Tower Attack by hallsofvallhalla

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made by hallsofvallhalla for LD25 (JAM)
Tower Attack is a reverse Tower Defense game. You are the villain attacking the Tower, or at least trying to make it through.

You spend money buying creatures and earn money by every step they take.
The more time that goes by the quicker and more powerful the guns become.

Ratings

Coolness 32% 948
Overall(Jam) 2.38 295
Fun(Jam) 1.89 310
Graphics(Jam) 2.33 284
Innovation(Jam) 2.00 303
Mood(Jam) 1.87 309
Theme(Jam) 2.95 223

Feedback

surpy
18. Dec 2012 路 02:24 UTC
I liked the idea. I did find some bugs but you are probably aware of them. I think the turrets get more powerful, which is unfair because my guys can't get to the other side and I lose a lot of points. The 1500 guys actually cost 1000. Just fix those bugs and add some more stuff, then this game is good.
馃帳 hallsofvallhalla
18. Dec 2012 路 03:10 UTC
Thanks for the bug report!!
I fixed the money cost issue.
I also increased the time before turrets get more powerful. They have to get more powerful as at a point you will have so many men you get tons of money.
iiAtlas
18. Dec 2012 路 03:27 UTC
Interesting idea, well conceived. Nice job :)
zatyka
18. Dec 2012 路 03:33 UTC
Nice take on the theme and tower defense genre.

FYI - When I tried loading it in Firefox, my players would not appear. It worked in Chrome though. I was on mac OS btw.
馃帳 hallsofvallhalla
18. Dec 2012 路 03:37 UTC
thanks for the comments, I will check out the firefox issue
Dew
18. Dec 2012 路 03:37 UTC
Damn too many money could'nt spend it all!
dwrensha
18. Dec 2012 路 03:43 UTC
Exponential growth!
tzamora
18. Dec 2012 路 03:44 UTC
nice entry
馃帳 hallsofvallhalla
18. Dec 2012 路 03:45 UTC
that is why i have the turrets getting harder but it is a hard balance to get :P
TehSkull
18. Dec 2012 路 03:47 UTC
It's a good idea but there should be other ways to make money so the game lasts longer. It gets hard easily.
BlockBrains
18. Dec 2012 路 13:42 UTC
Yes, not working in Firefox :( I just spawned a lot of 1000 monsters, and started getting money like crazy! :)
iamorim
19. Dec 2012 路 00:34 UTC
I liked everything. But I don't know, I couldn't win. Is it possible?
RosyPenguin
19. Dec 2012 路 04:13 UTC
I wish there was some sort of goal in mind, maybe have a castle at the end with an HP bar, or something to be working toward. It would be cool if I could upgrade the enemies I send!

I am a little confused about the balancing; so the longer I wait the more money I have, but also the more powerful the towers become? What's stopping me from waiting until my money maxes out and spamming the strongest enemy?

Nice job!
Joncom
19. Dec 2012 路 04:38 UTC
Nice work :)
gnx
19. Dec 2012 路 06:54 UTC
Graphics are nice. The turrets do seem to nearly always hit the units and having little control over anything makes the gameplay a bit too simplistics.

Also it would be nice if you could win the game :D
馃帳 hallsofvallhalla
19. Dec 2012 路 15:10 UTC
working on updates but of course not applying them till after the judging as not to cheat. Thanks for all the suggestions.

The main reason there is so much lacking is because the artist had around 6 hours to do the art and I had around 4 hours to code it all. We were both very busy over the weekend but wanted to get something submitted :)

Once again thanks for all the comments!
namuol
20. Dec 2012 路 10:10 UTC
Hehe... http://i.imgur.com/QmLXv.png

Felt good once I broke that barrier.


BTW you can put up a "post-compo" version of the game here -- it's not cheating as long as you make it clear which game we're judging.
Houly
23. Dec 2012 路 17:20 UTC
Nice to see another impact game! I like the twist on the tower defense genre. Could have been a little more challenging though.
Mista Koo
25. Dec 2012 路 15:58 UTC
Account suspended, couldn't access the game :(
馃帳 hallsofvallhalla
27. Dec 2012 路 14:29 UTC
hmm weird try again.
AdricZero
30. Dec 2012 路 17:06 UTC
Liked the idea. Starts way too hard. The towers seem way to powerful, they just seemed to always pick off my guys before I had enough cash to get more on the field. With some more tweaking and some sound this could get a lot better with just a little more effort.
AdricZero
30. Dec 2012 路 17:18 UTC
As I said it starts out too hard. But I eventually got a few through to the other side and then it became too easy to rack up points indefinitely.