Forest Tower Defense by shared

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made by shared for Ludum Dare 56 (COMPO)

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Your forest is in danger as the rats are invading! Use your food stocks to hire some help from the woodland creatures! The game controls with the mouse, the only special inputs are right click to unselect a tower, and holding shift while placing towers to place several.

Happy defending! Web version available on itch.io.

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Ratings

Overall 117th 3.658⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Fun 73th 3.763⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 313th 2.395⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Theme 257th 3.132⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 159th 3.553⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Audio 226th 2.737⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Humor 247th 2.389⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Mood 233th 3.056⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Given 38🗳️ 13🗨️

Feedback

Loig
07. Oct 2024 · 11:40 UTC
A nice tower defense game. I won.

I think maybe we get not enough food in the first waves and way too much in the last ones.
Arscene
07. Oct 2024 · 11:57 UTC
Congratulations !

It is fun and well executed.

A grid system to snap the towers might make precise placement easier. And I wish there was a fast forward feature. I like the fact that you put an end instead of having an infinite amount of waves.
GrUt607
07. Oct 2024 · 16:21 UTC
Quite a good implementation for TD I am a fan of strategies especially this genre for me it is a sure 5
🎤 shared
07. Oct 2024 · 20:09 UTC
@loig Glad you liked it, food scales pretty hard in the later waves to give more room for the player to place towers and have fun, since due to time constraint I couldn't make more maps.

@arscene Thank you! A fast-forward button would be a great addition, I agree! I could have added an optional grid to help to place the towers neater. Happy you liked it :smile:

@grut607 Glad you liked the implementation, it's where I spent most of my time on this project. I'm very happy with the gameplay base I ended up making! Thanks for the compliments!
Jony
10. Oct 2024 · 08:25 UTC
Hey good game
Alem26
10. Oct 2024 · 08:30 UTC
Cute little tower defense game!
Enjoyed playing it and don't have anything major to complain about :)
Bit of music would have helped the mood and hotkeys for the 2 towers are always nice to have in a TD game.
Well done overall!
CrozzY
10. Oct 2024 · 08:30 UTC
An interesting game, I liked the idea and implementation of the theme, the sounds are also good and the style is pleasant
DzejPi
11. Oct 2024 · 04:15 UTC
Yay, I won!

![2024-10-10_22-12-07.png](///raw/046/93/z/6880d.png)

I would say very well implemented. Add few more enemies and more animals to defend the road with and I can imagine this being on the website with online games. More sounds would make wonders for this game. Other than that, well done!
SdCorpse
12. Oct 2024 · 01:02 UTC
Cant complete 5th wave. but its very interesting.
Bernhard
12. Oct 2024 · 04:32 UTC
Finally beat it on my third try, trick was to keep hiring new squirrels during the battle :-) Always enjoy a good tower defense game, happy to find this one!
Wakobu
12. Oct 2024 · 08:21 UTC
Congrats! Polished and fun entry!
crcdng
12. Oct 2024 · 18:43 UTC
Delightful little tower defense game, now 'just' add more units, levels, enemies and so on. For the squirrels!
silkworm_sweatshop
16. Oct 2024 · 22:02 UTC
Was definitely hard until I figured out you get resources and can place additional creatures during waves which helped out a lot :sweat_smile:. Nice tower defense game, I like the way it shows the next waves path with the particles (even though it's just two right now).
MaximeG
19. Oct 2024 · 10:11 UTC
That was super fun!, can definitively be a good tower defense with an additionnal twist!
![Screenshot 2024-10-19 120947.png](///raw/cf2/f1/z/68f7b.png)
Frogman
19. Oct 2024 · 10:42 UTC
Managed to beat it with 50 HP! The health display remaining until after the game ended is apparently a bug but still.
![unnamed.png](///raw/5d0/72/z/68f7c.png)

Anyway, this was super polished! Everything felt very smooth and responsive, and I appreciate all the little quality-of-life features such as displaying when you don't have enough food to place a creature during placement or holding shift to place more (which I didn't get the point of until the last wave, but it was very fun spamming squirrels there :)). Even though there were only two towers, they was still a good amount of strategy involved, since you wanted to place the hedgehogs in very specific places to maximize the effect of their piercing attacks. I also really enjoyed the heavily dithered graphics, gave the game a very unique look! I agree that there could be slightly more food in the early game, but otherwise, this was very fun! Great entry!
hulien22
21. Oct 2024 · 08:12 UTC
![Screenshot 2024-10-21 010949.png](///raw/dc2/c2/z/69023.png)

Fun little tower defense game! Would have loved to see more tower variety/tower upgrades but understand the time constraints for compo - Great work!
yancharkin
21. Oct 2024 · 20:01 UTC
At the moment, it's a pretty standard tower defense game, but it’s well-implemented. You could definitely build something more interesting upon it, maybe add some kind of twist? The graphics are cute.
ChuChuGeralt
21. Oct 2024 · 21:03 UTC
I really like tower defense games, and this one was also really enjoyable!
I like the usage of the "tiny creatures" as the enemy.
Since you did make it all on your own in 48 hours, its really good.
Would have liked to have some more "towers" but alas, it´s a timed game jam!

Great game!