Adorable Armageddon

by deppong

co-authored: @ghastlymicrowave

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.25

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.32

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.91

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.62

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.16

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.17

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.31

Adorable Armageddon

The Adorable Armageddon is here! Spend stuffing to build your pillow forts to defend! Click on their corpses to harvest the organs of your enemies, then click on your towers and drop them into the slot to harness the awesome power of plushy organs. The menu to purchase towers is on the right. Good Luck! ❤ 🐻

Update 1.01: minor bugfixes and balance. (game should be significantly harder now 😈 )

Update 1.02: that bugfix was a bug-maker, I misread the code and made a number negative when it should have been a decimal :P, also a typo fix- and linux and webgl verions

Update 1.03: i'm stupid, made number small when number should be big, also null ref fix

Comments30

LDJam user 2456469 Jan 2023, 21:36

Pretty cute :)

crow_seeds9 Jan 2023, 21:36

Pretty cute :)

MistaGiggles9 Jan 2023, 21:41

Great spin on the theme, love the idea of harvesting powerups from stuffed toys.
I had a lot of fun building my defences up, but I think I may have broken the game a little.
The multishot + extra damage updates on towers next to the spawn is a little OP, and I've been running the game at full speed for the past 5 minutes and nothing is getting past :)
Really like the art too, great job!

LordMiji9 Jan 2023, 21:45

What an incredible mechanic, and so far this is the best "Harvest" game that I have reviewed - WELL DONE!. It would benefit from a bit more info (ingame tutorials) on how to harvest/upgrade your towers. Oh, i would also love to see the towers themselves show some kind of indication that it has been 'upgraded'.

Overall, AWESOME work!

Dagostino Audio9 Jan 2023, 21:48

Really cute idea and I love the gameplay of the tower defense. Wish there were harder waves as I got going i really didnt have to make more towers or anything to never lose a life!

MKRaw9 Jan 2023, 22:13

Destroying those animals felt so satisfying, I think the game need balancing because I'm super overpowered

GhastlyMicrowave9 Jan 2023, 23:00

GhastlyMicrowave10 Jan 2023, 01:43

mb update made the heart buffed instead of nerfed lol, fixing now

LDJam user 23334710 Jan 2023, 20:20

Enjoyable game, though I thought it was quite easy. Love it though

Xparker10 Jan 2023, 20:20

Enjoyable game, though I thought it was quite easy. Love it though

Yubs10 Jan 2023, 20:43

Cute game! The heart upgrade seems a little good lol, super fun!!

GhastlyMicrowave10 Jan 2023, 21:01

it is 😩 I made number bad, rebuilding update 3 :P

Paul_viu10 Jan 2023, 23:08

Very nice game ! super intuitive I especially like the music that fits well in the atmosphere of the game. GG ;)

D3kryption10 Jan 2023, 23:55

Such an adorable game. The music fits in very nicely. Not sure why you had to go and make it harder :P But I like it! nice work :D

The-Vecter11 Jan 2023, 00:04

Really fun game!

It does have a weird difficulty curve with the game becoming easier over time. Also, the number of organs that drop becomes really high after a few rounds, so maybe have the number of organs drop decrease over time?

Apart from that I really enjoyed the game!

chompdev11 Jan 2023, 01:22

Definitely a very cute game with a great mix of music, art, and sound effects! Would love to see you expand this after the jam and turn it into a real game. I think the plush animals exploding into stuffing and cute upgrades could make for a really relaxing and cute tower defense game that no one's really done before. I also really like that ability to collect upgrades directly from enemies and slot them into the tower primary/secondary slots, kind of like an RPG character gear system. I'm not sure if that's been done before in other TD games, but it's the first time I've seen it and it's smart!

GhastlyMicrowave11 Jan 2023, 18:03

@chompdev that's exactly what we intend to do, look out for steam in a few months 😏

GhastlyMicrowave11 Jan 2023, 18:04

for my personal inspiration to the team I looked at Gemcraft which has a similar but different mechanic where you have empty towers and a bunch of gems you can upgrade and combine for effects to be put into towers.

GhastlyMicrowave11 Jan 2023, 18:05

@the-vecter yeah... not quite sure how to deal w that, maybe something like a limited inventory or make organs just disappear over time, or even sell/auto sell. Bunch of ideas for the post-jam version

GhastlyMicrowave11 Jan 2023, 18:08

@d3kryption the difficulty is really weird rn. Not exactly sure how to balance it- def going to add the ability to modify difficulty but earlier versions were just *way* too easy. I think our difficulty is ok right now but it scales hard enough that you'll have to game over at some point... I hope.

pazzi12 Jan 2023, 08:57

This is so adorable!! I love this take on the harvest theme- I've set up an auto-harvesting factory in the entrance xD
Awesome game!

SmelJey13 Jan 2023, 15:03

Game is fun and visuals are nice, yet it is a bit unbalanced. It's quite hard to lose (at least during the first ten minutes)

AbsoluteTundra14 Jan 2023, 10:55

Fun little game, I had some trouble at the beginning my tower was to slow to defeat all of the enemies and no resources to buy a new one. After I had it enough money/resources for more towers the game became to easy. Updrading tower is a fun a idea but sometimes I had a lot of pickups on screen and dragging and dropping them on towers didn't always work. Music is nice :)

Justine Olshan14 Jan 2023, 18:18

Fun and cute game! I really enjoyed the visuals and music and thought it was an interesting and unexpected spin on tower defense.

I think it would be cool if you could sell some of the organs you get to maybe buy different powerups. I wasn't sure if the different animals had different weaknesses/strengths, but that could be another way to add difficulty and strategy to the game.

LDJam user 27612114 Jan 2023, 22:08

Neat, and the execution works well! I did feel like I'd trivialised things a little bit too early but it does ramp up over time. The interface for slotting the organs in to the forts was a little obscure to me.

HexyVexy14 Jan 2023, 22:08

GhastlyMicrowave16 Jan 2023, 04:37

@hexyvexy

yeah, thought the same too, that's why the post jam version is gonna be much more verbose (these screenshots are old and a little buggy lol)