Powerup Poll #1

Powerup poll time! These will be polls for tiers 3 and 4 to vote on in order to determine some of the next powerups to be added to the game - note that ALL powerups in the polls will EVENTUALLY be in the game, these polls just determine which is added first.

At least through the next public release late next month, I plan to do bi-weekly beta build releases, so there will be a few polls between the more time consuming powerups (i.e. the ones that require new sprites/animations/code blocks rather than just new variables and multipliers) for which should be added to the next build. Several more smaller powerups will of course also be included in the betas, as those are easy to add and take little time.

TECHNICALLY this is powerup poll number 2, the last one was just soooo long ago (between charged melee attacks and the ground pound ability) that I figured I'd label this as #1 to avoid confusion and make people think they've already missed a recent one.

Also, sorry it's been so long since I've run any polls! I've struggled coming up with good ideas for polls that will also work well with development - while the game is still in alpha, there's a very particular order most things need to be developed in, otherwise a lot of time and effort can end up wasted as the project iterates further - old systems can become obselete or require significant reworking to work with a new system, and obviously we want to avoid having to do any jobs twice in development. Now that we're finally onto powerups though - most of which have little to no impact in terms of when they're added - polls are much more viable again, so I'll be running as many of these as I can!

Next beta build's "big" ability addition will be the ground pound, seeing as that one is long overdue to be added at this point, so this poll will be for the FOLLOWING build - this poll will remain open until the next beta build with ground pound is released (currently scheduled for February 3rd).

THE POLL:

1) Reinforced skeleton: Allows blocking of most attacks, taking greatly reduced damage and knockback

2) Gaseous eruption: manual burps while carrying 1 or more prey can be charged to deal AOE knockback to everything in front of Mia 

Teir 4 patrons, there will be an identical poll following shortly for you to submit your second vote!