A short but fun update.
A new playable character Jove has been added to the game.
With Jove being added to the game, this introduces a new gameplay mechanic: Tokens. The three new abilities have effects that are very strong (and cheap), but take a long time to setup. A patient player who plans ahead will make the best use of these.
The three new abilities (with my amazing placeholder mspaint icons...)
Field of Sprouts: Add a
token to a tile you control. Counts 3 extra points when the tile is scored.
Falling Oak Tree: Add a
token to a tile you control. When the tokens match the tiles value, discard that tile plus a random opponents tile for each token.
Spring Harvest: Add a
token on a tile you control. Double it's points for each token when scored this turn, then remove the tokens.
Fixed reported bug: CPU placing tiles on existing tiles
A bug has been fixed in this release which was allowing the CPU to sometimes place tiles on areas which already contained a tile, Thanks to the user who reported this bug using the feedback form!
The cause was due to the new AI that was added recently, where the bots sometimes spread out over the board by placing a purely random tile down. Unfortunately the list of tiles I was providing the bot was ALL the board slots in the game, not just the ones that didn't have tiles. Woops!
If you're curious how something like this sneaks in, here's the code that caused the issue. See if you can spot the difference!
Wrong
Right
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What's Next?
Over the next few weeks I'll be adding in the last two characters of the game, one of which is the Final Boss. At that point I'll be going back through the story mode and adding in the remaining days. It's going to be a fair bit of work but it will be nice to have that milestone done. Once those are done I can start on some of the more fun parts of story mode which includes challenge/puzzles. Really looking forward to getting started on that one.
If anyone want's to talk about Cascade Cafe and give feedback/suggestions, or you just want to say hi, feel free to stop by the discord at: https://discord.gg/jurtMyWy52
Cheers!