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Beta 2.9 Pre-Release: Freeing the camera
April 06, 2025 by forloopcowboy#new-camera
📷 Recolonizer Devlog – Camera Movement Overhaul Hey folks! Quick update on Recolonizer —let’s talk camera movement . After watching a bunch of playthroughs and reading your comments, one thin... Continue reading
Beta 2.9 Pre-Release: Reducing the punishment
March 26, 2025 by forloopcowboy
After receiving some feedbacks, I decided it was time to mature the fail state of Recolonizer from a simple INSTA-KILL which can be quite unnerving and unnecessarily punishing... So I replaced it with... Continue reading
Beta 2.9 Pre-Release: Introducing the booty looter (no joke)
March 23, 2025 by forloopcowboy#twitch, #golden-character-design.
Automating profits After some feedbacks regarding the manual money collection, I've decided to grace you with the newest addition to the pirate fleet: The Booty Looter! (Under)pay a deckhand to row a... Continue reading
Beta 2.9 Pre-Release: Introducing speedrunning
March 16, 2025 by forloopcowboy#ui, #balance-updates
The game now has a risk-reward mechanic You can call waves early for extra money. The earlier you call them, the more money you get for your bravery. You can use this extra money to dump some upgrades... Continue reading
Beta 2.9 Pre-Release: A new HOT tower is coming...
March 15, 2025 by forloopcowboy#fireball, #fire-tower, #fire barrel
Even more stuff coming out on 2.9... It seems I just keep adding content to this one. The wave balance changes made me feel like I should finally get around to the fire-tower, damage-over-time idea I... Continue reading
Beta 2.9 Pre-Release: A big refactor and a proper soundtrack!
March 13, 2025 by forloopcowboy#soundtrack, #refactor, #pre-release
Waves of changes When I decided I wanted to implement infinite waves, as most traditional tower defenses do, I realized that the messy, quickly-cobbled-together mechanism I made to manually define inc... Continue reading
Beta 2.8 - New projectile, day-night cycles, game settings menu.
March 06, 2025 by forloopcowboy#beta-2.8, #settings-menu, #new-music, #day-night-cycle
Beta 2.8 Release As the countdown to launching Recolonizer on Steam and Kickstarter draws near, I took some time to patch up a few glaring issues and add some much-needed polish. The seas were getting... Continue reading
Future plans: Story mode, progression system, official release!
March 04, 2025 by forloopcowboy
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#future-plans, #release-date, #ios, #android, #macos, #steam
On the path to release! It's been a few months since I first put Recolonizer out to the world as a free browser game, in the shape of a classic tower defense game prototype. After much testing, much p... Continue reading
Beta 2.7 - Graphical updates, version migration, and some great news!
March 03, 2025 by forloopcowboy#performance, #water-shader, #bugs, #unity.2023.2
Recolonizer Changelog – A Wild Voyage Through Unity Upgrades Ahoy, captains! This update be a big one. I went down a rabbit hole, upgraded Recolonizer to a newer Unity version, and, well... everythi... Continue reading
Beta 2025.02.3 – Introducing the gatling gun, and rebalancing unlocks...
February 26, 2025 by forloopcowboy#gatling-gun
Captain’s Log – A Fresh Coat o’ Paint on the Ol’ Ship! Ahoy, ye salty sea dogs! The shipwrights ‘ave been hard at work refittin’ our vessel, polishin’ the brass, and makin’ the captain... Continue reading
Beta 2025.02.2 – Another UI overhaul and other improvements...
February 21, 2025 by forloopcowboy#upgrade-ui, #build-ui
Captain’s Log – A Fresh Coat o’ Paint on the Ol’ Ship! Ahoy, ye salty sea dogs! The shipwrights ‘ave been hard at work refittin’ our vessel, polishin’ the brass, and makin’ the captain... Continue reading
Beta 2025.02.1 - New maps, new ships!
February 19, 2025 by forloopcowboy#defensive-ships
Captain’s Log – 100 Suns Since Last Port Ahoy, ye scallywags and sea dogs! ‘Tis been many moons since our last charted course, but fear not! We’ve toiled in the shipyard, patched the hull, and... Continue reading
Beta 2024.11.9 - Branding! And guidance.
November 12, 2024 by forloopcowboy#main-menu, #branding
Ahoy, Captains and Conquerors! Gather 'round, ye hardy souls, for the latest installment of Recolonizer ! Version Beta 2024.11.9 is here, so fasten your cutlasses and straighten those tri-corner hats... Continue reading
Beta 2024.11.8 - TWO NEW CANNONS! BATTLE REPORT STATS SCREEN!!
November 10, 2024 by forloopcowboy
Beta 2024.11.8 Check out this incredible invention of the 1700s... To Our Most Esteemed Defenders of the Colony, Before delving into the particulars of this newest version, I must extend my sincerest... Continue reading
Beta 2024.11.5 - Level Rebalance and Magenta Canyon!
November 08, 2024 by forloopcowboy#new-visuals, #cannon-level
So long, impossible level 2... After hearing the cries of nearly all playtesters about the insane difficulty of the first level, I decided to do something about it. I changed the design process for th... Continue reading
Beta 2024.11.4 - UI Overhaul Continued
November 07, 2024 by forloopcowboy#damage-numbers, #upgrade-stars
I can summarize this release as several UI improvements. I'm too tired to elaborate further than: You can now see cannons even if they're behind the scenery You can see how much you've upgraded the ca... Continue reading
Beta 2024.11.1 - Complete UI overhaul, time-travel corrections, and other user feedback addressed!
November 04, 2024 by forloopcowboy#bug-fixes, #ui
It's official! I will make this a serious project! And as any serious project, this one has a kanban board ! Go check it out to see what I'm working on next! Release 2024.11.1 This release is a collec... Continue reading
Alpha v2024.10.5 - Visual effects and performance improvements
October 19, 2024 by forloopcowboy#performance, #pooling, #vfx
There is not much to talk about for this release, but there was a lot of work involved in it. In summary, I looked at the core elements of the cannons and decided to implement some visual effects to h... Continue reading
Alpha v2024.10.4.1 - Addressing player feedback
October 18, 2024 by forloopcowboy#patch
Fixing up some glaring gameplay issues During a recent playtest with a good friend of mine, I noticed a few important frustrations arising from his gameplay: Deleting towers is too easy, and you can e... Continue reading
Alpha v2024.10.4 - Some quality of life features...
October 18, 2024 by forloopcowboy#balance-updates
Addressing feedback and enabling control In case you weren't aware, this game is composed of many different features, components, and bits of code I've built over the years for several unfinished prot... Continue reading
Alpha v2024.10.3 - New Cannon!
October 17, 2024 by forloopcowboy#shotgun, #alpha, #new-cannon
A NEW CANNON APPEARS... THE GRAPESHOOTER! As the mechanics of the tower defense begin to take shape, and the UI lets you do most things the cannons already can do (cough cough, still unable to change... Continue reading