Wickfall

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.63
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.37
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.98
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.57
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.95
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.54
This is my first Ludum Dare entry!

Your goal is to gather wax in the mines whilst the candle still burns bright, using it as a resource to build defences on the surface.

If I had the time, I would have added more enemy and tower variety (along with music and sound effects). Maybe in the future though!

Controls

- Move with WASD or the arrow keys, jump with the space bar/up arrow
- Mine the yellow wax veins in range of your lantern by holding LMD
- Build by pressing B and using the number buttons or scroll wheel to select a tower, place along the surface
Genres: survival
Tools: Aseprite, Godot

Comments19

LDJam user 259213
LDJam user 2592135 Apr 2022, 08:22
I really like the mood in this one. i had to zoom in on the browser to see where i was going :)
eggland_games5 Apr 2022, 08:25
Hi :)

The lighting really gives a great atmosphere and the mining etc. feels good.
So, well done.

I think it would be nice if you could always see the castle. maybe in a small window on the top right.
I kept going down to mine wax and suddenly I lost... I did not see it coming and that felt weird.

However it was still a fun challenge for me so I tried it a few times.
I survived 5 minutes.

It might also be interesting to add some time goals with rewards. So after surviving for 5 min you get 200 wax or something.
At 4:30 it just felt hopeless.

I think enemy and tower variety are not super important tbh.
I only got to build one cannon and I still think it might have been better to go for wall + tower...
So of course you can try to balance this but I think by adding more you would just waste your effort on something that no player will ever use/see.

For anyone except the author reading this:
This game is nice so if you are trying to find something to play and rate, this is it. ;)
mgear
mgear5 Apr 2022, 08:30
very nice mechanics, definitely develop this further!
LDJam user 276593
LDJam user 2765935 Apr 2022, 08:32
Fun as hell. This is the kind of thing I buy on Steam. Love turtling in tower defence games! My only complain is that there isn't more yet!
Fluortungue5 Apr 2022, 08:39
Good game -the art is nice, the mechanics are simple with very few (if any) bugs. You can develop a strategy quite quickly with this, for example I tend to drop right down and mine out the lower regions of the map first. Maybe consider listing the controls somewhere, had some issues working out how to build turrets and stuff.
Narffy5 Apr 2022, 09:02
Nice graphics, good game
SayuriNyooko5 Apr 2022, 11:52
It's a good game and I like it! Graphics is wonderful, atmosphere of dangerous world is great. But I think enemies are too strong, or I just a little sloppy :-)
NotExplosive
NotExplosive5 Apr 2022, 19:19
Really cool game! It reminded me of Kingdom, which is a game I like a lot!
ArianaD
ArianaD6 Apr 2022, 13:07
Ohhhh This was super fun! Huge fan of the lighting here and it really adds to the mood of the whole game, I played for a while! Also, nice art!!
Okamit
Okamit7 Apr 2022, 11:32
Fun game, reminds me of dome romantik a bit from ld48!

Nice grapchis and fun gameplay, could be fun if expanded upon as it seems the difficulty level stops after a while!

Good job!
Kemsou
Kemsou7 Apr 2022, 17:50
It's very nice! I love the collecting/building mechanic, that's great that you had time to put that up for a jam!
I felt like it was a bit too easy, I didn't really had to think of any layout for my towers or strength/weakness of the enemies, but it's still impressive to be able to do this kind of mechanic! Good job :clap:
Yamzho7 Apr 2022, 18:15
Nice game ! Cute art, smooth controls. Well done !
Erkberg
Erkberg7 Apr 2022, 19:27
A really nice game with awesome visuals!
bastilo
bastilo8 Apr 2022, 13:51
Nice game. Looks great but is a bit too dark.
Rialgar8 Apr 2022, 13:56
Absolutely love the graphics! Gameplay feels solid, albeit a bit easy once you figure out they do not attack the towers that do damage. just collect the full 300, build one mortar and one arrows on each side, collect up 100 again, 2 more arrows, and you are pretty much save.

If you wanted to expand it, adding in a day-night cycle and the ability to get items that let you venture into previously closed parts of the mine would be cool. E.g a pick to remove bolders. Could even put some story into some hidden parts.
mhorth
mhorth8 Apr 2022, 23:45
This was really nice! Huge congrats for you first Ludum Dare!

I would look into how you could make snapping onto the ladders more forgiving for the player, rather than requiring them to line up perfectly. Unless you want that to be a mechanic of the game :wink:
nicksmaddog9 Apr 2022, 17:51
This is a great submission. I do feel that music/sfx would have helped immensely, but nonetheless it had a good atmosphere with the lighting. I do wish there was a way to see the castle while down mining to know when you have to head up to build more.
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