
This wasn't our favourite theme.. during voting we said things like "it's too similar with the previous theme", "no good ideas of making a game on this theme" and we did give it negative score.
But when we did meet up to start working we had two ideas very quickly and I'm glad that we did pick this idea. A tower defense game with a graphical style like Geometry wars. After the first day we had a pretty solid working game.
The suddenly when we added the health pickups we discovered that we kind of had made mixture of a tower defense and a clicker game. At the end of day two it was almost a finished game but lacking music, sound effects and a way to actually get game over and restart the game.
So day three was polishing day. Small details here and there that made the game even more solid in the end. During day three I also started to play the game more and more while testing.. and if you get lost 30 minutes playing your own game instead of working on it that's a good sign, isn't?
What went good
Basically everything.. the flow this time was almost magical compared to previous games.
What went bad
As always so much more ideas that we didn't had time to put in.
* drones picking up hearts for you
* more upgrades and possible a few more weapon towers
* different levels after reaching a number of waves.. the code for different levels is actually in there but no way for switching and no levels designed.
Bugs/issues I wish I had fixed
- Closing all menus.. it's annoying if they are left open.. especially since you can accidently kill yourself from a misstaken open menu (purchasing something more expensive than your health since the check for cost code was run when opening the menu)
- Quicker restarts... the intro screen should be skippable.. stupid me!
- More work on balancing the mob spawner
Can you beat wave 19?
Something happens with the mob spawner and things go crazy.. but I have heard someone at least reaching wave 20!
Oh the game.. it's here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/ticker-clicker-defence
Now I need to go back and try to beat wave 19.. I mean to Play and rate other games :)