Gear Shrine Depths⚙
Welcome to the Gear Shrine Depths, the final area of Paper Animal Adventure!
You will be able to access the area after completing all seven other areas. The Gear Shrine Depths area is a bit special, since it features a special map generation algorithm that creates these large carpets with tall pillars next to them!
I tried adding a sense of height to the whole thing to give the player the feeling of being in a tall, ancient hall, so I not only added the tall pillars, but also waterfalls that flow down from the top. The higher these objects reach, the less opaque they get, to not obstruct the view!
Additionally, the area has a darkness effect, with various light sources, like the torches, the player itself and some enemies (in this case, the Anglerfish enemy).
There are also various objects that hang from the ceiling, like old, rusty chains or this chandelier!
There are also some red and blue swords and shields laying around, what's up with that?
So far I was able to add two enemies to this area, one of them being the Gazing Gear enemy. Like all Gazing enemies, it attacks with spikes that shoot upwards. But a short time after the spikes appeared, they will move sideways and attack a second time, so better take care!
Challenges💪
One of the Kickstarter stretch goals was the Challenge Mode!
The Challenge mode provides a fresh experience, where you have to reach a certain goal with modified game settings. There will be a total of 52 challenges, with two boss rush challenges.
When you completed a challenge, you will get the Cleared Tropy. If you got a good score, you'll get the Score Trophy and if you completed the challenge pretty fast, you'll get the Time Trophy!
So lots of stuff to do!
Currently I'm done with challenge #1 - #21 and I already think they are super fun haha
Challenge #8 makes you play as Chunky Plant, who has decided to expand her domain and advance into the Shiny Caves area!
When you want to play a relaxed round, try Challenge #12! Here every Growth upgrade costs only 1 Experience Point!
In Challenge #18 you can't attack directly by yourself. You have to spawn a bunch of BuddyBots that will do the attacking for you!
When attempting to do Challenge #21, you have to defeat Pew Pew in under 6 minutes dungeon time. You lost when all your characters are defeated or when the timer runs out, so you better hurry up!
Supply Sets🍰
I wanted to make starting new runs a bit more interesting, so I added Supply Sets! You can unlock Supply Set A, B and C and can chose one in the Character Select screen!
Supply sets have different Items, Skills, Stickers or other stuff. When you select a Supply Set, you'll start with its contents in your inventory. The Supply Set contents change daily, so I might be worth checking them out from time to time!
You don't have to chose one of course:)
Also to make things fair, they are disabled in the Tournament and Challenges mode!
New Domain Skill🏠
The Domain skill got reworked a bit!
Before you could only cast a Domain where it didn't overlap with any other Domains, but now you can stack them together!
When you expand your Domain by casting another one nearby, the time until it disappears again gets extended! You can see how much time the Domain has still left by its color:
White means you have more than 10 seconds left, then comes green, orange, yellow and red means it's about to disappear.
Also the bigger your Domain is, the more bonus stats you'll get!
A small Domain only sparkles a bit, but a bigger one sparkles way more, indicating it giving you more bonus stats while you're in it!
Area Entrances🌳
I also changed the way you can enter areas now!
When an area was generated, one floor was chosen to have an entrance to another area.
That meant if you wanted to go to a specific area, you had to take a specific route, which didn't leave you with much routing choices.
For example if you wanted to go to the Kaboom Dunes in the screenshot above, you would have to take the bottom route and didn't have the choice to visit any other floors.
So now these area entrances act like a shortcut, because when you defeat a boss, you can now choose where you want to go!
As soon as you enter the portal you can choose between the Gear Shrine or the other areas. This means you can plan your route on the World Map more free.
Thanks for reading🧡
That's it for today friends!
Thank you so much for reading this far:)
As always, if you have any feedback, suggestions or questions feel free to reach out, I'm always happy to hear them!!
Hope you'll have an great November, take care of yourself and others and see you in 4 weeks!!:D🧡