MiniLD #44compo

City Fall

by dmt

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.83

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.10

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.07

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.86

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.32

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.88

Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.82

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.52

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★64%

The city is under attack! Set out to save as many building as you can in this manic mess of a RTS.

I worked on this alone and used allot of third party resources, please see the credits.

The game was created over 7 days using Unity3d, Fireworks, Blender, Javascript, C#, and many great third party assets.

This was my first Ludum Dare, first game jam, and my second week learning Unity3D. I thought RTS would be too complicated a game so I am happy that I was able to submit though I did not finish.

The game features some basic RTS mechanics:

*Target selection(Units, multiple units, enemy, building).
*Roaming AI with prioritized targeting(Path finding & collision are slow sometimes in the current version sorry!).
*Active and passive attacking of enemies.
*Destructible building.
*Unit creation/placement.
*A handful sound effects and some ambient music.
*Basic UI, selection, mini map, and HP bar GUI.

Comments22

DMTauthor29 Jul 2013, 06:06

Sorry there is no windows version. Unity was kind enough to delete the entire main game scene right after the web export :D. Not enough time to redo from the backup.

AVataRR30 Jul 2013, 22:48

this game looks really awwesome! but from the surface, it's really faithful to the status quo standards. great effort for a 1st ludum dare and for only the 2nd week of learning unity! you should be proud.

chasepettit30 Jul 2013, 23:35

Great effort for your first Unity game. It looks nice, and I like the radio response when issuing a command. I had some issues with the camera and controls, but I still liked playing it.

jami31 Jul 2013, 01:08

Cool game, 2nd week of Unity? Hell yeah you should be proud! I had some issues with controls too, sometimes units didn't want to move.

vincepascoe31 Jul 2013, 02:20

seemed like there was just a long lag before units moved found it quicker to just spam spawn new units around bad guys... ! looks great the camera got stuck after I hit spacebar but then my favorite moment happened over the horizon I saw one of the buildings blow up in to pieces pretty epic... Great first attempt wish there was more to the game mechanics strategy side.

DMTauthor31 Jul 2013, 02:31

Holding space bar and moving the mouse adjusts the view, but the first times its pressed, it brings the camera up. Sorry about the bugs, getting to them. Glad you enjoyed that epic building explosion :D

zlowrance31 Jul 2013, 02:39

Good game, I had some issues with units getting stuck between buildings. For the amount of time you spent on it though its great, I was really impressed when I first saw the screenshots. Do you plan on continuing it or was this a one-off?

superjoe31 Jul 2013, 03:17

I suppose a linux version is out of the question?

DMTauthor31 Jul 2013, 03:25

Ill post some other versions now. I just hope I can lock in the resolution so the UI isn't trashed.

DMTauthor31 Jul 2013, 03:35

Zlo I am considering continuing it, though I may use some of the work for another project involving taking down giant robots with a group of friends. Thanks!

superjoe31 Jul 2013, 04:24

Graphics are really impressive. I'm sad that I didn't see an epic building explosion. I got frustrated when I told my units to go somewhere and they just kept walking into each other, not allowing anyone to go anywhere.

DMTauthor31 Jul 2013, 04:44

Yeah I just found out that the explosions cause a fatal crash on the standalone player for linux/osx/and windows. I am trying to sort that. Its unfortunate that the unity web player doesn't work on linux :(.

avh431 Jul 2013, 05:31

The cityscape is quite impressive! Unfortunately it didn't play very well for me--panning around and selecting things was laggy, soI wasn't able to move my units much beyond where they started out.

donan31 Jul 2013, 06:33

Liked the graphics and the controls. Had some minor issues with ai getting stuck on moving, but beside that the game worked really good. Good job :D

Makio31 Jul 2013, 10:42

really cool graphism but a bit hard to control

MiniBobbo31 Jul 2013, 15:31

The game looks great and the guys walking around destroying the city works really well. The keys seem to show that you can build more units but I couldn't figure them out. I also wasn't sure when I was attacking or when the enemy was without looking at the life bars. Red lasers are mine and green are the enemies, right?

Overall it as fun.

Lashiz12131 Jul 2013, 19:57

Good but lacking in some places

Zeredek1 Aug 2013, 02:47

Graphics were cool and the voice acting was a nice touch.
But it was unfortunately really buggy and boring. Sorry.

Eamon1 Aug 2013, 16:39

Wasn't really sure what to do, you can create unlimited units to fight for you and there doesn't appear to be a win condition. That said, I really enjoyed it and would love to see this as a full game!

Andrew1 Aug 2013, 17:47

Moving the units around would cause them to get stuck even if there were no obstacles present. I eventually just kept spawning new ones.

Orava4 Aug 2013, 03:53

It looks nice but feels a bit wonky at places, with the units getting stuck on thin air and whatnot. Needs a bit more content than just walking around and blasting the occasional enemy.

Magnifficent job for 2nd week of Unity in any case.

Halleflux14 Aug 2013, 03:31

Needs a whole lot of refining, to be blunt. I'm pretty sure you understand what needs to be improved at this point.