{"id":436,"date":"2010-08-15T23:36:51","date_gmt":"2010-08-15T22:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puppygames.net\/blog\/?p=436"},"modified":"2010-08-15T23:49:51","modified_gmt":"2010-08-15T22:49:51","slug":"saturn-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.puppygames.net\/blog\/?p=436","title":{"rendered":"Saturn released!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we&#8217;ve finally released the Saturn levels for Revenge of the Titans under the guise of version 1.5! This has been quite a complex release, what with the addition of several completely new alien types and a whole new world, and an awful lot of fiddling with balance, bug fixing, enhancement, and so on. Without further ado, here&#8217;s the links:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/download.puppygames.net\/SetupRevengeOfTheTitansDemo.exe\">Windows<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/download.puppygames.net\/RevengeOfTheTitans_MacOSX.zip\">Mac OS<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.puppygames.net\/applets\/RevengeOfTheTitans.jnlp\">Linux<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like last time it would probably be a good idea to play through from level 1 again with a new profile, as the amount of money available in the levels is somewhat different now, as is the cost of researching various things.<\/p>\n<p>And here are some pics&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.puppygames.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/revenge-of-the-titans-saturn-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 10px 0 0;\" title=\"revenge-of-the-titans-saturn-5\" src=\"https:\/\/www.puppygames.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/revenge-of-the-titans-saturn-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.puppygames.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/revenge-of-the-titans-saturn-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-438\" title=\"revenge-of-the-titans-saturn-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.puppygames.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/revenge-of-the-titans-saturn-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.puppygames.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/revenge-of-the-titans-saturn-2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.puppygames.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/revenge-of-the-titans-saturn-2-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px;\" title=\"revenge-of-the-titans-saturn-6\" src=\"https:\/\/www.puppygames.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/revenge-of-the-titans-saturn-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yes, the boss is armed with a laser. No, he&#8217;s not very friendly.<\/p>\n<h4><!--more-->What&#8217;s New?<\/h4>\n<h5>Bugs Fixed<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Fixed: rocket explosion kills gidlets immediately upon spawning from a dead angry tick &#8211; gidlets now immune for 1 second on spawning<\/li>\n<li>Fixed: Win32 installer probs on Win7<\/li>\n<li>Fixed: games can now be saved and restored properly<\/li>\n<li>Fixed: lasers and rockets have different initial scanning ranges and scanner influence compared to normal turrets<\/li>\n<li>Fixed: Hide build entity when over other UI elements<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>New Features &amp; Enhancements<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li> &#8220;Replay&#8221; level to be accompanied by &#8220;Restart&#8221; level in menu screen and end game screen<\/li>\n<li>Wraiths now occasionally damaged by blaster fire and explosions<\/li>\n<li>ESC key cancels building<\/li>\n<li>Prevent rocket turrets targeting flying units<\/li>\n<li>Prevent explosions damaging flying unitsPrevent disruptor damaging flying units<\/li>\n<li>Different gidrahs do different amounts of damage. Wraiths are especially dangerous!<\/li>\n<li>Rockets to explode only on striking target location<\/li>\n<li>Rockets to cause splash damage to buildings<\/li>\n<li>Turrets and droids now retarget every 2 seconds to pick better targets<\/li>\n<li>Wraiths now immune to lasers, and can only be stunned by disruptors<\/li>\n<li>Bosses can&#8217;t be stunned or knocked back now<\/li>\n<li>Put in a load of tips about gameplay and interface<\/li>\n<li>New $500 pickup \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li>More barricades available per world<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Balance<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Change gidrah speed increase to linear with difficulty<\/li>\n<li>More and more crystals as worlds progress<\/li>\n<li>Even more crystals on boss levels<\/li>\n<li>Reduce crystals depending on excess cash<\/li>\n<li>Reduce value of gidrahs a bit<\/li>\n<li>Slowly adjust difficulty based on previous level<\/li>\n<li>Autoloaders no longer get more expensive the more you build<\/li>\n<li>Slowed down gid type 3 on the moon a bit, and made them a little weedier<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Internal Stuff<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Tip sequences<\/li>\n<li>Fast forward button tip<\/li>\n<li>Building factories tip<\/li>\n<li>Harvesting tip<\/li>\n<li>Reloading tip<\/li>\n<li>Painting tip<\/li>\n<li>Placing turrets out of the way tip<\/li>\n<li>Armoured gidrahs tip<\/li>\n<li>Base needs repairing tip<\/li>\n<li>Base needs shielding tip<\/li>\n<li>Powerup tips (normal, cool, exotic)<\/li>\n<li>Scripted tips that appear at set times in a level<\/li>\n<li>Suicide gidrahs<\/li>\n<li>Flying alien movement<\/li>\n<li>Increase danger wherever an alien dies<\/li>\n<li>Laser to use proper rendering<\/li>\n<li>Expression parser in XML files! An easier life for Chaz.<\/li>\n<li>Updated gidrah story text with strength and new hitpoints values<\/li>\n<li>Bombs dropped when gidrah frozen or killed<\/li>\n<li>Bomb dropping<\/li>\n<li>Boss to fire laser from its eye<\/li>\n<li>Flying gidrah &#8220;drop attacks&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Wraiths ever so slightly less ghostly<\/li>\n<li>Bombheads can&#8217;t be stunned once they&#8217;ve begun their attack<\/li>\n<li>Gidrahs all now have different death noises<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Balance Changes<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Increase price of rockets and lasers and disruptors to $5000<\/li>\n<li>Nerf rockets, lasers and disruptors by reducing fire rate by 1 round \/ sec<\/li>\n<li>Increased research cost of rockets, lasers and disruptors to $15000<\/li>\n<li>Increased research cost of silos to $7500<\/li>\n<li>Reduced price of autoloader to $500<\/li>\n<li>Increased droid fire rate by 50%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As before, just go on ahead and try it out and if you&#8217;ve got any comments just feel free to post them here. Before you all moan about some things that\u00a0<em>didn&#8217;t<\/em> make it into this release, we&#8217;re changing our release schedules slightly after this one: we&#8217;re going to be releasing several incremental updates over the coming two months, every two weeks or so, which in no particular order will add, one at a time:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The much requested Sell button &#8211; yes, we reckon this will bring lots of added fun<\/li>\n<li>A facility to hide the HUD so you can place buildings right at the bottom of the map (and general HUD redesign to accommodate it)<\/li>\n<li>Earning medals for certain things, and a medals screen to look at your trophy cabinet so far<\/li>\n<li>Endless mode<\/li>\n<li>Survival mode<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And after we&#8217;ve got all that working, it&#8217;ll be another long stint to get Titan done before Christmas. At which point the game will\u00a0<em>finally<\/em> be properly released and increase in price to $27.72. If you haven&#8217;t yet bought the game, now&#8217;s your chance! Not only do you get it all nice and cheap you also get to influence the development decisions we make for the next 3 months, and whine about the difficulty levels.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a few more pictures before bedtime:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 10px 0 0;\" title=\"revenge-of-the-titans-saturn-3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.puppygames.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/revenge-of-the-titans-saturn-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.puppygames.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/revenge-of-the-titans-saturn-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-437\" title=\"revenge-of-the-titans-saturn-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.puppygames.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/revenge-of-the-titans-saturn-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.puppygames.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/revenge-of-the-titans-saturn-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.puppygames.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/revenge-of-the-titans-saturn-1-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-440\" title=\"revenge-of-the-titans-saturn-4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.puppygames.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/revenge-of-the-titans-saturn-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.puppygames.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/revenge-of-the-titans-saturn-4.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.puppygames.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/revenge-of-the-titans-saturn-4-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve finally released the Saturn levels for Revenge of the Titans! New version 1.5 now available for download.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,18],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-r","tag-revenge-of-the-titans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puppygames.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puppygames.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puppygames.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puppygames.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puppygames.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.puppygames.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453,"href":"https:\/\/www.puppygames.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions\/453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puppygames.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puppygames.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puppygames.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}