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Dead men tell no tales by aaronjbaptiste

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made by aaronjbaptiste for LD29 (COMPO)
Yaaaarrrrgggghhhh!

In Dead men tell no tales you create a band of yellow liver'd Pirates and travel across the treacherous black seas. Something sinister lies beneath, use all your cunning in this tactical survival game.

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Instructions:

Click the buttons to choose one of the following class of Pirate:

Cutlass: Close combat, high health, medium damage.
Rifle: Good range, low health, high damage
Grenade: V. Good range, low health, area damage
Healer: Low range, low health, heals injured Pirates

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Tools Used:

Unity (free)
Adobe Flash CS6 for drawing game assets
Audio: http://www.bfxr.net/
Web (Unity) https://aaronjbaptiste.itch.io/dead-men
Source https://aaronjbaptiste.itch.io/dead-men
Postmortem http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2014/04/30/dead-men-tell-no-tales-postmortem/
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-29/?action=preview&uid=19914

Ratings

Coolness 100% 1
Overall 3.28 453
Audio 2.43 728
Fun 3.39 269
Graphics 3.32 451
Humor 2.88 295
Innovation 2.86 706
Mood 2.98 566
Theme 2.36 1103

Feedback

PaperBlurt
28. Apr 2014 路 08:39 UTC
It look real good, and was surprisingly fun!
Oddly Shaped Pixels
28. Apr 2014 路 11:14 UTC
Its actually pretty fun! I love the sprites and their animations.
Great participation, congrats!
SmilingCat
28. Apr 2014 路 12:19 UTC
Very fun, though I found it to be very tough. I'd love to see this fleshed out more. Great job!
馃帳 aaronjbaptiste
28. Apr 2014 路 12:27 UTC
@SmilingCat Thanks! Yeah it needs balancing, it's brutal to begin with, but after you get past wave 7 or so, it's too easy. Hoping to continue dev on it to see how far I can take it.
Pietro Ferrantelli
28. Apr 2014 路 16:55 UTC
Solid Entry ! Congrats :)
xevozfighter
28. Apr 2014 路 16:56 UTC
Fun and challenging.
ezombort
28. Apr 2014 路 16:58 UTC
Fun game :) It would be nice to see some health bars above the characters but nice job in < 48 hours!
idovingx
28. Apr 2014 路 17:02 UTC
surprisingly fun, though it needs some balancing, for instance, the best strategy i found was to just load up on cutlasses. the other units didn't seem worth it. also, it'd be nice to see health and damage.
theholychicken
28. Apr 2014 路 20:55 UTC
Very fun!
I got to wave 12 with an army of rifle and cutlass, but after that the lag became too much.
Great work!
vilya
28. Apr 2014 路 21:04 UTC
Does it have an ending? I left it running until wave 21 (by that time I had enough pirates to instantly destroy any zombie that came aboard) and it looked like it would just keep going. It's a great idea though & nicely implemented. Varying the enemy types might help keep it challenging for longer.
馃帳 aaronjbaptiste
28. Apr 2014 路 21:25 UTC
@vilya No ending unfortunately, I actually implemented 4 different enemy types: Zombie Pirate (as seen), Flying Parrot thingies, Poisonous creatures and a Leviathan. However I never got round to doing all the graphics.

After wave 8/9 you pretty much have unlimited money and one shot everything with ranged attacks. I plan to continue development to balance things out, add real levels on a world map and other purchasable upgrades.
MisterDerek2
29. Apr 2014 路 11:44 UTC
Very fun! Liked the graphics too.
TheGameFather
29. Apr 2014 路 11:48 UTC
Nice game! The soliders are cute, the way enemies pop out is also quite innovative. Though more controls can be given to the players like where to reinforce.
Tuska
29. Apr 2014 路 11:49 UTC
Fun game but I would love to have a control over what enemies my units are attacking.
shadow64
29. Apr 2014 路 12:44 UTC
Fun game. Health meters would be a solid addition to this. Not knowing what health units have left and not being able to control them kind of left me feeling detached from the action. That said, I think there's a lot of potential if you continue to work on it!

Thanks for making it!
hexagore
29. Apr 2014 路 13:20 UTC
Cor, really enjoyed this. Took me a while to figure out just to ADD MORE CUTLASS at the beginning. Fun!
PapyGaragos
29. Apr 2014 路 15:37 UTC
What makes or break this kind of game is what's going on on the screen, since the player is more or less waiting. You did a great job at that here with the cute pirates running around and the overall good art.

You might have something solid here if you decide to expand on it. Good job
Daveloper
29. Apr 2014 路 19:29 UTC
Nice idea, well presented.I can't help but feel that the number of enemies increases too quickly. Good effort though :)
Kaoin
29. Apr 2014 路 19:33 UTC
Surprisingly really fun! However it starts to lag a lot once you place too many pirates.
SzRaPnEL
29. Apr 2014 路 19:33 UTC
Huge performance issues. Rifle man OP :) I like tower defense and I never seen any alike, so big hug for innovation!
Jeffalisk
29. Apr 2014 路 19:34 UTC
Enjoyed this, I'm a fan of games with indirect controls so this was up my street. A more developed version of this would work really well on iPad, hope you stick with it!
suurin
29. Apr 2014 路 19:36 UTC
Played it for a good 20 minutes. Surprisingly fun, well done!
TijmenTio
29. Apr 2014 路 19:38 UTC
Nice game and cool graphics, though a little unbalanced. Healthbars would also be helpful! Love to see a post compo version!
Khaldrin
29. Apr 2014 路 19:39 UTC
Surprisingly challenging. It get麓s easy after stockpiling a certain number of pirates. Maybe it needs a little balancing, but it's a really nice contribution. Thank you :)
Zerkruemler
29. Apr 2014 路 19:46 UTC
Really great graphics style and funny animations. In my opinion the player has not enough control. It tried it often and had the feeling that it is more or less random if my weak pirates are attacked or not. I was not able to get very far.
lajos
29. Apr 2014 路 20:10 UTC
Fun game, nice looking character art! It might need some balancing though, I'm at wave 27, table full of pirates, score 22320, with 77400 coins and the game updates once every 10 seconds.
Lrnk
30. Apr 2014 路 19:08 UTC
Cool graphics and a refreshing change of genre. Nice!
Sparrow
30. Apr 2014 路 22:03 UTC
Awesome game, could use some balancing as said before.
Maybe add some boss mobs after every 5 waves or so?
Catman
01. May 2014 路 08:51 UTC
Cool name, funny presentation, funny game. Nice job on the animated sabers too!
TeamEagle
01. May 2014 路 10:26 UTC
nice game. http://cl.ly/image/393u0R2R3r02
Anny
01. May 2014 路 19:34 UTC
Fun game! I really liked the graphics, it was tough too
Jod
01. May 2014 路 19:37 UTC
Hmmm, couldn't make it past wave 6. Kinda cool though, like the pirates!
MintArcade
05. May 2014 路 07:23 UTC
Very hard game. Nice graphics and gameplay.
joe40001
07. May 2014 路 05:34 UTC
I liked it a lot, but there is a point where you can break the balance so you have so many guys on screen that you can't possibly lose and it gets really laggy. Maybe after you have 5 of any given unit they merge and form a super unit of that type, and then the enemy starts attacking with super units or something, that way the game could remain playable in later waves. I was on wave 17 and basically it was too laggy to play.

Don't get me wrong though, I really liked it. Looks nice, plays nice. Good job. :)
matt_j
08. May 2014 路 00:42 UTC
Cute style. You could do a lot of cool things with this idea...
ZYXer
13. May 2014 路 14:58 UTC
Simple, but well polished game!

It would be nice to have a bit more influence on the situation. For example if one could place the pirates on deck. Another idea I had: earn interest on the money you have at the end of a wave.
IAmSpencer
19. May 2014 路 21:17 UTC
really fun, love these types of games, and you made a great one, like the cute little pirate sprites, great work!