Howdy all, this is my first ever proper game jam. Wasn't having big creative blocks with the theme of 'Depths' but I'm prototyping a 2D/3D game where the player, enemies and structures are in 2D within a 3D world (the idea being they lack depth). here's where I'm currently at:

Have been out all day so currently only have some simple movement and the art that I'm re-using from a project that I dropped a while ago but I've got a decent idea of what I want to do and how to do it. And as an added bonus the art I have means I can't scope creep cause it's all I've got haha.

Anyways happy to be here, will see how we go :sweat_smile:

Just a progress update since my first post. Not a lot of visual changes but the game framework is coming together. Can now spawn towers and have enemies chase you.

Next will be getting the enemies, player and towers able to attack.

After going to bed at 3am last night went for a nice beach walk this morning and then back to the grind with a strong 5hrs of sleep :muscle:

Here's a quick progress update. Added some temp UI for tower costs and resources and have been playing around with confining the game to 4:3 cause I really like that screen ratio for some reason.

https://youtu.be/n0KsCO1O6Qk

Spent way too long on getting some basic UI and tweening in today (not my specialty) as well as getting enemies attacking.

Not sure if the UI top/bottom bars are too chunky but kind of like how it frames the games.

Tomorrow will be adding the rest of the core loop and then figuring out something for the player to do while their towers are killing things :thinking:

Working on the title screen first up today, usually hate working on UI but I think it's got a lot of charm what do y'all think?

Frogge selector anyone? Is it too busy with the lil guys in the background? I swear I'll work on gameplay at some point :sob:

I now understand the primal fear of trying to upload a game with < 3mins left on the clock, who knew we got an extra hour to finalise submissions huh :sweat_smile:

This has been my first Ludum Dare and first proper game jam, it's been an awesome and exhausting (my own fault) experience and has reminded me what I enjoy about making games. I streamed the whole process to my friends on Discord over the last [inserthowevermany_days] and it felt good having them ask questions and make suggestions as I was going.

The community has been wonderful and it's great seeing all the cool games people have worked on, so with that I'll continue playing through all the games and then take a much needed 'nap', happy jamming all :raised_hands:

Heya folks,

Not sure if it's normal or not to share updates after the game jam but wanted to let people know the progress I've made and hopefully I'll be able to make something more inline with what I originally had in mind. The embedded HTML version of the game on my Ludum Dare profile is still the original submission, all reviews from this point on should use that version, however I'll be continuing to update the itch.io version for a little while at least.

I hope this isn't in poor taste, just wanted people to play something closer to what I originally intended. https://lordsheo.itch.io/froggy-towers

ps. it's not done yet, still plenty of bugs and features need to be ironed out.

What's Next - Change level ups, these should grant character stat increases instead of towers. - Towers can be bought at the end of a wave from the shop and placed by the player. - More juice to the animations of the critters and towers. - LOTS of balancing for towers, enemies and characters :sweat_smile:

Let me know what else you'd like to see! I don't think I'll take the game any further than just cleaning it up but like I said in the game submission it's something I've wanted to make for a long while so it will be good to at least lay it to rest.

Howdy all, been hard at work adding some more ~~jank~~ features to the game.

Have added some simple tooltips to the characters and towers:

And a big new win is the shop :raisedhands: currently just going with stat increases for gold but might add buying towers as well not sure.