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Earthquakes and Monsters by FancyReckless

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made by FancyReckless for Ludum Dare 49 (JAM)

This is a tower defense game earthquakes2.gif

but you have to keep your people happy

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and some weird stuff is happening

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Controls: Mouse

Features: Multiple endings and some story

Art: Kenney.nl, I only used another palette and few sprites

Sound: None, sorry :(

Edit: As per rules, fixed few issues with the game and listing them here: Moved dialog window a bit so that you can see resources; Not closing dialog anymore when upgrading building so that you don't have to click million times to upgrade; Made it so that you can remove buildings to build other ones.

Link https://fancyhat.itch.io/earthquakes-and-monsters
Link https://fancyhat.itch.io/earthquakes-and-monsters
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/49/earthquakes-and-monsters

Ratings

Overall 369th 3.797⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Fun 227th 3.906⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 837th 3.234⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Theme 1197th 3⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 838th 3.5⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Mood 640th 3.5⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Given 16🗳️ 14🗨️

Feedback

Tchaiko
05. Oct 2021 · 13:01 UTC
I am a sucker for TD and this is really fun. Good game o7. The houses are a bit too strong, and if the buy menu didn't cover the whole game that would make the game even better.
Nerisma
05. Oct 2021 · 13:15 UTC
Impressive stuff, congrats !
LDJam user 269161
05. Oct 2021 · 13:18 UTC
It's a solid tower defense game with a lot of story!
Bauke Regnerus
05. Oct 2021 · 13:18 UTC
A TD game spiced up with light management elements. I like to minimal graphics and color palette. Sometimes it's a lot of clicking in the menu, but overall I really enjoyed it.
Dedjo0
05. Oct 2021 · 15:00 UTC
What a great game, I love it ! My only small disappointment is that the choice window takes up the whole screen and prevents us from seeing the values of our statistics behind
c64cosmin
06. Oct 2021 · 14:41 UTC
Woah I woke up! Such a great game, couldn't stop but play it entirely, thank you much for making this sweet tiny game. Loved it!
JUSTCAMH
07. Oct 2021 · 15:05 UTC
Hey matey, thanks for submitting the game to stream! T'was a good time, here's the vod if you'd like to rewatch: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1169813985
Adrian Guevara
08. Oct 2021 · 08:52 UTC
I like it, simple but fun
OllieOA
08. Oct 2021 · 13:26 UTC
Good work! It's a clean, well-realised product. I feel like TD's are tough for a jam because they are quite slow and the player typically doesn't play, and unfortunately this knocked down the fun for me a bit, but the 1-bit graphics, the UI, and the concept was well thought out. I don't know if I really got "Unstable" from it, but I don't personally care about the theme that much, I just like it when people make things and they are proud, and I can see the pride in this. Awesome!
kevlanche
08. Oct 2021 · 18:06 UTC
Nice simple TD, I like it! Very clean graphics, I like that you managed to get a full little story as well, with multiple endings(?)!. Good job!
LDJam user 242787
09. Oct 2021 · 09:32 UTC
I liked this game a lot. I think the balance between the different mechanics like defense and housing was a cool dynamic. The one thing that I would add is a display for the stats when you need to make a decision. Besides that small nitpick, this game played very well. Good job!
idan9000
09. Oct 2021 · 09:32 UTC
Very polished resource management tower defense game. I had a great time playing it. The systems in the game feel very realized, and clearly there has been a lot of thought put into them since there are multiple endings, that is going above and beyond. Sometimes when research finishes though, my happiness meter was hidden by the prompt, which made it hard to decide which option to pick if it had to do with happiness. Thank you for making and submitting this game.
JavaSaurus
09. Oct 2021 · 09:58 UTC
Really like this entry. Maybe it could be made in a proper idle game, very interesting concept and I love that the story is actually part of the incremental development of your village. Well made, lots of fun !

Only downside is lack of audio, some basic 8 bit tunes / effects could really make this POP !

Overall, great entry, thank you for letting me play it !
Alexthehuman2
09. Oct 2021 · 13:59 UTC
Lacking some 8 bit music, but a very fun tower defense game. I enjoyed the random events that somehow takes away my resource and that I have to balance it. Unfortunately the first time I played it I couldn't get the doom tower? But yea, awesome game, good job!
beats
10. Oct 2021 · 01:14 UTC
Interesting take on the tower defense genre, I played it through a couple more times got three endings, there's abit to explore through each playthrough which is pretty unique for jam game, each play through was a bit trial and error but still kept me interested, however I felt like context to each new building and event would provide more guidance for the player in the first instance but great effort overall.
Jane Wei
14. Oct 2021 · 21:54 UTC
The story really kept me engaged, not your average tower defence!
Really fun!
Now back to playing some more runs to uncover the endings!
Ismael Rodriguez
15. Oct 2021 · 00:23 UTC
Cool tower defense. The dialog keeps it entertaining. Very simple mechanics, its cool but nothing stands out. I wasn't really getting the "unstable" part. The ending is funny twist, but also a little anti-climactic, might have been fun to need to fight 1 last zombie army that's actually unstoppable and ends the game.

Good job overall!
🎤 FancyReckless
16. Oct 2021 · 06:36 UTC
@ismael-rodriguez you mean one of the endings :D But you're right on that one, that's exactly what I wanted to do for that ending, but ran out of time as always.
loveapplegames
16. Oct 2021 · 17:34 UTC
Cute TD game! The TD strategy element is simple, but the game is very entertaining, worth replaying to see different endings.