Blocky Defense

Added socials to settings, added attacks on chess bosses

Bug fixes and balance changes

ENHANCED GAMEPLAY UPDATE


NEW 'LANE BASED' GAMEPLAY
•6 lanes
•Enemies can only move in their lanes
•(Most) Turrets only shoot in their lanes
•Isometric game style

MASSIVE GAME OPTIMIZATION CHANGES
•Optimized environments
•Faster load times
•Less energy consumption and runs much cooler/smoother

TURRET CHANGES
•New "Fence", and secret star-earned turret
•Updated gameplay for many turrets

UPDATED AND UPGRADED UI
•New designs for shop, upgrade turret, settings, levels, achievements, dialogue, and more!

JADE JUNGLE DLC NOW FREE TO PLAY
•Now unlockable for free with enough stars

BUG FIXES
•Fixed audio cut off when changing levels
•Fixed game quality settings not changing
•Many other small bug fixes

REDESIGNS

New designs for
• Build/upgrade UI
• Achievement/new turret popups
• Win/lose level screens
• Gameplay UI
• Moving van UI
• Piñata UI


VISUALS

New camera movement for
• Base gameplay cam
• Drone hunt
•Coconut drop

Misc.
•Damaged VFX for drone hunt/coconut drop
•Flamingo is now outlined in white
•Turret build text colors no longer vibrant
•Added popup for finding secret chicken



OPTIMIZATION

•Removed unused VFX
•Lowered UI complexity
•Removed unused text outlines



MISCELLANEOUS

•Removed redundant easter eggs
•Changed settings text to show company name instead of personal dev name
•Updated music volume and added UI sounds
•Taking damage underwater now has a unique sound
•Slightly changed lose level sound
•Lvl. 2 Blazing Sands boss skeleton spawn rate lowered for easier play

Collision
•Coconut drop collision is more precise
•Enemy collision is more precise
•Blazing sands Lvl. 2 boss couldn't be hit by some turrets

Fixed
•Movement in Coconut drop didn't work
•Outdated text style on mini-game levels
•Enemy bugged warning distance popup on moving camper modes
•End screen camera placement bug on mini-game levels

Added trailer to App Store page

Vast game performance improvements

UPDATE HIGHLIGHTS

NEW DLC CHAPTER: JADE JUNGLE
-10 new levels
-2 new turrets: Native evolving butterbeam, Snare spider
-15+ new enemies
-New challenge levels
-New mechanics: Turret Hijack, Energy boost pads, Map obstacles

NEW PROGRESSION SYSTEM
-Spend gears and progress to get crazy prizes such as:
-New loading screen
-New mode: Burger Smash!
-New camper van costume!

-Game Changes
Adjusted shop item costs, added Shamrock Sorcerer to the vault, new 3D moveable pause menu, keyboard shortcuts, daily piñata will now drop 75 gears a lot less frequently, winning legendary gears from a daily piñata will now give 250 instead of 500, Adjusted turret rarities, Adjusted evolve costs, Better chicken positions, More cool stats to check out, Bullets no longer track the enemy with most turrets, New enemy redesigns


-Quality-Of-Life Changes
Enemies now look at turrets when attacking
Level and chapter UI no longer overlaps over itself on iPad or stretches too far on iPhone
Changed 'no lives lost' icon
changed menu screens you see when you first load up Blocky Defense
Updated settings menu
Turrets now don't need a target to get ready for next shot
Turtle mine appears bigger
UI has more animations
More screen shake with battles
Smoother camera zoom
Phone vibrates when opening piñata or taking damage
Revamped outdated UI
Turrets that change enemies now work on bosses with a shorter time

-Bug Fixes
Fixed a long-standing bug where enemies would use a different attack while already attacking, Fixed a bug where you couldn't open a chapter if you tapped the wrong part of the button, Fixed a bug where limited-time items and turrets with more than one costume available would appear as unequipped when reloaded, accidentally left a 'Shrinking Sponge' turret in Candyland Madness, Fixed a bug where you would get stuck while moving the opposite direction on Coconut Drop, Fixed a bug where Whiskers The Enchanted wisps could be destroyed, Fixed a bug where stars would display as won even if not, Fixed a huge bug where you could play chapters without actually earning them yet


-All Keyboard shortcuts
Menu tab navigation | numbers 1-5
Evolve turret | numbers 1-8
Pause | P or ESC
Speed up | hold space
Place random turret | R
Sell turret | 0 or S
Show turret attributes | E

UPDATE HIGHLIGHTS

NEW DLC CHAPTER: JADE JUNGLE
-10 new levels
-2 new turrets: Native evolving butterbeam, Snare spider
-15+ new enemies
-New challenge levels
-New mechanics: Turret Hijack, Energy boost pads, Map obstacles

NEW PROGRESSION SYSTEM
-Spend gears and progress to get crazy prizes such as:
-New loading screen
-New mode: Burger Smash!
-New camper van costume!

-Game Changes
Adjusted shop item costs, added Shamrock Sorcerer to the vault, new 3D moveable pause menu, keyboard shortcuts, daily piñata will now drop 75 gears a lot less frequently, winning legendary gears from a daily piñata will now give 250 instead of 500, Adjusted turret rarities, Adjusted evolve costs, Better chicken positions, More cool stats to check out, Bullets no longer track the enemy with most turrets, New enemy redesigns


-Quality-Of-Life Changes
Enemies now look at turrets when attacking
Level and chapter UI no longer overlaps over itself on iPad or stretches too far on iPhone
Changed 'no lives lost' icon
changed menu screens you see when you first load up Blocky Defense
Updated settings menu
Turrets now don't need a target to get ready for next shot
Turtle mine appears bigger
UI has more animations
More screen shake with battles
Smoother camera zoom
Phone vibrates when opening piñata or taking damage
Revamped outdated UI
Turrets that change enemies now work on bosses with a shorter time

-Bug Fixes
Fixed a long-standing bug where enemies would use a different attack while already attacking, Fixed a bug where you couldn't open a chapter if you tapped the wrong part of the button, Fixed a bug where limited-time items and turrets with more than one costume available would appear as unequipped when reloaded, accidentally left a 'Shrinking Sponge' turret in Candyland Madness, Fixed a bug where you would get stuck while moving the opposite direction on Coconut Drop, Fixed a bug where Whiskers The Enchanted wisps could be destroyed, Fixed a bug where stars would display as won even if not, Fixed a huge bug where you could play chapters without actually earning them yet


-All Keyboard shortcuts
Menu tab navigation | numbers 1-5
Evolve turret | numbers 1-8
Pause | P or ESC
Speed up | hold space
Place random turret | R
Sell turret | 0 or S
Show turret attributes | E

UPDATE HIGHLIGHTS

NEW DLC CHAPTER: JADE JUNGLE
-10 new levels
-2 new turrets: Native evolving butterbeam, Snare spider
-15+ new enemies
-New challenge levels
-New mechanics: Turret Hijack, Energy boost pads, Map obstacles

NEW PROGRESSION SYSTEM
-Spend gears and progress to get crazy prizes such as:
-New loading screen
-New mode: Burger Smash!
-New camper van costume!

-Game Changes
Adjusted shop item costs, added Shamrock Sorcerer to the vault, new 3D moveable pause menu, keyboard shortcuts, daily piñata will now drop 75 gears a lot less frequently, winning legendary gears from a daily piñata will now give 250 instead of 500, Adjusted turret rarities, Adjusted evolve costs, Better chicken positions, More cool stats to check out, Bullets no longer track the enemy with most turrets, New enemy redesigns


-Quality-Of-Life Changes
Enemies now look at turrets when attacking
Level and chapter UI no longer overlaps over itself on iPad or stretches too far on iPhone
Changed 'no lives lost' icon
changed menu screens you see when you first load up Blocky Defense
Updated settings menu
Turrets now don't need a target to get ready for next shot
Turtle mine appears bigger
UI has more animations
More screen shake with battles
Smoother camera zoom
Phone vibrates when opening piñata or taking damage
Revamped outdated UI
Turrets that change enemies now work on bosses with a shorter time

-Bug Fixes
Fixed a long-standing bug where enemies would use a different attack while already attacking, Fixed a bug where you couldn't open a chapter if you tapped the wrong part of the button, Fixed a bug where limited-time items and turrets with more than one costume available would appear as unequipped when reloaded, accidentally left a 'Shrinking Sponge' turret in Candyland Madness, Fixed a bug where you would get stuck while moving the opposite direction on Coconut Drop, Fixed a bug where Whiskers The Enchanted wisps could be destroyed, Fixed a bug where stars would display as won even if not, Fixed a huge bug where you could play chapters without actually earning them yet


-All Keyboard shortcuts
Menu tab navigation | numbers 1-5
Evolve turret | numbers 1-8
Pause | P or ESC
Speed up | hold space
Place random turret | R
Sell turret | 0 or S
Show turret attributes | E

NEW ST. PATRICKS DAY UPDATE!!
-New mode, New Costume, new enemies and much more!!

-Game Changes
Turret Balance changes, New Vault system for limited time shop items that are no longer available

-Quality-Of-Life Changes
Shows that you don't have enough money to build/upgrade a turret

-Bug Fixes
Finally fixed the level complete screen display bug, Fixed a bug where Beach and Desert piñatas would break into normal piñata pieces, Fixed a bug where the game would overload and crash when an enemy damages you on moving camper modes

-Update Highlights
Shrinking sponge balance changes, Balanced Summer Snowman health, Changed Casual Runner run animation, More optimized menu, Updated Stats UI, Blocky Defense now limits quality levels to IOS devices that can run it, Complete new game performance/quality changes, Moved minimum IOS version to 12.2 from 10.0

-Quality-Of-Life Changes
Crowd Control turrets now show range when selected, Hides home button on iPhone X, New framerate testing

-Bug Fixes
Fixed a bug where shrinking sponge shrunk flying enemies even without the upgrade, Fixed a bug where the win screen on chapter 3 LVL 1 didn't work

Replaced Ingame patch notes with a new feedback feature
Reduced game size from 473.7 MBs to 318.3 MBs
Fixed a bug where the Undead Tomb boss couldn't be defeated and wouldn't play a death animation

Design Changes
Gives piñatas instead of money when completing a world,
Hidden enemies now show when found, Updated game UI for the new style, Changed Level Complete/Defeat background

Quality-Of-Life Changes
Performance changes, Code clean up and Script optimization, Fixed damage flashes and added a blue tint for shields, Added animation for turrets getting damaged and camper getting damaged,

Fixed Bugs
The user couldn't tap the Secret Chicken on Sandy Shores LVL 1, Loading screen didn't stretch to screen bounds, Victory and Defeat words weren't translated, Completing a level would cause the game to crash

New UI For:
level start, pause menu, new enemy, turret place, dialogue, Piñata Llama

Quality of life Changes
Made enemies larger, Changed UI sounds, Enemies no longer avoid dead enemies, Turrets play animation when upgraded, Changed secret chicken animations in some levels

Other changes
Updated secret codes, Added beach ball to Sandy Shores levels, Changed shop item prices

Fixed bugs
No shadows on Candyland Madness, shadow resolution didn't change with quality settings, candy spider was floating and moving, Candyland madness shop description, a hidden costume may have shown in Coconut Drop, Translated turret rarity & Piñata Llama prize rarity and names, you could see all locked turrets when getting a new turret

-New visualized upgrades for turrets!
-New Candyland boss!
-Redesigned Settings, Shop, and stats menu
-Other small changes
Fixed a bug where you couldn't replay the tutorial
Fixed a bug where the tutorial didn't play at all
Fixed a bug where the pinata gave you 75 every time
Fixed many other minor bugs

Valentines Update!
-New turret!
-New costume!

Other changes and bug fixes!
-Turret balance changes (Shrinking Sponge, Lucha Boar)
-Fixed turret targeting system
-Changed Arcade boss to Undead tomb
-Update game sound FX
-Fixed a bug where Shrinking sponge would shrink bosses
-Fixed a bug where other bosses where in Candyland madness
-Updated turret placing detection
-Replaced Thanksgiving turkey with Elemental Emu

Game cleaning up and fixing bugs
-fixed Candyland being unplayable
-balanced shop item costs
-tweaked turret stats for balance
-updated some turret sounds
-and many more

•Game cleaning up and fixing both minor and major bugs
Fixed menu text size in different languages bug
Changed game file size from 913.4 mb to 389.3 mb (42% smaller)
Fixed endless breaking

fixed all game-breaking bugs

Fixed a game-breaking bug where you couldn't get past the loading screen

Fixed a bug where you couldn't unlock new worlds and other minor bug fixes

COMPLETE GAME REWORK UPDATE
•Interface redesign
easier to read UI, crispy graphics, better animations, etc.

•Gameplay changes
large enemies attack turrets, faster gameplay,
reworked time star, AI logic changed, new boss system, etc.

•Quality of life improvements
huge gameplay optimizations, change the game quality from settings, added ability to take on/off turret costumes, better VFX, animations, Invisible enemy changes, more translations/auto language change, etc.

•New content!
New enemies, New turrets, New Shop Items (turrets, costumes), New achievements, etc.


MAJOR FIXED BUGS
•Piñatas wouldn’t work with achievements and loot drop rates where broken
•Power-Ups wouldn’t work in battle mode
•"Nuke" custom turret stats explode range was broken
•Turret getting destroyed would hide UI
•Some sounds wouldn't play
•Dialogue not always triggering
•Not earning money from winning
•And so many more

CHANGES
-updated tags on AppStore
-added report a bug feature in-game in settings

BUG FIXES
-fixed a bug where you didn't get gears on winning the game
(play the last level again to receive the gears)
-UI problems fixed

Bug Fixes And Changes
•Balanced Blazing Sands level 6
•Grammar fixes
•Changed custom turret stats names
•Fixed multiple bugs in battle mode