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Defense of the Anka: Wraith of the Duck King by kogyblack

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made by kogyblack for Ludum Dare 46 (JAM)

Ahoy, fellow game devs.

I decided to code a whole engine from scratch this time. Of course it's buggy and the game is way simpler than we could do if we had used known engines (or at least coded this simple engine one week ago), but it was a lot of fun and many friends decided to join me and learn how to do things from scratch :D

Our team only have programmers, sadly, so graphics and audio are simple.

duck.png

Arrow keys to move player. Space to interact (pick up items, place shops and factories, give candies to duck)

Keep the duck king alive (please)! He will give you some items if you help him live, he's generous

Builds: Windows x64

We have Linux support but we didn't have time to package it with dependencies. You can compile from source, just install SDL2, SDL2_mixer and run make.

We didn't have time to configure WebGL build, sadly :(

Have fun!

Youtube https://github.com/naumazeredo/codename-ld46
Youtube https://github.com/naumazeredo/codename-ld46/releases/download/v1/codename-ld46-win64.zip
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/defense-of-the-anka-wraith-of-the-duck-king

Ratings

Overall 1439th 3.395⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Fun 1405th 3.237⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 1671th 3.056⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Theme 853th 3.816⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 1650th 3.289⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Audio 961th 3.289⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Humor 559th 3.444⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Mood 1730th 3.079⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Given 18🗳️ 4🗨️

Feedback

Reiqy
21. Apr 2020 · 06:39 UTC
Fun game. Cool, that you made your own engine! I enjoyed it although the collision are bit weird. I have managed to glitch out of the map.
loudrasiel
21. Apr 2020 · 18:36 UTC
The idea is cool and the game is very Fun. Graphics and sounds are very good. But I think that this game is a little hard to play.
🎤 kogyblack
21. Apr 2020 · 22:43 UTC
@loudrasiel Actually the game is hard at the begin but after surviving some waves it becomes very easy hahah We didn't have time to balance it or add more types of items... Having to build the engine takes a lot of time hahah I don't recommend doing this for a 72h game jam xD

Thanks for the comment
tsombi100
22. Apr 2020 · 07:44 UTC
Cool game, nice job. I tried to keep the duck alive, and I did, for a little bit. I didn't figure out what the hammer boxes were for, but otherwise a great game. And congrats for making this game without using any game engines
Karas
22. Apr 2020 · 07:47 UTC
Fun game ! After a while it get pretty easy, as I get so many ducks to shoot ! Love the challenge at the begining when you have to move your only duck around to kill the ennemies. Very impressed by the fact that you code this with your own engine ! Well done :)
Inferture
22. Apr 2020 · 11:29 UTC
It was a fun experience
As you noticed becomes a bit easy passed a certain wave because you have tons of ducks and candies, but the gameplay was solid. The audio was good and helped keep the tension high and the graphics were cute ^^
InflamedGums
22. Apr 2020 · 12:11 UTC
Really liked the gameplay, I only wished the coins would be auto-collected, since after wave 30-something, they started to get burried under mountains of candy (an amount so unhealthily vast, that, had I fed all of it to the duck king, he surely would've been struck by a heart attack)
Also, I really enjoyed the theme song ^^
Nice work building everything up from scratch, too, pretty impressive!
SamuraiExx
22. Apr 2020 · 18:19 UTC
@tsombi100 Thanks!
When you feed the duck, after a while he dops items like a shop prototype that you can use to contruct on those hammer boxes places that you said.
SamuraiExx
22. Apr 2020 · 18:21 UTC
@inflamedgums Thanks for your feedback! Yeah hahaha, I thought about putting an auto collector machine but we didn't have much more time.
NunoRibeiro
02. May 2020 · 23:26 UTC
The art and the sounds are quite good, not bad as you made them seem in the description. Making an engine from scratch is always hard, even more when you have short time limit! It's a solid experience. Could have some balancing in the begginning and in the end, but you did a nice job! Cool entry.
ryjcio
03. May 2020 · 18:18 UTC
The graphics are cute, but couldn't figure out how to build things and died :/
AstrosBoy15
12. May 2020 · 01:44 UTC
I liked the concept of the game, but it was a bit difficult to figure out exactly what was going on in the beginning, and seemed a bit impossible to defeat every enemy as there wasn't much in your control. I liked the audio and the graphics though. Good job!
pepperkep
12. May 2020 · 03:47 UTC
The concept is cool but it definitely need to be developed a bit further. Figuring out how to build is also rather difficult. It's really cool you made your own engine though.
Solifuge
12. May 2020 · 11:26 UTC
I noticed your entry was a few votes short, so I played it on Twitch and gave some live feedback. VOD is up on Youtube, if you'd like to see it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi6oja9yekY

This was a pretty neat take on a tower defense sorta game! At first, I was pretty confused by how I might build more defenses and all that, until I finally managed to get workshops from the duck king. Really impressed this engine was made from scratch within the jam, and I found the art pretty charming and effective; good at communicating what things were! I had a good time with this. Thanks so much for putting this together!