GardenTowerDefence by November
Hello! We are young team from Russia and this is our first game made for Ludum Dare. Hope you will like it!
This game is about pugs and monsters!
Build pug towers to slay mosters and pug farms to earn pug gold

| Windows | https://novemb3r.itch.io/gardentowerdefence |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/gardentowerdefence |
Ratings
| Overall | 833th | 3.208⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 671th | 3.229⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 1084th | 2.625⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 1034th | 2.875⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 678th | 3.333⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 348th | 3.438⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 332th | 3.348⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 668th | 3.196⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 38🗳️ | 2🗨️ |
* Make the player be able to move the camera with `WASD` or arrow keys
* Make a tile selection preview under the mouse, it was hard to figure out what is clickable on the screen, and what isn't
* The `Info` part could be made more verbose, for example it took me like 2 minutes to figure out that I had to click the pugs in the fence-box-thing to earn gold.
* Knowing nothing about which tower does what, the first I built was a farm instead of an actual attacking tower, and the game was over in about a minute.
I have to say I'm impressed with the graphics, the 3D animations are really good.
The musics / sounds fit well too.
Good job guys!

and then I ended up with something like:

which was great fun to watch - +1 for fire breathing pugs I very much enjoyed that :D But then I didn't know what else to do. I eventually filled the whole area with pugs, nothing was getting through but I could see that things were getting stronger and would *eventually* power through me and I was just sat there waiting to one day lose. Truth be told I could not figure out the sleeping dogs - I think they are supposed to block roads? But I could not make them work :(
I think it would be really cool if after a while you started getting mobs come from different roads so you had to be more careful how you spent your resources.
Graphics great - cute, work well :) Audio very good - usually in ldjams the music gets repetitive but your BGM did not annoy me at all, very good.
Over all very good, cute tower defense game that I was glad to play! well done :)
That said, this game needs quite a bit. Having to scroll around to pick up money from the money bin was a pain point for me, especially since there wasn't any cue that the money had refreshed and could be harvested again. Having a mini-map, or the ability to zoom out to see the whole map would have made the game much more playable. The ability to see where trouble spots are on the map, and to strategize for optimal placement of units is critical to a tower defense game.
I think it would have been a good genre combination to make a farmville-style clicker game to harvest pug units that would then be used in the tower defense half of the game.