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Orchid

By darwinpek

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness362
Fun1643.16
Overall1733.30
Audio2432.97
Mood2672.88
Innovation2772.81
Graphics3372.97
Theme3532.50
Humor4171.75

Comments

ryanmurakami 2013-12-17 02:40

like the graphic style. instructions were a little confusing at first.

lacutis 2013-12-17 08:20

Nice game, I liked the difficulty, it was hard but I won the first try once I figured out my fighters in flight would shoot their fighters.

william_edwards 2013-12-17 12:02

How do you launch attacks? I've got a mac with touchpad and I'm struggling to work out what to do.

2013-12-17 15:28

You click the blue square, and then a fighter/bomber/ICBM type, then click on a red square/city or a world wonder

ariake81 2013-12-17 19:19

good style and clear pixel art. good take on tower defense

tiffi 2013-12-17 19:29

Needed some time to get it, quite complex for a LD game. Good work!

wojworks 2013-12-17 19:29

A nice little strategy game. Good fun.

scifer 2013-12-17 19:30

Very nice! Reminds me of defcon, one of my favorite games. Good jorb ^^

jago 2013-12-17 19:31

Nice graphics and great action!

keithe 2013-12-17 19:31

really like the art. Great job!

miltage 2013-12-17 19:34

I had a problem with font rendering, made the text hard to read. Interesting game, and well executed. Good work.

lexgarza 2013-12-17 19:36

Awesoooooomee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lexgarza 2013-12-17 19:37

Got to say i loved the game, Awesoooooome!!!! :D the tutorial was a little... not good XD, but once you learn how to play its a great game :D

kayelgee 2013-12-17 19:40

Fun game. Reminds me of defcon. I don't know what the buttons on the bottom right should do. Was it intended to reasearch stuff before you can use?

darwinpek 2013-12-17 19:49

@Miltage: Yeah, we have some weird anti-aliasing problems with the web build. If you download the native client it should render correctly.

@Kayelgee: The buttons at the bottom right are meant for researching upgrades for your fighters, bombers, and icbms (you already have basic versions of these units when you start)

We did indeed take some inspiration from DEFCON and I would have liked more time to make the tutorial, hahaha. I more or less slapped some images together and I didn't have time to make it better.

domnomnom 2013-12-17 19:54

A soundtrack would've been nice. Graphics are nice and pixely.

Easiest strategy is to keep peaceful and stockpile up a bunch of nukes. kinda what the US is doing ...

Nukes are the methods of least collateral damage... heh

gamelabbers 2013-12-17 19:59

Good game! Not entirely sure what it has to do with the theme, but the replayability is awesome, the music is awesome, graphics are sweet... so who cares :) aaaargh I want to win this game now!

gamelabbers 2013-12-17 20:23

Ah I won, awesome :) so... now I understand what it has to do with the theme!

darwinpek 2013-12-17 20:27

@Defräg: There is music in the game, perhaps you've left something plugged into your headphone jack or muted your volume?

@Gamelabbers: Yuuuup, that's how it is.

_zulli 2013-12-18 01:33

Great game. I like the art style and the gameplay. However i think that would be better to use the keyboard keys to choose which attacks would come from the fabricators, because it is too time-cosuming to click on which option.
Very addicting! Great job!

If you have time, please rate my game! I would really appreciate it! :))

bloatedhippo 2013-12-18 01:36

Pretty cool!

ocathalain 2013-12-18 01:36

A little confusing at first, but really good for something made in the time given!

lolshouse 2013-12-18 01:41

Though it took a little while to learn, this was a fun, interesting game. Very much like a fast paced version of DEFCON.

ryangatts 2013-12-18 02:07

I won, but I had a hard time triggering the deployments I intended. I'd often queue up a bunch of fighters and click on the base only to have the order canceled and my money refunded. Also, I feel like the delivery of the theme was a bit of telling without showing. It could have been better conveyed as part of the gameplay rather than as an ending.

psychomonster 2013-12-19 21:26

OMG this is awesome. Cool game... remembers me to play defcon again. Really nice liitle gfx, cool gameplay... yeah there are some gfx bugs... no problem bugs looks like features if you want to :D! Let's do some more polishing ... two player mode or something ^^

kibertoad 2013-12-25 00:27

it's a good looking, excellently sounding cheerful clone of Defcon. not much else to say.

euske 2013-12-26 15:04

Kinda guessed the ending. Well done.

eskivor 2013-12-27 00:13

I don't know how to attack someone, I clicked on the 50$/100$ icons or on any city on the map, nothing happened (web version)

onlyslightly 2013-12-27 08:07

Loved the aesthetic

darwinpek 2013-12-29 03:16

@eskivor: Sorry, it is a little unclear. If it helps anyone: Click on a fabrication point, which look like the corners of a square, click on one of the three unit icons that pop up, then click on an enemy point to send those units

laaph 2014-01-02 21:15

Awesome work!