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Hoard Frenzy

By ryan0788

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Fun1923.41
Overall3563.26
Audio3992.81
Graphics4013.15
Mood4702.83
Humor6602.06
Innovation6672.81
Theme9022.74
Coolness128145

Comments

2013-08-26 14:57

it was really fun, then i got a huge wall of the cannons that cost 10 moneys that the zombies couldnt do anything about i guess that equals winning :)

ryan0788 2013-08-26 16:15

@easytospell Thanks! If you wait a few waves lots of tank zombies come and it gets challenging :)

bradleysmith 2013-08-26 23:41

The pixel art is beautifully intricate, well done! Rated highly. :)

jwolf 2013-08-26 23:58

Pretty fun! It's quite challenging early on, although if you survive long enough it gets pretty easy (even with the tanks). Might be due to a performance issue with too many guns firing...but that's just a quibble. Overall, this is a pretty solid entry.

olafurw 2013-08-27 00:56

This is a pretty clever take on the PvZ/Tower defence genre.

borden 2013-08-27 01:01

Very cool. A personal favorite. I would really like the worker mechanic, but if a zombie gets back that far it's game over anyway.

Just needs some balancing.
It has a backwards difficulty curve, and it can be hard to line up the guns.

tork 2013-08-27 01:04

Like the game, still way too many lines of action, also it took me a while to be sure which row of a zombie would be for a gun

joxno 2013-08-27 01:28

Quite a fun take on TD!
I like it that the buildings are delayed due to the workers running about,
although after you figure out the rhythm of the start of the game (placing turrets when & where) it becomes a linear progression.

Ended up with wave 100 & 90% of the map is covered in cannons ^_^

vile-smile 2013-08-27 01:38

Nice!

I wasn't sure what I was doing at first. A tutorial level would be helpful, but the game is great otherwise.

frogcheese 2013-08-27 08:43

Couldn't get it to run :( I'm on Mac OS X 10.8.4, running Java 7. I get to a window that lets me choose the screen dimensions, but it immediately crashes when opening the game window.

ryan0788 2013-08-27 16:54

@frogcheese I'll take a look at that today, I think it might be because of the font loader? Does anyone know if Mac supports .ttf files?

thermite 2013-08-28 00:31

Very relaxing watching my wall of cannons mow down creeps. Good work!

snemanden 2013-08-28 09:19

Very nice game, quite fun! Love the idea of the human that has to open the crates - however, you could expand further on that mechanic: e.g. make him set up the guns too?

However, I had a minor problem: the zombies are not grid-aligned, meaning, sometimes they fall inbetween you lines of your shooters; thus making it hard to place your guns or impossible to shoot at them.

The graphics were nice, great work!

Btw, a small note about controls/where to put guns, etc. would be nice.

ryan0788 2013-08-28 16:55

@frogcheese I'll take a look at that today, I think it might be because of the font loader? Does anyone know if Mac supports .ttf files?

myyyvothrr 2013-08-29 15:13

Nice game, like the conecpt! Would have preferred a visible grid though...

dy 2013-08-29 15:32

Take me a while to figure it out (Click on turret -> Why the hell he put that turret ther?! -> WTF that turret dont attack! -> OHH!!! I CAN REPOSITION IT OMFG!!!) but finally http://imgur.com/OMhtaAK

lucidlarva 2013-08-30 23:03

Very fun. I love seeing strategy games with this theme.

jupiter_hadley 2013-08-31 04:05

Loved this game, it was great!! I featured it in my Ludum Dare 27 compilation video series, if youd like to check it out :) http://youtu.be/7EzKbFuvC2A

thesunnyk 2013-09-03 14:09

The game is very similar to plants vs zombies, with the caveat that there's a new wave every 10 seconds. Quite a fun game, but rather unforgiving to a beginner. Difficulty curve needs some fine tuning, but other than that I'm having trouble finding fault. I like the presentation, I like the game design, I generally just like it :)

bushmango3 2013-09-14 18:05

Fun game! Crashes if you buy up all of the available worker unpacking slots with flowers, lol.

bvanschooten 2013-09-16 21:26

This is a nice take on PvZ, something I haven't seen before here. Very enoyable. Imo there is one frustrating flaw, which is that it's so hard to see in which spot you have to place a gun in order to hit a zombie. But that should be quite easy to fix :-)