Portal of Intrusion

by baldur
Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.93
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.80
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.73
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.33
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.93
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★22%
Hi!
This is the first time I'm participating in LD. I really would have loved to submit my entry to the competition but since I didn't have time to work on sunday I have to upload it to the jam.

I've written all the code within 2 days with the following tools:
Language: C++
Editor: gVim
Compilation: MinGW
Graphics: Gimp
Libraries: SDL2 (to get a window, OpenGL context and input events)

Since I didn't have the time to polish the game and to give explanations, I have to write a short introduction in the notes.

__Theme__:
The evil has build a connection between worlds to intrude our land and destroy the main castle. Stop them!

__Interface__:
On the right side of the screen there is the control panel. At the top you can see your money as a yellow number. At the bottom there is your score in red. Currently you can build 3 types of units by first clicking at the icon in the control panel and then placing them on the map.

__Controls__:
You can use WASD to move the camera around the map and Q to close the game at any time. The game is played mainly with the mouse since the main goal is to protect your castle by placing the following defensive units:

The thrower:
The thrower can throw all types of things at the enemies to deal damage.

The gatherer:
The gatherer automatically gathers ressources when placed next to them. Currently there are three different types of ressources: Rock, lumber, and tar.
If you click on a gatherer he gets selected and you can then select the thrower or spear-manufacturer by simply clicking them. He then forwards the stuff he collects to one of the selected units.

The spear-manufacturer:
The spear-manufacturer needs one wood and one stone to produce one spear. Like the gatherer it can then forward the spear to selected units.

__Goal__:
Your goal is to build up a ressource pipeline so that there are many things hitting the intruding monsters.

Hints:
- you can click the portal to speed up spawning
- different materials have different strength: Log < Boulder < Spear
- tar can slow down enemies
- enemies use the shortest path and placing units blocks their way

I am really thinking of putting more features into the game and doing a post-LD update.

I hope you all enjoy the game!

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Comments7

Kinta
Kinta26 Aug 2014, 10:11
I liked the graphics, the gameplay was a bit hard to get into (at first I kept spawning enemies until I figured out what to do :D)
Torandi
Torandi26 Aug 2014, 17:40
The graphics was ok, but the gameplay was to slow in my opinion. I also happend upon a bug where I lost a unit when spawning him by double clicking.
KigurumiDevs27 Aug 2014, 07:24
Nice little defense game. But it became pretty easy very fast.
FGM
FGM28 Aug 2014, 13:48
Interesting take on a tower defense game. I'm not getting transparent graphics though. All of your sprites had a magenta background :\
OinkIguana
OinkIguana29 Aug 2014, 23:03
Took a while to figure out as nothing is labelled. Pretty fun and of reasonable difficulty when it starts going. Could really use some clarification in a lot of places though. Graphics are very nice.
Benjamin1 Sep 2014, 17:49
I had some fun with connecting ressource thing bu I had no idea what is the game end condition.
bluesky1 Sep 2014, 19:39
Nice game Love the gameplay.
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