Horizon Assault

by lelek-hunor-kadosa

co-authored: @dome-hankoczki, @entin03, @greenstone00, @vada200

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.66

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.54

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.39

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.39

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.68

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.11

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.96

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.35

Ever wondered what it's like to play a tower defense game from the enemy's perspective?

Your task (who's the unofficial member of Shadow Wizard Money Gang) to summon units and take control over the land of towers in the Mars.

Your units contains, melee, shooter, marksman, tank and bomber. They have special abilities and different behaviour.

As a wizard you can choose either you let them take the action, or you can order your units to take their position to a certain place

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Your faithful creations

Those idiot martians:

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Controls:

If you want to control your units manually you can use your [Right button], other wise they will move to the closest tower they see

With button [1-5] you can summon your units in the summoning area.

1: Melee unit
2: Shooter unit
3: Marksman unit
4: Bomber unit
5: Tank unit

To Restart press the [R] button.

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Credits

#### Coding:
Lélek Hunor Kadosa,
Szurovcsák Gergő,
Hankóczki Döme,

#### Art:
Taradáj Valentin,
Varga Dávid

#### Sound Design:
Hankóczki Döme

Genres: strategy

Comments49

dyingwolfwood16 Apr 2024, 02:51

First game that I actually played all the way through, and not just because you can't close the game without using task manager :). It was a little off theme, and started out slow, but I love a good tower defense!

Cshep9916 Apr 2024, 03:04

pretty fun! a little too easy, but still fun!

WMute16 Apr 2024, 03:13

I like your game style

JIMUU16 Apr 2024, 03:56

I like your game!

James Greenleaf16 Apr 2024, 04:03

Good concept. It was a little too easy, but I had fun spamming units.

drahmen16 Apr 2024, 04:33

Love me some tower defense. The money regen was a bit slow because I was dumb and spammed all the wrong units that instantly died, but I see the potential :D

LDJam user 23605516 Apr 2024, 06:58

Really interesting idea to be the "bad guys" in a tower defense game. Well fitting art and atmosphere!

Since you're using Unity, have you tried looking into WebGL builds? I think your game could work well in a browser too!

nathmate16 Apr 2024, 08:38

Nice juice. Love to see a tutorial in a jam game. I think if a Shooter Tower hits a bunch of units on the same pixel they do splash? I spammed a bunch of marksmen and they seemed to die instantly, idk. Not sure how the right button control was meant to work, maybe should have been in the tutorial. Fun game.

Fenix13111316 Apr 2024, 10:28

An interesting game, but a bit of a drawn-out gameplay, many people do not like to read very much

GRUZDID16 Apr 2024, 10:30

A good game, but a long tutorial. Also, the gameplay is quite simple, I think the game should give a challenge, there is a lack of a stricter economy. In general, a good job.

Doonutsaur16 Apr 2024, 16:54

Good job! the tutorial is a bit long but I like the gameplay.

Sam Minh16 Apr 2024, 17:54

I like strategy games so this is right up my alley, pretty good game! I tried out some unit combinations but found that the long range guy didn't really get countered so you can just spam it and win.

The tutorial was really good, it was comprehensive and had some good interaction to explain the game.

S1l3Jamal16 Apr 2024, 19:16

Victory! Really fun, the little blue guys murder stuff so fast.

LDJam user 28287016 Apr 2024, 20:12

Buddy, you made a very cool game. I just loved it.

Thanks for the great game play. You really did a very nice job!!!

Trevor Lentz16 Apr 2024, 20:21

I really like the gameplay, the layout, the art style. Everything is very straight forward and intuitive. Pretty fun little jam. Wish there was some sci-fi battle music to go with all the action, but hey, it's a functional and enjoyable experience. Cheers. :)

OnlinE_Play16 Apr 2024, 21:12

Really good game, hard to find anything to criticize. Maybe the UI for buying units could be at the top because it blocks the towers on the first stage.

Mirtol16 Apr 2024, 21:16

Nice game, interesting mechanic. Annoying to wait for troops to go all that distance but cool concept. Enjoyed :)

dekara16 Apr 2024, 21:22

Cool Game. Liked that it had a tutorial and the mechanics are quite nice. It felt a bit off with the slow movement fast shooting on the towers. And it felt a bit buggy / unpolished at times. But the Art and effects were neat. Cool Entry!

Kseniya16 Apr 2024, 21:37

It's a very fun game, but it was hard to figure it out.

Kirass16 Apr 2024, 21:44

Interesting game! I like it!

Gnum_16 Apr 2024, 22:52

I really liked your game. You did a great job and did a great job!!!

c0nscience16 Apr 2024, 23:12

I like it! Funny twist to the tower defense.

Johantran16 Apr 2024, 23:17

Nice gameplay ! Really fun to play !

Shreder16 Apr 2024, 23:27

Good game, cool effects, good luck at the next Ludum)

Codeman101017 Apr 2024, 02:04

LonelyGameDev17 Apr 2024, 03:30

Fun little game. beat the hole thing

zablas17 Apr 2024, 09:55

Very fun little game. Addicting and nice art style. Enjoyed destroying the towers one by one.

LDJam user 017 Apr 2024, 09:55

Very nice and fun to play game, but feels a little slow sometimes. Well done and good job!

Zenorke17 Apr 2024, 12:18

I loved the art! Great job!

Gorr17 Apr 2024, 12:22

Great game, I like it

derllie17 Apr 2024, 12:29

such a good concept of game, you did a great job!

LDJam user 38700217 Apr 2024, 14:30

Really fun game! Great mix of strategic thinking and idle enjoyment. Loved the little characters, and crunchy sfx.

Bollatix2350017 Apr 2024, 16:55

Very nice game, its a good concept, and the art its very good

zimny1117 Apr 2024, 18:31

Really fun game! Love the art style. Few suggestions from my side: movements of units could be faster to make the game more dynamic (of course then towers need to be stronger to compensate), maybe some terrain obstructions, like cliffs or water? it would add a lot of variety to the maps, and maybe levels with limited money where player needs to "solve the map" 9by using correct combinations of units), like a puzzle game? Anyway, great job with the game!

Iwant_Pizza17 Apr 2024, 19:59

It's like a smaller version of helldivers. I'd like to say For Democracy)

Vasulvius17 Apr 2024, 20:29

A very good good game, I think the possibility to control time speed might be a good feature to had

tenshi4217 Apr 2024, 22:38

Look nice !
I have issues with the HUD but by may be due to my 4K resolution.
Also i could not invoke other unit than the first without invoke a firts unit a the same time. Weird !

Itskdog17 Apr 2024, 22:51

Great job with this strategy game. It's a neat idea. I liked seeing my soldiers attack and you don't have direct control over them.

Alexandru Barbanoua17 Apr 2024, 22:55

@lelek-hunor-kadosaVery good game, the graphics are very nice and the gameplay is a very good combination. Very detailed and seamless amazing I admire your work

Alex410117 Apr 2024, 23:02

Great work!! Loved the tutorial and the way the game was designed. I liked how each unit had their own capabilities, health, and speed. That was a nice touch.

Retrisma17 Apr 2024, 23:52

I liked the puzzly approach, and it felt like there were reasons to experiment with combinations of different guys! I also loved it visually, it looked super cool. The tutorial was also very welcome! Great job!

Batisdark17 Apr 2024, 23:59

Interface not quite work on higher resolutions. Here how it looked for me:

Concept is good. Could benefit from some balancing, since its easy to just get 1 tank and couple of rangers and wait, but its really nice little game - I enjoyed the sounds and how it looks even with UI scale issue!

Alessandro202418 Apr 2024, 16:56

Fun, but it needs some pressure on the player. Right now it doesn't matter if all troops die, I can just wait a little and summon more and stronger ones. Maybe if the summon area was shrinking, or if the enemy could repair their towers, there would be some pressure to perform well. Entertaining game tho, thank you!

Baluj19 Apr 2024, 00:54

You just need a good tower defense game to have me beat. Good job!

schwede19 Apr 2024, 19:09

Thank you for bringing your game into the spotlight during our stream last Wednesday!
Kudos on completing your entry!

Jean-Francois19 Apr 2024, 20:08

I'm sad that there is no web export :/ I can't play it, I'm on macOS. it seems to be a well polished game in terme of mechanics

Oliver Richmeier23 Apr 2024, 01:32

It's satisfying to watch but doesn't demand much strategy, you can place down most anything you want and win pretty easily. Still, it looks good and functions well, and also the tutorial was really well implemented

Madlin26 Apr 2024, 12:59

Great game !!

TobaccoLeopard28 Apr 2024, 10:24

I loved the way the theme was approached, and the idea of turning tower defense on its head is very cool. Perhaps it lacks a little challenge. Want more levels!

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