OH! STUPID ENGINEER by ThatzNiko

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made by ThatzNiko for Ludum Dare 51 (JAM)

If you are over 25 and own a computer, this game is a must-have. ...No, JK. a.gif Hi guys!!!!!!! This is my entry for this amazing Ludum Dare! It was really hard to make it in 3 days, felt like I only had 10 seconds to finish it (AH! GOT IT?!?!?)

Anyway:

THE FUTURE OF THE COUNTRY IS IN YOUR HANDS. STUPID ENGINEER IS THE ONLY HOPE FOR HUMANITY. DEFEND THE BASE FROM THE INCREDIBLE AND "HURR-DURR" ENEMIES THAT ARE COMING OUT OF NOWHERE.

GET IRON FROM KILLING ENEMIES AND BUILD UP TO 9(!1!) BUILDING. It's an arcade game, there's no end.

Bye bye xoxo. Screenshot_108.png

CHANGELOG: Fixed a bug that prevents bullets to do their real damage after a short period of time. Fixed some crashes after clicking "Retry"

Except some bugs.

Ratings

Overall 168th 3.945⭐ 57🧑‍⚖️
Fun 208th 3.827⭐ 57🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 845th 3.018⭐ 57🧑‍⚖️
Theme 387th 3.864⭐ 57🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 256th 4.098⭐ 58🧑‍⚖️
Audio 252th 3.698⭐ 55🧑‍⚖️
Humor 360th 3.245⭐ 55🧑‍⚖️
Mood 393th 3.645⭐ 57🧑‍⚖️
Given 124🗳️ 96🗨️

Feedback

borgi
03. Oct 2022 · 22:18 UTC
Very very very nice game! Cool ide, cool music, cool graphics! The whole concept really fits the theme! I think these is some balancing issue, because if you spam the 10 cost turrets at the edge of the screen, enemies have nochance to getting on the screen at all :D Otherwise it became very laggy around score 2000 on my pc. Nevertheless it is the best game I tried so far in this LD. Nice job!
![10.png](///raw/b2d/8/z/514aa.png)
LDJam user 300360
03. Oct 2022 · 22:23 UTC
Very nice game, it may become a bit easy with too many turrets, I'm currently in an auto-winning position where my 50+ turrets are taking care of everything before they appear on screen and I'm behind safe with my iron generators x) Nice art, great music, much enjoyable :p
Sixela963
03. Oct 2022 · 22:30 UTC
Well done! forcing some risk by making metal only picked up when getting close was a good call.
LDJam user 276593
03. Oct 2022 · 22:33 UTC
Absolutely fantastic. Art is top-tier, mechanically very sound. Love the crunchy sound effects. Upgrade loop on the defences is quite nice, but you can get OP far too fast!

This is the 3rd game I've played so far. A high bar has been set.

https://i.imgur.com/1P1sJLT.png
Aleksandar
03. Oct 2022 · 22:57 UTC
Too bad I'm on Mac... looks great!
🎤 ThatzNiko
04. Oct 2022 · 05:46 UTC
@aleksandar as soon as i'm home i will try to build for Mac, don't worry!!!!!!!
Probe2
04. Oct 2022 · 09:51 UTC
WOWWWW Thats crazy! I like it so much!
Brandon1037
04. Oct 2022 · 09:58 UTC
ohhhhhhhhhhh! cool game!!!!!!!
🎤 ThatzNiko
04. Oct 2022 · 10:00 UTC
@probe2 thank you so much :)
Kregap
04. Oct 2022 · 10:04 UTC
Wow, that's amazing. A bit to easy and have some rough edges. But I'm rally impressed. Would love to play it again when it's futher developed.
Moonblast
04. Oct 2022 · 10:07 UTC
A well-finished game that combines shooting and combat with tower defense, the 10-second switching pace may be a bit too fast, but it fits the theme and can be a very ENJOYABLE game to play.
Black Potion
04. Oct 2022 · 10:15 UTC
Such a great game, construction and wave of ennemies I could play all day hahah
Good job ;)
🎤 ThatzNiko
04. Oct 2022 · 10:17 UTC
@kregap @moonblast thank you so much you 2, kisses
🎤 ThatzNiko
04. Oct 2022 · 10:18 UTC
@brandon1037 thank you COOL GUY
SageWare
04. Oct 2022 · 11:28 UTC
Amazing in every way. Fine art with excellent mechanics. The shredding sound effects are great.
🎤 ThatzNiko
04. Oct 2022 · 11:34 UTC
@sageware thank you so much!!
Juss
04. Oct 2022 · 14:24 UTC
@thatzniko One of the best games i've seen so far!
Would be great to have it in .zip archive, it can be unpacked out of the box in windows
LDJam user 276121
04. Oct 2022 · 14:24 UTC
Fantastic, the only crit I could offer:
-Getting iron manually stays very risky throughout. Some sort of magnet or method for healing would have been neat.
-The "Score" seems a little redundant, as it ticks up but not in seconds. A "survival time" or getting points for iron collection might make it more enticing.
-Game becomes extremely easy as nothing can challenge a relatively early turret wall in to devastators, despite the wide variety of enemies. Something with turret resistance I have to manually hit, for example.
Eugenik
04. Oct 2022 · 14:34 UTC
Cool! Like It!.
dod108
04. Oct 2022 · 16:09 UTC
Looks great, fun to play, satisfying movement. The only major con is that graphics is sometimes illegible.
Locke8
04. Oct 2022 · 16:17 UTC
Extremely cool game. the simplistic pixel art graphics look very nice, the screenshake and animations feel really good, when combined with the gameplay the game feels very hectic. The sound is also rather well made and it adds to the overall feel of the game.

The gameplay itself is fun, i'd say the biggest issue might be balance, as the game is a bit too easy, thanks to the iron generators and the -20% discount buff it becomes really easy to get a basically infinite amount of iron and from there its just a matter of spamming miniguns and destructors. Besides that, the game feels polished and fun to play.
huskitch
04. Oct 2022 · 16:18 UTC
Love the art
Doot
04. Oct 2022 · 16:55 UTC
Very fun game and the art style is amazing.
It's impressive how much content you have in there, with so many beautiful sprites and animations.

Difficulty curve could be reworked (a bit hard at first and becomes very easy with a few turrets and generators), but that's absolutely normal for a jam game!

Great job and thanks for the game 🔧
chaikadev
04. Oct 2022 · 16:59 UTC
>![1633832452508.png](///raw/28b/84/z/52090.png)

>If you are over 25 and own a computer, this game is a must-have.

I am now contractually required to play your game.
🎤 ThatzNiko
04. Oct 2022 · 17:09 UTC
@chaikadev you are a wise (tree) man
🎤 ThatzNiko
04. Oct 2022 · 17:10 UTC
@doot thanks TO YOU for playing my game <3
She Wrote
04. Oct 2022 · 17:12 UTC
It's a lot of fun. I'd like the iron to gravitate towards you, but overall a great game, graphics are very good. Well done!
Mantsje
04. Oct 2022 · 17:17 UTC
This is awesome! An idea I was sure people were gonna do, but you did it so well. the music, the feel, the stress. Great game!
woahitsjeff
04. Oct 2022 · 21:27 UTC
Extremely fun game! I could play it for hours if I didn't have other responsibilities 😅 Well done, thanks for sharing!
Brandon1037
05. Oct 2022 · 02:57 UTC
very interesting game!!!The dynamic effect and sense of percussion are excellent
OtterFaeLure
05. Oct 2022 · 19:54 UTC
Really interesting scene setting with some intense gameplay!
The mobs were really cute/fascinating to look at and my only regret is I wish I could look at them more fully without... having them trying to kill me.
Well done! :D
thedude3600
05. Oct 2022 · 19:54 UTC
This is really good! I can see myself continuing to play this. Art and sound were all great, and everything felt polished! All in all, no complaints, Good Job!
🎤 ThatzNiko
05. Oct 2022 · 20:51 UTC
@thedude3600 thank you so much my best DUDE.


@otterfaelure thank you, amazing otter lover
Chocolat-Endive
05. Oct 2022 · 21:26 UTC
It's fun, it works well, the gameplay is super polished, the animations are perfect, the music fits the game, and it's beautiful.

I guess the only thing I can say is that since you choose a super restrictive (and coherent palette) the game is quite difficult to read. Everything has the same colors: the character, ennemies, upgrades. I had a hard time remembering wich upgrades does what because it's quite hard to differentiate them.

Here is my score (i'm pretty bad at this kind of games)

![Sans titre.jpg](///raw/477/91/z/526c4.jpg)

You did an awesome work on this little game!
ChillerTyp
06. Oct 2022 · 02:53 UTC
Oh god, what beautiful pixels! :heart:
Empty Set
06. Oct 2022 · 03:30 UTC
This is a very stylish and fun game! Really good work on this.

I love the art style and the limited palette. The animations are really fluid too. The gameplay is smooth and feels satisfying. There's a very nice "whomp" feeling when hitting enemies.

The game gets chaotic fairly quickly. After not terribly long, there are so many enemies, so many explosions and effects, so much screenshake that it's really tough to see what's actually going on. It also starts to feel impossible to engage directly with the enemies or go and collect candy corn any more because even going near the horde is instant death. Also I think that the game is a balance leans a bit too heavily in the direction of spamming large numbers of turrets, unlike other tower defense games which tend to moreso discourage spamming turrets and instead have you upgrade them over time. When you only have a limited amount of time to build, it's stressful to have to place a lot of turrets in that amount of time.

Though with all that said this is still a really great entry. Well done.
FadrikAlexander
06. Oct 2022 · 07:49 UTC
What a fun Game 10/10 my first full 5stars this jam, great job
Erlioniel
06. Oct 2022 · 19:51 UTC
Simple. Efficient. Fun :smile:
Like how the timing works as well, nice one!
CallofAS22
07. Oct 2022 · 05:19 UTC
Really cool game, I love the art. The game run crazy very soon, but I had a really good fun time.:smile:
Tanner Shelton
07. Oct 2022 · 06:00 UTC
Loved the art and the audio. The animations were all super interesting and I liked the two tone color palette you had created. Good entry!
Link270
07. Oct 2022 · 06:01 UTC
Pretty fun game. I liked the upgrades and different things you could get.
aDeCon
07. Oct 2022 · 22:20 UTC
![изображение_2022-10-08_012023813.png](///raw/576/82/z/52ce7.png)

Without words. The game is very good!
figadei
08. Oct 2022 · 12:06 UTC
Wow amazing art, espescially the shooting sprites, the music and the mood work well and the whole game fits nicely with the theme! I needed a couple of attempts before figuring it out but then it became really enjoyable! gj:)
Joror
08. Oct 2022 · 12:50 UTC
Very frantic game! Lovely unique art style (sometimes a bit hard to distinguish things) :smile:

Nice job!
sp3d2
08. Oct 2022 · 13:02 UTC
Fantastic
Elmos Minion
08. Oct 2022 · 15:43 UTC
Great submission! I love the art and the gameplay is engaging. It's almost addictive after a certain point. The difficulty is quite high sometimes though, and one improvement I can think of is to change the enemy colors a bit. Although the colors are very consistent, this also makes it hard to differentiate the player, the turrets, and the enemies sometimes. Apart from that, awesome job!
SofiGnedova
08. Oct 2022 · 19:11 UTC
I think your game must be in the top! I played your game on the stream and I want to launch it now.
LDJam user 298734
09. Oct 2022 · 15:38 UTC
such a amazing combination of action and tower defense!is there a itch io page so I can add to collection? (rate back?)
![hsdsg.JPG](///raw/eee/84/z/52ef4.jpg)
LDJam user 298734
09. Oct 2022 · 15:39 UTC
screen shoot taken 10 secs before I got overrun
🎤 ThatzNiko
09. Oct 2022 · 16:16 UTC
Thanks @projectcolorball , i'll ad the game on itch.io!
MiltonNH25
15. Oct 2022 · 00:39 UTC
Great job with the game. I am a fan of the action tower defense gameplay, it worked well and felt very chaotic. You did a good job with feedback for attacking. I liked the variety of towers and upgrades to buy. I was not a huge fan of the forced 10 seconds of shop time, it initially made it hard to read through what everything did and later on it was either too fast to place the stuff I wanted or I had a few seconds of just waiting to resume. Overall all though a really fun game, good work.
Sarah
20. Oct 2022 · 03:53 UTC
I love the art and style of the game, it looks really nice. It's a bit complicated looking but overall nice job :)