Ludum Dare #12compo

Tower

by lonestranger

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.71

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.57

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.33

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.71

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.95

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.13

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.73

Food★★★★★★★★★★4.00

Journal★★★★★★★★★★3.88

Polish★★★★★★★★★★2.38

Technical★★★★★★★★★★2.53

So this is ‘Tower’ since I didn’t bother to come up with a better name. (I did all my naming duty with Fiona’s Purple Reign.)
The object, of course, is to defend your tower from the onslaught of baddies. Unfortunately, there is only one type of monster, but each wave has it’s own speed and interval. Use the arrows to move the guy up and down the tower, or left and right across the top. A/D change the angle and W/S changes the power of your arrows.
I’ll probably write a post-mortum later, but you can
download Tower
.

Comments13

nilsf

The graphics were really nice and sounds were pretty good too. The game wasn't really much fun to play. Bonus humor points for "You can't die, sorry." :D

kai

I like how the arrows act like you would expect. The controls are a bit hard to remember. Perhaps using the spacebar to control power (holding for more) would alleviate the control confusion. Very nice, though.

Frimkron

There isn't really any need to change angle or power as long as you can keep killing the soldiers in the same place. Maybe something like random wind speed would shake things up a bit. I like the way you can move up and down the tower.

jolle

Machine bow. No challenge.

pansapiens

I like the hand-drawn graphical style. Mouse control for angles/power would have been better. Good enemy death sound.

Hamumu

My favorite thing was walking up and down the tower. Beautifully implemented. Then my next favorite was to be at the bottom of the tower with a really low angle and max power. Of course, when the arrows hit the ground from that angle it's quite odd.

And that looks suspiciously like Panda Express!

Endurion

I love the graphic style. Too bad there is not much of a challenge once you figure keep-spacebar-pressed out.

Morre

Didn't work, and doesn't give me any useful crash logs or console output. Sorry - I've really tried my best to get this to start.

Will be judging the food and journal categories only.

EDIT: Works on my laptop. Graphics are okay, I kind of like the style. Gameplay needs a bit of polish (@see AkinTower).