{"author_link":"\/author\/ryan0788\/","author_name":"ryan0788","author_uid":"18263","comments":[{"author_name":"easytospell","author_uid":"27703","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 2:57pm","epoch":1377528720,"text":"it was really fun, then i got a huge wall of the cannons that cost 10 moneys that the zombies couldnt do anything about i guess that equals winning :)"},{"author_name":"ryan0788","author_uid":"18263","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 4:15pm","epoch":1377533400,"text":"@easytospell Thanks! If you wait a few waves lots of tank zombies come and it gets challenging :)"},{"author_name":"BradleySmith","author_uid":"14944","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 11:41pm","epoch":1377560160,"text":"The pixel art is beautifully intricate, well done! Rated highly. :)"},{"author_name":"jwolf","author_uid":"11073","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 11:58pm","epoch":1377561180,"text":"Pretty fun!  It's quite challenging early on, although if you survive long enough it gets pretty easy (even with the tanks).  Might be due to a performance issue with too many guns firing...but that's just a quibble.  Overall, this is a pretty solid entry."},{"author_name":"olafurw","author_uid":"25450","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 12:56am","epoch":1377564660,"text":"This is a pretty clever take on the PvZ\/Tower defence genre."},{"author_name":"borden","author_uid":"26873","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 1:01am","epoch":1377564960,"text":"Very cool. A personal favorite. I would really like the worker mechanic, but if a zombie gets back that far it's  game over anyway. \r<br\/>\r<br\/>Just needs some balancing.\r<br\/>It has a backwards difficulty curve, and it can be hard to line up the guns."},{"author_name":"Tork","author_uid":"24727","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 1:04am","epoch":1377565140,"text":"Like the game, still way too many lines of action, also it took me a while to be sure which row of a zombie would be for a gun"},{"author_name":"Joxno","author_uid":"25136","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 1:28am","epoch":1377566580,"text":"Quite a fun take on TD!\r<br\/>I like it that the buildings are delayed due to the workers running about,\r<br\/>although after you figure out the rhythm of the start of the game (placing turrets when &amp; where) it becomes a linear progression.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Ended up with wave 100 &amp; 90% of the map is covered in cannons ^_^"},{"author_name":"Vile Smile","author_uid":"26636","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 1:38am","epoch":1377567180,"text":"Nice!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I wasn't sure what I was doing at first. A tutorial level would be helpful, but the game is great otherwise."},{"author_name":"frogcheese","author_uid":"25059","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 8:43am","epoch":1377592680,"text":"Couldn't get it to run :( I'm on Mac OS X 10.8.4, running Java 7. I get to a window that lets me choose the screen dimensions, but it immediately crashes when opening the game window."},{"author_name":"ryan0788","author_uid":"18263","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 4:54pm","epoch":1377622140,"text":"@frogcheese I'll take a look at that today, I think it might be because of the font loader? Does anyone know if Mac supports .ttf files?"},{"author_name":"Thermite","author_uid":"27791","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 12:31am","epoch":1377649560,"text":"Very relaxing watching my wall of cannons mow down creeps.  Good work!"},{"author_name":"SneManden","author_uid":"16779","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 9:19am","epoch":1377681240,"text":"Very nice game, quite fun! Love the idea of the human that has to open the crates - however, you could expand further on that mechanic: e.g. make him set up the guns too?\r<br\/>\r<br\/>However, I had a minor problem: the zombies are not grid-aligned, meaning, sometimes they fall inbetween you lines of your shooters; thus making it hard to place your guns or impossible to shoot at them.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The graphics were nice, great work!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Btw, a small note about controls\/where to put guns, etc. would be nice."},{"author_name":"ryan0788","author_uid":"18263","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 4:55pm","epoch":1377708600,"text":"@frogcheese I'll take a look at that today, I think it might be because of the font loader? Does anyone know if Mac supports .ttf files?"},{"author_name":"Myyyvothrr","author_uid":"6391","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 3:13pm","epoch":1377788880,"text":"Nice game, like the conecpt! Would have preferred a visible grid though..."},{"author_name":"DY","author_uid":"25166","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 3:32pm","epoch":1377790020,"text":"Take me a while to figure it out (Click on turret -&gt; Why the hell he put that turret ther?! -&gt; WTF that turret dont attack! -&gt; OHH!!! I CAN REPOSITION IT OMFG!!!) but finally http:\/\/imgur.com\/OMhtaAK"},{"author_name":"lucidlarva","author_uid":"25504","time":"Aug 30, 2013 @ 11:03pm","epoch":1377903480,"text":"Very fun. I love seeing strategy games with this theme."},{"author_name":"Jupiter_Hadley","author_uid":"27744","time":"Aug 31, 2013 @ 4:05am","epoch":1377921600,"text":"Loved this game, it was great!! I featured it in my Ludum Dare 27 compilation video series, if youd like to check it out :) http:\/\/youtu.be\/7EzKbFuvC2A"},{"author_name":"thesunnyk","author_uid":"27126","time":"Sep 3, 2013 @ 2:09pm","epoch":1378217040,"text":"The game is very similar to plants vs zombies, with the caveat that there's a new wave every 10 seconds. Quite a fun game, but rather unforgiving to a beginner. Difficulty curve needs some fine tuning, but other than that I'm having trouble finding fault. I like the presentation, I like the game design, I generally just like it :)"},{"author_name":"bushmango","author_uid":"5852","time":"Sep 14, 2013 @ 6:05pm","epoch":1379181600,"text":"Fun game! Crashes if you buy up all of the available worker unpacking slots with flowers, lol."},{"author_name":"bvanschooten","author_uid":"14520","time":"Sep 16, 2013 @ 9:26pm","epoch":1379366460,"text":"This is a nice take on PvZ, something I haven't seen before here.  Very enoyable.  Imo there is one frustrating flaw, which is that it's so hard to see in which spot you have to place a gun in order to hit a zombie.  But that should be quite easy to fix :-)"}],"images":["ld27\/18263-5465554db8c493bd20e0f630484aac39.jpg","ld27\/18263-503d3e72d7b28e2b6d49a48d5266f041.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/92322205\/Hoard%20Frenzy\/Hoard%20Frenzy_Windows.jar","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/92322205\/Hoard%20Frenzy\/Hoard%20Frenzy_MacOSX.jar","text":"OS\/X"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/92322205\/Hoard%20Frenzy\/Hoard%20Frenzy_Linux.jar","text":"Linux"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/92322205\/Hoard%20Frenzy\/Hoard%20Frenzy_Solaris.jar","text":"Solaris"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/92322205\/Hoard%20Frenzy\/Hoard%20Frenzy_Source.jar","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"23554","g_author":"18263","g_event":"LD27","g_eventkey":"18","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"23584","g_title":"Hoard Frenzy","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"356","g_commentcount":"21","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\/\/273708\/18263-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/273708\/18263-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"I promised myself that I wouldn't affiliate myself with #LDTD, but halfway through I realized that I was doing it anyways. I'm sorry. Don't hate me.\r\n\r\nIn this game you have to defend your base against ever-growing waves of zombies, every 10 seconds. You buy the tiles that you want to place, but a worker has to unpack it before you can place it so defend your workers! (Or they will unionize) You gain coins by killing zombies.","title":"Hoard Frenzy"}