Minimalism Tower Defence by Dew

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made by Dew for LD26 (JAM)
As the title says, we made a tower defence!!

ONLY WORKS WITH CHROME OR FIREFOX! Don't use Internet Explorer.

We mainly used the theme as the artistic concept.

This tower defence it's unorthodox, you can't make a maze, and to survive you should move towers, also monsters take damage efficient paths.

Coded in Javascript/HTML5 LoC: 2400
Images used: 1
Sounds used: 4
(Minimalism even here)

The game have online highscores! (Type your name on the finishing screen and press enter to submit, delete nor supr don't work so dont fail)

Game have 6 modes:
I = 1 round
V = 5 rounds
X = 10 rounds
L = 50 rounds
C = 100 rounds
M = 1000 rounds

Monsters are random, try again if you had bad luck!

Tips:
Drag & drop towers from right screen to place them on the map.
Drag & drop towers in the map to move them.
Drag & drop a tower out of the center to delete it.
Monsters objective is to get the little white dots to their spawn.
You can't place towers near towers!
Game can get laggy at the end (^^U pathfinding could be better I know).


HAVE FUN EVERYONE!

Ratings

Coolness 100% 1
Overall(Jam) 3.46 149
Audio(Jam) 2.84 297
Fun(Jam) 2.80 311
Graphics(Jam) 3.49 202
Humor(Jam) 1.62 395
Innovation(Jam) 2.80 322
Mood(Jam) 3.20 192
Theme(Jam) 3.98 55

Feedback

CherryNukaCola
30. Apr 2013 路 02:06 UTC
Very clever!
brantkings
30. Apr 2013 路 02:39 UTC
Nice mood! Just took a while to see that is was a tower defense.
arrogant.gamer
30. Apr 2013 路 03:03 UTC
Very cool! It pushes the non-verbal aspect pretty hard and I like that. A comment I would make is: make learning a rewarding activity all by itself. What I mean is, when I click on the right button or make the right decision, reward me with satisfying light and colour or feedback. That, I feel, would be enough.
馃帳 Dew
30. Apr 2013 路 03:10 UTC
@arrogant.gamer you get a sound everytime you do something with your mouse that afects the game, turn volume on :P
ilo
30. Apr 2013 路 03:18 UTC
This game is beautiful, and it felt intuitive to play. :)
CrazyGage
30. Apr 2013 路 04:13 UTC
love the feel of it, with the crisp graphics and good music
foxor
30. Apr 2013 路 04:16 UTC
Fantastic! I love TD games, and this one is very well done
itsZN
30. Apr 2013 路 17:31 UTC
Very Clever, hard to understand at first, but then becomes clearer!
Hatscat
30. Apr 2013 路 17:36 UTC
Very clean art, that suit perfectly with the theme
Saturnyn
30. Apr 2013 路 17:37 UTC
A bit confusing at first but quite interesting.
Great work !
Cake&Code
30. Apr 2013 路 17:51 UTC
Wow, that was surprisingly minimal! It's also not often that I've played a tower defense game that lets you move the structures around without any penalty or restrictions!

The menus takes some getting used to but after a few seconds it was easy to learn. It is interesting that when using roman numerals you chose to skip D, no level 500 eh? xD

Very cool game, well done!
Corofides
30. Apr 2013 路 18:35 UTC
A fun game although it did take me a while to figure out what some of the towers did.
馃帳 Dew
30. Apr 2013 路 19:19 UTC
@Cake&Code i didn't do D cause i was lazy and draw a d using coordinates is tough

@all we tried to do it with the minimum text and we managed to use only 1 sentence user --> enter.
kyyninen
30. Apr 2013 路 20:05 UTC
I appreciate trying to convey ideas in games without using written language, but the intro screens were pretty obtuse. Admittedly trial and error is the best way to learn. The game itself is pretty solid tower defense, I played several waves and enjoyed myself!

Also you apparently can't erase when entering name to the high scores table? I'm all the asd-starting entries...

(ps. lazer and slowdown towers ftw)
馃帳 Dew
30. Apr 2013 路 20:55 UTC
@kyyninen the thing with erase its because javascript dont get the use of deleting and since its not an html form i couldn't do anything else.
PPLo
01. May 2013 路 16:38 UTC
Very good! Personal best : 5200.
A well executed tower defense!
wine
04. May 2013 路 08:55 UTC
Hundred percent hit into theme!
Monxcleyr Productions
04. May 2013 路 09:22 UTC
This was a really unique take on the tower defense genre. The lack of text and visual style was a bit jarring at first, but worked really well once I had the opportunity to fail a few times. Great job!
Frozen Fractal
04. May 2013 路 09:33 UTC
Nice! Because of the extreme minimalism, it took me a while to figure out what all the enemies did and what my towers did, but that was part of the fun. The notion that enemies are trying to 'rescue' the little white guys makes gameplay more interesting. I really like the graphics style, too.
馃帳 Dew
04. May 2013 路 09:58 UTC
@Frozen Fractal the art designer of the game likes to think that the white guys are sheep xD
Polar
04. May 2013 路 12:25 UTC
Nice take on tower defense :) The only issue was working out what tower did what, but after that it was great :)
DaveDobson
05. May 2013 路 21:13 UTC
Really stylish and cool. I liked the colors, music, symbols, and icons you used, and the game was pretty fun, too. I couldn't really tell except through trial and error what the various towers did, and that was a little frustrating, but the drag-to-reposition made it a different kind of tower defense thing. Very fun, and very well-done.
klianc09
07. May 2013 路 21:31 UTC
1000 rounds? Honestly?
馃帳 Dew
08. May 2013 路 08:39 UTC
@klianc09 hardcore mode we wanted to implement infinite but i was lazy to program an infinite symbol xD
Milktoast
09. May 2013 路 00:04 UTC
Defense Grid Jr. I love this!!
ethankennerly
12. May 2013 路 20:33 UTC
Watching squares shoot circles interested me. If you continue to develop this, I felt overwhelmed by the units available to buy.
kill0u
13. May 2013 路 12:31 UTC
Nice :)
Mago
13. May 2013 路 20:31 UTC
it was hard to understand at the beginning but later became very addicting and fun
Krahe
14. May 2013 路 20:09 UTC
Excellent use of theme; really intuitive / easy to play and yet a lot of content too. Very impressive!
Spelchan
15. May 2013 路 18:17 UTC
Fun but better explanation of what each tower does would have been appreciated.