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Storm the Castle by vanZeben

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made by vanZeben for LD25 (COMPO)
The concept of this game is a reverse tower defence game where you play the units. Send out waves of units to storm the castle!

One thing that I wanted to implement yet didn't have time to was dynamic level generation. I most likely will continue to work on this project and release it as a full game separate to the LD competition.

The fourth level should be impossible to beat since I didn't get the dynamic level generation working. Can you pass it?

You can check http://youtube.com/user/designsbyzephyr or http://vanZeben.ca for information :D

Web http://vanzeben.ca/ld/25/submission/
Source https://github.com/vanZeben/Storm-the-Castle
Timelapse http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiHSiO7e0JtCdDijbfgmEJczKwZ5K1jIf
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-25/?action=preview&uid=16535

Ratings

Coolness 52% 3
Overall 3.17 263
Audio 3.06 152
Fun 3.06 266
Graphics 2.86 390
Humor 2.31 430
Innovation 2.71 426
Mood 2.77 368
Theme 3.43 271

Feedback

lolzballs
17. Dec 2012 · 02:13 UTC
Awesome game!
Sintinium
17. Dec 2012 · 02:34 UTC
Love the game
Bevilacqua
17. Dec 2012 · 02:35 UTC
Love it!
Bcuzimawsum
17. Dec 2012 · 03:15 UTC
Game is Awesome, I can't wait to get more levels!
dalbinblue
17. Dec 2012 · 03:20 UTC
Interesting idea. Could not get past 4 fourth level (I think). I found at least for the first three levels that if you keep your units separated rather than punched up more seemed to get through, which seemed odd compared to other tower defense games.
EatenAlive3
17. Dec 2012 · 03:22 UTC
Nice game, and interesting twist! I've seen a couple games similar to this in that they reverse the tetris ai and the player, or the typist and the word processor, but never in a storm the castle type game.

Graphics/audio were fine, could have been slightly more exciting, like with music, or more background content. Nice job!
ethankennerly
17. Dec 2012 · 03:24 UTC
Looks, sounds and plays exciting. Fun Tower Offense! Interesting level design. If you continue developing, I'd like to keep using mouse and not switch to keyboard between levels.
HBurd
17. Dec 2012 · 03:24 UTC
Fun!
KhaoTom
17. Dec 2012 · 03:27 UTC
Nice prototype for something bigger. Keep on it.
Falkreon
17. Dec 2012 · 03:28 UTC
The first level I died in (like 5 levels in) reset me to like 250 points, which was neither the amount I entered the level with, nor enough to complete the level. Sad times.
Zazibar
17. Dec 2012 · 03:28 UTC
Fun game, music got annoying after a while though. Voice acting is always a plus!
madameberry
17. Dec 2012 · 03:29 UTC
Goin' for the castle!
Ashkin
17. Dec 2012 · 03:45 UTC
While the music is enjoyable and the graphics are good, this game lacks challenge. Basically, all you have to do is find the unit with just the right amount of health to get past the obstacles and send as many of it as you need to win. This could be fixed by adding more decisions to make- maybe certain units could be good against certain towers, maybe you could pick multiple paths, or maybe you could strategically destroy/move towers around.
🎤 vanZeben
17. Dec 2012 · 03:54 UTC
@Ashkin, That was originally the plan, to have the units fight back, however time constraints wouldn't let me finish up. Im definitely going to be continuing development on this to implement the things I had originally planned :D
mattsolo97
17. Dec 2012 · 04:25 UTC
Awesome game watched every second of him making it and even made the goat sound for it :D
Meep
17. Dec 2012 · 11:15 UTC
Very nice game! :) Could definitely be expanded on; it has a lot of potential.
theanprocks
17. Dec 2012 · 12:49 UTC
Awesome game. I was at the stream!!! Wish you would continue
belk
17. Dec 2012 · 16:35 UTC
Cool game! The audio was really brilliant.

I was working on a Tower D, but it turned out to be a sandbox game (didn't get time to implement towers).
ChainedLupine
18. Dec 2012 · 17:48 UTC
Nice work, though I agree with Ashkin, there's not much to do other than discover the right unit and then just spam it.
Dmitrix
20. Dec 2012 · 06:02 UTC
Cool game. I think the graphics could use some work, and it's hard to tell how much each unit costs. Also, does the game get destroyed properly? I closed the tab and the music continued to play and I had to end the java process. Could be just me though.
evilseanbot
20. Dec 2012 · 09:10 UTC
As the game takes a while to load, would have been nice if it gave an indication of how long it will take.
DaGamesta
20. Dec 2012 · 20:34 UTC
Very nice game! Music didn't play on reload for some reason, though. Nothing happened after I passed level 4 and pressed enter, so I assume that that was the last level. Aside from that, no complaints here, nice job!
kibertoad
24. Dec 2012 · 17:48 UTC
Idea is by no means new, but I liked how game was balanced, it was pretty fun to play.
caranha
25. Dec 2012 · 15:26 UTC
Pretty cool idea. It feels more like a puzzle game, where you have to pick up the right critters to win one or two times, than a castle defense where you throw dozens of critters to get a few through the defenses. Maybe you need to do some balancing with the price of the units, and the number of life points of the enemy if you want the game to feel more like the later?
Pierrec
27. Dec 2012 · 12:21 UTC
Way too easy at first, then, SUDDENLY, way too hard. Can't beat what I think is the level 3 or 4 (Come one, you know which one I'm talking about!)
Anyway, this gameplay is very very very cool, and I'm being grumpy because it's very frustrating ^^
The best thing is, I think, that the game doesn't force the player to make "waves", but is clever enough to make us do it anyway (because it's more effective)
hyrumcoop
27. Dec 2012 · 16:05 UTC
I beat level 4. The trick is to always send the units that are most expensive. They will give you more points. Then, on level 4, send the last unit like crazy until you are out of money. Repeat until you have beaten the level.
wds444
03. Aug 2013 · 18:13 UTC
SPOILER-
level one.
tank
wait.
sheep
level two.
robot
red baron(plane)
jet
jet
level three.
6x jet
level four.
spam jets til you win!