixes
- Fixed a couple monsters that didn't get their sprite sheets updated properly and were disappearing.
- Fixed an idle up sprite on player that wasn't updated properly.
Improvements
- Frame rate change from 50fps to 30fps max.
- Added back in the grass animation when stepped on. The way this works is when you step on grass, i calculate the position on the grid and draw a new image over it for a few frames. (This weirdly took a fuck load of effort) but i didn't experience any performance drops. LMK if you do.
World Updates
- Added in some more grass patches in the main town and teh area to the left.
Audio
- Added card shop music (banger)
Changes
- Test the animations, if anything feels off let me know if it needs to be sped up or slowed down. I think i got all of them, bbut it's possible i forgot to change one.
Version 0.0.50
Gameplay Updates
- New summon animation and summoning animation.
- All summons willlhave a unique final two frames where their silhouette shows. currently only Cairsom, Forg and Oltec have these 2 frames (i just need to make them and it'll take a while)
- Inventory system basics are implemented.
- Opening your bag takes you to the inventory menu.
- There are 4 parts of the bag: Healing Items, Capture Cards, Held Items, Key Items.
- I filled the bag with items to test.
- Each item should have an image (most of them are a default image of a ?) and a description for them.
- Currently attempting to select an item will do nothing.
- I haven't added it to the the capture button in battle, but eventually this will take you to the capture card bag screen without the ability to go to the others.
Audio
- Home Town Music.
- The way music works is when you enter an area it checks its assigned music. If its already playing, it just continues. If it's a new song, it stops the old one and plays the new one. If it has no music assigned (which eventually won't be the case) it just stops.
- The initial spawn and the lake area to the left both are assigned for the new hometown music. All other areas have no music assigned.
- Intro music is compressed.
Personal Note
- Couldnt sleep so i added some icons for each item.
Version 0.0.49
Fixes
- Fixed bug where sometimes second move wouldn't get selected and game would crash.
Features
- Added ambient sound and static over intro (loops)
Audio
- Audio Build.
- Added move sound for Cave In, Phantom Bind, Burning Ember, Claw, AIrstream and Eruption.
Version 0.0.48
Fixes
- Fixed an issue where mana bar wasn't showing properly in card menu for very high levels.
Gameplay Updates
- Level Starter will increase the level of the monster in party slot 1 by 1 level.
- Release Monsters will get rid of every monster except the monster in party slot 1.
- Heal Asobimon option now heals all monsters HP and Mana.
- When a summon faints in battle, if you have existing monsters with HP, you will be taken to the card switch menu to switch in a new monster instead of auto losing the battle (please try and break this)
- When a monster is switched in this way, the enemy does not get an extra attack.
Audio
- When a summon faints in battle it will fall down and play it's cry properly.
Debug / Simulator
- Added new debug options.
Version 0.0.47
Gameplay Updates
- Added support for dual typing.
- Added Damage support for dual typing.
- Moves will now either be "incredibly", "super", "not very" or "barely" effective depending on the weakness combo.
- 2 typing means double weak or double resist is possible as well as the weak and resist negating each other.
- Adjusted UI to accommodate for dual typing (feedback needed)
- Made HP, Mana and XP bars 1 pixel shorter (let me know if this causes any issues)
- Added Dual Lightning/Dark typing to Umbrawatt.
- Added Dual Normal/Light typing to Ratphael.
Content
- Added Forglord.
- Added new sprites for Forg.
Version 0.0.46
Fixes
- Fixed issue where speaking with NPC would lock the text sound to their voice.
- Fixed a ui bug where backing out of attack inspection view in battle would cause it to get mixed up.
Improvements
- Performance and bug focused build.
- Cached all images for inspection views, should increase performance by a good margin.
Gameplay Updates
- Adjusted the move view to be a little more manageable until it gets redesigned.
- Top move no longer gets cut off.
- Abilities that do not work all have a (N) next to them (in the future, if an ability is only partialy working it will have a (P) next to it.
- Ability "Patch Up" is now functional.
- The user will heal 5% of their max HP if they deal the final blow of the battle (i specify it this way so that trainer battles it won't trigger per knockout, i actually set up some of the ground work for differentiating this in the future)
Features
- Added some more to the build.
Menu System Improvements
- Changed indicator image.
Personal Note
- Note: there was a metric fuck ton of code changes to get this caching working right, test around and let me know if something broke in the process.
Version 0.0.45
Fixes
- Fixed height showing lbs.
Improvements
- Huge overhall to how the gridviews populate which should result in a significant performance increase, specifically it should remove or at least greatly decrease the slowdown over time that happens.
Gameplay Updates
- Added Move view to inspection.
- Arenas now add * 1.5 to same type attack moves.
- Forest remains the current default arena, so grass types have an innate power boost right now (this is how it should work with each area giving an arena that benefits its home monsters)
- Re-did the entire type chart to implement CJ's new interactions.
Content
- Added Flarehorn.
- Updated Sparksprite images.
- Adjusted a couple logo sprites.
Changes
- Prarie has been fully replaced by forest.
- Please test in mirror and play for a decent amount of time noting any decrease in max framerate. (if you'll remember when you played on stream, the further along you got the slower the game performed. This should be mostly mitigated now meaning it should always have the same max FPS, even after time has passed)
Version 0.0.44
Fixes
- Fixed issue where arena moves would crash the game because their delay wasn't set.
Content
- Added new sprite for rayne,.
Version 0.0.43
Fixes
- Fixed Tomegeist spelling.
- Fixed crash where monsters couldn't select their first two moves (would crash if they only had 2)
- Fixed issue where you'd get stuck trying to back out of inspection view in battle.
Content
- Added new player sprite, old man sprite and kid sprite.
Menu System Improvements
- Added name tag to text boxes.
Changes
- Updating dex entries.
Version 0.0.42
Gameplay Updates
- Added Abilities, each mon has set abilities to generate (the starters have hidden abilities)
- Added new image for Ocean arena.
Features
- Added intro scene.
- Added animation for flood.
Content
- Added back sprites for Wasper, Dunloper, Tomegiest, Shadobin and Umbrawatt.
Menu System Improvements
- Added new Dex screen.
Audio
- Added new cries for umbrawatt,.
Debug / Simulator
- Added ability to skip straight to the game at the splash screen by pressing B (faster testing)
Changes
- Adjusted some text for the trailer.
- Currently the abilities do nothing and most mon share the same 2 options.
- Every mon in game has a dex entry, weight, height, and special identifier.
- Using new wrapping closure for long text, so let me know if anything doesn't wrap or gets cut off.
- Renamed Stinkyu to Shadobin.
- Renamed Haar to Tomegiest.
Version 0.0.41
Fixes
- Fixed camera clamping inside buildings.
Gameplay Updates
- Adjusted the HP blocker again, lmk if the health showing 0 when still alive issue comes back.
Features
- Added cutscene builder & tracker.
- Added animation for gust.
World Updates
- Added card shop interior (right house)
Audio
- Removed music for filesize.
- Added cries for Oltec, Wasper & Umbrawatt.
- Added attack sounds for jab, bite, nip.
- Added summon sound and capture sound.
Changes
- The first time you enter the card shop you will have the opening cutscene for the trailer (note: normally your character wouldn't teleport like this, but it's just how we need to do it for the trailer)
Version 0.0.40
Fixes
- Fixed HP bar showing no HP when HP is very low compared to max HP.
- Fixed NPC conversations being triggered when in pause menu.
- Fixed issue where monsters without faint sounds would crash when fainting.
Audio
- Changed default text sound to a typewriter.
- Added octavio's trailer theme to have some music going (note this music is not compressed and isn't designed to be looped / used for this. Just thought it'd be nice to have some music to test the sound effects over.
Version 0.0.39
Improvements
- Improved how character portraits are drawn.
- Indexed the card menu, frame rate should be much better there.
Gameplay Updates
- Added a ton of move animations.
- Almost every move in the game has animations now (minus some typed moves like pebble, shadow, shimmer)
Content
- Character portraits now only animate when text is populating.
Audio
- Added cry sounds for quilline and gankyu as well as fainting cry sounds.
- Added fainting sound effect.
- Improved how voice audio plays.
- Added unique audio for old man, boy and rayne as well as a new default sound.
- Currently the default sound plays on all text, considering disabling that, but will wait until theres game music before deciding.
Version 0.0.38: UPDATE 2
Gameplay Updates
- Revamped attack system.
Menu System Improvements
- Screen shake intensity is based on damage done.
Changes
- New animations for leaf dart, nip and jab.
- Working on some new ones.
- Refuse to go 24 hours without a new build.
Version 0.0.38: UPDATE 1
Gameplay Updates
- Removed Nero.
Content
- Added a couple new NPC sprites for the boy and for rayne.
- Reworked how NPC sprites are handled to make setting them easier.
- Added Umbrawatt, Stinkyu, Wasper, Dunloper and Haar (temp back sprites)
World Updates
- Doors have now been added (ie transitional collision objects)
- You can reach the cave area by entering the door in the first level.
- You can also now leave the caves via the stairs.
- You can access the interior of the left house along with its second floor.
Version 0.0.37
Fixes
- Fixed issue where DV wasn't updating stats after battles, now all stats are verified after each battle where an opponent faints.
Improvements
- Switched to loading levels individually, should greatly improve overall load times.
Version 0.0.36
Fixes
- Fixed the whole... game not loading thing.
Content
- Added a BHC splash screen.
- Added new character sprites for boy, rayne, old man, and MC.
World Updates
- Boy is in first town, Rayne is in city, old man is in water area.
Menu System Improvements
- Levels are now loaded on a loading screen after the title screen.
Debug / Simulator
- Since we're faking a bit of the cutscene stuff for now, there is an NPC in the forest area with the MC's portrait for testing.
Version 0.0.35
World Updates
- Finished City design.
- Added Waterfall / lake area (left of initial spawn)
- Added underground cave (you access by left on the water area and WILL NOT BE ABLE TO LEAVE) i'll add doors soon, but for now i just needed a way to get there.
Version 0.0.34
Fixes
- Fixed some sound issues.
World Updates
- Added 2 new areas (scrap forest and the city (the city isn't done)
Menu System Improvements
- Inspection screen allows you to scroll up and down between monsters without leaving screen.
Changes
- Some other small bug fixes with transitioning scenes.
Version 0.0.33
Gameplay Updates
- Also has capability to show held item and ability, currently neither are implemented so it will always show no held item and the same deep roots ability (we can change this text to flavor the trailer a bit)
- Added four tabs (monster, stats, moves, binder)
- Added view for monster tab, shows metadata about monster including nature and where / how it was encountered (encounter info is not currently stored, will always show the same message about the contest)
- Added view for stats tab, shows all stats, Genetic Values and Dedication Values.
Content
- Inspection view shows monster logo, name, gender (fun fact they've always had genders you just couldn't see it) level, type.
Menu System Improvements
- Added Inspection View.
Version 0.0.32
Gameplay Updates
- Added temp stats.
- Added fake ability to show text.
- Ignore item text.
Menu System Improvements
- Added inspection View.
- Added gridview in inspection view to scroll (doesn't currently change the view yet)
Debug / Simulator
- Test build for readibilty (stats text is temporary)
Version 0.0.31
Gameplay Updates
- Added Natures for main stats (except HP, Mana and Luck)
- Natures are now calculated as 10% up and 10% down in appropriate stat.
- Nature is assigned randomly on monster generation.
- Added GV (Genetic Value) for monsters.
- GVs effect everything except Mana and Luck.
Content
- Added Ratphael.
Debug / Simulator
- Added ability to see the Nature and GVs of summon and opponent in battle when using debug inspection menu.
- All mosnters are accessible via debug.
Changes
- GV can be anything from 1 to 15.
- GV calculates along with base stat.
- GVs are completely randomized for each stat on monster generation.
Version 0.0.30
Improvements
- Made some improvements to the card menu in the overworld.
Gameplay Updates
- You can now back out of swaps.
- Card menu now works in battle.
- Swap will summon selected monster into battle and forfeit your turn.
- Stage increases on stats will be reset.
- XP gain will go down due to the swap (however this isn't finished, the monster taken out of battle will not gain XP and if you swap over and over with each other it will continue degrading the XP gain, have a plan to fix in play)
- On faint, you will not have a chance to swap in another monster yet.
Content
- Added Oki.
Version 0.0.29
Fixes
- Fixed battle issue where XP was updating correctly after the first battle.
Gameplay Updates
- Card Menu now properly blocks out HP, MP and XP to display correctly.
Content
- Added Psihop.
- Added Quilline.
- Added Carisom.
- Added Kurodae.
- Added Pupleaf Sprite.
Menu System Improvements
- Card Menu now has an indicator for which card is selected.
Version 0.0.28: UPDATE 2
Gameplay Updates
- Swapping mechanic works, you can now select swap on a card, move to another card slot (thats not empty) and swap the two cards.
- The far left monster will be the one summoned in battle.
- Forgot to mention in the last build i increased thecatch chance for almost everyone.
Menu System Improvements
- Added card select menu (when viewing cards)
Audio
- Trying to swap to an empty space will give you a failed sound.
- Let me know if we need a visual indicator for which card is being swapped, or an audio queue or something.
Version 0.0.28: UPDATE 1
Fixes
- Fixed issue where catching Nero woud crash game.
- Fixed issue where Dark and Normal type icons wouldn't appear.
Content
- Added Oltec.
Menu System Improvements
- Crank will now scroll card view.
Audio
- Added new menu sounds (may need tweaking, lmk)
- Added sound effects for moves: Take Aim, Pump Up, Blinding Sand, Flood, Extinction, Shatter Defences, Power Drain, Tackle, Stab, Brief Flame, Jolt, Flurry.
Version 0.0.27
Improvements
- New card image for view that shows data about monster (we need to cache these images like we did before with the moves to improve performance, that's a later issue though)
Gameplay Updates
- Card View now accessible in both overworld and battle (may be broken in battle, haven't tested)
- Catching monsters actually adds them to your party.
- You can catch up to a total of 6 to have in your party, after that they will go in your deck (currently inaccessible)
Changes
- You can see all 6 available slots.
Version 0.0.26
Gameplay Updates
- Updated move cards for most moves in game.
- Added move details view for most moves in game.
- Added more moves in.
- Diversified known moves by monsters, for more coverage / uniquness.
Features
- Added slipshade art.
Audio
- Added sound to intro.
- Added sound to view details.
Changes
- Changed fizzle to do nothing (as intended)
Version 0.0.25
Gameplay Updates
- Changed mana bar to have a max value of 10 at all times. (meaning in this instance 10 would be the max mana ANY asobimon can have, even at level 100) and instead fills up their mana against that max mana. This allows me to have it fill up each bar individually so you can count the pips to know how much mana you have available.
Version 0.0.24
Gameplay Updates
- Added support for mana system.
- Moves now check if they cost mana when selecting.
- Player gets warning if the monster doenst have enough mana to use the move.
- Moves will properly reduce or restore mana.
- All moves had their mana costs added from the google doc.
- The bar properly updates when mana is going up or down.
- Max mana is now calculated off base mana value (many monsters have different base mana values, these may be way out of balance)
Audio
- Added play sound when backing out of pause menu.
Debug / Simulator
- Player starts with pupleaf but can change via debug menu.
- Added debug optoin to deplete all mana.
- Healing option in debug menu also restores mana.
Personal Note
- Note: currently the enemy does not consider mana before using a move, however, they will still consume mana. That said, at 0 mana, they're still able to attack. This is because the warning for using a move without enough mana comes before selection and i haven't modified their AI yet.
- Second Note: the move images are not always accurate for mana cost. Most monsters "Main" STAB move will cost mana despite the image not showing it. Also arenas cost 2 despite not doing anything.
Version 0.0.23
Gameplay Updates
- Can change starter to any monster.
Content
- Added Monster Cicader.
Menu System Improvements
- Added pause menu.
Audio
- Added some menu sounds.
Debug / Simulator
- Added debug menu.
- Added debug option for changing starter.
Version 0.0.22
Gameplay Updates
- Set new animations for starting of battle.
- HP, Mana and XP all stager coming in from the bottom.
- Monsters now play a summoning animation before summoning.
- Text box now calls out the monster your summoning.
Features
- Added small animation to nip (will add to others later)
Content
- Added Gankyu, Hubble and Sparksprite to the title screen.
Menu System Improvements
- Added screen shake on hit.
Debug / Simulator
- Removed all wild monsters but sparksprite (because i'm testing their nip animation)
Changes
- Type, name and level now slide in from the left.
Version 0.0.20
Improvements
- This should be a huge frame rate improvement.
Gameplay Updates
- Reworked the test level a little, moved some NPCs and Added a second level with room transitions. Second level has a butt load of grass and a few NPCs.
Content
- Added image for Sparsprite.
- Added Gankyu.
World Updates
- COMPLETELY OVERHALLED HOW GRASS WORKS.
Menu System Improvements
- Card screen no longer traps you (it's still blank)
Changes
- Hopefully added the store image path properly.
Version 0.0.19
Gameplay Updates
- Monster gains stats on level up.
- Stats are now shown on level up.
- Level on screen updates on level up.
- Current HP increases by HP increase on level up.
Features
- Added some system assets.
Menu System Improvements
- Added Title Screen.
Changes
- Damage Text now waits for meter to finish.
Version 0.0.18
Fixes
- Fixed issue where dark and light weren't calculating their effectiveness.
- Fixed issue where HP was displaying when negative.
- Fixed issue where global type changes didn't get made.
- Fixed issue where a bunch of type calculations weren't being made.
Gameplay Updates
- Removed watermon, moonmon and darkmon.
- Added XP calculation for defeating a monster.
- Added calculation for needed XP to level and variable to hold previous levels XP max.
- Added XP bar functionality.
- I think fixed some HP issues.
- Menu waits for XP gain after leveling.
- Still working on XP leveling logic, mainly with the menu's waiting.
Features
- Added broken leveling (needs to be fixed on other computer)
Personal Note
- Build is a little broken on level up and new stats dont get calculated.
Version 0.0.17
Fixes
- Fixed issue where HP would always update screen after first hit.
- Fixed some spacing on names.
Gameplay Updates
- Added type icons in battle.
- Added health bar, mana bar and XP bar.
- Changed health number to show below bars and show max HP as well.
- Added functionality for HP bar to lower when damaged or healed.
- Catch attempt now hides enemy and waits a second while "determining".
Content
- Added monsters Forg, Nero & Hubble.
Menu System Improvements
- Added new font support.
Changes
- Changed taking damage function to always take a set time (100 frames)
Version 0.0.16
Fixes
- Fixed issue where agility was causing opponents speed to go up.
- Fixed bug where cave-in would cause a crash.
- I fixed some issues with collisions that also could have been impacting frame rate. I'm on my mac so i'm gonna leave both builds up (in case the mac one doesn't work for some reason)
Improvements
- Did some memory management to help frame rate in overworld.
- Optimized the way we draw the main battle grid view text.
- Optimized how images for moves are loaded. Instead of loading them when selected, we cache the images at the start of battle and reference back to them as needed.
Gameplay Updates
- Set stats based on level calculation on base stats.
- Made every monster have different stats for diversity.
- Added Move sets based on level for each monster.
- Set encounter monsters to range between 3 and 12.
- Added catching mechanic. Monster catch calculation is accurate, but nothing will join your party just yet.
- Calulating escape odds now. You can fail to escape.
Changes
- Set player's monster to level 10.
Version 0.0.15
Gameplay Updates
- Added a new move for each typing so we can test out weaknesses, resistances and stabs they are Brief Flame, Foam, Jolt, Pebble, Gust, SHimmer, Shadow, Magic Trick, Tail Strike, Flurry, Jab, Moonshine, BoneBreak.
- Adjusted some typings.
- Added the full typing weakness/resist list.
Features
- Added a new monster for every type. For the time being they are just called Normalmon, plantmon, flamemon, watermon, sparkmon, earthmon, windmon, lightmon, darkmon, arcanemon, dragonmon, moonmon, primalmon, frostmon and ancientmon.
Content
- Wild battles will now be a random monster from this list + the 3 starters pupleaf (plant), sparksprite (flame) and Splishade (water)
Debug / Simulator
- Increased the encounter chance from 20% - 70% to make testing faster / easier.
05 / EARLY BUILDS
Where we
started.
Some early builds, menus, animations, and concept art from before the game looked like it does now.
BATTLE PROTOTYPE
Early battle
WORLD PROTOTYPE
Early overworld
CATCHING PROTOTYPE
Early catching
MENU PROTOTYPE
Early menu
ANIMATION TESTS
Early animations
CONCEPT ART
Early concept art
06 / DEVLOGS
More from
development.
Longer posts about what we’re making and why.
Let's connect about Asobimon (literally) →
Hello friends.
We need to talk about Asobimon →
Hey friends, it's been a minute.
September Asobimon Updates →
Howdy again folks. I thought I'd update a little sooner this time and try and do these monthly. Progress is chugging along on Asobimon, so let's look at what's new for September.
Asobimon Updates →
Howdy friends. Just wanted to share a few updates since my last update 2 months ago. Here's everything new in the game!
I made IRL Asobimon cards! →
The holographic effects doesn't show super well in video for some reason. These were made by printing onto holographic sticker paper and applying to both sides of a totally not similar monster catcher card game. Anyways, this was a quick weekend project and a nice break from development!
Asobimon: Playdate Development Announcement →
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Dx2_Plv9hM&t=5s
07 / KEEP EXPLORING