Grid-based base-defender

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Fixed major CPU-killing-pseudo-endboss-bug

Hi again!,

After two days of programming with @rubna, I finally finished!

The Game is called: "Grid-based base-defender"
You can build 6 kinds of structures which all have their own effect.

Have fun playing!

PS. Let me know what your highscore was :).

GAME INSTRUCTIONS:

Structures:
Red: Collects money MAX=3
Green: Shoots on enemy's
Purple: Slows bullets down
Yellow: Upgrades structures
Grey: bounces bullets off MAX=8
Orange: shoots on bullets

Structures can be placed by dragging them from the bar into the field with your mouse.

I used:
Game maker 8.0 Pro
SFXR
Paint.net

screenshot

Comments23

Absor8 Dec 2014, 14:33
Shooting turrets need a bit better aim. Nice game! You should continue it, would be nice to have at least tooltips for structures.
DigitalQR8 Dec 2014, 14:46
Very fun to play, although the FPS does tank into the late game :P
roktom
roktom8 Dec 2014, 14:47
Well quite good idea, I would only like it to be more noob friendly and maybe better visuals :)
gikdew
gikdew8 Dec 2014, 14:47
Nice game, the turrets need improvments btw
ajopart
ajopart8 Dec 2014, 14:47
Nice game. I build so many structures I forgot to add the red one collecting credits... So I'm stuck. I will manage better my budget next time...
Vulture Tamer8 Dec 2014, 14:52
haha, what are these spiral creatures xD

that lagged everything :p

lacks tooltips + better aim asl absor said
Madball8 Dec 2014, 14:55
At first I liked the variety of towers and enemies, but design flaws make playing difficult.
Towers should be named in the game. I had to memorize their function from your post.
Tower selection has some problems. I expect it to be clicking a tower to take it. In fact, when you hold your mouse, you selection might be changed. At first I was surprised by placing towers I didn't pick.
The boss (that was a boss, right?) is too laggy. It was so laggy I had to wait several seconds between releasing my mouse and placing the tower.

Other than that, it's a fun little game, thought the boss is too difficult comparing to other enemies. By the way, where is the score? Top-left or top-right? The timer in the top-left corner disappears after the loss. As for the top-right money, I got a little over 200.
Iak8 Dec 2014, 15:02
Whut. What was that boss...thing... ?! XDD

Is it even possible to stop that...? Oo
Indiestry8 Dec 2014, 15:02
Really nicely balanced game! Eventhough having the instructions in game would help alot :)
DaRaziel8 Dec 2014, 15:07
Solid version of a nice tower defense game!

Some things i`m missing:
- Tooltips on structures (what does this do again?)
- Hint on how many of a kind i can build (i guess no more than 3)

Minor bugs i found:
- Draggind a structure over another structure will replace the first one
- MASSIVE framedrops on the wave with enemies shooting a stream of bullets in all directions

Other than that it is very playable and kind of fun. Nice work! Could become great if polished!
Saturnyn
Saturnyn8 Dec 2014, 15:10
The giant spiraly thing killed me (and my CPU) ^^
Fun game, nice work :)
BobMorate
BobMorate8 Dec 2014, 15:26
Very nice entry. I really liked it!
I missed some in-game explanation about what the turrets do. I like how despite how simplistic the graphics for the enemies are, the "pulsing" animation they have when shooting made it for me.
For improvements, the aim of the green turrets seems to be a bit off when it comes to fast objects. There is no way to stop them! And also, I suggest that the red turret limitation should be clarified or at least make it possible to move the turrets around (with a cost, if you want to keep the design).

Great work, looking forward to see your results!
Bronaldploauthor8 Dec 2014, 15:44
Hey thanks for the comments everyone!

About the boss thing: It was a mistake in the code. There wasn't supposed to be a boss :). It looked kinda cool tho, but the number of instances quickly became to big...

So I fixed the boss-bugg....

Also the precision of the orange turrets is better now. I made a code error there too.

So thanks again for the comments! :)
cyrixd10 Dec 2014, 23:09
Very fun little game, nice idea and good variety of towers.
Wilou142811 Dec 2014, 17:52
Sh*t I've lost... Interesting and hard game if you go far enough. I've liked it :D
Dew
Dew11 Dec 2014, 17:57
This game reminds me to a game i made for a past edition :P

I'm a great TD fan so you got me since the start :P, u should optimize a little bit the game tho
miro66211 Dec 2014, 18:14
very good game, i loved idea but in my opinion there should be in-game description what structures do
Baknik13 Dec 2014, 01:38
Nice standard tower defense.Could use some description of the towers in-game though.

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