If you build it...

Battle Shock for Android is officially in the Android market now! The last few weeks were a challenge. We kept thinking we were close, and then we would find a hole in game play that would send us back to retune.

The first problem we found is that you just didn't need the archers to win the game. They were too expensive and weren't all that effective. Well we made the black knight and the black archers impervious to magic. So it's now required that you have enough archers to handle these menaces. But that led to a problem where you would run out of money for archers and a black knight would stroll on screen! So you were helpless and had to sit back and watch him hack up your castle. So now we notice that situation and spawn enough lite troops that you can win enough coins to buy some archers.

But then we noticed that the archers weren't all that accurate. Now that we are depending on the archers, it was super annoying when knights would march all the way to the wall unscathed when you had a full rack of archers. Well, a little work and wahlah, they were hitting knights in the helmet from nearly full screen distances. That's what I like, and archer that earns his keep!

But now the archers were updating the balance of the game. They were too powerful. And also we noticed that it would be nice in general if there were more progression to the spells of the game. So we added 10 levels instead of 3 for all the spells. This added a lot to the game and there was now more strategy in how to spend your coinage. But this had now become a tuning nightmare. The game would be hard till level 50 and and then become too easy once you had leveled up certain spells. So after a few more weeks of tuning, I think we have a gem for you.

Hope you enjoy all the hard work we put into the game. There's a lot of attention to detail. We are always interested to hear your feedback. Please let us know how you like the game!