Rottenville by zanzavar
Summary
As if life in the old west was not harsh enough, you must now protect your saloon from the zombie apocalypse! Create outposts, oil pumps and even Gatling guns to show those pesky undead that no living or dead can mess with your legitimate business.
You start with nothing but fortunately you continuously earn some money from your patrons. The saloon should be defended at all costs so make sure to place your towers strategically.
Controls
- Use left mouse button to select a tower and place it on an allowed area.
- An active tower may be selected to view its range.
- Use the Esc key or the right mouse to deselect a tower unit or button.
Hints
- Killing enemies does not provide income. You gain $ every second from your saloon and by any oil pumps you build.
- Careful! The enemy waves are randomly generated. Accidents may and most probably will happen.
- Don't underestimate the capitalist power of the oil pumps.
- As things get harder do not hesitate to replace your towers with stronger ones. The enemies get stronger and so should you!
Tools
- GMS 1.4
- Piskel
Team
- @zanzavar Words/Code/Level Design/UIUX
- @panayotis Code/System Design
- @eretzoum Pixels/Animations
IMPORTANT
If the game height is too tall to fit in your browser window try zooming out a little (ctr/cmd -)
| Youtube | https://zanzavar.itch.io/rottenville |
| Youtube | https://zanzavar.itch.io/rottenville |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/rottenville |
Ratings
| Overall | 96th | 4.022⭐ | 47🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 77th | 4⭐ | 47🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 944th | 2.648⭐ | 46🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 735th | 3.102⭐ | 46🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 146th | 4.189⭐ | 47🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 136th | 3.702⭐ | 44🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 210th | 3.814⭐ | 45🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 54🗳️ | 30🗨️ |
Yoo! That was a fun one! Always been a fan of tower defense games. Been playing them for years and been the n.1 in the world in BTD Battles for example, so I really know my tower defenses. And this is a successful one! Tower placement and hit radiuses work wonderfully, the gameplay is super satisfying and the pixel art graphics are awesome! Also the music lightens up the mood by a ton. Literally don't know what to complain about other than the game screen didn't scale correctly for me in Web GL. But I managed by scrolling up and down at it was no problem.
Really good tower defense with good mechanics, good job!
My love for extra income made me more of an oil magnate than a saloon owner by the end of it all though :rofl:
Everything worked perfectly and looked really nice. Only minor complaint is that sounds ended up a little messed up when my whole screen was filled with towers, most likely from too many sounds playing at once.
Great work !
A small bug I encountered on the WebGL version, with a lot of units crowding the scene on the 7th wave, the sound starts getting crackly, until it all stopped on the 8th for me.
Overall I enjoyed the game. Thank you for making this game!
Excellent graphics and music (ohhh the music fit the western theme nicely!!!)
Solid gameplay, polished!
The only thing I could say is that the player shouldn't be allowed to place towers anywhere he please but at specific places (similar to Kingdom Rush!). It make I believe for a better gameplay instead of spamming towers all over the map (except of cource the road ;-) )
Still a very solid entry in LD. Nice job!
Cool Game! Well Done!
Nice game! Pixel art is very charming, had a variety of towers and enemy types. Saloon and Joplin vibes helped establish the mood.
If you haven't already, I'd highly advise watching 'The Art of Screenshake' on YouTube. The pixel art is great, but I think there are opportunities to add some juice and improve game feel. :smiley:
Sounds are nice and don't draw too much attention. Gatlin gun sound could use an upgrade though. Some feedback on enemy hits could be nice. Like flashing their sprite white. I agree with previous reviews, that screenshake on the explosives could give much needed juice.
Overall very well done!
I'd love to see it expanded on!