Feature Teaser: New Game Modes
This week I started working on a new way to play PogoChamp: Survival Mode. This mode will take you through the levels of the main game, but instead of trying to complete levels as quickly as possible, you need to complete them without crashing. The leaderboard will show best completion times, or number of levels completed if you haven't completed it. There will also be a daily challenge mode, which is like a mini version of the survival mode, featuring a randomized set of 10 levels. There's still lots of work to do before these modes are ready to be released, but they have actually come together pretty quickly and without many major problems.
Where are the new levels!?
I ran a playtest of the new levels this week and I think they're in a pretty good state. I still need to tweak the star times to make sure they're sensible, and then I need to figure out where in the level order to place them. I was hoping to release them this week, but I got side-tracked with the new game mode work. The current plan is to release the new levels and the new game modes at the same time in one big update. I want to make sure it's all high quality when I release it, so please be patient :) .