BaseExt by Tyler

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made by Tyler for LD34 (COMPO)
HTML5 version is live!!! Took some changing in how the shadows were created since it was causing crashing. Note that there still is some slow-down and the game is unoptimized, so downloading is recommended!

BaseExt//
Our world was over taken by the ones from beneath//
Run program "BaseExt" to send our unmanned base below to them//
Use lights, turrets, ammo generators and energy generators to survive//

I scrapped my first idea and made this in less than 5(!) hours. I'm happy with my entry and surprised with how much I was able to accomplish in such a short amount of time.

You control everything with only the mouse.

Enjoy!

EDIT: compressed the gmz file and it worked! Source code should be working now.

EDIT 2: HTML5 version should be coming soon!!! I'll also fix a few bugs in the windows version that were fixed with the HTML5 code. Check back soon!

EDIT 3: HTML5 version is live! Play right from the download page at itch.io :)

Ratings

Coolness 62% 3
Overall 3.55 244
Audio 2.53 535
Fun 3.58 191
Graphics 3.71 194
Humor 1.91 655
Innovation 3.37 352
Mood 3.00 444
Theme 3.63 562

Feedback

paradxil
14. Dec 2015 路 05:30 UTC
Pretty fun. It did seem a little bit slow to me though, and took me a while to figure out. After I did, it was a pretty cool idea.
rockford
14. Dec 2015 路 17:38 UTC
Nice to play, nice to look at. Kudos.
qbicfeet
14. Dec 2015 路 17:39 UTC
Cool. My only gripe is that starting out feels a bit too slow, I think the game would benefit from having the HQ unit also generate some money to help you kickstart your base.
馃帳 Tyler
14. Dec 2015 路 17:41 UTC
Thanks for the feedback! I sadly didn't have time to work on balance before the submission time ended, but I did spend a few hours afterwards working on tweaking the gameplay and adding new features in. I wish I could go in and balance it out, but I feel that that would go against the rules.
Catblocker
14. Dec 2015 路 17:44 UTC
Nice looking game, but there is a glitch were you can buy things even thought you can't afford them :I
Recursiveanomaly
14. Dec 2015 路 17:45 UTC
I really like the styling of this game and the base building aspect. The UI was a little rough as some of the tooltips didn't show all the time. Sweet game!
gkxd
14. Dec 2015 路 17:50 UTC
Graphics were good, but the game is slow. Some additional ways of getting money would be nice. (I expected killing enemies to give money, but it didn't.)

Also, I didn't like waiting for all the text to pop up in the intro screen, and clicking skipped directly to the game. I would've liked clicking to show the next line of text, and then move to the game once all the text is shown.
JohnGalt
14. Dec 2015 路 17:54 UTC
Interesting system. Simple control. I enjoy it a lot. Really want to see more contents in this game.
pkenney
14. Dec 2015 路 17:59 UTC
Wow this is really good for that short time!

I screwed myself my first few games figuring it out, for example by not building the money-generator. But I enjoyed the feeling of having to figure it out, and once I got on a roll I was having a good time.

The compo version, I had some problem with the bullets, they seemed to just kind of disappear sometimes when I thought they should kill the enemy.

I liked it enough that I ran the post-comp build, which was a big improvement. I see now that the enemies sometimes take more than one hit, and that was probably why the bullets "disappeared" in the first game.

Very nice art style and I appreciated experimenting.

My final game I thought okay now I'm gonna win this, I have a nice base established. But there is a nice design tradeoff, if you expand you need more guns but then each click costs you more. So my fatal mistake was thinking I had a good amount of ammo stockpiled and building too many guns without the supporting ammo factories.

Also the art was nicely done.
Akhera
14. Dec 2015 路 18:22 UTC
The concept is fine, but it's a bit unpolished. For example, the enemies take variable amounts of hits to kill but there's no way to tell how much. There are also some serious bugs like tooltips not showing or being able to get into negative values for money.
馃帳 Tyler
14. Dec 2015 路 19:08 UTC
Thanks for all the feedback! :) It's great to hear where I went wrong and what I can improve for post-post compo release!

The negative money was originally a bug, but I think I'll keep it since it's a trade-off between going into the red or being able to build more units. It adds a bit of risk reward whether you should buy that expensive money generator or buy some cheaper things first.

I'll try fixing the bug with the tool tips, or just remove them completely. I couldn't find the source of the bug before release, so I just left it in since it was a bit of help at the beginning of the game.

Again, thanks for the feedback! It's much appreciated!
psychomonster
14. Dec 2015 路 22:28 UTC
Wow this is cool. Its difficult but it has a great feeling. Nice job. +1 for idea
馃帳 Tyler
15. Dec 2015 路 09:13 UTC
Added HTML5 build. Lags a bit, but it should run on any system now!
Ben Allen
15. Dec 2015 路 21:06 UTC
Neat game, but there's a lot of waiting. More enemy types and more purchases would be cool. The game also benefit a lot from wave based gameplay, which would give you base building time in between waves and possibly increase the difficulty a bit faster. What I played was enjoyable though, would love to see more in the future.
Dining Philosopher
16. Dec 2015 路 13:52 UTC
Wow, for five hours this is very nice!

Kind of frustrating that:
- I can't use hotkeys to quickly select what to build (although that goes against the theme so ignore that),
- I HAVE to build a lot of turrets even though I can't produce enough ammo to fill it all, making it hard to shoot around. I guess you could consider that a kind of balancing, but it feels like a lack of control on my part
- when I aim at something it's often not the nearest turret that shoots first, which given the slow bullets is very irritating

Other than that, very engaging game :)
ranmaru90
18. Dec 2015 路 02:14 UTC
Pretty awesome idea!
LittleThor
18. Dec 2015 路 12:48 UTC
Nice concept! And very well made!
The game is a little too slow imo, but good job though ^^
Christina Nordlander
18. Dec 2015 路 17:35 UTC
A nice little game. I like the simplistic graphic style (creating bullet-hell for the aliens is visually satisfying) and colour scheme, and I like how you did the background.

My main problem is that once you're past the hurdle of the beginning, surviving becomes very easy: you can easily pump out money and ammo at a greater rate than you're consuming them. It did feel like the difficulty started perking up again once my base got very large, so perhaps the game gets very challenging once you approach the edges of the map.

But I nitpick; this is very impressive for a game made in 5 hours.
publicidadeba
23. Dec 2015 路 03:42 UTC
Very Innovative concept for Tower Defense! With a bit more polish I would spend hours playing this!
Gordy
23. Dec 2015 路 18:47 UTC
Very nice and hard game ... :D Its fun !xD
g12345
26. Dec 2015 路 20:29 UTC
Fun game. Took me a while to get a good portion of the board but then I stopped since it have no idea if there's an ending to this game, or how to stop the growth of the monsters.

Also this game would be much better by not having a choice of six items, but just having the choice of all of them in the first place. now im just building tens of turrets until it changed to something different.

And it's a bit strange to have that 4th item only showing up after filling up half of the starting area, that really should have shown up way earlier.
Jupiter_Hadley
28. Dec 2015 路 18:39 UTC
Nice game! I included it in my Ludum Dare 34 compilation video series, if you鈥檇 like to check it out :) https://youtu.be/iU4q-3Z4nkI
NirabazGAMES
30. Dec 2015 路 22:51 UTC
Pretty cool concept, nice work!