The Last Stand

by idontgetit1

co-authored: @sandauer

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.42

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.50

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.96

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.25

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.27

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.23

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.38

Theme: Delay the inevitable

>“Attention Astronaut!
>Your colony is under attack by an unknown alien race with limitless manpower. Get yourself to your defense post and try >to delay them for as long as possible so the colonists can escape.“

“The Last Stand” is a 2D wave defense strategy game where the objective is to defeat an unlimited amount of enemies while trying to manage upgrades and ammunition with time-consuming resource collection in an unforgiving timeframe.

The game features a small tutorial in-game but the basics are:
>- Each machine has two buttons: Interact and Upgrade
>- Interacting with the Control Panel you are able to control the two Cannons, left and right, each can be used with the corresponding mouse button
>- Gain Iron by using the Fabricator to the right of the Control Panel
>- Gain Energy by using the Charger to the left of the Control Panel
>- Iron is used for upgrading
>- Energy is used for charging the Cannons

Tags: #2d

Genres: strategy

Comments12

Kszaku4 Apr 2022, 22:33

I absolutely loved that game! Graphics and sound were cool, and the concept is amazing in its simplicity and elegance. If I could suggest anything - and an option of cooperative play! It would made for an amazing couch coop experience :D

Ballen4 Apr 2022, 23:17

Cool game! Love the graphics - took a while to get a hang of the controls though. I would recommend having the instructions stay up a bit longer at the beginning. I thought I had to go over and interact with the different weapons and charging stations before the instructions went away so I didn't both reading them at first. Then as soon as my character reached the machine (and I went to reads the directions), they were already gone. Cool gameplay though and definitely addicting once you get the hang of things.

Emy535 Apr 2022, 07:42

love it. i suck at it tho xD

Heho5 Apr 2022, 13:23

really nice graphics and sound, needed a little to get into the game, but then it was quite fun

Roboolet5 Apr 2022, 13:30

Good entry; took a bit of time to learn how to play the game; but after that i had fun. Difficulty is a bit high though, even when i knew what i was doing. Browser version of the game was really laggy so i had to switch to the desktop version midway through.

Embedder725 Apr 2022, 17:59

I liked how the pace of the music matched the activity. I'd waves coming in negative seconds? Also, felt like when things started to fall apart it just happened. Might be good to dial back the enemy ships a little when they start hitting the shield, or have the shield take some out. Like everyone, it took a couple of minutes to get the hang of it but after that I had fun. I'd like to have a way to read the upgrade descriptions outside the game.

IzhVaryag6 Apr 2022, 05:51

Nice job! I like elements of strategy in this game

Cakestorm6 Apr 2022, 11:13

This was a really fun game, I particularly loved the progression of it, well done! Being able to upgrade everything and slowly get more powerful was great, and I loved the turret upgrades that gave more bullets especially, so I'd love to see more interesting upgrades like that. It was great fun shooting down waves and waves of enemies too, especially since they increased in number so quickly - it felt great to shoot them all down. There was also a lot of strategy - upgrade the iron machine, or the turrets? - which added a lot of depth to the gameplay. Well done on making such a fun game!

Pixelydian6 Apr 2022, 18:45

This looks and sounds great - the music was especially awesome and it worked well with the retro style art. Great concept - I had a little trouble figuring out what to do at first but I got it and had some fun! Good job!

LDJam user 2807556 Apr 2022, 22:05

Tough to get the hang of the controls, but I really really love the artwork, special effects, and overall concept!

ssh.randy15 Apr 2022, 01:00

amazing graphics and sound, and great concept! Game was just brutally hard though, and the interface was a little annoying at the start to get the hang of. overall though an amazing submission!

Itskdog15 Apr 2022, 01:11

Took a while to know what to do. I didn't realize I was going through a tutorial and had to do certain things. The graphics were good. The idea is neat. It's like a resource management upgrading space invaders game. Good job.

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