Hi all,
The wait is finally over. Dofense is now ready and released.
Thank you everyone who bought the game in Early Access. With your feedback in the past 6 months, the game has improved a lot. Your purchase was a vote of confidence that was very encouraging for a first time Indie developer. I hope you will enjoy Dofense.
Since the last release a month ago, the following key things have changed.
Campaign
The newly designed Campaign differs in structure from the past. Before, the levels were organized in separate sectors. It was mainly done to manage the crystal count. The new approach organizes the levels in a branched structure so that you get to play levels with a wide range of crystal counts - from 0 to 100. It has been designed in such a way that at any time you will have several levels to choose from, in case you get stuck at one particular level. There are total 69 levels. These were shortlisted from over hundred levels that were available during the early access phase. The ones that didn't make the cut are now released on the workshop via my personal account.
Also note that, because the structure of the campaign has changed, the game progress had to be reset. So you will have to play some levels again if you played them before. There's a good reason to play them again because many of them have been revised and some of them now carry achievements.
Achievements
In the past week I've added 17 achievements. These will be awarded for achieving goals of different difficulties. I very much enjoyed designing the icons for each of them. They also give the opportunity to coax the player to explore the aspects of the gameplay that they may not have thought of before.
Performance improvement
The path finding library needed some performance tweaks to handle certain situations. The changes have made a visible difference in the overall frame rate.
I'm very happy that Dofense is finally released after such a long history of development. I look forward to adding more updates in the future. For now, I'm going to decompress and listen to your feedback.
Thanks again and hope you will enjoy Dofense.
Cheers!