{"author_link":"\/author\/sausagroll\/","author_name":"sausagroll","author_uid":"46243","comments":[{"author_name":"andysolace","author_uid":"41515","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 7:56pm","epoch":1418068260,"text":"I think its impossible to fail this game, (unless you don't put down towers at all, lol), because you get enough money for 1 extra tower per level, and that extra tower is enough to handle the next wave.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Still! Its an excellent first(ish) game, so well done for that :D Pretty good overall :)"},{"author_name":"sausagroll","author_uid":"46243","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 8:01pm","epoch":1418068560,"text":"Thanks, I purposefully made it easy because if one creature got past it would take ages to get to the castle and the wait got very boring (believe me, I had to test it). I wanted the game to be a fun experience so people would actually play it. If I had more time I would make it harder but add some sort of double speed mode to make the wait less boring."},{"author_name":"Wilson","author_uid":"21565","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 9:03pm","epoch":1418072280,"text":"Nice little tower defence :) I liked the map too, more character there than in a lot of tower defence games!"},{"author_name":"spyisassassin","author_uid":"47513","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 7:20pm","epoch":1418152500,"text":"I hope you guys like the sprites because I made them and thought they were terrible along with the sound effects XD"},{"author_name":"OttersDen","author_uid":"46754","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 2:42am","epoch":1418179020,"text":"I think you should be proud of this being one of your first games! Keep up the good work!"},{"author_name":"dalbinblue","author_uid":"13960","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 2:45am","epoch":1418179200,"text":"Awesome to see a young developer trying their hand at Ludum Dare, and also one who has the sense to think of a reasonable level of scope to get the game done in time.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>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."},{"author_name":"sausagroll","author_uid":"46243","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 8:02am","epoch":1418198220,"text":"Thanks for your feedback, and yes the towers' projectiles just fly to the furthest forward enemy because of the way I scripted it. I could have fixed it, and probably will eventually, but I was more interested in trying to make a playable game."},{"author_name":"EquipeJAM","author_uid":"46706","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 7:47pm","epoch":1418240520,"text":"Good work!"},{"author_name":"TheNewPhoenix","author_uid":"43417","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 9:57pm","epoch":1418248320,"text":"This is a pretty ok game. Wish it was faster though."},{"author_name":"ShellfishGames","author_uid":"23164","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 10:04pm","epoch":1418248740,"text":"Yes man, you did well. You'll get better with every single game, so keep doing those game jams. :)\r<br\/>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."},{"author_name":"StrayCat","author_uid":"26727","time":"Dec 11, 2014 @ 6:01am","epoch":1418277360,"text":"Nice game, it's a good start for both of you. Keep up the good work :)"},{"author_name":"Wusakko","author_uid":"47002","time":"Dec 11, 2014 @ 6:25pm","epoch":1418322000,"text":"Good start."},{"author_name":"rallebauz","author_uid":"35471","time":"Dec 11, 2014 @ 6:30pm","epoch":1418322300,"text":"I get this error:\r<br\/>&quot;main.py&quot;, line 15, in &lt;module&gt;\r<br\/>pygame.error: File is not a Windows BMP file"},{"author_name":"Wilou1428","author_uid":"29541","time":"Dec 11, 2014 @ 7:04pm","epoch":1418324340,"text":"The map is a bit offset, but pretty nice tower defence."},{"author_name":"BSODDevTeam","author_uid":"44628","time":"Dec 13, 2014 @ 9:37am","epoch":1418463120,"text":"Tower defence in this game is fun! Nice graphics tho!"},{"author_name":"dieblume86","author_uid":"44675","time":"Dec 13, 2014 @ 3:10pm","epoch":1418483100,"text":"Nice one"},{"author_name":"acro","author_uid":"21612","time":"Dec 13, 2014 @ 3:54pm","epoch":1418485740,"text":"I played this because it reminds me of the look of a game map I drew in mspaint decades ago, but I didn't learn to code until university, so kudos to you for making a working game. Definitely keep making them.\r<br\/>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'."},{"author_name":"sausagroll","author_uid":"46243","time":"Dec 13, 2014 @ 10:55pm","epoch":1418511000,"text":"Wave five is the final wave, you probably had all ten lives left (far too many, i know) and each enemy only takes 1 life. So that wasn't a bug, just a bit of an unclear game."},{"author_name":"01rafael","author_uid":"11984","time":"Dec 14, 2014 @ 8:02pm","epoch":1418587020,"text":"Tower defences will newer die! ;)"},{"author_name":"ramyaanudeep","author_uid":"47390","time":"Dec 18, 2014 @ 4:32pm","epoch":1418920020,"text":"heyy....wat an awsum job guys"},{"author_name":"Shivur","author_uid":"36762","time":"Dec 18, 2014 @ 4:33pm","epoch":1418920080,"text":"Well balanced game."},{"author_name":"cxsquared","author_uid":"23711","time":"Dec 18, 2014 @ 10:58pm","epoch":1418943180,"text":"Nice work for your first Jam. Hopefully next time you'll do even better. Good work."},{"author_name":"Submundo Games","author_uid":"27491","time":"Dec 21, 2014 @ 5:26pm","epoch":1419182460,"text":"nice game dude!!!"},{"author_name":"sorle","author_uid":"30402","time":"Dec 21, 2014 @ 8:17pm","epoch":1419192720,"text":"nice game. keep on making games!"},{"author_name":"SirJavaGaming","author_uid":"45375","time":"Dec 23, 2014 @ 7:20pm","epoch":1419362100,"text":"No Sounds"},{"author_name":"danidre14","author_uid":"32791","time":"Dec 24, 2014 @ 2:50am","epoch":1419389100,"text":"Nice! :D"}],"images":["ld31\/46243-fa003214bb09fcd5d9d32b8044c48f07.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/y9f3klwwe9nnht7\/Project%20Candyfloss.zip?dl=0","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/sausagroll90\/LD31_game","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"15368","g_author":"46243","g_event":"LD31","g_eventkey":"26","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"15398","g_title":"Project Candyfloss","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"837","g_commentcount":"26","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\/46243-shot0.PNG-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"This is my first ever game jam and one of my first ever games. It's written in python using the pygame engine.\r\n\r\nThe 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.\r\n\r\nProgramming was done by me, a 14 year old.\r\nAll graphics apart from the background and all sound effects were done by my friend, spyisassasin.\r\nThe map was drawn by another friend, the lapis king.\r\n\r\nSoftware used:\r\nText editor: Notepad++\r\nGraphics editors: GIMP 2 and MS Paint\r\nSound effect generator: Sfxr\r\n\r\nI'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.\r\n\r\nAlso, the name is really stupid and doesn't relate to the game in any way.","title":"Project Candyfloss"}