Released Go Go Beasts!

Voltseon · Feb 22, 2023

Go go power beasts

TheDogDad · Feb 22, 2023

Go go go go!

Sulucnal · Feb 22, 2023

Hi. First of all, I loved this game, but I'd like to give you some feedback.

The screenshots and videos you can see in this post include some evolved/end game beasts, so don't check it if you don't want to be spoiled!

I think that having your character be able to climb anywhere like a Skyrim horse is pretty fun, but it can also be used to skip some parts of a level.

When you play too much with the "slot1", "slot2" and "equip" buttons in the "Equip Beasts" menu, Your Beasts Icons can start to move out of their frames in the Go Go Bracelet slot UI.

You can find two NPC floating in the air in Shmoovington.
One of them can be found if you go directly in front of you after exiting the lab, in an area where you can find a Relic IIRC.

The other one can be found if you go to the right after exiting the lab.

If you change your game resolution in game and go back to the main menu, it will be automatically resetted to your monitor resolution.

You forgot the word "know" in the Professor's dialog you get when you unlock Dev Island.

It's just a personal preference here, but even though I liked completing every level at 100% in one shot, I feel like it could be fun to add some areas/beasts/relics that you can't reach without the ability of a monster from a level accessible later in the game. For exemple, having an area in Fortune Isle that can't be reached without the ability of a Xidgeon/Chubgeon from Industry Isle. It could add some replayablilty to your levels (but if you ever do it, you should probably also add a NPC or a sign to tell you that you don't have the beast required to go there yet so that the players don't get frustrated after spending hours trying to go to places they just aren't able to reach yet).

All of that aside, I really liked this game and I'd love to be able to buy and play a full version if you ever release it on Steam. Good job, Cam and Tristantine.

King_Waluigi · Feb 22, 2023

My favorite part of this game is when the professor said "its go go beastin time"

Tristantine The Great · Feb 23, 2023

Go Go Beasts is an awesome game that I can't recommend enough! I'm not just saying that because I helped with it either, this game be schmoovin.

Thundaga · Feb 23, 2023

Sulucnal said:
Hi. First of all, I loved this game, but I'd like to give you some feedback.

The screenshots and videos you can see in this post include some evolved/end game beasts, so don't check it if you don't want to be spoiled!

I think that having your character be able to climb anywhere like a Skyrim horse is pretty fun, but it can also be used to skip some parts of a level.

When you play too much with the "slot1", "slot2" and "equip" buttons in the "Equip Beasts" menu, Your Beasts Icons can start to move out of their frames in the Go Go Bracelet slot UI.
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You can find two NPC floating in the air in Shmoovington.
One of them can be found if you go directly in front of you after exiting the lab, in an area where you can find a Relic IIRC.
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The other one can be found if you go to the right after exiting the lab.
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If you change your game resolution in game and go back to the main menu, it will be automatically resetted to your monitor resolution.

You forgot the word "know" in the Professor's dialog you get when you unlock Dev Island.
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It's just a personal preference here, but even though I liked completing every level at 100% in one shot, I feel like it could be fun to add some areas/beasts/relics that you can't reach without the ability of a monster from a level accessible later in the game. For exemple, having an area in Fortune Isle that can't be reached without the ability of a Xidgeon/Chubgeon from Industry Isle. It could add some replayablilty to your levels (but if you ever do it, you should probably also add a NPC or a sign to tell you that you don't have the beast required to go there yet so that the players don't get frustrated after spending hours trying to go to places they just aren't able to reach yet).

All of that aside, I really liked this game and I'd love to be able to buy and play a full version if you ever release it on Steam. Good job, Cam and Tristantine.

Thank you so much your detailed bug reports and feedback! I really appreciate! All of the issues you called out should now be fixed in Go Go Beasts v1.0.1! I agree with your game preference thoughts too, and would love to incorporate those more in the future! I've got a lot of plans for future abilities where that can come into play!

Thundaga · Feb 23, 2023

Go Go Beasts Version 1.0.1 has been uploaded! It contains many bug fixes and QOL updates!

Fixed an issue where Woggy could grapple infinite distance
Fixed an issue with equipped beast HUD icons moving outside of their HUD window
Revised Verdant Tree collision/mesh to prevent cheesing
Fixed an issue where screen resolution would always reset to native resolution when opening the main menu
Resolved floating NPCs in Shmoovington
Added a couple plaques in the player's home to help track stats
Added a small zone in Verdant Isle with additional Letty spawns
Added fanart from KennyC!
Updated UI floating elements logic and movement speed/frequency
Deleting save data no longer resets screen resolution
Various additional code optimizations

Here, look at this cute Go Go Beast as a reward for reaching the bottom of the patch notes!

Tomix9tomix · Feb 23, 2023

just finished 100%ing the game on stream (if you don't count the secret npcs (I only found one of them :( )
some thoughts:

What an amazing game! It was a blast to play. The gameplay was really fun and cool, you did a great job thinking of different abilities. I found that different situations were better for different beasts, and it felt really fulfilling to figure out the best load out for an area.

The game, design wise, is also really charming, it's the same with Pokemon Doodle obviously, but the game hits such a nice "vibe", despite not being super high quality graphics, it has an aesthetic which is very memorable.

I also like how accessible you've made 100%ing the game to be, the coin go go beast made it very easy to find all the green gems and all the coins so it never felt like a slog.

I really hope you're able to push on with this game and get it on steam with a full release, this game is a really fun unique experience so I think it deserves it.

Sulucnal · Feb 23, 2023

While you were releasing version 1.0.1, I continued playing and found some other bugs and thought about other things I wanted to tell you.

The video you can see in this post include some evolved/end game/glimmering beasts, so don't check it if you don't want to be spoiled!

You need to be EXTREMELY close to the plaques in the player's house and to spam the E key to be able to interact with them.

You can still look around if you pause the game while using the Grapple. Also, resetting a speedrun while grappling will not cancel it, which means that you'll still be grappled towards your target, no matter how far it is from you. You can also get stuck in some places. If you look at my Triflap in my Bracelet, you can also see that it's trying to jump continuously. (It also happened at the second thing you can grapple on in the pyramid of Fortune Isle).

(This video was recorded in the version 1.0.0, so don't worry about the Beasts icons in the HUD)

I don't know if it's intentionnal, but Glilmmering Beasts still give you XP, even if you caught more than 25 of them (When I say "them", I mean regular ones, I don't know if they still give XP if catch more than 25 Glimmering versions of the same Beast)

You should automatically turn off the speedrun mode if a player leaves the speedrun area.

You could add a tooltip when hovering over a monster in the "Equip Beasts" menu to be able to see their passive ability without having to select them.

You could add stat modifiers to beasts without abilities to motivate people to complete their Go Go Dex (for exemple, Shallump could give 2% knockback resistance when bumping into monsters, Dimbus could increase your jump height by 2%, ...)

Thundaga · Feb 24, 2023

Thank you so much again for the bug reports Sulucnal! They're extremely appreciated! I've gone and addressed most of the issues you called and a lot more in Go Go Beasts v1.0.2!

Improved interact prompts not being 100% functional for player home plaques, as well as instances where 2 NPCs were standing near each other
Reset speedrun timer when stepping on teleporter
Reset speedrun button now closes the pause HUD
Reset speedrun button cancels Groakus/Woggy grapple
Make Groakus/Woggy grapple cancel if player bumps into GroundLayer objects like buildings/walls
Fix for for Groakus/Woggy grapple raycast going through walls
Fix for camera rotation during pause while in the middle of a Groakus/Woggy grapple
Resolved an issue where the Beast Caught panel would not appear when jumping on enemy heads with Glomp/Shroomp and triggering evolutions
Making caught glimmers display the Beast Caught panel with the message "Glimmer Caught!"
Locked relics are more colorful in the HUD and Map menu
Glimmer captures only grant XP for the first Glimmer found
Various typo fixes
AND MANY MORE BUG FIXES

Look at this cool green frog as a reward for reading the patch notes! This dang little frog has caused me many headaches when preparing this update, but it's so worth it!

Sulucnal · Feb 24, 2023

Thanks. I just found more bugs, one of them seems to be due to the changes involving Glimmers in v1.0.2.

Glimmers: I could be wrong, but it looks like a Beast can't be Glimmering anymore if I already caught a Glimmering version of that Beast. I don't know if it means that Glimmers don't spawn or that they still spawn but my Glimmer Tracker doesn't notify me, but I can only find Glimmers if I haven't caught said Glimmering Beast before (English isn't my first language so I don't know if what I just said really made any sense).

Camera rotation during loading: When you go to a world using the world map, moving your cursor while on the loading screen will still rotate your character and not make you face the intended way when you arrive on the map.

Audio issues: Various problems with audio mixing/balancing:

The sound of the Flux's Lab door when you exit the lab, as well as the sound that plays when you select a world on the world map, are way louder than the rest of the sound effetcs.
It might just be me, but I feel like a lot of the SFX (When pausing the game, selecting a world on the map and probably some other sounds) sound louder in your right hear than your left when you play with a headphone

Some of the textures, such as the wood logs or the wooden crates (in the corners), aren't seamless. (the last image isn't really a texture problem, but more a problem with the way you placed the wall at the right of the "Controls" sign in the player's house)
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There is also another problem with the logs, where there is bark on one of the ends of the cylinder and most likely shouldn't be.

There is still a problem if you try to grapple the bottom of a blue thingy in some places. You can get out of it by jumping, but I felt like it'd be worth mentionning anyway.

Solid invisible block in front of doors: You can stand on the invisible blocks placed in Kay and the Player's door.

And if you don't mind, could you tell me where you store the player's save files ? I'd like to try some things out with a new save but I want to make a backup of my current one first.

Thundaga · Feb 27, 2023

Go Go Beasts version 1.0.3 is available now! It contains more bug fixes and QOL tweaks, and can be downloaded with the link above! As always, please let me know if you have any feedback or encounter any issues!

Thundaga · Feb 27, 2023

Sulucnal said:
Thanks. I just found more bugs, one of them seems to be due to the changes involving Glimmers in v1.0.2.

Glimmers: I could be wrong, but it looks like a Beast can't be Glimmering anymore if I already caught a Glimmering version of that Beast. I don't know if it means that Glimmers don't spawn or that they still spawn but my Glimmer Tracker doesn't notify me, but I can only find Glimmers if I haven't caught said Glimmering Beast before (English isn't my first language so I don't know if what I just said really made any sense).

Camera rotation during loading: When you go to a world using the world map, moving your cursor while on the loading screen will still rotate your character and not make you face the intended way when you arrive on the map.

Audio issues: Various problems with audio mixing/balancing:

The sound of the Flux's Lab door when you exit the lab, as well as the sound that plays when you select a world on the world map, are way louder than the rest of the sound effetcs.

It might just be me, but I feel like a lot of the SFX (When pausing the game, selecting a world on the map and probably some other sounds) sound louder in your right hear than your left when you play with a headphone

Some of the textures, such as the wood logs or the wooden crates (in the corners), aren't seamless. (the last image isn't really a texture problem, but more a problem with the way you placed the wall at the right of the "Controls" sign in the player's house)
imgur link

There is also another problem with the logs, where there is bark on one of the ends of the cylinder and most likely shouldn't be.
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There is still a problem if you try to grapple the bottom of a blue thingy in some places. You can get out of it by jumping, but I felt like it'd be worth mentionning anyway.

Solid invisible block in front of doors: You can stand on the invisible blocks placed in Kay and the Player's door.

And if you don't mind, could you tell me where you store the player's save files ? I'd like to try some things out with a new save but I want to make a backup of my current one first.

Thank you so much again for the detailed bug reports, I really, really appreciate them! I've fixed most of the issues above in v1.0.3! I'm still having difficulty with the camera rotation on map start though haha!

Also, the way save data is stored in GGB is a little weird (it uses Unity Player Prefs), but I've made a guide here for you to back it up!

1. In Windows, press Start and type 'Regedit' to open the 'Registry Editor'

2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Thundagames\GoGoBeasts

3. Right Click on the 'GoGoBeasts' folder along the left side of the Registry Editor window and select Export to create ".reg" file in a folder of your choosing. This exports all of your save data as a file, serving as a snapshot at the time you exported. You can then double click the reg file to load your save data snapshot at any time!

From here, you are free to launch Go Go Beasts and then select "Delete All Save Data" in the Options menu! To restore your save data, just close the game and run the ".reg" file!

Sulucnal · Feb 27, 2023

Thanks. Here are some new bugs that I found.

The teleporter to a speedrun zone emits its sound effect multiple times when you use it for the first time after entering a level.

The bug with the Glimmers seems to still be here.

The player's shadow still "collides" with the invisible blocks placed in Kay and the Player's door (you can notice it if you go in front of one of these doors and jump while looking down).

The transition between the dirt, sand and grass on Kaz's Cliff seems kinda off compared to the way everything else is designed.

There is a visual glitch with them monsters on your Go Go Bracelet HUD when you open and close the pause menu too fast.

You should maybe redesign the training course or nerf Embird to force the player to try out every Primary Beast.

You can climb any wall if there is a grappling point close enough. To do it, you just need to use your Grapple ability while moving towards the wall you want to climb.

Sulucnal · Feb 28, 2023

Also, I don't know if you're looking for ideas for new primary abilities, but here is one:
A teleportation ability that can let you go anywhere you want in a small radius (as long as there is no obstacles in the way).
When you hold the Beast Ability button, it makes a little marker appear where you're looking. When you release it, your player get teleported to the position of the marker. You can use this ability to go through gapes that are too narrow for your character, or even through certain materials like glass.

(Sorry for the bad video quality, I just can't find a way to set up OBS properly)

Thundaga · Mar 1, 2023

Sulucnal said:
Also, I don't know if you're looking for ideas for new primary abilities, but here is one:
A teleportation ability that can let you go anywhere you want in a small radius (as long as there is no obstacles in the way).
When you hold the Beast Ability button, it makes a little marker appear where you're looking. When you release it, your player get teleported to the position of the marker. You can use this ability to go through gapes that are too narrow for your character, or even through certain materials like glass.

(Sorry for the bad video quality, I just can't find a way to set up OBS properly)

That is awesome! I like that idea a lot for a future beast! I was thinking of doing an ability that involved placing two portals, and then walking into them to teleport, so perhaps one of those portals could be launched forward! Now I just want to make the game Portal lol!

Thundaga · Mar 1, 2023

Go Go Beasts v1.0.4 is now available! It includes plenty more bugfixes, as well as a fun little speedrun challenge that you can view at home! Try to beat my best time (so far) of 25:17! Start a new playthrough to attempt a speedrun by going into the Options menu and selecting "Delete All Data"! Recommended only after you've beaten the game your first time of course!

Sulucnal · Mar 1, 2023

I'm coming back with four new bugs and two features ideas:

Bug: Deleting your save data also resets your parameters (Which I quickly noticed when the music suddenly went back up and OBLITERATED my ears(I'm not complaining, it was actually pretty funny))

Bug: My Glimers tracker ringed even though I started a new game and didn't even unlock it. The UI was obviously not there, but I herard the sound effect you hear when entering a level.

Bug: If you use a primary ability and interact with something at the same time, the primary ability action will use itself automatically every time the bar is full and you'll only stop using it once you left click again.

Bug: The speedrun challenge pannel at the player's house seems to add the times of your different runs together.

Features ideas:

A UI to choose wich primary beast you want to use. It could be useful if you ever plan to add more of them to select your beast without having to spam Q.

A Primary Beast with the ability to slow down time.

Lastly, I wanted to ask: when is the speedrun timer stopped? When you reach Dev Isle, or when you talk to yourself?

Thundaga · Mar 1, 2023

Sulucnal said:
I'm coming back with four new bugs and two features ideas:

Bug: Deleting your save data also resets your parameters (Which I quickly noticed when the music suddenly went back up and OBLITERATED my ears(I'm not complaining, it was actually pretty funny))

Bug: My Glimers tracker ringed even though I started a new game and didn't even unlock it. The UI was obviously not there, but I herard the sound effect you hear when entering a level.

Bug: If you use a primary ability and interact with something at the same time, the primary ability action will use itself automatically every time the bar is full and you'll only stop using it once you left click again.

Bug: The speedrun challenge pannel at the player's house seems to add the times of your different runs together.

Features ideas:

A UI to choose wich primary beast you want to use. It could be useful if you ever plan to add more of them to select your beast without having to spam Q.

A Primary Beast with the ability to slow down time.

Lastly, I wanted to ask: when is the speedrun timer stopped? When you reach Dev Isle, or when you talk to yourself?

This is awesome stuff, I love it! The new beast drawings and ideas are so cool, I would love to implement something like those sometime! In the future I definitely want to add more Primary Ability beasts, so I've been racking my brain about the best way to do that! Perhaps Tap Q to quick switch to the next beast and Hold Q to open a menu, or I was also thinking of making it so only 2 primary beasts can be equipped in the future but they each have their own unique cooldown values!

I'll be working on another update sometime tonight to try to fix those bugs you called out (and a couple more along the way like that pesky Glimmer bug)! For the speedrun panel challenge bug, could you send me an example screenshot? It should be your total playtime from start to finish, rather than doing any addition based on the times you got in Kaz's speedrun courses! It's definitely going to be a tad jank from 1.0.3 to 1.0.4 since I only started counting player playtime in 1.0.4, so any prior playtime wont be tracked properly. Moving forward though the playtime tracker should work just fine!

The speedrun timer itself is stopped when you talk to Cam on Dev Isle, since he calls out "TIME!" when you first talk to him, haha!

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