Elemento

by togis

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.47

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.32

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.24

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.23

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.42

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.89

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.77

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.06

Play the game

* ITCH.IO: https://togis.itch.io/elemento _(Browser & Download for windows)_

WARNING: it may be slow to level on webgl/html5 mode but be patient it will work (the game download assets)
If no patience, download the .exe :)

INFO: having trouble with the infusion of tower? check the beginning of the gameplay video bellow to see how it works.

Description

A mix of combination game (ie: Doodle God) and tower defence.

* Combine natural elements to create more powerful ones
* Build custom tower defences by combining elements on the foundations scattered on the map
* My first 3D Ludum Dare :)

There is only one tutorial and one level, I ran out of time to do more. But it's easy to create more with the modding tools.

Control

* WASD ou second mouse button: pan camera
* QE or click on mouse wheel: rotate camera
* Drag and Drop elements to the top left "Combine Slot" to create new onces
* Long click on tower fondations to open the infusion wheel (and build towers)

Modding the game

* The game is fully modifiable, check out the streaming asset folder, it contains all the data for everything. You can create your own map, enemies, elements, tower parts!

The only thing not moddable is the 3d assets, you unfortunately have to re-use the ones packaged with the game. I ran out of time to make this moddable.

More eye candy

Music

* http://www.fakemusicgenerator.com/ Auto music generator

Program used

* Unity 2017.1 Pro
* Visual Studio 2015 Ultimate
* Paint.Net
* Quibicle Pro
* Blender
* Bxsf
* Chronolapse

Script Language

* C# (Unity Mono)

Data Format

* PNG
* XML

Videos

Tags: #tower defense

Genres: strategy

Tools: Blender, Paint.net, Unity

Comments27

PsilocybeGames24 Apr 2018, 11:36

Really liked the idea. The infusion needs some more explanation i think.

Iluvatar24 Apr 2018, 11:47

Interesting idea and nice gameplay. First I wasn't sure what to do, but later on it wasn't that hard. And the music, man it was incredibly fitting and relaxing. I like how you managed to make the graphics so smooth and pretty. Good entry indeed.

LemonBalmGames24 Apr 2018, 11:51

Elemento looks really impressive. It's hard not to appreciate how much work you've put into this thing. I wouldn't have been able to code 20% of the logic you managed to cram into this thing in such a short span of time. Theme works, the game is innovative and if I really had to point out one thing that isn't all that great it's probably the UI.

Oh, and mod support for a jam game? The game is truly impressive from a technical stand-point given the jam context. Great job!

Togisauthor24 Apr 2018, 11:53

Thanks @lemonbalmgames, yes the UI needs work indeed. That was the next item on my todo list if I had the time :(

I may make an improve version in a few week after receiving all the feedback though!

PoundTheGroundStudios24 Apr 2018, 12:19

very cool

PoundTheGroundStudios24 Apr 2018, 12:19

could you check out my game togis https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/the-dark-of-winter

Goutye24 Apr 2018, 12:33

Took me a bit of time to understand that I have to long click on the tower spot. But then I cleared both the tutorial and the level! I had fun trying to find the best combo! Well done :smile: :thumbsup:

Besmundu24 Apr 2018, 12:35

Nicely done! I liked the "board game"-esque style of the levels, and the combining mechanic was cool. However, I didn't really know which combinations where stronger, or what they did differently. I ended up mostly having to put up towers using earth.

MoffKalast24 Apr 2018, 12:44

A pretty cool concept to be sure, albeit the UI and graphics/vfx could be better. No bugs that I've seen (aside from minor gui issues) and having a tutorial and a settings menu is pretty awesome. The death tower is totally OP though :)

Togisauthor24 Apr 2018, 12:50

@PoundTheGroundStudios sure I'll add it to my list (but now I have to go shop :p)

@besmundu Hooo sorry, you can watch the gameplay video (7min) for plenty spoiler on how to combine elements and secret receipes if you wish

ValBoise24 Apr 2018, 20:49

An interesting idea and pretty cute graphics :)
I really enjoyed all the different sfx, they seems very rewarding for me :)

Q-ro24 Apr 2018, 21:49

I like the graphic style although the interface and the controllers are a bit not self explanatory, other than that solid game :).

NorthernHawk25 Apr 2018, 16:39

Really good game and really fun. It has so many possibilities so it would be nice to implement something like a tech tree. It needs some balance but that should be easy to fix. The models of the enemies were so cute and that's it/ Good job man! keep it up!

ghodan25 Apr 2018, 20:27

I love the voxel art! Everything is so detailed and colorful. It's very confusing at first but once you get the hang of it it starts to shine.

MacDoom25 Apr 2018, 22:27

Nice voxels!
element combination and tower defense is a great combo.
It was a little bit difficult at the beggining to create the towers and get to know which elements could be used at each part of the tower.
The video was very helpful.
Nice work!

Wheffle26 Apr 2018, 01:52

I love me some tower defense. The element combining was really cool, I liked how it was mostly pretty intuitive. I didn't see a lot of difference between the towers though and didn't know what the pros and cons were of using different elements, but the idea was solid and obviously could be iterated on quite a bit more outside a game jam. Really cool entry, I liked it!

Edit:

And mod support?? Holy crap!

Togisauthor26 Apr 2018, 02:42

Thanks @Wheffle :) I ran out of time to make the difference really visible and meaningful once you manage to leave the "earth and fire" simple towers. But I wish to re-balance this game later after the jam is over!

Rombus26 Apr 2018, 23:27

Really polished game, all the text and crafts are cool, I whish I could ask the janitor again what he told me :P I guess I'll restart.

Congrats on the entry!

Raphiell27 Apr 2018, 00:24

Very interesting idea. It would be nice to know a few recipes off the bat, and one feature that would really streamline the combining process would be clicking on a higher level element, and having the ingredients autofill at the top.

Very fun to play, well done!

Togisauthor27 Apr 2018, 01:02

@Raphiell That's an excellent idea, I will be sure to implement it if I improve this game in the future (things I wish to do and hope to have time to do)

Thanks for your feedback!

Rodrigo Denúbila27 Apr 2018, 02:49

Excellent idea, and well done! I hope you continue developing and refining this game. Good job!

Please, take a look at my game too: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/confessional

EkkoEkko27 Apr 2018, 09:46

I love the concept of tower defense X RPG game. The music is simple but its gives a mood to the game cool. Keep it up bro good job!

The_Icy_One29 Apr 2018, 23:50

The core gameplay feels solid, but the UX just seems a little poor at present. It'd be nice to have an easier way to build towers without needing to long press, and maybe being able to combine elements without drag and drop, rather just clicking on them in the inventory. It might also be handy to have onscreen indicators for elements in large piles, I lost on the stage after tutorial twice because I didn't realise there were earth elements piled in the bottom corner.

Sheila Ayala Heady29 Apr 2018, 23:55

This was neat! It was hard to tell the difference between the tower combinations, but I'll have to check out the post-jam version.

Jupiter_Hadley2 May 2018, 14:13

Neat game! I included it in my Ludum Dare 41 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Wurw5JuaZs

cristiano.m.garcia7 May 2018, 00:44

Good job! Cool game!

I left my rating of your game, if you can leave your feedback in our game, Witch's Escape.

I hope you continue with the project.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/witchs-escape

Ava Skoog14 May 2018, 19:12

Great game! I'm not usually into tower defense but the element combination mechanic made it a lot of fun for me, so that genre mashup worked out really well. c:

Overall it felt very polished, only really missing additional content and more levels to play. I don't have a lot of complaints besides some of the mechanics initially being a little confusing, like how when I didn't have the materials to finish up a tower I thought the game had bugged out when I couldn't pick up the element floating on top of the tower nor keep building, so it would've been great to have some kind of UI element to make that clear, but overall the interface was great and the tooltips really helped. A lot of the icons were self-explanatory altho the earth one confused me. :p

The music was really nice so I'm surprised to see that it was generated. HAS SCIENCE GONE TOO FAR??! The style of the music did seem like a funny choice for this kind of game tho but it made it all the cozier, actually. Very soothing. I could pause the game and relax while mixing my elements and planning out my next step while sipping on a cup of coffee and lounging to the mellow tunes~

Really nicely done! Would definitely have kept playing if there were more levels!

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