👻Halloween Event 2025 is now LIVE👻
🪦You can earn Halloween Tickets on all Boss kills
🎃Redeem for a chance at the White Pumpkin Head
🕷️The Cryptkeeper boss is back again
🦇 New legendary weapon and cosmetic for Members
BTS Thursdays! Magmadillo was our first boss that walked around in 8 directions, and with that comes a lot of animation, though by keeping the head in a separate layer, it allowed him to breathe fire in multiple directions. This boss' most unique attack is turning into a ball and ping-ponging around the arena. He's programmed to target a player, roll straight to the arena's edge and then bounce back towards another player. We considered other rolling movements, like in a spiral or a star-shape but preferred he directly target players. You can fight him yourself right now on bitmates.io ! Just...take a friend or two.
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Iiiits time for another...Cosmetic Spotlight! This is the Grandmaster level outfit for completing the Woodworking Lifeskill! Lifeskills will offer new cosmetics based on resetting your stats to: Novice, Journeyman, Master, and finally Grandmaster! Become a woodworking expert on bitmates.io !
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BTS Thursdays! Designing bosses in Bitmates takes a lot of planning and no boss shows it better than Anubis: A floating head with independently moving eyes, ears, mouth, hands, 8 vastly different attacks. An arena that you also have to fight, and the lead up to the boss, progressing through the pyramid. On top of all that, putting the pieces together efficiently. For context: Anubis's art with all his attacks/parts is less than 1 MB in file size!
Anubis is still a work in-progress in-game but our artists create mockups of the animations so that the developers have a frame of reference. We considered having him in isometric, with the hands coming out of portals, as a reanimated statue, but letting him be free moving was definitely the coolest looking. And you know the rule of cool- The right thing to do is whatever's the coolest!
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Mondays are...Cosmetic Spotlight! This is the novice level outfit for completing the Woodworking Lifeskill! Lifeskills offer new cosmetics based on resetting your stats to: Novice, Journeyman, Master, and finally Grandmaster!
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