I decided to code a whole engine from scratch this time. Of course it's buggy and the game is way simpler than we could do if we had used known engines (or at least coded this simple engine one week ago), but it was a lot of fun and many friends decided to join me and learn how to do things from scratch :D
Our team only have programmers, sadly, so graphics and audio are simple.
Arrow keys to move player. Space to interact (pick up items, place shops and factories, give candies to duck)
Keep the duck king alive (please)! He will give you some items if you help him live, he's generous
Builds: Windows x64
We have Linux support but we didn't have time to package it with dependencies. You can compile from source, just install SDL2, SDL2_mixer and run make.
We didn't have time to configure WebGL build, sadly :(
@loudrasiel Actually the game is hard at the begin but after surviving some waves it becomes very easy hahah We didn't have time to balance it or add more types of items... Having to build the engine takes a lot of time hahah I don't recommend doing this for a 72h game jam xD
Cool game, nice job. I tried to keep the duck alive, and I did, for a little bit. I didn't figure out what the hammer boxes were for, but otherwise a great game. And congrats for making this game without using any game engines
Fun game ! After a while it get pretty easy, as I get so many ducks to shoot ! Love the challenge at the begining when you have to move your only duck around to kill the ennemies. Very impressed by the fact that you code this with your own engine ! Well done :)
It was a fun experience As you noticed becomes a bit easy passed a certain wave because you have tons of ducks and candies, but the gameplay was solid. The audio was good and helped keep the tension high and the graphics were cute ^^
Really liked the gameplay, I only wished the coins would be auto-collected, since after wave 30-something, they started to get burried under mountains of candy (an amount so unhealthily vast, that, had I fed all of it to the duck king, he surely would've been struck by a heart attack) Also, I really enjoyed the theme song ^^ Nice work building everything up from scratch, too, pretty impressive!
@tsombi100 Thanks! When you feed the duck, after a while he dops items like a shop prototype that you can use to contruct on those hammer boxes places that you said.
The art and the sounds are quite good, not bad as you made them seem in the description. Making an engine from scratch is always hard, even more when you have short time limit! It's a solid experience. Could have some balancing in the begginning and in the end, but you did a nice job! Cool entry.
I liked the concept of the game, but it was a bit difficult to figure out exactly what was going on in the beginning, and seemed a bit impossible to defeat every enemy as there wasn't much in your control. I liked the audio and the graphics though. Good job!
The concept is cool but it definitely need to be developed a bit further. Figuring out how to build is also rather difficult. It's really cool you made your own engine though.
I noticed your entry was a few votes short, so I played it on Twitch and gave some live feedback. VOD is up on Youtube, if you'd like to see it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi6oja9yekY
This was a pretty neat take on a tower defense sorta game! At first, I was pretty confused by how I might build more defenses and all that, until I finally managed to get workshops from the duck king. Really impressed this engine was made from scratch within the jam, and I found the art pretty charming and effective; good at communicating what things were! I had a good time with this. Thanks so much for putting this together!
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As you noticed becomes a bit easy passed a certain wave because you have tons of ducks and candies, but the gameplay was solid. The audio was good and helped keep the tension high and the graphics were cute ^^
Also, I really enjoyed the theme song ^^
Nice work building everything up from scratch, too, pretty impressive!
When you feed the duck, after a while he dops items like a shop prototype that you can use to contruct on those hammer boxes places that you said.
This was a pretty neat take on a tower defense sorta game! At first, I was pretty confused by how I might build more defenses and all that, until I finally managed to get workshops from the duck king. Really impressed this engine was made from scratch within the jam, and I found the art pretty charming and effective; good at communicating what things were! I had a good time with this. Thanks so much for putting this together!