Bot Land

(Bot Land is discontinued. Please follow @AdamLearnsLive).

[Bot Land @Xtonomous]

The post-mortem is officially here: https://t.co/00jsvxEv5j

As the URL reveals, the post was originally written in October; I just updated it today to add more details.

P.S. at ~3600 words, it's a long read. 📗

[Bot Land @Xtonomous]

Resurrecting this account to say that I've finally released the OST for Bot Land on YouTube: https://t.co/JrVkcP5kUi

It's ~11 minutes long. Enjoy! 🎧

[Bot Land @Xtonomous]

@ivanpopelyshev It was $300/month, mostly due to AWS ECS (7 containers running) and Aurora for the database. Cutting costs would have been doable, but I'd already discontinued the game.

Is your game offline now? I remember playing it!

[Bot Land @Xtonomous]

I probably should have gone wider with this news, but I shut Bot Land down last week. TL;DR: the infrastructure was expensive and a migration would have been very time-consuming. 😢

Thank you all for playing and supporting the game! 👋

[Bot Land @Xtonomous]

@PeaEyeEnnKay @AdamLearnsLive Good idea! I've changed it. 👍

[Bot Land @Xtonomous]

The post-mortem is officially here: https://t.co/00jsvxEv5j

As the URL reveals, the post was originally written in October; I just updated it today to add more details.

P.S. at ~3600 words, it's a long read. 📗

[Bot Land @Xtonomous]

It was a great run, everyone, but Bot Land is going to be discontinued. Read about the whole thing here: https://t.co/zAymcVQQtt

At some point, I'll do a proper post-mortem, but that may take a while.

[Bot Land @Xtonomous]

Hey everyone, Bot Land was discontinued, but I have a new venture: a show called "Adam Learns"!

If you liked the stream, the coding, or the general quest for knowledge, then I'd greatly appreciate you following my new account, @AdamLearnsLive. 💜

[Adam Learns @AdamLearnsLive]

Have you ever wanted to learn something or even just muster up the motivation to pursue your own ideas? Adam Learns is an edutainment show that can help spark that inspiration!

The first episode will air live on Monday, February 17th: https://t.co/bqqTFW9Zdp

[Bot Land @Xtonomous]

@HonestDanGames Thanks for the support, Dan. Everyone has been so incredibly nice about all of this that I'm almost surprised that I ever felt hesitant to share.

[Bot Land @Xtonomous]

We just deployed some big changes! Check out these before/after shots:

#gamedev #freetoplay #indiedev

[Bot Land @Xtonomous]

Update: the results have been finalized, so I won't be spreading this poll around any longer.

We now have a list of 13 items to add. As mentioned earlier, the goal is to get 5 done in February.

[Bot Land @Xtonomous]

New items are coming to Bot Land and we want YOUR VOTE: https://t.co/qWUVfAw0Wj

• Vote for as many as you want
• The top ~5 will be prioritized for February

[Bot Land @Xtonomous]

@WindybeardGames Absolutely demolished four of them just in the last month. They were turned to dust.

[Bot Land @Xtonomous]

We've been hard at work making updates to improve Bot Land for newcomers. LOOK AT THIS UPDATE HISTORY: #indiedev #gamedev #playthegameitsfree #strategygame #mobilegaming #morehashtags

[Bot Land @Xtonomous]

@ChuBoi you said to hit you up on Twitter post-reunion. DM me and I can tell you a bit more, but I think we only played on like two different days way back when. Good to see you again!

[Bot Land @Xtonomous]

The new-player experience for Bot Land has been overhauled for the fourth time (🤯). If you didn't like the game before or you're brand new to it, please try it out! https://t.co/3Cdq3JOAbU #indiedev #gamedev #strategygames #freetoplay

[Bot Land @Xtonomous]

@rockstaa_88 @entwickler Cool! Thank you for sharing this. I don't actually speak German, so I had to translate; does the original specifically say "no in-app payments" too? Because that's not technically true, and I want to contact them if that's the case.

[Bot Land @Xtonomous]

The stream is back on! https://t.co/BnQE4pjKuZ

Today, we're going to prepare a deploy so that we can be ready for the new year.

[Bot Land @Xtonomous]

I'm looking for people who've never played Bot Land before to participate in user studies. Offering $5 Amazon gift cards for roughly 20 minutes of playtime.

For now, I'm just collecting names. If you're interested, please email me at [email protected]. Please retweet for visibility.

[Bot Land @Xtonomous]

Version 1.3.1 is now out! It brings balance changes and many improvements to Campaign Mode.

I'd like to run user studies on people who've never seen Bot Land before; if you know someone who'd be willing to help, please send them my way: [email protected]

https://t.co/3Cdq3JOAbU