Chronomon, the Monster Taming Farm SIM Available on Steam / Google Play / Apple If you like Pokemon or Stardew Valley, wishlist on Steam!
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Chronomon is opening up the online co-op multiplayer to beta tests!
Let me know if you wish to join!
Know a friend that might like Chronomon? I have a few steam codes to players that wish to help test everything with their buddy (limited spots available) DM if interested!
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-Be Assassin's creed
-Pay off Google to show 100% positive rating on front page
- When clicking to see them, a 2.7 briefly pops up
- It disappears a fraction of a second later
Ubisoft brings shame to all game developers
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FYI, Chronomon will not be politically motivated. It will not push an agenda. We make games that are meant to be fun. Thats all.
If you want to put messaging in your game that is fine, more power to you. But to call an opinion of this "gross as hell" is simply wrong.
Godot started some drama
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My final post on the Godot drama.
It’s tough to admit, but I lost a fellow game dev friend because of my views on the situation. However, I’ve also gained new friends along the way.
We should all strive to respect each other’s opinions, even when they differ greatly. It’s okay not to agree on everything—that’s part of life.
What’s most harmful is when we force our beliefs onto others. In a community that’s meant to foster creativity and collaboration, we owe it to each other to respect different perspectives. We’re here to make games, share fun, and hopefully bring people together through that shared experience.
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Games and software should stay out of politics. Were here to provide fun and an escape from all of this.
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Just a little reminder to all Gamers...
Not every developer is a AAA multi-million budge, 100+ employee company.
Some of us are single devs, working 60+ hours a week on these games. Some or most working jobs at the same time.
We wake up way too early. We spend very little leisure time all to build something we are passionate about that hopefully someone will enjoy for less than the cost of a single fast food meal.
When you leave a review or email about something, please keep in mind we are not mindless robots doing a job we don't like for a company that pays too little.
Please be respectful and understanding.
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After 2+ years of solo dev work, I'm thrilled (and a little nervous) to finally announce:
🗓️ Chronomon releases May 8th!
A monster taming + farming RPG you can play on PC, mobile, or even your watch. (Cloud save - Play anywhere!)
A like or retweet would mean the world ❤️
#indiedev #gamedev #monstercollecting #pixelart
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How I started my Game dev journey
- 10 years in restaurants, from GM to KM to server. All leading no where. Horribly depressed.
- Started college, got an associates in Game Design, associates in Mobile development
- Immedietly started projects while in school for experience to join a company
- 8 years applying with 0 interviews or callbacks + full time job and still making games
- Realized college was a scam and dropped out before a bachelors (still 40k in racked up debt)
- Officially gave up on working for a AAA company
- 9 released games later and almost full time indie
Almost....
Yes, the 80 hour week journey for a decade was and is worth it.
Very few of us will make it big and that is OK. You can survive by making a ton of small games compounding passive income over the years.
How I started making indie games:
- had one bad day at work
- googled “how to make a videogame”
- i didn’t stop after that
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I've seen your recent posts and I'm truly sorry for what you’ve gone through. You didn’t deserve to lose friends for standing by your principles.
Old friends gone, new ones found—perhaps for the better.
One day, I hope everyone can accept each other, regardless of their views. Fingers crossed. Isn’t that the message we should all be striving for?
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🚨 CHRONOMON IS OUT NOW!!!
🎮 Monster taming meets farming sim
🌱 Grow crops, battle creatures, explore the wild
🔄 Cross-save across PC, Mobile & soon Consoles
💾 One-time purchase, no ads, no IAPs
A like or retweet would also be MUCH appreciated in helping a small dev reach his goals =)
Links in comments!
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I never expected to reach these levels. Thank you everyone for the support.
Just a few months left for release! Let's pump these numbers up! Pushing for 20k. You think it's possible 🤔
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Hey content creators! 🎥🎮
Looking for streamers and YouTubers interested in covering Chronomon — a monster taming + farming RPG!
If interested, DM me or email support@stonegolemstudio.com ✨
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@AnBullet76 Ok this is my final one. I thought it important to express my true intent since the other ones didn't quite live up to what I was trying to say.
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In case you missed it, Chronomons newest showcase of features! Catch monsters, let them help you on the farm, Available on all devices including Smartwatches!
🌟Wishlist on Steam store.steampowered.com/app/2…
HUGE thanks to @GymLeaderEd and @realBerryBandit for an amazing job at the direct as always
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Indie Dev Marketing - Part 5 - How to get 10k Wishlists
A picture is worth a 1000 words.
1. Kickstarter is more than just raising funds. It's an amazing marketing tool when done right.
2. @GymLeaderEd has been amazing. Influencers can have a nice impact if you can find one in your genre.
3. Ads - Although they are paid, they can give a nice steady stream of income. Even $5 a day if you can swing it will help those slow times between events. I use FB as it has the best CPC and targeted marketing.
4. Gaming sites like @gamingbible, although very VERY hard to get a feature, are still a solid platform for marketing.
5. Publishers can get you into events that aren't available to the public.
6. The biggest push of them all is the age old, to get you wishlists, you have to have wishlists. As soon as you get on the top WL for steam, you get an absurd amount of push for a solid 2 weeks.
7. Steam events are easily your go to source. Don't take them lightly and ALWAYS sign up for the relevant ones. You won't succeed otherwise.
#indiegamedev
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Words can't describe how it feels to be a developer and get reviews like this...
We are sitting at 89% positive! And the 3 bad reviews were on the first few days of apocalyptic EA launch.
As my first steam game, I'll take this as a win.
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To be clear: This wasn’t supposed to pop off. I don’t know if they were paid or not — I’m just saying something about this feels off.
No way it should say “100% loved the game” when a 2.7 rating flashes up. Even if it’s review bombing, Steam was around 81% last I checked.
The fact that the rating shows for a moment and then vanishes is... worrying.
I don’t have a strong opinion on the game or Ubisoft. Just pointing out the inconsistencies.
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We just hit 10k wishlists!!!
Huge thank you to everyone, this is a MASSIVE milestone =)
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If you're a game developer and don't have a discord... get one now. No matter how small you are.
I still remember my first person. It might have been weird alone in a server with one person. Sure but if you care, players care back.
We are now almost at 800 members and let me just say, your players opinions are the most important thing while developing a game. It's hard to get that in typical social media.
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Take. Politics. Out. Of. Gaming.
A simpler question would be, are you a "Straight White Male"?
This is a question most events will ask you these days. Godot is not the only one to segregate people. Who else has seen this?
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🚨 Chronomon launches TOMORROW! 🚨
Catch monsters. Build your farm. Do both?
With cloud-save, take your game anywhere =)
🖥️ Steam
📱 iOS & Android
Links in comments!
#indiegame #monstercollector #Chronomon
After 2+ years of solo dev work, I'm thrilled (and a little nervous) to finally announce:
🗓️ Chronomon releases May 8th!
A monster taming + farming RPG you can play on PC, mobile, or even your watch. (Cloud save - Play anywhere!)
A like or retweet would mean the world ❤️
#indiedev #gamedev #monstercollecting #pixelart
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All of them don't but 1. It's amazing how others, even family will put you down when pursuing your dreams.
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If you want to promote DEI. Please state this beforehand. Slap it in the tags, description and articles.
None of use have an issue with it. We have an issue with forcing it on us.
Just like you would have an issue with us forcing 2 gender ideology on you.
It's very... very simple. You respect us. We rerspect you.
The WORST SCENE in DRAGON AGE VEILGUARD just dropped.
You can never apologize enough, and you have to do it in JUST the right way, Dragon Age lectures.
Dragon Age Veilguard lectures you on the right way to apologize for misgendering someone, and it is as cringe, long and painfully drawn as you would imagine.
No wait, it's worse.
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So you believe all games should come with subliminal messaging to push an agenda on players?
Instead of just being about fun?
Please give me a list of games you have worked on or made so I can be sure my kids never play them.
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Do you like Monster Tamers? How about Farm SIMs?
What if they were comibined?
Chronomon is essentially pokemon + stardew valley except it comes with Cloud Save on all devices so you can take your monsters and farm literally anywhere.
Launch sale is still going on! Download today =)
linktr.ee/stonegolemstudios
#monstertamer #farmingSIM
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That's all it should come down too. Make something you enjoy that others can enjoy. Easy peasy
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After sending out that streamer post, my email was flooded with requests. Heres the breakdown on how it went.
- 90% steam curators or scams
- 9% Scams with wrong emails
- 1% Real people
Goodness.
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Thats right. Indie gaming is the future.
We don't have shareholders. We have few or no staff. We are the ones that actually respond and listen to players.
All the AAA gaming companies you see today have been around since the early stages of gaming 90s and below. Bioware, Microsoft, EA, Ubisoft etc
It's our turn.
Indie games come close to AA/AAA games in revenue on Steam for first time ever, grossing $4 billion in 2024 so far
> According to VG Insights’ Global Indie Games Market Report, indie games have generated nearly $4 billion in gross revenue* on Steam from January 1 to September 30, 2024. This is 48% of all full-game revenue on the platform this year.
vginsights.com/insights/arti…
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There have been over 30 updates since launch, over 500 changes, features and bug fixes. So you are telling me, the trees DID NOT change with seasons?
Well the do now. Shame on me dev.
Very exciting news coming soon for Chonomon! Online systems are in construction =)
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@VistaLargaGames deserves recognition for honoring and defending Charlie. He has had multiple video take downs and has been very vocal standing up for whats right.
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Ok let me get this straight... I spent 6 hours figuring out how to loop through the 100k tiles in the games maps and changing them so you could have seasons;
To find out that I could just changed each tile type individually (200) and refreshed the maps?
They don't teach this in college.
Anyways. SNOWDAY!
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My dev @OvaMagica sitting front page on the Creature collector fest!
So happy you all!
If your looking for a 3d Farming / Monster tamer this is where you need to go. Hands down.
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Chronomon is less than a month away from release!
Main focus is bugs (of course) but what is the most important thing to you in a Monster Taming Farming Game?
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This is what kind of Indie Dev I am.
Thank you everyone for sticking through the early EA launch, we're moving on to bigger and better things soon =) I can't wait to knock out features!
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Modern, younger gamers didn't grow up with that massive, no internet, difficulty curve and almost 0 hand holding.
It's a lost art.
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Launch day was crazy! Even our monsters are tired 😵💫
Anyways, thank you everyone so far for the support! To those having issues, i'm jacked on caffiene and will be providing updates all day, everyday, for the remaining future lol.
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You either hate or love Chronomon but the stats don't lie and I accept that it's a niche game.
The EA launch wasn't a mad success but I will constantly be working towards a solid 1.0 launch and hope to redeem it.
Now how do I convince players that 4 directional movement is still cool?
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I've been so busy patching that I went dark on socials!
Since May 8th - Launch day, there have been a total of 11 official patches and a few other unnoffical hot patches!
Soon comes the fun part, features =)
For now, here is an adorable sleeping Antlerttle.
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Thank you to all the content creators who’ve reached out to cover Chronomon so far!
I’m in the final stages of testing now and will update everyone as soon as it's ready to go.
There have been a slightly overwhelming replies so a post might work better in this case.
I appreciate your support more than you know 😊
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I couldn't agree more. Where are my noticers?
Surely there is a plethora of Monster Taming and Farming SIM players that love an old school pixel art feel out there right?!
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Click to move and interact incoming!
AI pathfinding FTW
I don't know how others debug but placing little squares is by far the best way if you're a visual person.
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Has anyone released a steam game into beta? Under the playtest section?
This scares me that I will accidently just release early the full game.
Any guidance would be appreciated!
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Chronomon isn’t your average Farm SIM / Monster Tamer.
🏙️ 7 towns to explore
⚔️ Heavy RPG elements
🐾 Leans into monster taming
🌱 2 story paths: Farm or Fight
I’m not the best artist or designer, I'll be the first to admit that, just a programmer who loves deep mechanics and pixel art.
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Best of luck to you Redot. An engine that doesn't push nor pull on any community is what we want.
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Does Chronomon need local multiplayer? 🤔
#indiegame
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3 weeks working on the 390, yes 390 different passive skills in game. I know it will be worth it.
-390 Passive skills
- 13 Skill Tree elements
- 39 Total skill trees
Want a fire monster that is immune to being wet? Roll for a water passive defence tree.
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Indies should always find a way to support each other. Even if it's a 3 second click to subscribe.
Good Luck Hobo Gamer.
Woke up to a good birthday present. Crossed 900 subs overnight.
Can we get me the last 95 I need to be a full YT partner by Halloween?
If you haven't already, check out my channel and sub today. 😀
piped.video/@gamerhobo
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Lol got me. I can admit when I'm wrong.
The play on cnn won't make it to release, I thought it was a fun marketing post though
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Unfortunantly. We got along well even being just "online friends". They were amicable when leaving but I just thought we could both respect each others views.
The world will be a better place when we can agree to disagree.
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Which color or pattern for our upcoming Monster Taming SIM farm tiles?
#pixelart #indiedev #indiegame #indiegamedev
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It's posts like this that put people at odds with that community. Simply having an opinion and you want me to now become brain dead?
How are people supposed to accept a community that so malicously attacks anyone that thinks even remotely different from you?
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"Make a multiplayer game, it's easy" they said.
This is 10 days of setup work, join codes, spawning, moving, turning and teleporting.
Today starts the daily updates on Chronomons multiplayer setup! It will be multi-platform compatible. Apple -> Google -> PC can all play together.
Stay tuned tomorrow for more updates! If you've been looking forwad to the Co-op let me know so this work isn't in vein.
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Chronomon is going full online capabilities!
To start, we need a friend system =)
Next will be trading, online PVP and full co-op!
Which one are you most excited for?
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Very few jobs in this world require such a wide range of talents combined to complete.
As indies, we have to learn;
Art
Sound Design
Story building
Programming
Level Design
Marketing
Publishing
And the list goes on. Those of us that can push through and release a game alone are the top 1% and whether or not the game succeeds... very few people can say they did it.
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Indie Dev Marketing - Part 8 - Social Media
(Contreversial Thread)
🧵 Thread
I've been waiting to post on this topic until I understood it more. I've been on socials since myspace and being a Introvert Pisces, has made it difficult for me to truly understand how it works.
But 2 decaded later, Let me explain what I have on marketing and social media.
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Whoever said smartwatch gaming was too "niche"?
Our first game to reach 100k Downloads! I've been waiting for this day. Celebration time.
Now lets see how that % plays out as a paid, full game. Will keep you updated here with conversion %.
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Strafing is a must.
We now have core logic in for the control monster.
Next up, adding AI to the enemy to fight back.
Confirmed working with Keyboard, Controller and touch
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Chronomon is FULLY funded within 48 hours on #kickstarter!
Man, let me tell you. Kinda hard to breathe right now.
Seriously everyone thank you and let's take this to the moon! (no dogecoin reference intended)
kickstarter.com/projects/chr…
#projectswelove #pixelart #monstertamer
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Chronomon doesn't do "monthly" updates. We update each feature, always.
Update .8010 is out now and we officially have online PVP! Next up is online trading. After that... Co-op mode. It keeps getting better, for less than the price of Mcdonalds meal =)
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Recently released a game that took 3 years to make. Months after release now and it didn't even make it to 50 reviews. That was with 15k wishlists on launch and a positive rating.
I think we as devs forget to test early and get an MVP out asap, instead just shooting for the moon on what we want as a game.
I'm coming to the realization that more smaller games can outpace 1 large game in terms of revenue.
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I've been so busy creating that I forgot about marketing. I'm sure other indies feel this pain!
New Features coming in soon! Update .8013
- Town festivals
- More NPC schedules and quests
- 10+ new Decoration items including fish tanks to show off your best catches (Decorate the tank as well)
- New bait to purposefully catch junk
- More town building quests to unlock and expand towns
And of course bug fixes and small changes =)
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Listen... devs aren't perfect, bugs will happen.
I love setting up mailboxes to accept fixes from the server! A simple system to proactively Fix any issues so you don't have to wait for an update.
- Issue with your quests? I can fix that!
- Missing a monster - sent!
Of course I have to retroactively know what will break, better than nothing =)
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Right! It doesn't have to be more than this. No agenda necessary. The beauty of all art forms
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If you want to allow DEI and pronouns in your game, more power to you. Games are meant to be an extention of your beliefs and creativity.
With that said... If you are purposefully pushing an agenda, you better put that in every article and description first.
Gamers don't want to be ambushed with things they don't believe especially when it takes you "out of the game - into the dei frying pan".
Most of us just want to play a game.
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Officially up and running on IOS! Take your Chronomon save anywhere.
This now includes early access on;
-PC Windows Steam
-Google Play Android Mobile
-IOS Mobile
We're actively working on consoles and smartwatch support as well. Stay tuned.
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Chronomon - Patch 0.7971 is out!
Thank you everyone for being patient, loads of bug fixes and a few feautres added. The grind isn't even close to over.
Patch list in comments.
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Rearanging your home shouldn't be difficult. Even if you live like a bachelor(ette).
Drag and drop your items WHILE moving. This will be especially useful once you unlock all 6 rooms and both stories.
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This is no different then spending hours watching every football game or Nascar race.
Society needs to normalize gaming as a hobby.
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Chronomon now officially supports MacOS!
4 platforms down - 4 to go
Take your monsters and farm literally anywhere.
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Hey #gamedev,
You've got mail!
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Chronomon official #gametrailer
Delve into the world of Chronomon - a Monster Taming simulation RPG
"Think #pokemon + #stardewvalley "
I hope you enjoy the video!
#gamedev #indiegame #wearos #steam #pc #mobilegaming #coromon #harvestmoon #simulationgame #monstertameing
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Ahh let the sun shine down.
Chronomon fun fact - Weather changes not only visuals but battles as well!
Rain, Snow, Fog, Wind, Sun, Cloudy, Leaves, Thunderstorms etc will alter battle weaknesses and strengths!
The power of combing a Monster Tamer and Farm SIM.
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Ok I really need some community help here.
Should we spend months putting together Co-op mode for Chronomon?
This is a massive feature... I just want to know before diving in if its worth it or wanted.
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We are currently sprinting our way to 1.0 with a TON of changes! Just a few to note.
- Massive controller changes and fixes to ensure QOL and ease of use. Including a fix for A/B default
- UI changes, proper coloring and enhanced visuals
- Mines get a facelift, some fun fog and digging for treasure
- New modern tutorials for easy on-boarding
- Final bug fixes (So close!)
- On screen hints for how to interact
- Localization fixes
- New EXP calculations for easy leveling weaker monsters
- ETC
There are too many to write here but rest assured that we are on the job. I hope you wishlist Chronomon and maybe give it a try at full launch!
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Where can I spawn my monster to battle?
Let's put butterflies in the positions =)
#pokemon #coromon #monstertamer #wearos #steam #newgame #indiegame #indiegamedev
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We are officially in the weeds working on Multiplayer co-op mode.
Dear god what have I started...
Stay tuned for more
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