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Planet Monster

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Audio233.88
Coolness288
Graphics574.08
Overall573.82
Fun643.72
Humor883.45
Mood1453.40
Theme3283.39
Innovation4583.10

Comments

drachlen 2013-08-26 03:29

For such a short time, the game has great polish to it. I love the audio and the visuals. The game is incredibly challenging. I felt like I was losing after only leaking just a couple of monsters. And with the asteroids blowing up my maze, it made it tougher. Great work

stevesalmond 2013-08-26 07:55

Wow this game is tough! Super cool though, I found myself replaying it a lot to try and figure out strategies. Didn't notice the UI to select between walls, towers etc. at first, oops! Loved the tunes as well. Great job :)

omar_q8 2013-08-26 18:40

pretty cool concept, gets hectic too fast, really liked the art and polish.

reicher 2013-08-26 18:41

Great game, have a really nice feel to it!

blooperly 2013-08-26 18:43

WOW! Just wow. This is awesome. I can't even handle how good this is for LD... Good job.

mutuware 2013-08-26 18:43

Nice chunky pixels!

jishenaz 2013-08-26 18:43

Does that guy in the cutscene have gold teeth or yellow teeth? lol

I haven't seen a tower-defense entry yet. This is exceptional. Great work!

papygaragos 2013-08-26 18:48

Nice and polished game. I'm not fan of the way the money indicator (bottom left) updates slowly though : i only take quick glances at it and i often thought i could build something when i couldn't

nusan 2013-08-26 19:30

Excellent game, it's fun and challenging. At first it was too hard, but with a bit of practice it's perfect. I wonder if the block are really that usefull, compare to turrets ... i will have to test it ^^

shockedfrog 2013-08-27 00:17

It's a fairly standard (and very short) tower defense game, but fun while it lasts and the presentation is nice. :)

psychomonster 2013-08-27 01:51

How did you do that in 48h? Its a gem at this ld... played it twice :D

futuristteletex 2013-08-27 03:22

Enjoyed it! Good humor.. nice polish.. great!

jupiter_hadley 2013-08-27 15:44

Really like this game. Nicely polished, its a cool spin to the normal turret defense. I featured it in my compilation of Ludum Dare 27 games, if you want to check it out! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8Polnsp4F8

supercannon 2013-08-28 02:23

Good idea, but it's a little too hard. Good art and audio, solid entry for 48 hours.

fgielow 2013-08-28 02:24

very well executed, for soo short time. great graphics and sounds.
Like the dichotomy of make money and use it for your own defense. Nice challenge

kunonooni 2013-08-28 02:24

Amazing game. Really enjoyed playing it.Good Job!

nathanhoffer 2013-08-28 02:26

Good job! I love tower defense games!!!

jwolf 2013-08-28 02:34

Very nice tower defense game! It felt like the upgrades weren't worth it, although maybe the asteroids just didn't like the towers I selected.

joxno 2013-08-28 02:39

This is really well done, and a bit of a twist on TDs in general which usually aren't super hectic but this does make you move and think fast, I like it, good job!

brighterorange 2013-08-28 02:41

Boy, those graphics sure are good. I love the boss tellin' me how to score space golds. The game itself is super frantic, and either it's very hard or I suck at tower defense or both. But I had a great time. Your link scales the game to the browser's dimensions regardless of aspect ratio... I thought the non-square pixels were a stylistic choice at first, but now that I've resized it to a normal screen, I do think it looks better :)

rylgh 2013-08-28 04:36

One of my favorites... super fun game. Awesome sprites, SFX, screenshakes. Nice little touches too: at one point I was thinking how nice it'd be if I could push the number keys to select stuff and it just worked.

Couple potential issues:
- at one point a meteor broke a gun so i put a block there, but guys just started streaming through the block anyway (http://i.imgur.com/V5gR5hs.png)
- at the end the screen went blank and the space businessman said something about not all of us being overachievers. wasn't sure if that was a loss screen (didn't say "i let them through") or a victory screen. if the latter, i'm not sure why i won.

nicotr014 2013-08-28 07:23

Awesome job... I love the big text scenes and the artwork is great

nicotr014 2013-08-28 08:10

The sounds are awesome! Did you create them yourself with a tracker? What do you use? I just noticed you have the Flod replayer in your libs

nicotr014 2013-08-28 08:52

MilkyTracker :) thanks gonna play with it

folmerkelly 2013-08-28 10:27

Hotdang! Graphics and level of polish are really something! Freaking hard but I'm ok with that.

Thanks for taking on the challenge, you really pulled it off :)

nickw 2013-08-28 10:55

Really great fun, nice graphics and music and the game is fun too. Good work.

drilltail 2013-08-28 11:11

Tower defense, awesome.

Great art and audio, looks like you put a lot into making it really polished!

martymon 2013-08-28 11:27

very nice game...love it

finnegan2100 2013-08-28 15:31

This game kicked my ass!!! Music was one of the best I've heard so far this LD and graphics were great + reminded me a lot of Zelda 2 for some reason. Sound effects really added a lot. Great job whipping up a game this complex in 48hrs!

nddrylliog 2013-08-28 17:55

I really liked the twist on the tower defense thingy, it's the highest grade I have given out for any entry.

Really really well done, well polished, I wish I could do an entry half as good :) Keep the good stuff coming!

recursor 2013-08-28 18:14

Wow. This got intense pretty quickly. It has a nice feel to it.

andwhatnot 2013-08-28 20:12

Solid tower defense game - I like how you got some narrative in there. Everything meshes together. Fun!

antonijn 2013-08-28 20:32

Very fun to play game, definitely pushed you to develop your own strategy and a nice implementation of the theme. Also great music! Well done.

robbe 2013-08-28 21:20

Normally I don't like tower defense games that much, but this one has a nice twist to it :)

gfm 2013-08-28 22:10

Really nice game! :) The graphics, specially, are great!
Though a little unbalanced... (with 5 turrets, 2 initially maxed and later everyone maxed out, I was able to hold off every monster)

Also, the game got stretched to the browser's width but maintained the height fixed , which kinda of killed the graphics... (I resized the window to make it an reasonable size)

bassarisse 2013-08-29 00:40

Perfect! So simple, yet so challenging! Congratz

zillix 2013-08-29 03:08

great frantic TD! loved the simple controls and aesthetic

jimanzium 2013-08-29 10:22

Sweet graphics, really like the style

leafo 2013-08-29 16:53

Awesome game, great music and graphics. And the game was actually fun which is also very important

ratalaika 2013-08-29 17:30

good job

christinaneofotistou 2013-08-29 20:09

Pretty fun! kudos!!

vaughn 2013-08-30 01:16

Amazing amount of polish and very tight Great audio and controls. design. Got a good strategy going and beat it. Challenging and rewarding. Overall, very nice work!

vile-smile 2013-08-30 04:49

This is great! The music and graphics are superb. The controls are very good and the core mechanic is simple yet challenging.

ncannasse 2013-08-30 12:05

Great game, had a lot of fun. Love the music and polish

zlowrance 2013-08-30 14:35

Great effects, good game :D

roguenoodle 2013-08-30 16:45

Super polished game, great job - but man, do I suck at TD games :P

porglezomp 2013-08-30 19:45

I think I found a bug! You said you fixed a bug where you would die with only one hit? I think it still exists if you restart the game. I played through once and died perfectly fairly, but when it restarted, the first monster that got through killed me.

niavlys 2013-08-31 10:39

It seems a lot of good work was put in the game, especially in the graphics and visual effects, and in the sounds and music. It was way too hard for me though ^^ Still, very good work.

vaughn 2013-08-31 16:53

Eeek, just replaying through and found a nasty bug! An asteroid had destroyed a turret while a wave was going through. I replaced it, but the enemies were still able to path through it like it didn't exist!

zkenshin 2013-09-01 01:34

Fun game, enjoyed the take on a ten-second tower defense. :)

domrein 2013-09-01 23:25

This game is awesome. #LDTD

vikingpotato 2013-09-03 05:52

A simple and action packed TD! Loved the visual and the music, the meteors breaking my upgraded towers was irritating because it felt unfair, but i lasted till $705 on my first run

raiyumi 2013-09-04 01:41

Really well-done game, and great pixelart.. although some of the UI went below the screen. Also, if you pause the game during the intro, trying to unpause it, you'll click the website and will link you back out.

emveyh 2013-09-06 18:47

Great game. The graphics are really awesome!

d__adee 2013-09-07 14:14

Very polished! :D
And I really dig the graphics. Cool game!

bitowl 2013-09-08 13:14

awesome sound! needed a while to figure out how the gameplay worked though

pierrec 2013-09-09 06:20

Very impressive entry! but this is SO HARD :p

paulsb 2013-09-10 21:47

Wow, this is pretty incredible polish for a weekend's work! I think I didn't get that there were upgrades at first, otherwise an enjoyable little tower defence effort. Great work on the whole presentation of it, very nice.

commanderstitch 2013-09-14 16:29

wow such a neat entry. don't know if the shaking camera was nessesary on placing blocks.... but yeah, graphics were fun! weeeeee