Heya itch.io!

Thank you so much for playing our game! Our first month on itch.io has been wild and so helpful! We've got content creators who found our game, reached 1000 wishlists, and gathered over 1200 downloads in under a month! 

So today i'm super excited to announce that update 0.2: Mars Attacks! is now released. Download it and check out what's new!

What's new since 0.1?

- 4 new invaders, 1 new special encounter! 

We've added the Vengoid, Spitter, Leviathan, and Voidspawn invaders! These new invaders challenge your tactical senses and introduce new mechanics for you to learn and overcome. You'll find them across all 3 acts, adding to the exponential variety of battlefields you can encounter! 

- 5 new cards, 3 new artifacts, and 5 new components!

The Ice & Fire update introduced new, legendary ways to play with the Burn, Junk and Fire! archetypes. 0.2 adds a new utility card to the fan-favorite Bomb archetype! Find and plan for huge explosions with the new Detonator card!

Find the Jester, Furnace, and the legendary Big Fridge artifacts that change the way you play with the game! The Big Fridge sets ALL of your cards' Heat cost to 1 when you play them (Overclock says hi!). 

There's also 3 new basic components and 2 new secret components! One of the new basic components is the Linked component, which, when played, also immediately plays ALL other Linked cards in your hand or draw pile for free. How many cards do you think you can you link to each other in your deck?

- Improved tutorial, a Glossary, and a bunch of visual updates!

The tutorial is now a lot friendlier, with a nerfed Mothership and better scripted card rewards - getting into the game is smoother than ever. (and we are still planning on reworking the whole tutorial soon!) The Glossary lets players check out all the different cards and artifacts that they might have missed while playing! It's a theory crafter's dream.

- 70+ Bugfixes, balance updates, and QoL improvements! 

We've fixed almost all the bugs that have been reported to us! (almost because there's a few very sneaky ones we're still working on >:( ) Thank you so much for your feedback and comments, it's being so useful! If you do have more feedback, please join our Discord and let us know!

What's next?

For our 0.3 update, we're gonna be working on meta-progression, a mech selection screen, as well as a new pilot for you to play with! The full game will have multiple classes of mechs with distinct card pools and mechanics. But each mech class will have multiple pilots as well! Pilots will share card pools, but have different starter cards and artifacts that change the way you play the game. As always, there will be new cards, artifacts, components, bugfixes, etc, too!

Full Changelog (0.1.5b -> 0.2)

New Content:

• Added new invaders: Vengoid, Spitter, Leviathan, Voidspawn.
  
• Added Void Zone special encounter
  
• Add new components: Linked and Retained
  
• Add new artifacts: Big Fridge and Furnace
• Increased Hand Limit to 9
• Changed Kraken core mechanic. (good luck!)
• Updated Tutorial to "lock" certain cards early on.
  
• Slightly nerfed Mothership invader composition
  
• Nerfed Annihilation to Legendary rarity
  
• Updated art for Act 3 invaders
  
• Updated art for Rockets
• Updated tile outline visuals
• Added a star symbol next to special encounters
  
• Added Danger Zones to tile panel
  

Bugfixes / others:

• Fixed Swarm encounter names
• Remove Say Hello + Swift.
• Updated SCR-4P component list.
• Added spawn conditions (for Leviathans and Swarmers)
• Enable Tornado + Gridbreaker 
• Refactored Item visuals
• Add "Click for more info" hint on the More Info scene
• Fix some Gamma bugs (Gamma + Hot Head & Gamma + Pyroclasm)
• Fixed Nova Rays + Big Bang! crash
• Minefield no longer spawns in holes
• Gravity Well now pulls entity into holes
• May have fixed a few save issues
• Working on reworking input controller - some keyboard controls are working but not fully implemented yet.