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Crystal Defence by Ranzor

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made by Ranzor for Ludum Dare 55 (JAM)

Approach build sites to build magical towers to help you protect the sacred crystal.

You can reload your staff by pressing R. Your crystal will dim and charge up.

This is a Ludum Dare 55 project for MightyPossum, EyeLax and Ranzor

This is MightyPossum and Ranzor's 6th and 7th game Jam respectively. 6 of them together. And EyeLax's first Jam.

Our second time making a 3D game.

The game is played with a mouse and keyboard Click mouse 1 to shoot, AWSD to move, Space to jump, Shift to sprint, E to interact, and R to reload

Main Menu.png

monster-fight2.png

Start area.png

Link https://mightypossumx.itch.io/crystal-defence
Link https://mightypossumx.itch.io/crystal-defence
Link https://github.com/MightyPossum/LudumDare55
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/55/crystal-defence

Ratings

Overall 976th 3.205⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Fun 737th 3.295⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 1050th 2.795⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Theme 1108th 2.825⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 1016th 2.773⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Audio 751th 2.452⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Humor 783th 2.676⭐ 19🧑‍⚖️
Mood 1095th 2.842⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Given 27🗳️ 14🗨️

Feedback

minjutin
16. Apr 2024 · 14:49 UTC
I heard that there would be a rivaling tower defence game so I had to check it out :eyes: This was so much fun tho! Combining tower defence elements with first-person shooting is a great idea, I really enjoyed both shooting enemies and trying to figure out where to build my towers. I don't usually enjoy tower defence genre at all, but I could definitely play this one for a while (and with some updates && deeper gameplay, even longer). Also, I love the monsters!
jelch
17. Apr 2024 · 03:18 UTC
Liked the ornate tile work and the staff. The reload was long enough I would have liked a reloading sound effect or visual indicator. Cool concept!
AlezJL
18. Apr 2024 · 14:11 UTC
I'd love to see something similar in VR
ThatSommeS
18. Apr 2024 · 14:26 UTC
@alezjl That is a great idea! That's definitively something we should do
Master-YEET
18. Apr 2024 · 15:45 UTC
I liked the concept of mixing FPS and tower defence, great idea!
JoshAnthony1990
18. Apr 2024 · 16:50 UTC
I liked the concept. I think the balancing of the numbers felt rough, there's a point where no matter what I do I feel like there's just not enough money to upgrade my defense.

Not sure if this was intended, but when you restart a game you keep the existing towers. That actually made the game more fun for me, because I could build on my existing infrastructure with the early wave money. Let me last longer.

I had fun playing. Thanks for the game!
ThatSommeS
19. Apr 2024 · 06:25 UTC
@joshanthony1990 Unintentional feature, but considering our balancing is weighted towards the more difficult side, let's called it planned ;-)
Alexis Brochec
19. Apr 2024 · 20:25 UTC
really cool tower defense, would have been cool to have various tower.
My pc had a little bit of a hard time to run it (so maybe some optimisation).

Great entry guys
Doc ill
19. Apr 2024 · 20:43 UTC
Ok ya got me, I love these types of games. This game is easily the most fun that I've played so far, and definitely the one I spent the most time playing!

The only real notes I can think of are adding some music and a visual for the current wave number + how many waves you survived after you lose. Other than that, I'd love to see more variation (enemies, towers, weapon upgrades, etc).

Great work!
EyeLax
20. Apr 2024 · 13:32 UTC
@alexis-brochec We planned to have different towers, but we ran out of time. It's our second 3D game and my first. I'll most likely look into optimizing more for 3D games our next game jam.
EyeLax
20. Apr 2024 · 14:07 UTC
@doc-ill Great to hear that you like our game! We have a wave counter, but it only shows up in the wave start counter. Might have been good to have it as a permanent UI element. We planned to have a current run and best run leaderboard at the game over screen, but I think we forgot to add it at the end.

Thanks for playing!
ThatSommeS
20. Apr 2024 · 18:22 UTC
We're actually saving the personal leaderboard data, but didn't get time to add it XD
AdamG
21. Apr 2024 · 02:11 UTC
Very neat, a first person tower defense game was a good idea. Very satisfying to run around and place towers down. I did notice there was a bug where the enemies left counter thought there was 1 less enemy than there actually was, and it would actually start the countdown to the next round with an enemy still alive. I felt a little rushed in between rounds, it would have been nice if in between the rounds it gave you as much time as you wanted and then you did something to start the next round.
RRADU
21. Apr 2024 · 17:41 UTC
neat game, fps tower defense is very fun. It would have benefitted a lot from faster paced gameplay imo, quicker reload and attack speed, more and faster enemies etc. but yeah really good still
Anton Florey
21. Apr 2024 · 17:51 UTC
Cool game. Reminds me of Dungeon Defenders, loved that game. Would be cool if you could upgrade your weapon too and choose your playstyle. I have the same bug as others where my towers stay in the game after restarting. In addition to that, buying another tower now costs me 64k. There is definitely something wrong with restarting the game :D

And edit: Can you win this game? Or are you just bound to fail at some point?
anaastaska
21. Apr 2024 · 17:54 UTC
I like combination of shooting and tower defence! I spent some time to play it and built almost all towers. Great job!
Planetary
21. Apr 2024 · 18:07 UTC
Combining an FPS game with tower defense is great! I love tower defense games and maybe it would be great if this game will be available in VR. The game is nice, but it can be improved (eg: the way to the crystal is too long for me, and if you can skip cooldwn that would be nice)!
jk5000
21. Apr 2024 · 18:08 UTC
A pretty great tower defense game.
ThatSommeS
21. Apr 2024 · 20:26 UTC
@anton-florey It is currently infinite. Eventually the monster summoning will overrun the world
kanity
22. Apr 2024 · 16:36 UTC
Caught the game on stream and played it a bit myself. Immediately understood what the talk about crosshair was. It would really be helpful ^^' First shot usually goes on figuring out where it is, so to say. I like how open the world feels, and the style of portal and enemies and the stuff is cool. Maybe it could be a little bit dynamic closer to beginning? As when the 1st wave started I spent a few seconds like "hmm enemies? where?"
But overall it was chill and fun :)
AntOnion
22. Apr 2024 · 21:39 UTC
An interesting idea with a first-person view and good realization! But the game requires balance, towers are expensive the enemies are moving too slowly and they have too much HP, there is not enough dynamics)