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Tiny Defense

By haslettj

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness359
Theme3733.15
Fun5452.62
Mood6182.38
Graphics6252.50
Humor6581.78
Overall6632.62
Innovation7762.12
Audio7941.00

Comments

ilo 2012-04-23 14:16

Very tense when lots of enemies are on screen. Good job!

hume 2012-04-24 00:25

Too...many...aliens...d'aww!

I played the web version and there was no jerkiness. Smooth like buttered silk :)

lansiir 2012-04-24 00:27

Finally, a space invaders overhaul! I would never have thought to do something like this on a sphere.

riamudimentis 2012-04-24 00:31

Very cool, I think I'd rather up/down arrows vs left/right... Maybe add both?

andrew-2 2012-04-24 19:44

I've seen similar games pop up in past compos. But this one has the advantage of having a lil guy going round and round rather than a turret spinning or something.

yselftool 2012-04-24 21:17

Good job, but lacking sound/music.

kevinworkman 2012-04-25 01:33

Nice little game, fit the theme nicely. You might consider using the free Java hosting at http://StaticVoidGames.com. I'm the creator of the site, but I think it beats dropbox. Either way, good work.

haslettj 2012-04-25 01:55

I'm actually surprised I got this much done over the weekend. I wish I had time to add sounds, and some death animations. I was able to resolve the delays by changing the HTML to cache the .jar file.

fabricio-brito 2012-04-27 00:22

The balance of this is very good! Congratulations on the well executed idea!

kassoon 2012-04-27 00:54

Pretty neat! It's tricky to line up shots with the keyboard, I think I would've preferred it if he followed the mouse cursor.

lukerissacher 2012-04-27 00:57

Congrats on finishing - fun for a simple game. Controls felt good. Sound effects would have been nice.

pabloam 2012-04-28 16:47

Not bad, but the mechanics has been used in lots of games. Maybe a bit more innovation raise up the game :)

spigot 2012-04-28 20:48

It's certainly functional. I enjoyed it for a few minutes.

I hate simultaneous-shot limits in shooter games, though. Just give me a firing delay, dangit!

netguy204 2012-04-29 15:23

Got the alien beat down. Challenging game.

namuol 2012-04-30 01:19

It's like a radial version of Astrosmash! Although most people will probably compare it to Space Invaders.

When simple mechanics make for intense gameplay, you can't really go wrong. Add some more interesting enemy types, sound/music, and a layer of polish and I could see a game like this getting 100s of plays a day on the right browser-game site.

ratboy2713 2012-05-02 17:21

Why is the screen soo big? What sort of dimensions are you expecting this to be played at?

Other than that, nice and simple gameplay, though I wish the enemies had a better AI than "randomly float across the screen"

ddrkirbyisq 2012-05-11 12:10

Haha I find it funny how many of these "one guy defending a circular planet" games we've seen this LD ;P

Yes, add some audio next time--it's a piece of cake nowadays with tools like sfxr/bfxr/labchirp, so you don't have that much of an excuse :)