Mota's finally out of alpha development and ready for some beta polish. In the beginning, I said that alpha would comprise a story arena for each of the playable classes. I am pleased to say that with the advent of the Wizard's Tower, alpha is now complete. With the Wizard's Tower comes three new enemies and a new arena prop: fire golems, ice golems, [secret], and frost auras.
Moving and hitting faster than their icy counterparts, the fire golems deal fire damage with standard attacks. They also take a reduced amount of damage from fire (but can still burn, oddly).
The ice golems move and hit slower than fire golems, but they pack a punch and can sometimes chill on strike. The take reduced frost damage, but an obvious increase to fire damage. They also take a bit more damage from smashing weapons.
The new frost aura prop applies the chill effect to anyone within range. They cannot be deactivated (unlike most other props), but like most others, they do affect both you and your enemies.
Full version alpha builds of Mota were being deployed to IndieDB regularly while that was still the active phase of development. The main reason for this was to allow the public to play Mota and provide feedback in lieu of a demo. Now that the beta phase is underway, one of my first major changes was creating a separate demo version of Mota that I could build simultaneously with the full version. As such I've pulled the alpha builds from IndieDB and released the first demo build in their place.
The new demo of Mota plays just like the full version with the exception of only allowing you four playable classes: the adventurer, hunter, knight, and wizard. These four classes are fully implemented, however, offering their respective story arenas and items in their entirety. In fact, if you visit a shop in the demo, you will only find swords, arrows, shields, and staves. If you choose to unlock the eight additional classes, you can do so against the demo version with instructions provided after purchase. You won't lose your current progress or anything; you'll simply unlock the rest of the game.
With this new demo capability, an Android version of the demo is also now available on Google Play. This version differs from the Windows version only in that it is a completely separate app, so your progress will not be saved between the demo and full version.