BitBeast Arena 1.4.2 Alpha

A roguelike monster collecting autobattler. Digimon and tamagotchi-inspired. 

Assemble your party, level up your beasts, and equip them for battle! Only the strongest will continue their journey.

FOREWARNING: 

This game is very much not finished. You will encounter:

• Non-functional half-implementations, 
• UI that is off-center or unintuitive, 
• Poor optimization / loading times, 
• Some bugs. 

I will be updating the game continuously though! There are more features, content, quality of life updates, bugfixes, and optimizations to come.

TIPS FOR PLAYING (there is no tutorial yet):

• Recruiting enemies
  • To recruit an enemy, you must feed it enough food whose nutritional values sum to its level
    • eg. to recruit a level 5 enemy, you can feed it:
      •  one level 5 food,
      •  two level 2 foods and one level 1 food,
      • five level 1 foods,
      • etc.
  • Be careful! Make sure you have enough food to recruit before you start feeding an enemy. If you don't reach its level, your food will be spent for nothing!
• Battling
  • Your beasts will duke it out automatically. Once the battle starts, all you can do is kick back and cheer your little guys on.
  • Your beasts will heal automatically after every battle, even when they lose. Be careful though, if you lose 4 times consecutively, your beasts will give up and you will lose the run!
• Held items
  • Held items can be equipped through the beast summary or the bag. They don't do anything yet.
  • Held items are obtained through the lootbag event tile in the overworld
• Consumable items
  • Obtained through the picnic event in the overworld
  • Can be fed to beasts in the bag, summary, or post-battle UIs
  • FOOD VALUES GUIDE (will be displayed in-game later)
    • apple : 3
    • hot dog: 5
    • pizza: 5
    • candy: 5

Development Roadmap:

Abilities Update pt. 1 - [RELEASED]

• Beasts can learn abilities
• Beast ability loadout can be edited 
• Start game with ability selection instead of stat allocation
• Wild enemies will know a random set of abilities
• New abilities:
  • Hop
  • Run
  • Screech
  • Shield / bubble ? 

Abilities Update pt. 2 - May 2024

• Status effects to be added (poison, sleep, stun, etc)
• Evolution to be triggered when certain abilities learned
• New abilities:
  • ===Skills===
  • Scratch
  • Rock Hurl
  • Vine Toss
  • On Fire
  • Stench
  • Slime Trail
  • Water Gun
  • ===Movement===
    • Flee
    • Sidestep

Items Update - June 2024

• Held items actually boost your beasts, eg.

• Reduce incoming damage by %
• Increase critical hit chance by %
• Heal every X seconds
• Resistance to knockback
• Start fight with shield
• STR stat elevated at expense of SPD
• etc.

• More food items
• More held items
• Item and ability info panels on hover!!!!
• Resprites for some existing items

QOL & Visual Polish Update - August 2024 I hope

• FPS optimizations
• Load time optimizations
• Loading screens
• [DONE] Overworld movement revision
• UI overhaul + better UI feedback
• More scenic game start
• Tutorial
• Fog, depth of field effect
• Beast particles on running
• Beast particles on eating
• More forest obstacle sprites (shrubs, flowers, etc)

Events Update - End of 2024

• Add more events