Combo Critters by Lucky Kat Studios

** Added launch trailer 07/06

Hi TA members!

We're releasing Combo Critters next week 14th of July. Check out the launch trailer here:

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If you're interested in the development process of Combo Critters and how it has changed over time: http://www.lucky-kat.com/blog

 

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Update:

We’ve decided to change the gameplay pretty drastically. We missed the tension of being on the verge of defeat, desperately trying to survive.

So, now you will have to combine monsters and manage the battleground at the same time. It's a bit more challenging than taking your sweet time combining critters before deciding to move out.

Quickly combine monsters on the grid and drag them to the battleground to defeat the approaching wave of enemies.


Want to beta test and help out make Combo Critters better?

Fill out this form: http://goo.gl/forms/qTo5kjTQa3​

 

We’re still working on the game, here’s another gif to show some new features we’ve built since the last update.
We’ve added a timer to egg hatching. Tapping on an egg will reduce hatch time. We’ve also added some subtle tweens and egg crack particles to make the egg tapping feel satisfying.

Creatures can now have special abilities. They’ll show you when they’re ready to use it with a radiating effect. Once you tap them, they’ll use their unique ability. Using abilities at the correct moments can turn the tide of the battle, or at least that’s what we’re planning. In this gif you can see a monster using a fireball ability. Very useful, because it allows the monster to deal ranged damage.

Want to beta test and help out make Combo Critters better? Fill out this form: http://goo.gl/forms/qTo5kjTQa3

 

You know when a banana attacks you, it'll look like this:

 

Buying virtual currency and maybe removing ads (not sure yet)

 

Sorry, we've been super busy revising the game. In fact, we threw out all our original ideas two weeks ago to start completely over (we noticed during playtests it wasn't perfect).

We'll post a quick update later tonight!

 

So, as we said earlier we've been super busy revising the game. Now it's time for another update!

Yet again we've changed a lot of stuff in Combo Critters. We decided to switch to a team based battle system, instead of a drag and drop army vs army battle. Now you can have up to 3 monsters in a team, you'll use this team to fight against other monsters. Once you defeat a monster, you'll get a chance to capture them, which you can see in the following gif:



In this case, the capture failed and the monster runs away! Better luck next time.

Also, not visible in this gif is our combining feature. Once you've captured monsters, you can combine them to create new ones.
We're also going to try and add exploration to the game. So the core game loop is going to be about battling, capturing, combining and a bit of exploration.

 

We're adding Mode7 to explore critters. What do you think?

 

We've made a blog post about the mistakes we made during the development of Combo Critters: http://www.lucky-kat.com/blog/

 

We’ve been working on lots of new features for the game. You can now explore planets and where you can find and defeat new critters.
We’ve also added different types of critters. The standard water, fire, earth and air. You can guess how this would work, some types will be strong/weak against other types.



Lastly, to make combat feel less repetitive we’ve incorporated small swipe challenges. Your critters can now become combo attack critters (yes, just like the title of the game)