The Mad Piper by psychic_ash
A tower defense game where you defend a village from invaders. These invaders are bent on kidnapping the children of the town and taking them off to an unknown fate. Protect the children, keep them alive.
I made the game in game maker studio 2, using aesprite and the internal image editor for the graphics. I used sfxr and chiptone for sound effects. I used chrome musiclab for the music. I used dr. pepper for energy and tylenol for my headache. :P
Second LD. Happy to be a part of it.
Edit: Fixed the bug with the cannon tower. It would crash when searching for multiple targets in the blast radius to do damage to. It works as intended now. Reuploaded to itch.io with only the minor bug fix
Another Edit: Fixed a bug with the building mechanic's cost feature. There was a typo with one of the towers so it would crash if you canceled building and it tried to refund the "csot".
| Youtube | https://gnitsaf.itch.io/the-mad-piper |
| Youtube | https://gnitsaf.itch.io/the-mad-piper |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/the-mad-piper |
Ratings
| Overall | 941th | 2.9⭐ | 37🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 932th | 2.686⭐ | 37🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 1022th | 2.429⭐ | 37🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 943th | 3.029⭐ | 36🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 980th | 2.514⭐ | 37🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 695th | 2.652⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 787th | 2.107⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 981th | 2.328⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 32🗳️ | 40🗨️ |
@shouji Thanks, I wanted to randomize where you could put the towers and add a balance in later levels between expanding the village or taking up space with towers but I wasn't able to get it in time :( I do plan on working on this project to knock off my todo list. But I am glad you enjoyed it
@gamurmakesgems bug has been squashed. Thank you for bringing it o my attention.
NOTE: I realize that doesn't help us here today though :P
@mehrdadsh - thanks I appreciate it :D
@niterich - Thanks, yeah the balance is way off. I'm hoping to remedy that over the next month.
I got the following error twice in the following situation:
* I had a basic tower placed
* That basic tower was selected
* I was in build wizard mode
* Mouse over the basic tower
* Right clicked mouse

@efmi Yeah, I was not able to appropriately balance. I should have added more soldiers per round or beefed them up a bit. I plan on fixing that and adding to it over the next month.
@stmatn I had a partial wave script written but wasn't able to finish it. At the moment, every round another enemy gets added to the horde that's approaching. I realize after playing it a bit and hearing from comments, this very much needed an increase. I will address in future updates over the next month. Also, I apologize for the bug. I looked and that was a simple typo. I hate how that stuff sneaks in there sometimes.
@lestat thank you :D
@clayton-does-things Thank you for the compliment. I really wish I had had the time to balance it.
@bereg Thanks, I've been working hard on my sprites. I'm glad you liked them. :D
@arinyl I'm with you, I wish I had prioritized that a little higher on the list. But it was one of the things on the todo list that got cute due to time.
@hyunkelw thank you!!! Yeah, this was my first compo and frankly, that 24 hours makes a HUGE difference. Thank you for your kind words. I am proud of what I was able to accomplish, especially at my skill level and by myself.
For everyone: I have added my todo list to a devlog. I wish I could have added more of the features to the game during the two days but alas I did not. :D Thank you all so much for playing my game.
If you’d like to rewatch the playthrough, you can find it here:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/615937007?t=3h33m20s
Good luck on your ratings, see you next LD! :D
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