LD24 Tower Defense

by ishav
Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.91
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.59
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.27
Theme★★★★★★★★★★1.77
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.59
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.00
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.39
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★44%
How to play

Press Q to place a tower, left click to place the tower on the map.

Press W to place a wall, left click to place the wall on the map.

And press E to move the towers target to your mouse cursor. press E or left click to place it.

Use A to toggle the music.

Click towers or walls to sell or upgrade them.

And when you are done send in your score to the high score board.

About

This is a little bit different tower defense game where you have to aim your towers yourself.

Stop the monsters from reaching the blue square in the lower right corner.

Every 8th monster they get more HP (They evolve :d)

Toools used

PyxelEdit

Paint

sfxr

Autotracker-Bu

Flixel

FlashDevelop

screenshot

Comments10

dector
dector31 Aug 2012, 16:29
Die quickly. Need time to upgrade (without monster's atack). Good music. It is close to game's mood. And sounds like some old-school game on NES :)
someone
someone5 Sep 2012, 13:37
Like the music. Some of my turrets didn't appear to be firing when I had a lot of them.
ishavauthor5 Sep 2012, 13:52
That's because i have a limit of 200 bullets on screen at once. I didn't have time for very much balancing or testing so I just picked 200 hoping it would be enough.
mdkess6 Sep 2012, 04:44
Solid! Pretty hard, but nice mechanics. You really have to be quick on your feet. I like the mechanic of having to aim your towers all to a single point - it's pretty different, and adds another dynamic to the game. Excellent work.
hamster_mk_46 Sep 2012, 04:55
This game could have use more time in play testing. Placing more turrets until I hit the bullet max seemed to be a better strategy than upgrading.
demonpants
demonpants6 Sep 2012, 17:47
Decent. Has issues because there are no rounds to spend time upgrading and because all towers are forced to shoot at a single point. You can't do any meaningful mazing with all of them shooting in the same place. Also, what does this have to do with evolution?
Qaterknan
Qaterknan6 Sep 2012, 18:43
Too easy for me. But I like the idea of one target for turrets.
bvanschooten6 Sep 2012, 19:19
Interesting alternative tower defense game. The idea of having all towers aim at one target makes it rather different, but also seems to limit the available strategies to lining the enemies up on a single line. I am not sure it's a good idea to have the aliens get in the way of building. Much of the game then concentrates on avoiding alien interference while building.
reismann6 Sep 2012, 19:29
All I had to do was build a bunch of turrets and aim them all at the spawn point and I was set for the rest of the game. Make more than one spawn location.
Sestren6 Sep 2012, 19:41
Seemed very hard at first, and then trivially easy after I got a certain setup. Nice music, and interesting take on the genre.

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