Flowerpot Games

To use a cliche … I have good news and bad news …

The bad news is we’re past the date we set in this post for getting Flower Battles into beta. (It was Feb 28th for those that don’t want to click the link and look )

The good news is we got a good chunk of the hard things on the task list completed!

We’ve already added :

• Friends List / Black List
• Awards (Achievements)
• Ability to send messages to other players
• Ability to purchase Light

The things we haven’t gotten finished yet :

• Localization of dates and times
• Rewards for consecutive days played
• Quest Lines (fixed encounters instead of dynamic opponents)
• New content

Right now, I’m in the middle of an overhaul of the sprouts system and changes to the combat system. Neither of which were on the original list, but I feel they’re worth the inclusion. It’s too early to give details about the changes, but I’m hopeful they’ll give you more choices to test out different strategies when building your flower and to make your choices mean something.

Once that goes live, I’ll jump on adding quest lines to Flower Battles. Each quest lines will be a series of encounters with opponents of fixed abilities (increasing in strength) connected by a common story line. I think this will be a nice contrast to the dynamic opponents found when adventuring and give a nice way to introduce unique items.

I hate to give another date and miss it … but I’m shooting to get the rest done by sometime in early April. Let’s see how close we come

Have you battled a flower today?