Project Candyfloss by sausagroll
This is my first ever game jam and one of my first ever games. It's written in python using the pygame engine.
The object of the game is to stop the purple creatures from reaching the castle. You do this by placing towers. It's just a really simple tower defense game, I didn't want to go for anything more ambitious because my lack of experience and lack of time would have probably made it fail.
Programming was done by me, a 14 year old.
All graphics apart from the background and all sound effects were done by my friend, spyisassasin.
The map was drawn by another friend, the lapis king.
Software used:
Text editor: Notepad++
Graphics editors: GIMP 2 and MS Paint
Sound effect generator: Sfxr
I'm proud of the way this game turned out but I know there's a lot to be done to improve it and make it more fun. I really enjoyed LD 31 and I'll be participating in the next one.
Also, the name is really stupid and doesn't relate to the game in any way.
The object of the game is to stop the purple creatures from reaching the castle. You do this by placing towers. It's just a really simple tower defense game, I didn't want to go for anything more ambitious because my lack of experience and lack of time would have probably made it fail.
Programming was done by me, a 14 year old.
All graphics apart from the background and all sound effects were done by my friend, spyisassasin.
The map was drawn by another friend, the lapis king.
Software used:
Text editor: Notepad++
Graphics editors: GIMP 2 and MS Paint
Sound effect generator: Sfxr
I'm proud of the way this game turned out but I know there's a lot to be done to improve it and make it more fun. I really enjoyed LD 31 and I'll be participating in the next one.
Also, the name is really stupid and doesn't relate to the game in any way.
Ratings
| Coolness | 72% | 3 |
| Overall(Jam) | 2.79 | 837 |
| Audio(Jam) | 2.37 | 606 |
| Fun(Jam) | 2.60 | 831 |
| Graphics(Jam) | 2.26 | 906 |
| Humor(Jam) | 2.44 | 579 |
| Innovation(Jam) | 2.21 | 928 |
| Mood(Jam) | 2.56 | 819 |
| Theme(Jam) | 3.67 | 387 |
Still! Its an excellent first(ish) game, so well done for that :D Pretty good overall :)
The game is solid, but as others have stated, pretty easy (though I did take to hits before I completed the game). One thing that I also saw was that sometimes the tower would shoot pretty far away to hit the enemy was it was walking away, but didn't start shooting until they were fairly close, so I wasn't sure of the actual effective range.
Seriously, I wish I had started doing that at 14. Didn't start until two years ago though - but signed up for about 10 since, I believe 5 Ludum Dares and a few of the countless others. Always fun, and it's really cool to see your progression retrospective.
"main.py", line 15, in <module>
pygame.error: File is not a Windows BMP file
There seems to be a completion bug: I foolishly let one vehicle escape on Wave 5 (it indeed takes *ages* to reach the end - would be nice if you could do something about that, perhaps detect if a baddie is beyond all the towers, and the player has no more money to place more, and in that case accelerate that vehicle.) Anyway, when it reached the castle, and I presumably should have taken damage, I 'won'.