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The Lone Tower

By masadow

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness296
Fun833.60
Innovation1243.57
Theme1333.57
Overall1903.43
Audio4272.66
Humor4372.36
Mood4952.76
Graphics7092.51

Comments

dearenot 2013-12-15 16:56

that's good

reactorscram 2013-12-15 19:49

Got to 15,560. Really fun but I would suggest that the tower moves as close to the cursor as possible. Right now when the cursor is over a road, the tower completely stops moving, so it feels like it's lagging.

masadow 2013-12-15 22:34

Thans for your review. I actually add a point to see where the mouse point. I keep the idea of putting the tower as close as possible for a future release. I have to stop now :(

sensenmann666 2013-12-16 03:09

Interesting concept and a nice take on the static tower defense paradigm

tklovert 2013-12-16 05:21

We both did the same idea! Yeah lol!

Yours is done VERY well though. I like your take on it much more.

tiffi 2013-12-16 05:23

I really enjoyed this game! Great concept!

masadow 2013-12-16 05:25

tklovert: Ahah I've bookmarked yours yesterday already ! I will give it a try next week. I think I've started with something similar as you, but finally get rid of all these clicking stuff that made the game slow. I chose to make a game more action based than reflexion based :)

blupsy 2013-12-16 05:44

Mechanic is pretty darn cool, and can't be fun and frantic at times.

jillytot 2013-12-16 05:45

This is pretty cool. High marks across the board. Interesting mechanic, i played a few rounds.

bloatedhippo 2013-12-16 05:49

Really entertaining!

kettlecorn 2013-12-16 05:55

I hate tower defense games, but thankfully this is a parody of one. Nice job!

crowbeak 2013-12-16 09:54

This is great -- the second only-one-tower tower defense game I've seen so far, but I like this one better because you can just put the tower anywhere.

kewry 2013-12-16 13:19

Nice twist for a tower defense. The artwork was slightly small for my taste, but it was quite enjoyable!

hemuuuli 2013-12-16 14:44

Really solid game. It is a bit hard to keep track of how much money you have and what upgrades you can afford.

danielvf 2013-12-16 15:51

This is fun! You've got a great game mechanic!

As other have mentioned, it would be nice to have a better way of handling the upgrades, since with the frantic pace, it's hard to even have time to look at how much money you have.

homletmoo 2013-12-16 18:34

Very nice concept. Perhaps could have been a bit more zoomed in, though.

jago 2013-12-16 20:19

Love the concept! Difficulty was just right: it was challenging yet fun. I actually thought about similar one tower tower defence game, but dumped the idea.

ocarina-of-lime 2013-12-16 20:20

Very fast paced for a tower defence game, gets very difficult very quickly. Learnt quickly to upgrade as soon a possible. Audio gets a but repetitive but that's ok. Graphics are actually really good, everything is easy to see and the enemies stand out although are a bit small. Overall is pretty awesome.

strd6 2013-12-16 20:24

Pretty good, though it was a little hard to see everything because it was so small.

masadow 2013-12-16 20:29

Ocarina of lime: I started with a slow paced game, but it was very annoying. :(

all: Thanks for your comments, with so many good feedback, I will definitely continue to work on this !

amour-maternel 2013-12-16 20:31

Really fun and addictive game! Simple but very nicely done. I like the multiple fire upgrade so i save money and then i lose...I'll try again.

wukkopi 2013-12-16 20:45

Really nice game, only that the power powerup is a little bit op. Nicely balanced otherwise.

moop 2013-12-16 21:15

Really cool twist on tower defense.

mactinite 2013-12-16 22:07

I got overwhelmed pretty fast but this was interesting. I liked your take on the theme. First tower defense I've played this go 'round!

anachron 2013-12-16 22:35

Cool concept, and very challenging. Like tower defence but more action-oriented and frantic.

recursor 2013-12-17 01:46

Now I've seen everything. A movable tower defense game. It was quite fun. I especially appreciate the upgrades as they gave me a goal to work towards (besides not getting killed).

oxysoft 2013-12-17 02:09

Fantastic interpretation of the theme, graphics were kind of lacking but the game was very fun and satisfying. But like ReactorScram said, it feels like the tower is lagging because it stops following when you hover over roads

crigs 2013-12-17 04:09

Gotta echo previous sentiments that this was a really clever twist on the TD genre. It felt and played very well. Great job!

arkeus 2013-12-17 07:19

Love the idea!

ysengrimm 2013-12-17 11:10

Funny game, would love to see a "full" game with this concept. Good work :D.

latfoued 2013-12-17 17:37

Nice idea, but it lags sometimes. Good job

local-minimum 2013-12-17 17:49

Good. It took me a while to get the upgrades and when I did I didn't have enough time to do anything rational so I just hammered on the Q W and E. That is, maybe give some initial feedback for us non-TD gamers that one can now buy e.g. Firerate.

masadow 2013-12-17 18:44

local minimum: I'm not a TD gamer and like you, I'm having a very hard to time to make rational use of upgrades. I will work on that ! Still have to think about how to design it ;) Thanks for your feedback

supremefist 2013-12-17 20:33

Well done! Got 15000 :) Was fun!

diningphilosopher 2013-12-17 21:18

Nice twist on tower defense! At first the mouse seemed to be lagging, but now I see that the red dot indicates the cursor, and that when you move the cursor over the roads, that the tower won't follow. It would be better if the tower would always be placed at he closest possible position to the cursor.

By the way, thanks for playing our game, but you played a premature version of the game (2 hours before the jam deadline). Maybe you want to check out the final version. :)

joserodolfofreitas 2013-12-18 14:11

The game is nice and it requires interesting choices.

atomicvikings 2013-12-18 14:11

Fun game! Improve on a couple of things and I expect this game to go on kongregate!

jdpalmer 2013-12-18 17:39

Neat twist on the genre.

alink 2013-12-18 21:50

Simple but fun game. Nice variation on the tower defense genre and good use of the theme.

sprawl 2013-12-18 23:59

The upgrades make this gun very fun. Got 16.3k

In the balance, you could probably make the slow ones get harde to kill, because it took more shots to kill the small ones at the end :P

masadow 2013-12-19 00:11

sprawl: I take note ! I'm so bad at my own game, I never reach a such score ahah

joserodolfofreitas 2013-12-19 03:14

Hey Masadow, Im just passing by to say that I really appreciated your feedback on my game. Thank you very much!
And wow, 45 hits!!! Im glad you enjoyed it.

dustystylus 2013-12-19 14:42

Really nice variation on the tower theme. Oddly enough, the enemies didn't move on my version? (which made it rather easy for me) ;-) I think this was because I ran the .swf directly as the web page wasn't loading for me. (maybe there are some variables set up in the web page) Anyway, really nice game! (and thanks for your review of mine)

joserodolfofreitas 2013-12-19 17:57

Masadow, that would be nice. Do you have twitter?
Perhaps you might like to play an alpha version of my upcoming game. It's not on the same style, but it would be nice to listen what would you say about it :)

kunonooni 2013-12-20 02:50

Very interesting take on the theme and the first ever single tower TD I've ever played. I really liked it. Good Job.

fluffypillow 2013-12-20 11:35

Great game!

catonmars 2013-12-20 11:54

Nice combination of action and tower defense! I like this concept. Also the music sounds good. You may make the UI more apparent though.

mortus 2013-12-20 16:23

Fun game and a refreshing take on a genre! Controls are funny sometimes, the cannon won't move sometimes even if you move mouse (or is it a feature?).

masadow 2013-12-20 16:48

mortus: It is because you have your mouse on road. I've fixed that already with a better control in my post mortem version :)

optimus6128 2013-12-20 20:08

It took me few minutes to get it, clicking frantically to place the tower, then I realized. Great concept, plays nice!

cosmicadventuresquad 2013-12-20 22:32

Great simplified take on the tower defense genre. The enemies feel well-balanced too.

snoringfrog 2013-12-22 06:46

This game was challenging, but extremely fun. Great work.

superpokeunicorn 2013-12-22 23:02

Initiative spin on a tired genre, but very difficult. One thing to note it that I did not even notice the HUD at first as it did not stand out very well and was rather small.

donutttt 2013-12-24 02:03

Really good idea, and an interesting play on the tower defence genre. Great work!

zkenshin 2014-01-05 19:51

Neat idea, well done!

deepnight 2014-01-06 21:30

Excellent idea, perfectly fits the theme :)
The game could be much more strategic if the Tower could hit every targets in range. In your version, it's actually basically useless to place the tower in angles or crossroads because of that.
Good job :)