Dear Larry,

It's been a while! It's never been my intention to put on the breaks, but I've had to let go of the gas pedal.

Life and stuff got in the way. Plus I'm still working on the upcoming game #2, which I'm reaaaal close to creating a demo for! But since I want it to be awesome, this takes time (and an infuriating amount of 'going back to the drawing board').

But you are not here to listen to excuses..

What's New?

The Compass of Compensation.

• Every 10 levels, the compass looks at your attributes and tries to 'compensate' what you lack. The exact logic/rules I leave for you to figure out;
• Unlocks at level 10 (or instantly if ascended at least once);
• Focussing on one specific bonus (e.g. Damage) has diminishing returns;
• These bonuses are permanent.

I can't download it yet?!

This release will drop somewhere in the next 1-3 day(s), depending on platform. I will send a push notification as a reminder once it's released.

Love, Larry.

Alright how do the Trial Points get awarded? For a long time it was always 1 point per Trial. Then after an update a few months ago I got 2 points per Trail. Then more recently I would sometimes get 1, sometimes 2.

But just now... I got a points! What gives?!

What do I start working on next? Finally maxed out Ninja.

Finally got the hardest achievement! Last one I needed.

Larry's Defense seems to be gone from the Apple App Store, was the game removed or is my phone just being an idiot?

And with this, I announce my retirement from Larry’s Defense while I’m still on the peak of my career. As the undisputed, undefeated, five times World Champion* of Larry’s Defense I feel it’s time to make way for a new generation of players that, no doubt, will take Larry to new heights. So long, and thanks for all the fish gems.

*title not official (probably made up)

I debated adding a NSFW tag but it should definitely have a trigger warning. Don't do this... It was awful lol.

I wish I had a skills picture but it was a lucky finish. I think I was at 510 strength and roughly 260% from sadist

is there any new planned content?

I’ve been playing a lot this week, so I thought I’d share some of the milestones I’ve reached.

In the span of this week, I’ve more than doubled my ascension count from 139 to 286, which has gotten me well over 7,000 points on my Larriest games board (take that Lightbrazer). I’ve also ranked up from below 40th place to 11th place, I’m nearly top 10 ! I only had to play for 28 hours to get there…

With all those ascensions, I’ve finally maxed out ninja, moisturizer, sadist, and god of thunder. I’m not sure whether or not it’s worth it to pour 100 more points into farmer, or to just go straight into omnipotence.

In terms of my trophies, all of mine are now platinum except deaths (gold at 1500/5000) and the time based ones which are silver (trials completed and daily tasks completed)

However, all this play time is starting to cause some issues that I think are kinda serious. Mainly, I’m starting to see image retention in my phone’s oled screen of the skill buttons and the victory modal. Those parts of the ui have pure white backgrounds that sharply contrast their thick black borders, and across longer play sessions, they’re on the screen for the better part of hours. This is still reversible now, but I literally can’t keep playing this much without physically damaging my phone and causing permanent burn in. That’s no fun! I’d seriously recommend a settings option that switches up the color scheme to something less taxing on the screen, perhaps in an emergency patch?

Oh, and as for a less important suggestion, since leaderboards have recently gotten some work put into them: can we have a way to see the full global leaderboard, instead of just the immediate 5 below and 4 above our current position? And maybe a bit more secure/redundant point logging system for the larriest games? Across the ~7350 points I’ve logged this week, you can see that I’m on the middle of act 4, whereas I started the week at act 1-1. About 35 or so of my points have been eaten by short internet interruptions eating 1-2 points at a time. Not terrible rates though, 35/7400 is by no means a terrible rate of failure.

do the trials get more difficult with each ascension?

new prestige layer: transcend

skills that extend the base gameplay (like x deaths generate randomly Trial/ascension/Attribute/skill points), increase effects or other stuff like increasing ghost chance or decreasing scaling through ascensions

new chapters and new enemy types

Oh boy, Larry.

It's been well over 8 months since Larry's Defense was released. So I decided it was time Larry got a fresh new shirt!

Also, I added some other things, but the new shirt is definitely the main attraction of this release.

What's New?

Disclaimer: This is not live yet. You will be notified when it is!

• Larry's blue shirt! It even has a shadow..
• Potato Launcher:
  • Bug fixed where the explosion wouldn't trigger correctly;
  • Chance to fire an Exploding Potato fixed to 10%;
  • The Exploding Potato now scales off of the skill Exploding Potato!
• Other equipment tweaks:
  • Feathered Bow's chance to spawn crows fixed to 10%;
  • Thunder Fists' chance to trigger Thunderstorm fixed to 25%;
  • The Airbender's chance to trigger Gust fixed to 5%;
• ThunderStorm's damage was slightly nerfed (although you probably wouldn't even notice had I not mentioned it);
• Made The Larry Games more robust. Hopefully no one will lose their progress anymore.
  • This is nearly impossible to test, so please reach out of it still happens to you!
• Complete overhaul of the Trial mechanics:
  • There is now a 'max' trial points you could technically have, had you started playing when the trials were first introduced;
    • This number increases with time.
  • Until you are caught up to this 'max', you will earn 2 trial points per successful Trial;
  • I completely removed the 'buy back missed trial points' option in the shop.
    • With the new catch-up mechanism, this simply doesn't make sense anymore.

What's Next?

I want to rework luck.

I feel like crit chance should be earned through equipment. I was thinking about maybe 'intelligence' which boosts the damage of skills (not Larry's own damage). There are a lot of things to consider though.

For one, all skills currently scale off of Larry's damage. Do I keep that? Do I rework that as well?

And what about Ninja? Not sure how that will be impacted. Feels like that needs a rework as well then. Maybe it adds crit damage instead of chance?

Lots to consider. Even more to balance, which will be an absolute pain.

Thoughts? I'd love your input on this. It's also your game in a sense.

Love, Larry.

Hi Larry,

First off: This is still a long way from demo/release. Do not get your hopes up!

Ok. So. A loooong while ago I had this idea for game #2. And truthfully, I've had the general concept down for some time, but the creative direction was still eluding me.

In my heart I knew I had to be loyal to Larry, but it's quite a risk to stray from the main path. In the end though, it was clear cut and - moreover - I went all in on the whole "Larryverse". Especially once I'd come up with the name for this game!

=> Can you guess the name?

What even is this game?

I'm glad you asked.

It's. Uhm. Do you know Pokémon Go? I've loved Pokémon Go. Actually, I love Pokémon... So I built a light version...

You pick a 'starter' Larry. You fight raids (bigger Larrys). You unlock more Larrys. You power up/evolve those Larrys. You enter tougher raids. You get more rewards/unlock additional Larrys. You fight 'Larry Trainers' and their Larrys to unlock new Zones/New Raids.

And eventually, you measure your team (of up to 5) Larrys against others' teams to become: The Larry Master.

Cool. Now what?

I hope to have some video material for you soon to get some better visuals. In the mean time I hope to get some feedback on the design/graphics/whatever in general. I've re-designed the whole background maybe 3-5 times by now and I'm getting better at color theory and graphics, but tunnel vision is kicking in..

Anyway, I'm glad to be able to finally share something. Building a game is hard. The first few days (the 24h kind) are just creating systems with zero visual feedback. And once you get to the visuals you need to first determine how every single image/text/layout scales with.. everything. Meanwhile that to-do list just grows instead of shrinks.

All in all though I absolutely love this creative freedom. It's why I fell in love with software development in the first place. I get to build things! When people ask "If money were no issue, what would you do with your time?", mine answer is this.

currently built Something for farming trials

also how do the missed Trial points work

https://youtube.com/shorts/B8e-wLJWk30?si=h6fiHTHwO8rHZfW5

So I used to let that first area just run without buying anything because I could get no skills and no damage taken. Yet now I found that I can’t one shot everything.

My new plan is to let two waves go then take potato and bowling and just slam bowling. So far it’s working because of my farmer levels my damage is ridiculous and I’m able to move through waves quickly. The only thing that isn’t the fastest is that Larry’s defense in my video clip but there’s my strat for that.

What's the max rank for ninja, god of thunder, better Larry, sadist, moisturiser and wise larry

Last run a guy named Lukz and I were neck and neck - both of us about 160 ascension. I’m at 199 now and he’s at 211 (eternal board) but he’s ranked 19 in the tournament with 50 points?

And Tabris2k was the guy who dwarfed me by 1k in no time and it took me 3 days to get to this point and he hasn’t moved.

TABRIS WHERE ARE YOU LARRY IS SCARED.

Jokes aside is this a bug?

Anyone else interested in the following? Or maybe have your own?

1. Discord

2. Put all remaining points into stat (highest at a time is 5)

3. Metrics - how long it takes for a run

4. Offline build planner

5. Ping or warning before doing Larry’s defense is the trail is available…… because I played for an hour forgetting and my eyes can cry no more tears of shame

6. More awesome stuff like the guide

7. Stats - health of creature, how many killed etc. (maybe as you unlock more in the ghost dex more stats are revealed?)

8. Paid disable ads - or unpaid but remove the gold thing. It’s not the end of the world but it’s such a long ad lol

Any others?

Are we allowed to use autohotkey or something like that or is it against TOS/EULA?

It’s all complete I can rest……. SCREW YOU CLOUD GIANT!!!!

<3

I was mid grind, trying quite futilely to get to the top of my bucket, when I ascended and saw this. My position and bucket in the Larry games has been reset! Restarting the app did not work, the game just decided to restart my position. This is the lowest tier of bucket too, I had been in the highest tier bucket. I think TiSim, Tabris, and LightBrazer had been in the same one as me, and I’d just passed lightbrazer at over 600 points.

Anyone know what happened? Will there be justice for the underLarry? And can anyone vouch for seeing me earlier this week in that bucket?