We are still working on the game and would like you to know what’s going on as well. After reading all the comments, reviews and discussions — I’m glad to say that a lot of feature requests match our original ideas about the future of Protolife.
So here is the upcoming plan:
There are three major steps displayed here (scheme does not reflect ongoing patches and minor improvements).
1.a Campaign Generator
Instead of just a single random level game mode we are working on mini-campaign generator, which is seed-based and generates a small amount of consequent levels. Imagine this as a challenge mode with a special reward.
1.b Tower Editor
That’s right — a custom patterns editor. Of course it will have some limitations, but overall — any player will be able to configure own version of T5 or TFLM3 and use it in mini-campaigns.
1.c NG+
We do love our main game sequence and don’t want to make any huge changes to existing levels. What do we want is to expand the replayability of these levels with a New Game+ mode. In general, it would be a harder version of the original campaign with less limitations.
2. Level Editor, Steam Workshop & Trading Cards
This one has been requested a lot. Technically, there’s a level editor — a 3rd party software called Tiled. Tiled is amazing and free, but we can’t distribute it with the game right now. At the same time we need to update our internal levels structure to make level creation process more simple and clear. Steam Workshop support goes right here as well so you will be able to share your levels with other players.
3. Planetary Defense
Last in the list goes the big update which will include a new game mode / expansion with some more content and new mechanics. Not much can be said about this because a) we have several prototypes to test and not sure which one would work better and b) we’d like to surprise you.
That’s all for today. Let us now what do you think in comments or Twitter.