April 2013
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March 2013
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End of an Alpha
Mota’s finally out of alpha development and ready for some beta polish. In the beginning, I said that alpha would comprise a story arena for each of the playable classes. I am pleased to say that with the advent of the Wizard’s Tower, alpha is now complete. With the Wizard’s Tower comes three new enemies and a new arena prop: fire golems, ice golems, [secret], and frost...
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Mota Update: Enchanted Vale and Arcane College
The .46 build of Masters of the Arena is now live on both Windows (IndieDB) and Android (Google Play). It includes two new story arenas, the Enchanted Vale (unlocks Druids) and the Arcane College (unlocks Mages). With these new arenas comes three new enemies: sprouts, treants, and demons.
Sprouts
Sprouts are a tricky little weeds. They will run away from you if you get too close, but they...
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Mota Update: City Slums and Brothel
The .44 build of Masters of the Arena is now live on both Windows (IndieDB) and Android (Google Play). It includes two new story arenas, the Brothel (unlocks Temptresses) and the City Slums (unlocks Rogues). With these new arenas comes three new enemies: thugs, arsons, and ‘bosses’.
Thugs
Thugs are fast, nimble, but low-difficulty enemies that stab with double daggers (similar to the...
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Queen's Dungeon Added!
Bug fixes, and goblins, and ogres, oh my! The .42 build of Mota is live on Google Play. It includes the Queen’s Dungeon story arena, and some bug fixes for priests, rogues, and spectres.
Bug fixes
Priests no longer continuously overheal with Blessed Censer
Priests now heal Knights above the 100-health mark
Rogues with the Void Key no longer walk ridiculously slow
Rogues with the Void...
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Mota .41 massive bug fix
Google Play now has the .41 build of Mota. Unfortunately, this does not come equipped with the shiny, new story arena I intended. Instead, it has a game-breaking bug fix.
In the .39 build, I released an update to fix resolution scaling issues for Windows. Unfortunately, this badly broke Mota on any devices that do not run a 1280x720(L) resolution.
This has been rolled back in .41, so while...
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King's Palace added!
Mota’s .39 build includes the addition of the King’s Palace story arena. In the palace, you’ll face three new enemies: pikemen, archers, and champions; three of the queen’s soldier units. Each has their own distinct features, to add to the challenge. Oh, and ballistas. ;)
Pikemen have long spears that they can use to attack through obstacles and stay just out of the...
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Graveyard & Coliseum Added!
Mota’s .38 build is now available. It includes the new Graveyard and Coliseum story arenas. This brings the story arena count to 5 of 12(+).
For Windows users, I’ve also implemented a scale-lock for non-fullscreen so you can now resize the game window without losing pixel perspective.
Barring any design changes that pop up in the last minute, I should have the King’s Palace and...
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February 2013
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Forest!
Google Play now has Mota’s .36 build live. This includes the shiny, new “Forest” story arena. Personally, I think this is a much easier story than the Cathedral, but obviously more difficult than the Rat Cellar. More than likely, all story arenas will vary as far as general difficulty is concerned. I’m hoping to have the Graveyard done tonight as well, but there is a lot of...
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Finally a new story arena in Mota!
The Cathedral is now complete… finally. It took me quite a while to get around to rebuilding Mota’s story engine, but I’m pleased to say that I’ve finally got it working, and story arenas are back on the menu. The Rat cellar has also been remade using the new engine and now has some platform-specific content (e.g. letting players know about hotkeys over clicking for Windows...
November 2012
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Go vote.
September 2012
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Kris: that just doesn't make any since to me
Jason: sense
Kris: since
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Jason: since makes no sense since that isn't the write word.
Kris: O my...look out....we got a gramer bad ass on our hands
Jason: *grammar
Kris: bam
O crap...i just realized
your also a spelling bad ass
Jason: *you're
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August 2012
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Forums... again... finally!
Hey guys, I’ve finally gone and done it… again.
Over the years I’ve created so many damned communities around different games. Some stayed beyond the games; some didn’t. Either way, with everything sort of falling in line with the whole “Nekoyoubi Games” being official and whatnot, I decided it was high time to lay down what will hopefully be the final gaming...
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URGENT MUST LOCATE NASA DUDE WITH MOHAWK NEED HELP MAKING ROCKET GO FARTHER...
– @KimJongNumberUn
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yeahapparently:
My video response to “Whats the best games for people getting into hardcore games”
If there was ever any doubt in my mind why I loved Carboni, I have now been reminded of our eternal bromance.
July 2012
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Have you ever wondered if Mega Man had been Meta Man instead, would his arm...
If at first you don’t succeed, Step-Into.
June 2012
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Beer: America's Favorite Passtime →
So Clayton comes up to me this morning with a new gem. A buddy of his (former coworker) is opening a site as of today. Now, you know how I’m all about early adoption. So of course I went to check it out. Wow, is this thing cool.
Enter the beer…
So now on the right hand side of the site you’ll see a social-looking button (conveniently located directly below the other social...
May 2012
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Migration pains...
I got tired of trying to figure out which direction I wanted to take my site in. I was torn between wanting the simple “blog-esque” fire and forget posting that Tumblr offers and the power and control that I had with my Wordpress site.
In the end, Tumblr’s won the day, and I can’t wait to move in and let the dust settle.
Now for the fun part. Problem is, the dust is not...
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Long time; no post...
Wow. It’s been a bit. Sorry for the delay, guys and gals. I’d like to take a moment and provide an update to the goings on.
Passhackwords vs. eXPra/Blessings/et al.
I was working on Passhackwords pretty steadily until a few things changed in my free time. At that point, I began working on Bukkit plugins for Minecraft with most of the time I wasn’t spending administering our...
May the 4th be with you.
April 2012
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If I was going spelunking in an ice cave I’d sure as hell look for whales...
– K (my wife)
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God could create the world in six days because he didn’t have to make it...
– Intarwebs
March 2012
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Projects We Love: Natural Selection
– Kickstarter email subject. Best ever in fact.
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February 2012
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January 2012
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Fuck you, tumblr. There goes a perfectly good morning. <3
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[ThisIsJustATTribute]
public class ThisIsNotTheGreatestClassInTheWorld { }
– Joel