{"author_link":"\/author\/tomsik68\/","author_name":"tomsik68","author_uid":"13547","comments":[{"author_name":"Drachlen","author_uid":"27311","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 5:23am","epoch":1377494280,"text":"Hey tomsik, I watched your stream for awhile while we were working on our games! (I made the wire cutting game.) I think your game turned out great. I love the gold\/shop idea. I think if you expanded from here, the game could have some really cool potential. Great work"},{"author_name":"tomsik68","author_uid":"13547","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 5:55am","epoch":1377496200,"text":"Thank you, I've focused on the extensible API very much, so adding new stuff was really easy just few hours before submission :)"},{"author_name":"sirtetris","author_uid":"26418","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 8:57am","epoch":1377507120,"text":"Cool background music, nice drawings. :D\r\rHad to run it with sudo, otherwise I got this: http:\/\/pastebin.com\/vWsXmvhn"},{"author_name":"sirtetris","author_uid":"26418","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 9:01am","epoch":1377507360,"text":"One more thing: would have been nice if the contents of the zip file were in a folder. If you unzip it like this in you're downloads folder the thing is all over the place. ^^"},{"author_name":"ShellfishGames","author_uid":"23164","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 9:12am","epoch":1377508020,"text":"Nicely done. I struggled with the fact that your shots are so slow, on my first attempt I barely hit anything. It really needs some time to get used to it (for me anyway), but once I did, it was quite rewarding. Unlocking new weapons is a nice addition and provides enough motivation for playing it several times, which is always nice.\rOne thing that you definitely should have added imho is a sound effect when an enemy reaches the base. Often I just wasn't sure whether I killed them or not. And suddenly I had no lifes left. :D"},{"author_name":"GNecro1","author_uid":"25590","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 9:22am","epoch":1377508620,"text":"Graphics kills the game so bad ! but audio is good :)"},{"author_name":"tomsik68","author_uid":"13547","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 9:27am","epoch":1377508920,"text":"@sirtetris: I'm unsure about the error, since I'm on Linux myself & it runs perfectly. It has something to do with pulseaudio & OpenAL Sorry for the ZIP, I've re-packaged it so it doesn't spam your downloads folder ;)\r\r@ShellfishGames Thank you for good feedback on the game. The sound when enemy passes is a good idea :)"},{"author_name":"tomsik68","author_uid":"13547","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 9:28am","epoch":1377508980,"text":"@GNecro1 Yeah, I admit it, I'm bad at drawing :D"},{"author_name":"Red Mike","author_uid":"14718","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 9:50am","epoch":1377510300,"text":"Interesting idea, nice audio. Needs some more graphics work, but the core game is there."},{"author_name":"Mekuri","author_uid":"20130","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 9:59am","epoch":1377510840,"text":"Nice game. It After a few rounds it gets a bit tedious, but I like the idea. Especially that you get to buy stuff after each wave. I am one of those people that get motivated with an economic or xp based reward system. All in all, a nice game :-)"},{"author_name":"CoderDozer","author_uid":"21023","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 10:08am","epoch":1377511380,"text":"Cool music, enemy's come on a little strong but overall cool game."},{"author_name":"tomsik68","author_uid":"13547","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 10:09am","epoch":1377511440,"text":"@RedMike Well, I need to get better in graphics :)\r\r@Mekuri I wanted to add more things to shop, but 48h is 48h :D"},{"author_name":"HeyChinaski","author_uid":"11211","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 5:00pm","epoch":1377536100,"text":"Funny end screen :)"},{"author_name":"lazyeels","author_uid":"17400","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 6:24pm","epoch":1377541140,"text":"I enjoyed playing, but man those beasties are tough, they just keep on coming. I like the fact you had time to build shop, nice touch!"},{"author_name":"Delca","author_uid":"24934","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 7:19pm","epoch":1377630840,"text":"A nice little game, which is effectively quite addictive. I had a hard time shooting ennemies down at first, because electric shots are slow, but once you got fireballs upgraded three or four times, you can just spawncamp the gold and kill all walking ennemies with an almost literal wall of fire. Which. Is. Cool!\rThe shop was nice, and I liked the different powerups (especially the perma-shoot : more games should be inspired by that feature). However, I never was able to purchase an extra life : the price seemed to rocket up to high for me to follow, even by camping the gold and killing all ennemies.\rThe audio was a nice addition, however any kind of sound effect for when an ennemy hit your base would be useful, seeing as the "lives left" indicator is far away from the main play area. That, or move it to the castle!\rGraphics were simple at best, but that did not keep me from enjoying the game.\rFinally, here is a tip for those who cannot shoot ennemies : try to fire ahead of the ennemy instead of right at him. Also, buy fireballs as soon as possible and burn stuff down."},{"author_name":"tomsik68","author_uid":"13547","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 8:30pm","epoch":1377635100,"text":"@lazyeels Thanks :)\r\r@Delca I totally agree it's addictive, because as I wrote above, I got addicted to this too :). Here's a little story on the perma-shoot ability: I've been testing the game for an hour. Then two. Then I added shop, things were starting to get more and more complicated, so I needed to play the game further. After few rounds, I felt my finger so bad I couldn't continue, so I added the perma-shoot ability which in fact saved my finger :D\rI'm sorry about the extra life price, but I wanted to keep the game balanced, so the extra life gets more and more expensive over time, because you also get more gold...\rBut anyways, I'm glad so much people like the game :D Didn't really expect that :P"},{"author_name":"Sh1rogane","author_uid":"14496","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 8:54am","epoch":1377679740,"text":"Good fun and simple defence game, i liked it :)"},{"author_name":"doonay21","author_uid":"18952","time":"Aug 30, 2013 @ 8:26pm","epoch":1377894060,"text":"SImple funny little game :) Nice job with this entry!"},{"author_name":"Laelien","author_uid":"25981","time":"Aug 31, 2013 @ 11:17pm","epoch":1377990720,"text":"Nicely done ! A literal tower defense game, with sweet little power-up and stuff. Maybe a little to hard in the beginning ?\rSweet anyway :D"},{"author_name":"Jupiter_Hadley","author_uid":"27744","time":"Sep 2, 2013 @ 6:46am","epoch":1378104060,"text":"I downloaded the Java, ran the "Run" file, and still couldnt open it. :\/ I wish I could so I could have added it to my LD27 compilation video... sorry"},{"author_name":"tomsik68","author_uid":"13547","time":"Sep 3, 2013 @ 4:22pm","epoch":1378225020,"text":"@Sh1rogane, @doonay21, @Laelien Thanks guys :)\r\r@Jupiter_Hadley did you extract all the files? You can't run it in a zip archive, as the game needs all the files in archive..."}],"images":["ld27\/13547-33658fee55c58a01df96f185420268e5.jpg","ld27\/13547-3b1d398077ffc0b71771d61758ad692e.jpg","ld27\/13547-8ef5ef056cadfc1f2f0e6e94b53c11b2.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/29628587\/TenSecondDefense.zip","text":"Cross-Platform(.zip)"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/29628587\/TenSecondDefense_src.zip","text":"Source Code(Java, Slick2D)"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"24122","g_author":"13547","g_event":"LD27","g_eventkey":"18","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"24152","g_title":"10 Second Defense","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"841","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\/13547-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/273708\/13547-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/273708\/13547-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"In this game, you need to defend your castle against some creatures from the forest. They're coming constantly, so you need to shoot them. Each wave of enemies takes 10 seconds. I thought it would be interesting to create a defensive-style game where you only had 10 seconds, so here it is. The game can be played up to infinity until you don't run out of money\/lives\/patiency :)\r\n\r\n == Gameplay ==\r\nYou play as a mage on the left side of your screen. You move around to pickup gold chunks, which randomly appear there. Enemies are coming from right and you need to use your abilities to shoot them. After 10 seconds, wave ends and you'll be redirected to shop, where you can purchase some abilities\/upgrades. And then it repeats.\r\n == Controls ==\r\nUse left & right arrow to move your character.\r\nUp & down arrows are used for ability switching(currently selected ability is the small icon above your head).\r\n\r\nUse mouse to aim & left mouse button to shoot(you don't have to press it, just hold it or purchase Perma Shoot in shop[free])\r\n\r\nTo purchase in shop, double-click the item you're interested in.\r\n == My personal thoughts of this game ==\r\nThis game definitely not going to win LD. There are better games out there. However, after 16 hours of programming this game, I got addicted to it! Really, it's the first game I created and got addicted to, which is a good sign :) | Graphics are my regular style (90's windows graphics), sound is just sfxr + autotracker, so it's not any good. However, as many wise people say: \"Graphics is not important if the gameplay is good\".\r\n\r\nSo I hope you like & enjoy the game! If you have any questions, I'll gladly answer them in the comments section below.\r\n\r\n == How to run ==\r\nFirst of all, you'll need java runtime, which can be downloaded at http:\/\/java.com\/\r\nDownload the cross-platform zip archive & extract it. Then, notice 2 files named RUNTHIS. Windows users run RUNTHIS.bat, MAC\/Linux users run RUNTHIS.sh \r\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\r\nOther platforms are currently unsupported, as the archive doesn't include natives. But if you download LWJGL natives for your platform & place them to \"natives\" folder, you can copy command from RUNTHIS.sh and run it via command line :).\r\nIf you're interested in how the game was created, check my twitch channel at http:\/\/twitch.tv\/tomsik68 and you can find the whole progress(except sound making) in the past broadcasts section.","title":"10 Second Defense"}