I've continued to work on this, and the first release version (v0.9) is now available in Google Play! Just follow the link and let me know what you think!
Also, follow me on Twitter (@dManabreak) to keep updated on new patches. :)
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So, here's my LD29 compo entry, "Oh My Oilrig!". I skipped the compo last time, but couldn't miss this one!
Oh My Oilrig! is a tower-defense game in which you command oilrig workers and try to defend the rig while precious oil is drilled. Unfortunately, there's some guys who want you to stop drilling it (environmentalists, pffft!), and that's why you have to build defenses. :)
The game is made with libgdx and Java, so you'll need Java runtime to play it. Eclipse was used for coding and debugging, GIMP and Inkscape for graphics, and Psycle, Audacity and Oggdrop for music.
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INSTRUCTIONS
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Left mouse button selects a worker. When a worker is selected, right-clicking on an empty turret space will command the worker to walk there. When a worker is at the turret space, a building menu shows up where you can build a turret. While building, the worker is busy and cannot be moved.
Building turrets costs oil, though, so place your turrets carefully! And I think the attacking boats get more angry the deeper you drill...?
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OTHER STUFF
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Nothing else to say besides THANK YOU for playing, rating and commenting. :)
Hi there, I just played you game. It however crashed shortly after I build my first defense thingy. Here is the command line output if it is helpful to you.
Exception in thread "LWJGL Application" java.lang.NullPointerException at com.manabreak.ld29.ComponentPlatform.buildingDone(ComponentPlatform.java:191) at com.manabreak.ld29.SingleLaserDefense.update(SingleLaserDefense.java:68) at com.manabreak.ld29.ComponentPlatform.update(ComponentPlatform.java:123) at com.manabreak.ld29.Oilrig.update(Oilrig.java:171) at com.manabreak.ld29.Scene.update(Scene.java:88) at com.manabreak.ld29.GameScene.update(GameScene.java:75) at com.manabreak.ld29.Game.render(Game.java:42) at com.badlogic.gdx.backends.lwjgl.LwjglApplication.mainLoop(LwjglApplication.java:206) at com.badlogic.gdx.backends.lwjgl.LwjglApplication$1.run(LwjglApplication.java:114)
Pretty fun game! If you update this I'd like to see more enemy and turret variety, gaining resources for destroying a boat, upgrades, maps etc. Otherwise a solid game in under 48 hours!
This is a pretty cool little game. :) Very neat and clean graphics. All this needs now is a larger variety in turrets/enemies, and it would be an incredibly addicting game. :) Well done.
Cool concept for a tower defense game. Great artwork, music and sounds. The workers are designed in a way that would let them have some nice comedic reactions. It'd be fun to see where you take it from here. I can imagine that as it goes onwards that you'd unleash worse and worse things from the ocean trying to stop you from drilling, so you'd need bigger and better weapons to deal with it, as in any good tower defense game. Anyhoo, good job!
Very well done! Liked the ocean wave effect. Graphics are very slick. A simple feature that would add more strategic depth (pun intended) would be having the workers slowly repair the turrets while they stood there. Then you can shuffle them around to keep turrets alive longer when all of your turret spots are full and there's nothing else to do.
Very well presented and polished for an 48h game! A bit limited in terms of strategic choices. After about 500m the game didn't seem to get more difficult anymore.
The 1st ship comes before I have time to build anything, which is a bit annoying.
Also I don't see any reason to be able to select ladders, and it would be nice if the worker stood next to the tower instead of on top of it in order to make him easier to select.
Seems like if I right clicked in the game window when I *wasn't* controlling one of my guys, the game would just abruptly exit.
It didn't have a whole lot of depth (lol) and the pacing could have been improved. I felt like I had to spend too much time waiting for resources so I could build. Maybe I just wasn't very good.
I liked it! For some reason, though, when I clicked the build icon, the workers often wouldn't do anything. In one case, the clock popped up to indicate he was working, but the turret never appeared.
Nice little defense game. It was hard at first to get my own turrets to work, and the enemies had already destroyed me when I understood what to do. Took me a few tries but managed to get stuff to work eventually. :) Audio was great!
Hi there. Quite nice game! I like the music. Some more turrets would have been nice. Also the turrets shot on the ships while they were outside my screen. I don't know if that is intended or just some problems with my resolution.
This is a very cool game, great graphics, cool music and interesting game-play. I think it would have benefited from some more enemy types and weapon types but still, fantastic job!
Curse those peace-loving do-gooders. May they be eaten by sharks.
... You know what this game needs? Trained sharks. Head-mounted laser beams optional.
Good execution. If you were to keep going, you might want to consider giving turrets some kind of bonus when a worker is on them; would add more strategy to the placements and stuff.
Nice idea with good graphics and sound. The implementation is however not so smooth. Often my workers do not do what I want them to do this makes it unneccessarily difficult. The balancing seems to be also not very polished. But good starting point. Could be a really fun game when polished up.
Exception in thread "LWJGL Application" java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.manabreak.ld29.ComponentPlatform.buildingDone(ComponentPlatform.java:191)
at com.manabreak.ld29.SingleLaserDefense.update(SingleLaserDefense.java:68)
at com.manabreak.ld29.ComponentPlatform.update(ComponentPlatform.java:123)
at com.manabreak.ld29.Oilrig.update(Oilrig.java:171)
at com.manabreak.ld29.Scene.update(Scene.java:88)
at com.manabreak.ld29.GameScene.update(GameScene.java:75)
at com.manabreak.ld29.Game.render(Game.java:42)
at com.badlogic.gdx.backends.lwjgl.LwjglApplication.mainLoop(LwjglApplication.java:206)
at com.badlogic.gdx.backends.lwjgl.LwjglApplication$1.run(LwjglApplication.java:114)