Battlefield Briefing 4/08/15

Latest Servo Build: 255

It's a playtest heavy week here at BonusXP. We're trying out some new ideas and new content which requires us to just sit down and play the game to see if it is going in the right direction. Our whole company participates and we have a feedback session immediately after we play the game to talk about what was fun, what wasn't, and ideas for what to try next. It's very open, with some of the best ideas being prefaced with, "This might be crazytown but what if we tried...".

One of the most recent changes that we've been trying out is how you get your Servos. Servos are towering machines of war and the backbone of your army, so when and how you get your Servos is a pretty pivotal piece to how the game plays.

Before we announced the game back at the beginning of March, you started a game with three Servos and those are the ones you played your game with. The way the game is playing now, you start with just one Servo, gaining access to the other two later in the game and being able to choose which of your Servos you want to field depending on the conditions of the game. Is your enemy going heavy on Drones? Time for your area of effect Missile Pod equipped Servo. Do you need to break through enemy defenses? Time to bring in your high hitpoint Servo with the shield to spearhead the attack.

This change has really added to the fun of the game, the strategy, and we still have more ideas to try that play off of this.  When and how will you roll out your customized Servos? We're working on that right now.

More next week.