This is a mini-RTS that doesn't use a mouse and takes away all the burden of micro-managing your units (even baddies like me can play it)! Your goal is to protect your tower and destroy your enemy's tower. To do that, you add modules to your tower that allow you train units, improve its defense, generate Power (a.k.a MONEY) or periodically send a group of weak units at your enemy.
Commands are all carried out at intervals of 10 seconds; meaning once the big huge red counter reaches 0, all of the commands currently in the queue are carried out... you can also see what your devious opponent is carrying out, and react appropriately!
CONTROLS:
You toggle the Z,X, and C keys on and off, and based on that, a command is generated (don't worry, the game explains what each command does).
Pressing Space will add the command to your Tower's queue, or, if the thing is not possible (you don't have enough Power for example, or you need to build something else first), then it notifies you why that is.
GENERAL (FUN) INFO:
This is my first LD entry! Huzzah!
I made everything using Flixel, paint.NET, and sfxr, barring the tubular, awesome track playing at the background, which was gotten from www.nosoapradio.us (a lifesaver!)
I had a day to work on it due to a full time job on Sunday (I know, I know), but it turned out all right! Well, I hope so at least. If you liked it, drop me a line, if not, drop me two!
Also, peaches are tasty and Dani Ludum is innocent >:)
I like the art style and the sound effects. The gameplay is pretty simple and doesn't offer a whole lot of depth. It's not really what I would call tower defense, despite the fact that you are defending a tower.
Also, I believe that using a music asset that you did not create is in violation of the rules of the 48 hour compo.
The game is tough, but the method of executing commands is extremely unique. Nice thinking!
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Martin_Monosys26 Aug 2013, 20:42
Didn't really know what was going on, pressed some buttons and then lost. Not very satisfying... Anyway, you shouldn't use music you downloaded somewhere in the competition, it's against the rules!!!
super fun. My favorite game so far. I was about to skip it because I thought it would take too long to learn, but it's very intuitive in my opinion, even with such a minimal tutorial. I admit that I kinda suck at the game (I didn't hurt the enemy tower at all), but it's still really fun and unique.
I think you need to choose your colors more carefully : some parts of the screen are hardly lisible; and there is an overall "what the f* is going on ?!" feeling at the beginning that will probably make some people quit before they understand how the game is supposed to be played.
I'll have to admit, I really wanted to get into it but the controls were a bit confusing. If there was an easier way to pick commands, it would be a lot of fun. Otherwise the concept (mouse-free rts), graphics and music are pretty cool.
Brilliant game once you get the hang of it! My favourite strategy was to build three boosters and two generators then just sit back till I have around 150 power. Then delete one booster and one generator, build two factories and flood the place with slaughterers. Instant win!
Great entry, prolly my favorite so far! Lacks maybe of a rock paper scissor effect of some sort, spamming slaughterer can beat all the rest alone. Towers have too much HP, less HP with maybe a number of rounds to win. That is of course if you plan to go further with this game :)
Nice graphics, a theme of 10 seconds is lost on me here but never the less, it is awesome and it is fun tweaking around. AI is challenging enough. Great job.
Took me a minute to catch on but quickly able to hold my own and advance, congrats on a great first entry! Controls took the game to a new fun level. :-)
clever use of 10 seconds! I didn't feel like I was getting anywhere, though. Is it winnable, or genuinely infinite as the title implies? Spamming behemoths wasn't as effective as I thought it might be... Only criticism, there's somehow too much text and it's a bit fiddly getting started.
@acro: Game is winnable, easiest strat is play defensive until you got about 200 Power, then make mega Slaughterer push :) @all: Thanks for the feedback, making games accessible is something I generally struggle in, but now I know on what to work!
"The most important restriction some weren’t aware of: ALL content must be created within 48 hours! This means you are NOT allowed to use graphics, sounds or music previously created by you or others. You are NOT allowed to use downloaded graphics, sounds or music, even if they are free and even if you modify them heavily! The only graphical third-party content you are allowed to use in your project are Fonts. The only third-party audio elements you are allowed to use are drum loops, drum samples and sampled instruments used for music creation. You are, however, allowed to use Content generators that create graphics, sounds or even music on-the-fly based on parameters given as input. sfxr is a popular example."
So I think you cannot use downloaded music from Internet in compo. You can use drum loops/samples to make your own music, but not use a whole music track.
Good work!