Tatertot Towers by Cosmic Adventure Squad

:dizzy: Summary
Help Tatertot defend the mouse town! Build towers and fight off hoards of enemies. Collect resources and upgrade your buildings to stand a better chance. Can you delaying the inevitable?
- Fight enemies and collect resources!
- Build and upgrades structures!
- Survive waves of enemies!
- Play story or endless mode!
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:video_game: Controls
- Move - WASD
- Jump - Space
- Attack - left mouse
- Build - right mouse
- Rotate Camera - click and drag right mouse
- Full reset - 0 (zero)
** You can rebind your controls in the pause menu!
:bulb: Credits
- Vu Ha - Code
- Rose Peng - Art
- Johan Soriao - Audio
| Link | https://cosmicadventuresquad.itch.io/tatertot-towers |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/tatertot-towers |
Ratings
| Overall | 9th | 4.4⭐ | 42🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 31th | 4.213⭐ | 42🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 337th | 3.65⭐ | 42🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 450th | 3.863⭐ | 42🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 26th | 4.65⭐ | 42🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 42th | 4.263⭐ | 42🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 255th | 3.763⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 81th | 4.231⭐ | 41🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 21🗳️ | 34🗨️ |
Fun game though, I like the artwork, the overall gameplay is nice. Unlocking new upgrades is very cool.
I felt like the camera was an enemy itself. I feel like I could never get the angle that I wanted. I think an option to have the camera always be locked onto the town would be good.
great work !
Something I feel would help with the difficulty is just a liiittle bit more time between each wave to learn the new mechanics. It's very hard to read the tutorial and learn what the new materials do when you're rushing to build your defenses against the next wave.
It took me a second to figure out how to build the towers but I got the hang of it. Nice design and nice gameplay
This game had an excellent presentation and it made it a joy to play. Just a really fresh take/angle on the defense genre that kept it really interesting.
What were the differences between the towers though? I don't know if there was any text I missed on what they actually did. Even if there were, I was usually frantically farming resources so I may not have seen it anyways.
Everything is awesome: graphics is beautiful, artstyle and audio make atmosphere.
Best entry here so far
The graphics are really cute, great artstyle, and the animations are well done. And audio is great as always as well!
Over all, fun game! Could be turned into something great with more polish, but fun nontheless.
Well done!
There's the obvious things to love, like the adorable artwork, the animal-crossing-eske dialogue noises, and the chill music - but it goes so much deeper than that. The attention to detail in the smaller things, like the way that the menus pop up, make the game feel so pleasant to play. Having the things you can build progress over time means the player doesn't get overwhelmed from the start with too many options, and cutting down trees takes *just* the right amount of time to feel satisfying without being tedious.
Amazing entry right here, you all did great work!
I really love the art and the feel of the game.
One issue I had was that I was playing on a Mac, so I did not have a right mouse button, so I was unable to build :disappointed:
This was fun! I think my main complaint is that I felt like it was optimal to continually gather more resources, which meant I wasn't actually spending much time watching my towers do work, which I feel like is a shame!
this is mad!
very animal crossing mood
so cute!
works really well!
the only thing i'd have to say is WASD doesn't work so well on french AZERTY keyboards and i cba to change my keyboard mapping (no judgement ^^#)
beyond that it's a ridiculous result in only 72h
kudos you guys
well done <3 :D

So we really like your game and we're streaming Ludum Dare 50 games this week-end both Saturday April 16th & Sunday April 17th starting at 10AM CEST [--> Paris summer time] on our Twitch channel --> https://www.twitch.tv/teamchoochoo
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Have a great day, I hope to hear from you soon - thanks for that great moment I spent testing your little nugget of a game, and see you in the chat during the stream, I hope :heart:
And the graphics are just perfect, good job.
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