Ludum Dare #27compo

Chrono Defense

by cardanis

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.41

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.29

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.03

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.68

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.64

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.78

Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.94

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.08

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★50%

EDIT: Deployment problems fixed! Compiled it in XNA instead of Monogame. It should work now. I wanted to make more content (levels and units) but spent the time I allotted to that working on deployment. Enjoy!

I spent the last three hours running into huge deployment issues, and I can't guarantete this will work on your Computer. If it doesn't, make sure you have .Net installed, as well as OpenAL and up to date graphics drivers for OpenGL. If that still doesn't work, then I'm sorry! I'm hopefully going to get this figured out before submissions end.

Tools: XNA

Comments19

optimality26 Aug 2013, 16:02

Nice! Very challenging. Love the soundtrack.

kevinAlbs26 Aug 2013, 16:06

Nice game. I could not get past level one haha but it was pretty cool.

lightsoda26 Aug 2013, 16:08

Tried my damnedest to win, but I kept getting overrun. Pretty fun take on RTS.

Khopa26 Aug 2013, 16:10

Good idea, i like it. And it's a good challenge.

Sh1rogane26 Aug 2013, 16:18

A good fun game, wish there where more :D (btw is it possible to beat lvl 1?)

kunzbe26 Aug 2013, 16:20

I enjoyed the audio a lot. But it is quite difficult so my motivation dropped after 5 minutes playing :/

Cardanisauthor26 Aug 2013, 16:22

To those wondering, yes level 1 is beatable! (Having a sniper or two really helps with the hounds). I'm working on more post-competition Content that I will throw a link up for once it's done.

handCraftedRadio26 Aug 2013, 16:27

That was pretty cool! It's a nice take on defense games.

intripoon26 Aug 2013, 16:42

Wow, this is hard. Level 1 was already too difficult for me.

lordjosephdeburg26 Aug 2013, 17:16

An engaging game the diversity of units adds a lot too it, shame there is only one level

Joxno26 Aug 2013, 17:18

Really fun take on the Tower Defense genre, quite different from everything else I've played, really nice work!

N42726 Aug 2013, 17:19

Really cool idea and fun, a bit hard though

zanzindorf26 Aug 2013, 17:22

The graphics were sweet. I died miserably on the first level. I'm not sure if I was missing rules or doing something wrong. I thought the unit selection screen was a cool way to represent purchasing points. Nice work!

irl26 Aug 2013, 17:25

Couldn't get past the first level, but seemed quite fun. An interesting approach to the theme.

stephan_h26 Aug 2013, 19:02

Nice game. Played a few rounds and did never survive, but was fun nonetheless.
The soothing music and the unit sounds did not go well together, I think. At least for my taste.

simple26 Aug 2013, 19:43

I just really like these kinds of games, nice one!

Aslai29 Aug 2013, 20:22

I loved this game! The only thing that could make it better (with current gameplay elements) would be allowing you to micromanage your units. It's incredibly frustrating when I have 3 snipers and they all attack the little guys, instead of the wave of hounds attacking my foot soldier blockade :(

X-0r10 Sep 2013, 22:12

The sfx were far too loud compared to the background music, imo... The game needs balancing, right now, it is really too hard. Once you can select units, move them, etc, it would give more control to the player. Right now, it seems to depend a lot on luck... Still, it was fun playing it =)

JaJ16 Sep 2013, 17:16

Nice concept, but not very well balanced out. I felt like just picking soldiers every time was the best option, but even then I couldn't win.