{"author_link":"\/author\/jangobrick\/","author_name":"JangoBrick","author_uid":"34054","comments":[{"author_name":"Legiion","author_uid":"45906","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 6:25pm","epoch":1418235600,"text":"Its actually a pretty nicegame , i really like the mechanic that often used towers cost more in the lategame, so you are encouraged to buy the better ones. The sound could need some improvements though"},{"author_name":"DefectiveMelon","author_uid":"44221","time":"Dec 12, 2014 @ 1:22am","epoch":1418347020,"text":"Nice little TD game. The sound effect for the green tower is a little annoying though"},{"author_name":"sausagroll","author_uid":"46243","time":"Dec 13, 2014 @ 11:43am","epoch":1418470680,"text":"The towers seem to miss a lot when shooting at enemies really close to them and really far away but overall it's a good game."},{"author_name":"freaknarf","author_uid":"46874","time":"Dec 13, 2014 @ 12:10pm","epoch":1418472300,"text":"Great!usually i don't like TD games but i enjoyed playing this one anyway. At progress 7.5 the game gets crazy and laggy then i died at 7.6 :) weird ? what happens at 7.5 ? =)"},{"author_name":"johannesl","author_uid":"47038","time":"Dec 13, 2014 @ 12:31pm","epoch":1418473560,"text":"The pixel art suited this game well. The game loop needs to be adjusted for less CPU usage - as soon as I started the the game my fan started spinning, and with 7 towers out (two green, two blue, 3 yellow) the game was unplayable in performance on this 2014 Macbook Pro Retina."},{"author_name":"madalaski","author_uid":"29994","time":"Dec 13, 2014 @ 12:50pm","epoch":1418474700,"text":"A sort of cookie clicker tower defence game I find. Only part I didn't find fun was when towers missed which I'm not sure is on purpose or not. It was a frustrating mechanic which added an element of randomness which was not needed in the game."},{"author_name":"pjimmy","author_uid":"40339","time":"Dec 13, 2014 @ 6:11pm","epoch":1418493960,"text":"cute tower defense game, like how you've used a maze so that the enemies path won't be so predictable, well done"},{"author_name":"Vladik Plays","author_uid":"43115","time":"Dec 17, 2014 @ 1:39pm","epoch":1418823240,"text":"Doesn't wanna open up :( (Made it executabe..)"},{"author_name":"Divitos","author_uid":"9732","time":"Dec 27, 2014 @ 9:45am","epoch":1419673200,"text":"Progression was a little slow, the sound eventually got annoying, the game seemed a little unoptimized, and the towers could really use some path prediction for firing.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I liked it, though, it showed a lot of potential."},{"author_name":"maxmetallica","author_uid":"47374","time":"Dec 29, 2014 @ 7:44pm","epoch":1419881940,"text":"nice idea"}],"images":["ld31\/34054-13b02ebfccd920fc6aa5b12d63f2b80f.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/jangobrick.de\/dl\/ld31\/takeover.jar","text":"Download"},{"url":"http:\/\/jangobrick.de\/dl\/ld31\/takeover_source.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"13188","g_author":"34054","g_event":"LD31","g_eventkey":"26","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"13218","g_title":"Takeover","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"366","g_commentcount":"10","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/407933\/34054-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"\"It is the year 2537.\r\nMankind is being overrun by a horde of semi-organic androids.\r\nYou are the leader of a group of people fighting against the robots, trying to survive. The protective shield of your base was damaged, and repairing it takes time...\r\nBut you don't have that time! The androids are attacking!\r\nBuild towers to take care of the invaders and defend your people.\"\r\n\r\nSo yeah, this is a tower defense game.\r\n\r\nI originally planned something completely different, something more \"deep\" and with a way better implementation of the theme. You can have a look at a screenshot of my original idea here, if you're interested: https:\/\/twitter.com\/JangoBrick\/status\/541230972025704448\r\nAnyway, that one didn't work out at all because I had no idea how to carry on with the story. One whole day wasted, but at least I only needed about 12 hours for Takeover.\r\n\r\nThird time in a row that I'm participating.\r\n\r\nThese are the tools I used:\r\n - Language: Java\r\n - IDE: Eclipse\r\n - Engine\/Framework: JangoDare (http:\/\/github.com\/JangoBrick\/JangoDare)\r\n - Graphics: GIMP\r\n - Sound effects: Bfxr\r\n - My brain","title":"Takeover"}