#kickbotgame

New art style, new gameplay, more variety, and more content. We want to bring you the best Kick Bot possible, that means opening ourselves up to releasing on different platforms.

Click here to sign up for the Kick Bot DX iOS/ Android beta today!

Click here to sign up for the Kick Bot DX iOS/ Android beta today!

We are excited to announce that we are doing a closed beta for Kick Bot DX in the month of August 2018. Sign up today and if you are selected you will be the first to try Kick Bot DX including.

- Leap through 6 different environments in endless wall jumping obstacle courses filled with treacherous hazards!

- Unlock bot parts available in the shop each day!

- Customize your own playable bot with other 20,000 possible configurations!

Eric implemented the character select art what I have been working on and made the buttons to operate a really awesome carousel of bot silhouettes for our character select screen.

Currently, all the silhouettes are unused bot concept art so as not to give away any clues about the real bots :) I need to work on the pressed state of the pink buttons to make them look more obviously depressed.

I worked on art for a pill-shaped robot in a space suit and a frog bot which I am calling "Rivvit'  but I need to make it fit the style of the game more, right now it's too organic looking.

Kick Bot DX early access beta is available now as part of the Kentucky Fried Pixels bundle, pay-what-you-want starting at $1 for 23 Kentucky indie games.

With Kick Bot DX early access beta you will get every version of the game (Win, Mac, Linux) as we work on it and add new features, this includes the final game. That means you can follow our dev process and play each version for the remaining months we are working on the project. Buy the bundle and support 9 Kentucky indie studios here Thanks for reading!

Who is Alex Bezuska?

Alex is a game artist and developer at independent games studio Two Scoop Games. He is passionate about making art and technology work together for a purpose through games and other interactive art.

Alex is also a director for the non-profit Louisville Makes Games! where he helps to further an inclusive and encouraging local game creation community in Louisville, Kentucky.

Lots of kids took home Kick Bot DX papercraft at Louisville Mini Maker Faire today!

We had a great day showing off Kick Bot DX at Louisville Mini Maker Faire! (Photo by @justvcreative of @riseshinegames)

Kick Bot DX part store is now powered by our new shop service

Every time a player accesses the shop screen in the game it makes a call to our new shop service.

The shop service is powered by AWS lambda and it seeds a random number generator with the current date and then picks a random part from each category (heads, arms, legs, etc.). As long as the date is the same, it returns the same parts, creating a dynamic shop with different parts available each day.

Same daily parts for all players

The shop inventory for each day is generated by the shop service, so it’s the same result for everyone no matter what time zone they are using the app in, or what they have their device time set to - resulting in the whole world seeing the same parts available at any given time.

Eventually, we’ll want to change it to use a shuffling algorithm so it’s guaranteed to pick every part at least once.

When playing around with new artwork we noticed that the jump animation was only actually playing for one frame, it turned out to be a tricky issue to solve but Eric was able to get it working.  Our animation for the player uses the Unity animator state machine and for some reason, making the jump state the default state fixes it. No idea why

Unity animator state machine for Kick Bot DX

Eric also worked on some tweaks to the high score screen working like it used to, including setting the “NEW BESTt” to purple, and hiding the level score when game over screen shows. I worked on some sketches but I was generally dried up creatively on the character designs, I am only really happy with the astronaut character:

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Kick Bot DX is being created for the Kentucky Fried Pixels (KFP) game jam which ends July 9th, we will be releasing a pay-what-you-want bundle of games on August 17th!

Sign up here to get an email when the KFP bundle is released

Who is Alex?

Alex Bezuska is the cofounder/ artist for Two Scoop Games and Director at Louisville Makes Games! Alex is obsessively passionate about making games and building the local game development community. He is also an avid lover of ice cream.