{"author_link":"\/author\/dew\/","author_name":"Dew","author_uid":"11118","comments":[{"author_name":"CherryNukaCola","author_uid":"4966","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 2:11am","epoch":1367287560,"text":"Very clever!"},{"author_name":"brantkings","author_uid":"7556","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 2:44am","epoch":1367289540,"text":"Nice mood! Just took a while to see that is was a tower defense."},{"author_name":"arrogant.gamer","author_uid":"22995","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 3:08am","epoch":1367290980,"text":"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."},{"author_name":"Dew","author_uid":"11118","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 3:15am","epoch":1367291400,"text":"@arrogant.gamer you get a sound everytime you do something with your mouse that afects the game, turn volume on :P"},{"author_name":"ilo","author_uid":"12377","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 3:23am","epoch":1367291880,"text":"This game is beautiful, and it felt intuitive to play. :)"},{"author_name":"CrazyGage","author_uid":"10626","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 4:18am","epoch":1367295180,"text":"love the feel of it, with the crisp graphics and good music"},{"author_name":"foxor","author_uid":"9290","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 4:21am","epoch":1367295360,"text":"Fantastic!  I love TD games, and this one is very well done"},{"author_name":"itsZN","author_uid":"11627","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 5:36pm","epoch":1367343060,"text":"Very Clever, hard to understand at first, but then becomes clearer!"},{"author_name":"Hatscat","author_uid":"10471","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 5:41pm","epoch":1367343360,"text":"Very clean art, that suit perfectly with the theme"},{"author_name":"Saturnyn","author_uid":"12149","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 5:42pm","epoch":1367343420,"text":"A bit confusing at first but quite interesting.\r<br\/>Great work !"},{"author_name":"Cake&amp;Code","author_uid":"10976","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 5:56pm","epoch":1367344260,"text":"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!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>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\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Very cool game, well done!"},{"author_name":"Corofides","author_uid":"18511","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 6:40pm","epoch":1367346900,"text":"A fun game although it did take me a while to figure out what some of the towers did."},{"author_name":"Dew","author_uid":"11118","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 7:24pm","epoch":1367349540,"text":"@Cake&amp;Code i didn't do D cause i was lazy and draw a d using coordinates is tough\r<br\/>\r<br\/>@all we tried to do it with the minimum text and we managed to use only 1 sentence user --&gt; enter."},{"author_name":"kyyninen","author_uid":"21389","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 8:10pm","epoch":1367352300,"text":"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!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Also you apparently can't erase when entering name to the high scores table? I'm all the asd-starting entries...\r<br\/>\r<br\/>(ps. lazer and slowdown towers ftw)"},{"author_name":"Dew","author_uid":"11118","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 9:00pm","epoch":1367355300,"text":"@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."},{"author_name":"PPLo","author_uid":"19983","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 4:43pm","epoch":1367426280,"text":"Very good! Personal best : 5200.\r<br\/>A well executed tower defense!"},{"author_name":"wine","author_uid":"22152","time":"May 4, 2013 @ 9:00am","epoch":1367657700,"text":"Hundred percent hit into theme!"},{"author_name":"Monxcleyr Productions","author_uid":"18483","time":"May 4, 2013 @ 9:27am","epoch":1367659320,"text":"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!"},{"author_name":"Frozen Fractal","author_uid":"7882","time":"May 4, 2013 @ 9:38am","epoch":1367659980,"text":"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."},{"author_name":"Dew","author_uid":"11118","time":"May 4, 2013 @ 10:03am","epoch":1367661480,"text":"@Frozen Fractal the art designer of the game likes to think that the white guys are sheep xD"},{"author_name":"Polar","author_uid":"10472","time":"May 4, 2013 @ 12:30pm","epoch":1367670300,"text":"Nice take on tower defense :) The only issue was working out what tower did what, but after that it was great :)"},{"author_name":"DaveDobson","author_uid":"10977","time":"May 5, 2013 @ 9:18pm","epoch":1367788380,"text":"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."},{"author_name":"klianc09","author_uid":"20290","time":"May 7, 2013 @ 9:36pm","epoch":1367962260,"text":"1000 rounds? Honestly?"},{"author_name":"Dew","author_uid":"11118","time":"May 8, 2013 @ 8:44am","epoch":1368002340,"text":"@klianc09 hardcore mode we wanted to implement infinite but i was lazy to program an infinite symbol xD"},{"author_name":"Milktoast","author_uid":"3609","time":"May 9, 2013 @ 12:09am","epoch":1368057840,"text":"Defense Grid Jr.  I love this!!"},{"author_name":"ethankennerly","author_uid":"3040","time":"May 12, 2013 @ 8:38pm","epoch":1368390780,"text":"Watching squares shoot circles interested me.  If you continue to develop this, I felt overwhelmed by the units available to buy."},{"author_name":"kill0u","author_uid":"5422","time":"May 13, 2013 @ 12:36pm","epoch":1368448260,"text":"Nice :)"},{"author_name":"Mago","author_uid":"5227","time":"May 13, 2013 @ 8:36pm","epoch":1368477060,"text":"it was hard to understand at the beginning but later became very addicting and fun"},{"author_name":"Krahe","author_uid":"20668","time":"May 14, 2013 @ 8:14pm","epoch":1368562140,"text":"Excellent use of theme; really intuitive \/ easy to play and yet a lot of content too. Very impressive!"},{"author_name":"Spelchan","author_uid":"15656","time":"May 15, 2013 @ 6:22pm","epoch":1368641820,"text":"Fun but better explanation of what each tower does would have been appreciated."}],"images":["ld26\/11118-e0b27e86eb78ba685537989428f5c64e.jpg","ld26\/11118-f27e8147d4ece16645a55dd4f3a7645d.jpg","ld26\/11118-d1afe1336df332f24a30dc4db9e7c2d2.jpg","ld26\/11118-9c99e7e1b938a161871dcdddd1520ff3.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/mtd.oqstats.net\/LudumDare.rar","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/mtd.oqstats.net\/","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/mtd.oqstats.net\/LudumDare.rar","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"26103","g_author":"11118","g_event":"LD26","g_eventkey":"16","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"26133","g_title":"Minimalism Tower Defence","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"149","g_commentcount":"30","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\/\/233892\/11118-shot0.PNG-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/11118-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/11118-shot2.PNG-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/11118-shot3.PNG-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"As the title says, we made a tower defence!!\r\n\r\nONLY WORKS WITH CHROME OR FIREFOX! Don't use Internet Explorer.\r\n\r\nWe mainly used the theme as the artistic concept.\r\n\r\nThis tower defence it's unorthodox, you can't make a maze, and to survive you should move towers, also monsters take damage efficient paths.\r\n\r\nCoded in Javascript\/HTML5 LoC: 2400\r\nImages used: 1\r\nSounds used: 4\r\n(Minimalism even here)\r\n\r\nThe 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)\r\n\r\nGame have 6 modes:\r\nI = 1 round\r\nV = 5 rounds\r\nX = 10 rounds\r\nL = 50 rounds\r\nC = 100 rounds\r\nM = 1000 rounds\r\n\r\nMonsters are random, try again if you had bad luck!\r\n\r\nTips:\r\nDrag & drop towers from right screen to place them on the map.\r\nDrag & drop towers in the map to move them.\r\nDrag & drop a tower out of the center to delete it.\r\nMonsters objective is to get the little white dots to their spawn.\r\nYou can't place towers near towers!\r\nGame can get laggy at the end (^^U pathfinding could be better I know).\r\n\r\n\r\nHAVE FUN EVERYONE!<\/p>","title":"Minimalism Tower Defence"}