APOCATRUCKS - Post-apocalyptic delivery tower defence

by iamdavidmt

co-authored: @kerri, @zindarm, @alykke, @nkrobinson

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.10

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.90

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.48

Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.22

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.67

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.82

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.45

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.82

Welcome to APOCATRUCKS a thrilling tower defense game set in a post-apocalyptic world. In this game, the world as we know it has been destroyed, and you must protect your bunkers and towns from waves of bio enhanced raiders and mutated creatures by strategically delivering supplies to towers and supplying your troops with ammo and food.

As you progress through the game's onslaught, you'll face increasingly difficult challenges. You'll need to protect your base from raiders who want to steal your towns, and mutated creatures who have become hostile due to the catastrophic event. You'll need to manage your trucks carefully, balancing the need for ammunition and food to ensure your troops are well-fed and well-equipped.

In this game, the choices you make can have a significant impact on the outcome of your playthrough. You'll need to decide where to send your trucks to your towers and which towers to deliver your supplies to which will defend your towns.

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Technologies

Game Engine - Godot

Pixel Art - Aseprite

Music & Sound Effects - Bosca Ceoil

Contributors

Anna Lykkeberg (Artwork)

David Thomson (Programming)

Kerri Knier (Programming)

Lewis McNeill (Programming)

Nicholas Robinson (Programming, Music)

Genres: strategy

Tools: Aseprite, Bosca Ceoil, Godot

Comments16

XSchaumiX1 May 2023, 17:33

Really nice take on the theme! in the end there were just too many enemies but it was fun!

LDJam user 2807071 May 2023, 18:19

Really cool idea! The artstyle could use a little more clarity, as it was pretty tough to tell what was going on, but overall, really neat game!

LDJam user 3380381 May 2023, 18:35

It as a cool idea and a nice variation on the tower defence genre. The artwork is a bit "grayish" tho. Also, on an "AZERTY" keyboard it is very hard to control.

Sodoj1 May 2023, 19:32

A very decent mix of a tower defense and a clicking game. Well done!

Space_Games2 May 2023, 15:10

What an awesome way to innovate on the theme! Nice job!

Westmave2 May 2023, 15:13

Needed some time to understand what to do. Reached 5500 Score, for what its worth... got overrun nonetheless. Interesting Game, Good Job!

LDJam user 02 May 2023, 16:34

Interesting game. I really liked the gameplay loop. At first I was a little confused but when I got the hang of it It was a great experiance.

digitaldude5556 May 2023, 12:04

Pretty interesting, I laughed when I sent all the cars and that sound played. Graphics are okay, like the enemies but the background image looks like a million tiny trees. Game becomes impossible after a while. Good job.

Kerri6 May 2023, 12:42

@digitaldude555 funny you should mention that, the background is indeed a million tiny trees!

stmatn6 May 2023, 12:55

Nice take on the theme! The sound effects of the trucks were nice :D

floralvikings6 May 2023, 16:24

Had quite a bit of fun with this, would love to see it fleshed out some more!

hotaloca6 May 2023, 18:45

I liked the concept of the game a lot, I was also thinking maybe a battle logistic game would be an interesting one. Its actually comes super cool with the tower defense mechanics - can work perfectly together. Having said that I found the mechanics a bit too simple, so the different kind of cars or like building up a delivery strategy somehow better would have been more exciting. Also felt a bit unfair to the player in the end the hoard of monsters :) Great job overall, congrats.

Agrimes6 May 2023, 18:57

Got to around 10,000. Pretty cool idea.

chompdev7 May 2023, 20:19

Fun idea! My best score so far is 27,960. This is almost like Vampire Survivors combined with Foxhole. I think you could do a lot with this formula after the jam. It might be interesting to add some automation or at least queue up future routes for each truck, so you can focus on managing other parts of your base and supply lines instead of needing to reassign them every few seconds. I think you could get a lot of interesting gameplay out of this by adding more resource types, maybe different types of trucks (like a gunner patrol or an engineer crew), and maybe setting up roads (and defenses along each) that can increase the travel speed of any trucks on that route.

Shane Gadsby9 May 2023, 12:03

Great premise, but man was I terrible at it, haha.
Great work!

Procok9 May 2023, 17:26

Here for the rescue! :D Fun idea. The mechanics are nice, the music was too loud but it was okay. The graphics are decent. Fine entry, good job!

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