tombstone tactics by Mr_Field

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made by Mr_Field for Ludum Dare 58 (JAM)

A terribly evil tower defence game 👻

You are a travelling priest who has brought his cart of ointments and baubles to an ill land- but beware! The ghoulish goons at the end of the road want to crush your cart and send you packing!

Hire followers and build shrines to defend the roads leading to your cart long enough to outlast the spooky horde!

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CONTROLS:

WASD / Arrow Keys: Move

Left Click: Interact

Right Click: Splash holy water


Tips:

  • You can hover your cursor over a spawner to see the enemies about to come at you
  • You can buy barricades at your cart and place them on any enemy spawner to keep them at bay for 1 wave
  • Shrines/Wards make your nearby followers attack faster (this stacks with more shrines!)

Ratings

Overall 150th 3.868⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Fun 129th 3.816⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 452th 3.158⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Theme 758th 2.605⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 273th 3.947⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Audio 123th 3.868⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Humor 483th 2.763⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Mood 297th 3.711⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Given 16🗳️ 12🗨️

Feedback

6Knowledge
Oct 07th · 13:57 UTC
Graphics and audio well done in a very bit-y style. First tower defense game of this jam, decent execution and could've played more if the game didn't throw an error: Variable <unknown_object>.InitLelvelFog(100369, -2147483648) not set before reading it.
🎤 Mr_Field
Oct 07th · 17:45 UTC
@6knowledge Damn, thanks for letting me know!
raysplaceinspace
Oct 08th · 00:34 UTC
Great job! This was well done! I think it could've done with a few in-game instructions. I didn't realise there were two entrances at the start, since I guess that hasn't been my experience with tower defenses before, and so put everything onto one side. It actually took me a few waves until I realised that I have the ability to shoot as well. The graphics are nice and the sounds are good, great work!

I did wonder why followers had to stand still though since they do have legs.
ciph3rzer0
Oct 08th · 15:56 UTC
I like this. Nice little effects like the new path emerging one tile at a time. Art is good, Sound was excellent. Great little game.
robin_schmitz
Oct 08th · 16:12 UTC
Made it till Wave 9 on my second attempt :)
Very cool tower defense game, I enjoyed upgrading my townsfolk to priests and even sharpshooters :) Very satisfying. Not sure if I missed it, but I was hoping that the upgraded shrine would also cover more space for the buff, but that may have been too overpowered :) Art and Sounds where a joy as well and I also liked, that I could take part in shooting mice and zombies :)
Had a lot of fun with this, great entry!
DeadCode
Oct 08th · 21:31 UTC
Nice art and music!
marudziik
Oct 08th · 21:35 UTC
What can I say, I played till the last wave and did save the villagers, with 5 hearts left. It's really playable. I liked the graphics style a lot, the audio was also very polished. It's a great entry.

Minor things that bothered me were the fact that hitting escape (I did that in the first 2 runs to exit the menu) resets the game (having a clickable button on the screen would be better for me) and the fact I couldn't play in fullscreen.

But yeah, I loved the gameplay. The difficulty is also well tuned to the Ludum Dare format, had me hooked. Congrats!
Theothervc
Oct 10th · 03:34 UTC
Graphics Are Very Well, Nice To See A Tower Defence Game Here!
logicalinsanity
Oct 11th · 03:29 UTC
Gaaah the jump-y guys got me! Great tower defense game!
nuzcraft
Oct 11th · 03:40 UTC
Very fun game! I didn't realize I could click outside that path until I looked at the screenshots so I tried to take the horde on my own. Once it got going I really liked the new paths + new enemy types. The shrines as a buff and the enemies dropping different bits was great. Good job!
LDJam user 243193
Oct 13th · 13:50 UTC
Good tower defense game! It needs in game description to explain units etc but with you could learn things as you go. The collector theme isn't obvious unless collecting resources and kills counts.
Le Don
Oct 14th · 10:49 UTC
This is a very solid entry! Artwork and audio are great and I also really like thoses changes in the level layout.
Manatee Webster
Oct 16th · 01:43 UTC
Really neat TD! I loved the variety of enemy type and all of the different routes that opened as you play. One thing that I would have liked to see is either a description for the units or at least some stat numbers so I could have a better idea of what I was doing as I was upgrading them.
milq
Oct 18th · 10:09 UTC
Wow! What a hidden gem! This definitely deserves more votes. The graphics are professional-level, and the music perfectly fits the pixel-art era it represents. It’s a very complete tower defense game, I love it! At first, I was a bit confused about how to play and lost quite a few hearts, but once I got the hang of it, I had no trouble progressing. Overall, it’s a well-rounded entry, awesome game!
Phoenix Fireflower
Oct 18th · 20:02 UTC
I like tower defence games where you have to do things yourself instead having to let your allies do all the work for you. I do wish there were in-game tips and instructions though, I never made it past wave 4 before I knew about barricades.
CameronPenner
Oct 19th · 15:44 UTC
I really like this! It took a bit to get the hang of the interface, where I could build stuff, what kinds of things can be upgraded, etc. But once I figured it out I was having fun placing towers all over the place. The progression where new paths would appear throughout the game was very cool! And how some enemies could fly and skip the paths all together. It made for a dynamic challenge that felt full for a jam game.

I appreciated the little victory music as well! It was satisfying to get to the end. I definitely was expecting a big final wave with all the resources given for setup though lol.

The graphics were nice, the feedback when hitting enemies was satisfying! So many jam games miss that, and you did a great job of it. I also appreciated how I could run around and shoot, so if my setup wasn't perfect, I could still buff the areas that were a bit lacking in the middle of a wave by just running over there and helping out.

Overall very nice entry! I had fun :)