Seasons TD by thristhart
An homage to classic tower defense games with an agricultural twist. Plant crops to defend your home and harvest them to afford more and better plants to make it through the winter.
| Link | https://thristhart.github.io/ld52/ |
| Link | https://github.com/Thristhart/ld52 |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/52/seasons-td |
Ratings
| Overall | 346th | 3.579⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 228th | 3.658⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 228th | 3.579⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 200th | 4.026⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 334th | 3.263⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 468th | 3.361⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 7🗳️ | 14🗨️ |

If this was given some more time to balance and tweak, I think it'd turn out quite addicting, as I found there wasn't much reason to buy much of anything besides a massive amount of corn corn as it was cheap and fast.
And because enemies spawned from only the top in a singular point, their shortest pathing becomes a bit redundant if you surround the top with crops, as they can hardly get anywhere.
But, minor niggles aside, this was a nice one to sit back and enjoy playing :)
I think the music volume was too low, I had to crank my speakers all the way up, but the music itself was very relaxing.
Is this a pure HTML/JS game or did you use some engine/framework?
Only made it half through autumn. :leaves:

The placement also need careful planning, as the troop may change the path, we need to have every path at least a bit covered when adding new defenses.
The two minors downsides that I found:
- The popovers with the descriptions of the crops were sometimes going above the game, being annoying while placing some crops on the right side,
- I made it though the game with only corn and two coconuts trees, I tried the grape but it was a bit too slow to be really useful in my opinion ?
However very good game, well done !
The interface confused me a little sometimes, but I had fun finishing the game !
Congratulations for your entry !