Fomon news & patch notes

Just a small patch here. Some suggestions was made to make the Mass Fuse safer to use. Now it also saves your strongest Fomon in each type. Have a nice one!

Just a small patch with a Unique Fomon Tracker for future achievments ːsteamhappyː Have a nice day!

Just a small update for the weekend. I've reworked the help section and added some chapters about different things. I added a Discord invite button so everyone can join the Discord (which is in an even more work-in-progress state than the game itself...). And I fixed it so that when you manually fuse two cards, the new card is properly selected once fusing is done. Well, have a nice weekend, y'all!

Read carefully please: FUSE: Forging renamed to fuse, better name, works the same. MASS FUSE: Goes through your entire collection and fuses all duplicate Fomon except Foil, Full art or Perfect Fomon. Finishing with a Refresh. AUTO MASS FUSE: Experimental If you toggle Auto, next to the Mass Fuse button, the game initiates the mass fuse process. After completing, it checks if new duplicates are found, and fuses again. This continues untill no Fomon are left to fuse. Use this with care, since it will continue untill everything is fused and done. If Auto mass fuse is left checked in, the game will run a refresh every 30 min to see if you have a new duplicate. If found, it will be fused. REFRESH: Refresh now selects your strongest Fomon when done instead or a random one. Last notes: Auto combat continue to run run during fusing.

Many of you probably got REALLY frustrated by the scroll bar and having to scroll up and down looking for that one strong Fomon you know you have somewhere! Well, NO LONGER! The scrollbar is now sorted by base power, meaning your strongest Fomon will now be at the top of the list. This will save minutes of scrolling up and down before initiating a fight. Thanks for bringing this to my attention so that I could fix it. When having 100+ Fomon in your list, finding a strong one was insanely hard. Now just look at the top, right after your boosters.

Some days ago I introduced the booster drop. It was straight out massivly bugged. By fixing it and giving it a proper 24h cooldown and not just a "drop after 24h spam drop", the cooldown somehow managed to block the other normal card drop. I think, guess, hope, it was caused by me calling the two different playtime drops at the same time requesting two different things. I now implemented a cycling call that first calls the booster, and later calls the card. I will continously hotfix this untill it works.

Booster 24h playtimedrop added! Now, simply keep the game running as usual, and every day you'll get a brand new booster pack. Hope you'll find it usefull ːsteamhappyː

There are just a few ways to get booster packs in the game at the moment, the main way beeing the 5 you get from the quest line and 1 from having played the demo. Then ofcourse you can always buy them from the game shop or marketplace, a respectable TCG is nothing without booster pack in store (so far 0 sold...) So instead of the resonable corporate decision to market the booster pack harder, I instead decided to give you some more boosters for free, and on a timer! Every 24 hours playtime you'll get a booster pack dropped in addition to your regular 1h card. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45193083/d34b5387d1c824fa6d4315c3af46a0d7ba2fe33b.png

Since y'all managed to 100% the achievements in less than 24 hours after early access launch, I decided to add some more. Some are easy, some hard, and one is... well... not recommended. Special thanks to Ex for the inspiring comment about the sometimes frustrating RNG. Now, if you're REALLY unlucky, at least you might get an achievement for it—provided you're unlucky enough. No specific rewards are added for the achievements at the moment, but I'll add some along the way. And no worries—if you unlock them now, you'll still get the rewards later.

At long last, Fomon has entered Early Access! That means the real game is playable with a bunch more features than the demo. First and foremost, we got the inventory system live and kicking! Every card you get is put in your inventory. The cards you get are the cards you play with. Every 1h of playtime rewards you with a new random card. Achievements are live, and a short questline is built around these. Unlocking them grants bonus drops—sometimes even booster packs to get you going. Forging duplicates into better cards is now possible! Click two duplicates and click Forge—this will trigger an AMAZING loading screen. Since everything is handled via the Steam inventory service, your client has to wait until Steam has figured their stuff out and exchanged your cards for a new one. And yes, you can forge two Tier 1 and continue forging even after that, good luck! The same goes for opening a booster pack—an AMAZING loading screen pops up while opening the pack. The booster gives you 4 totally random rarity cards and 1 rare or better card. Demo Rewards Program will be live for a bit longer:

• Owning the demo gives you one bonus card.
• Playing the demo for at least 15 minutes gives you one bonus card.
• Playing the demo for at least 1 hour gives you one booster pack.
• The "Reaching Top 5 ATH" event is finished, and the winners are: zitrx3nchen - 86 spree Antchain - 70 spree Kaladin - 57 spree Zafir - 51 spree Atlas - 51 spree Very good job! I've sent a friend request to all of you to personally hand over your prize!

Lastly, thank you all for the amazing support during the Steam Next Fest! We reached 700 wishlists and 400 unique players played the demo, with an average playtime of 30 minutes!!! I am overwhelmed! Thank you all! Now the real journey begins—more achievements, more quests, more features!

Some of you probably noticed the TOTALLY WHITE BOX that were the none/null type Fomon... That was a typo. It is fixed now. Ok, good, bye!

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45193083/1c839110ce292a0a890ae9ce6637dae4303af38d.png Steam Next Fest is here! This marks the early access launch of FOMON! So celebrate this milestone the demo rewards program is not online! These are your quests/rewards:

• Download Demo 1 common or uncommon card
• Play Demo for 15 minutes 1 uncommon or rare card
• Play Demo for 1h 1 Booster pack
• Reach top 5 on the All Time High leaderboard 1 Booster pack and 1 EXTRA to pos 1.

Good luck! Note: The rewards are granted first when the main game is downloaded, available from March 4th.

Do you remember that sweet sweet feeling of discovering how something works from your earliest gaming experiences? When all you could do was "f*** around, find out" since you basically couldn't read anyway? I loved it! I wanted to make a game with very little hand-holding. The players would have to figure out why some cards are more powerful than others, figure out how the merging cards function is triggered and what it does and so on. But since the question has been asked over and over again here you go, a short explanation: TIER: Cards have a tier, the tier determine the base power. Tier 1 is very strong, tier 150 is stupidly week. ART: Card power is modified by card apperance. Full art cards are stronger. Foil cards are stronger. MODS: Each hard have an individual modifier, so two cards of the same tier can have different base power. TYPE: The cards have types, some types are strong against other types. Use it. Abuse it! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45193083/e4b995dc1b2c1e55da2a5c6b8764ca643c39badb.png So now you know :)

So, some quick and dirty fixes was implemented. The Session Leaderboard ment to be a "live" representation of currently online players never really took off since only a few players are actually online at the same time. Instead the leaderboard push timer was improved, now pushing ONLY to the ATH LB, and instead of pushing every 2.5 minutes we push around every 1 minutes (67s to be exact). And a timer has been implemented to show when the next push happens. The timer is visible on the leaderboard page. And again a shout out to the absolute beasts with a spree of +50! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45193083/09afb5a5d5283db407cf466b6960598d4d7ed228.png For those true geeks out there that want to know: Steamworks only allow a player to make 10 leaderboard entries per 10 minutes. I now let the players continously push to leaderboard every 67s, around 9 pushes per 10 minutes, thereby I hedge some and save 1 final push to never reach the 10 pushes where one push could possibly fail. Instead I save this 1 final push for when the game closes down and at the "close game call" i push the current best spree to the leaderboard too, just in case it was not there yet. This will improve further with the early access launch where I'll only push if the Best spree is actually BETTER than the current ATH. Improvements improvements improvements.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45193083/09afb5a5d5283db407cf466b6960598d4d7ed228.png I see some people are REALLY crushing it out there. Good job! I never got over 20 myself and I see people in the 40+ and 50+ sprees now. BOOM! BUT I also saw some sad faces when someone broke their best spree and didn't see it in represented in the in-game leaderboard. So I have to address this: Your score is pushed to the leaderboard every 2.5 minutes due to Steamworks leaderboard limitations. I also save ONE LAST push to when the application is exited, pushing the current best spree to the leaderboard again, just so no score is missed. But in essence, just wait max 2.5 min, and your score should update. I'll fix this during the demo week. Possibly by removing the "live leaderboard" since it doesn't really fill any purpose when unlimited leaderboard updates are not allowed from Steamworks/Steam.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45193083/1c839110ce292a0a890ae9ce6637dae4303af38d.png Steam Next Fest is here! This marks the early access launch of FOMON! So celebrate this milestone the demo rewards program is not online! These are your quests/rewards:

• Download Demo 1 common or uncommon card
• Play Demo for 15 minutes 1 uncommon or rare card
• Play Demo for 1h 1 Booster pack
• Reach top 5 on the All Time High leaderboard 1 Booster pack and 1 EXTRA to pos 1.

Good luck! Note: The rewards are granted first when the main game is downloaded, available from March 4th.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45193083/6982512294eaec0804a7506603c9c3f6bd589eb0.png' FOMON is topping the Card Game List during Steam Idler Fest ːsteamhappyː

Finally, leaderboards can be viewed in game! All time high win spree and currently longest "session spree" are viewed by pressing the Leaderboards button. All time high - Kept between logins. Session spree - Shows the highest scores from the currently online players. Resets to 0 when quitting the game.

VFX💥, SFX🔉, Music🎶

Time to log some development! What has happened:

• The extremely buggy forging feature, along with the new open pack features gotten a facelift. The freature now triggers a "progress screen" hindering other actions while the opening/forging is in progress. It was not that the feature didn't work before, but the responsiveness and UX was terrible. Now clicking Open or Forge immediately gives a response.
• Foundations for new achievements laid. Will revolve around collecting unique and battling/beating unique Fomon. Will be implemented soon.
• Launch data postponed to match the next "Steam Next Fest".

What is coming next:

• SFX + background music in development now, finally!
• Playable Demo is development. Will not revolve around the collection of Fomon but rather let you test the in game features, like battle... well.. mainly battle.

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MY GOD, the booster pack is here

🌟🎊🪅🥳🎉 And after a long evening of staring at the screen it

actually works!

Ok, just had to put it out there 🎊🪅🥳💥🌟

Ok, so this will be the first dev log here. Hi and welcome to me talking about what's new, what changed and so on. I'll try to do this once in a while to keep ya'll informed. So a lot of things have been added. FINDING NEW FOMON During Early access I'll keep the Fomon drop rate to 1 Fomon per 1h of logged play time. WAY too high to be sustainable, but we go with that for now. Each dropped Fomon come with it's own stats, which can make even a common Fomon very very rare. And ofcourse ALL FOMON ARE TRADABLE/MARKETABLE, that is the essense of the game! Combat Basic pve combat, essensially finding an opponent and fighting it. Winning increments your spree, loosing resets your spree. Switching Fomon before fighting to ensure you get type advantage is really key to keep winning. Auto battle To enable Idle play I've built an auto battler function that will find and opponent and fight it repeatedly untill the checkbox is unchecked. Possibly this function will be an unlockable in the future but as of now everyone will have access to it. Leaderboards Sprees are added to steam leaderboards where I currently track players all time longest sprees and their current "sessions spree". In the future I'll track more things, but it's a start. Sessions So what is a session? A session is your current login, your session spree is the best you've managed during one login. Quitting the game resets the spree and you start at 0 the next time you log in. This means that the Session spree is actually showing the best performing player online at the moment, offering some sort of competition before the PVP feature is implemented. Achievments At this stage there is only one achievment, you get it with a small reward the first time you log in, gz! There will be more achievments soon for ya'll achievment hunters out there Forging Forging is the process of selecting two duplicate Fomon and baking them into a better one. Try clicking two identical and see the Forge button ligth up. Clicking it will consume your two duplicates and rewarding you with a Fomon of one tier better. The stats of the new Fomon is independent of the ones used as ingredients, so maybe don't sacrifice your Perfect Full-art Foil cards, rather sell them or trade them for something you need. Refreshing Once in a while you can refresh (this is atm an early access feature that will be automated later) to see if you have recieved any new Fomon during your session. Random performance fixes Caching your owned Fomon during play is now implemented, meaning startup times have been dramatically cut when loading Fomon textures is no longer needed, gz :) Summary We are in a good state, find new Fomon by playing the game, Idle auto battle available, but picking strong types vs your opponent will get you higher on the competitive leaderboards. Achievments and Forging implemented. Next up is releaseing a Demo where the core features can be tested out.