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Minimalism Tower Defence

By dew

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Theme553.98
Overall1493.46
Mood1923.20
Graphics2023.49
Audio2972.84
Fun3112.80
Innovation3222.80
Humor3951.62

Comments

cherrynukacola 2013-04-30 02:11

Very clever!

brant 2013-04-30 02:44

Nice mood! Just took a while to see that is was a tower defense.

arrogant-gamer 2013-04-30 03:08

Very cool! It pushes the non-verbal aspect pretty hard and I like that. A comment I would make is: make learning a rewarding activity all by itself. What I mean is, when I click on the right button or make the right decision, reward me with satisfying light and colour or feedback. That, I feel, would be enough.

dew 2013-04-30 03:15

@arrogant.gamer you get a sound everytime you do something with your mouse that afects the game, turn volume on :P

ilo 2013-04-30 03:23

This game is beautiful, and it felt intuitive to play. :)

crazygage 2013-04-30 04:18

love the feel of it, with the crisp graphics and good music

foxor 2013-04-30 04:21

Fantastic! I love TD games, and this one is very well done

itszn 2013-04-30 17:36

Very Clever, hard to understand at first, but then becomes clearer!

hatscat 2013-04-30 17:41

Very clean art, that suit perfectly with the theme

saturnyn 2013-04-30 17:42

A bit confusing at first but quite interesting.
Great work !

cakencode 2013-04-30 17:56

Wow, that was surprisingly minimal! It's also not often that I've played a tower defense game that lets you move the structures around without any penalty or restrictions!

The menus takes some getting used to but after a few seconds it was easy to learn. It is interesting that when using roman numerals you chose to skip D, no level 500 eh? xD

Very cool game, well done!

corofides 2013-04-30 18:40

A fun game although it did take me a while to figure out what some of the towers did.

dew 2013-04-30 19:24

@Cake&Code i didn't do D cause i was lazy and draw a d using coordinates is tough

@all we tried to do it with the minimum text and we managed to use only 1 sentence user --> enter.

kyyninen 2013-04-30 20:10

I appreciate trying to convey ideas in games without using written language, but the intro screens were pretty obtuse. Admittedly trial and error is the best way to learn. The game itself is pretty solid tower defense, I played several waves and enjoyed myself!

Also you apparently can't erase when entering name to the high scores table? I'm all the asd-starting entries...

(ps. lazer and slowdown towers ftw)

dew 2013-04-30 21:00

@kyyninen the thing with erase its because javascript dont get the use of deleting and since its not an html form i couldn't do anything else.

pplo 2013-05-01 16:43

Very good! Personal best : 5200.
A well executed tower defense!

wine 2013-05-04 09:00

Hundred percent hit into theme!

monxcleyrproductions 2013-05-04 09:27

This was a really unique take on the tower defense genre. The lack of text and visual style was a bit jarring at first, but worked really well once I had the opportunity to fail a few times. Great job!

thomastc 2013-05-04 09:38

Nice! Because of the extreme minimalism, it took me a while to figure out what all the enemies did and what my towers did, but that was part of the fun. The notion that enemies are trying to 'rescue' the little white guys makes gameplay more interesting. I really like the graphics style, too.

dew 2013-05-04 10:03

@Frozen Fractal the art designer of the game likes to think that the white guys are sheep xD

polar 2013-05-04 12:30

Nice take on tower defense :) The only issue was working out what tower did what, but after that it was great :)

davedobson 2013-05-05 21:18

Really stylish and cool. I liked the colors, music, symbols, and icons you used, and the game was pretty fun, too. I couldn't really tell except through trial and error what the various towers did, and that was a little frustrating, but the drag-to-reposition made it a different kind of tower defense thing. Very fun, and very well-done.

klianc09 2013-05-07 21:36

1000 rounds? Honestly?

dew 2013-05-08 08:44

@klianc09 hardcore mode we wanted to implement infinite but i was lazy to program an infinite symbol xD

milktoast 2013-05-09 00:09

Defense Grid Jr. I love this!!

ethankennerly 2013-05-12 20:38

Watching squares shoot circles interested me. If you continue to develop this, I felt overwhelmed by the units available to buy.

kill0u 2013-05-13 12:36

Nice :)

m-gryko85 2013-05-13 20:36

it was hard to understand at the beginning but later became very addicting and fun

krahe 2013-05-14 20:14

Excellent use of theme; really intuitive / easy to play and yet a lot of content too. Very impressive!

spelchan 2013-05-15 18:22

Fun but better explanation of what each tower does would have been appreciated.