Puzzle Fuzz: Idle Stories

version 1.4
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Hi Fuzzketeers! Story 2 is finally here! Head to the Story screen to start it!

• Stories prestige your game. Hero levels reset to 0, but they keep their attack power. Your coins and ooze reset to 0.
• A mysterious antagonist is fortifying the gelatinous cube monsters. Their fancy new plating can only be damaged by matching the appropriately colored orbs. They won’t drop until both their HP and platings are reduced to zero.
• I lied, all those robots you put together in Story 1 periodically appear and shoot their fancy arm cannons at the enemies which can damage their plating too.
• When one of the robots appear they mark certain orbs; pop those orbs to fire their arm cannon.
• The enemy information screen has been streamlined to make it more clear what your current objective is.
• You can kill multiple bosses while offline now, as long as you are already a high enough lvl to fight the next boss.
• The average match size used for offline earnings has been lowered slightly (by ~10%). I left the game running overnight to get a more accurate reading of what the idler can really do.
• Congratulations, you’ve read far enough into the release notes to find the part where I hid all the nerfs.
• The offline earner calculates more accurate damage. Unfortunately the old method was over-calculating so offline damage has reduced (by ~5%-10% depending on how fast your idle bar is).
• Offline earnings are now capped based on where you are in the game. The cap starts at 16 hours of offline earnings and grows to 48 hours by the end of the game.

You can follow us on twitter @puzzlefuzz for development updates and sneak peeks.
https://twitter.com/puzzlefuzz

Hey Fuzzketeers, time for the weekly update! Story 2 is nearing completion but I’ve been busy at the 2015 Game Developer Conference this week.

We’ve finalized the UI layouts for the new HP mechanic. If an enemy has color HP you can damage it by matching that color orb, having heroes of that color attack it, or having the Treerats you rescued in story 1 shoot at them.
http://i.imgur.com/09dXevI.png

And, this will come in a future update after Story 2, but we will be adding a way for you to replay stories with global modifiers to try and set a faster time. This should make the game still fun to play even if I take too long to release a new story.

One last sneak peek, for those of you who would like to play on mobile.
http://i.imgur.com/bzjuD0C.png

This is just a demo build for me to show around during the conference but it has proven that the concept of the game and the performance fit great on mobile!

Hello Fuzzketeers, story 2 isn’t done yet but I wanted to write an update so you can follow along with development and see some screenshots of the new content.

The idea for adding stories to the game is that you will max your characters to lvl 100, then prestige them. The game resets, your characters go back to lvl 1 but keep their attack power and you can level them up again for even more power.

Each prestige won’t just mean playing the same content over and over though. When you begin story 2 there will be new(ish) enemies that require new gameplay to kill. Here’s a sneak peek at the enemies:
http://i.imgur.com/M01xeuI.png

Someone’s gone and put defensive plating on the gelatinous cubes and slimes! Who would do that? They’re probably worth tracking down…

These defensive platings give the enemies secondary HP bars that are whittled down by matching orbs of the right color. Each orb you match will damage the appropriately colored HP bar.

Oh, and remember all those friends you rescued in story 1? They’re fully operational again and ready to help you fight. They’ll appear every once in a while and mark a bunch of orbs. Matching those marked orbs will charge their hand cannons which they’ll use to shoot the enemy, damaging all their various HP bars at once! Here’s a shot of Iron Mandarin firing his hand cannon:
http://i.imgur.com/2jvJvh8.png

I know your next question will be when! When is story 2 done! I’m not ready to put a release date on it yet but everything I’ve mentioned is already in game and what we have left is UI work. I know that sounds like we’re almost done but UI is hard to get right and takes a few iterations. So the only release date I’ll give is “soon”!

Thanks for being such great fans!

version 1.32
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A quick update to improve offline earnings

• Track earnings from each source of coins and ooze separately so they can be simulated more intelligently. You’ll see a lot more offline ooze earnings now, especially from the column 7 power and jar drops.
• Fixed a bug where the import feature didn’t work if you beat the game
• Fixed a small memory leak on the Story screen