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Defender

By koalagames

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness294
Humor7162.28
Graphics7932.72
Mood8292.61
Audio8332.13
Fun8502.77
Overall9112.85
Innovation9132.57
Theme10053.13

Comments

binarybot 2014-12-08 11:01

Hey dude! I am 13 too :D Fellow game dev right here :) Great job with your game, it's pretty cool!

louisload 2014-12-08 11:33

Hey friend, I can't play your game ):
When I open it, it says "A Java Exception has occurred"

hadesfury 2014-12-08 11:33

How to reload?

koalagames 2014-12-08 11:53

Thanks, @Mixer! :)
@Louisload, what version of JDK are you using?
@hadesfurry, you can't :D...I haven't realised that until it was too late :(

louisload 2014-12-08 13:11

@MatejaS I just updated my JDK and the game opened :D thank you!

jayson 2014-12-08 13:22

I love defense games. Thank you this was fun.

Would have loved some gun sounds.

Keep up the good work.

2014-12-08 15:54

It's great! I can't stop playing it :D

eponesh 2014-12-08 21:00

Nice concept! Greate controlls!

koalagames 2014-12-08 21:48

Thanks guys :)

emkani 2014-12-09 11:52

Audio can add a lot to the game, for you next game try looking up Vlambeer and juicyness if you havent yet.

skills641 2014-12-09 13:51

can't run game. Java exception error

koalagames 2014-12-09 19:13

@Emkani thanks, I will.
@Skills641 try to update your JDK :)

abdurrahmankh 2014-12-09 21:16

this is actually really cool. the lack of sounds and Music was disappointing. I liked how there is modes for firing. I wish the tower was in the middle to increase the challenge. but good work.

elephly 2014-12-10 03:12

Hey now a bad game! Better than mine I'd say. Great job buddy!

floorman 2014-12-10 19:51

Like the graphics, but I couldn't figure out how to reload or anything like that. I ran out of ammo really quickly.

Otherwise it's a really fun game. =)

wilson 2014-12-10 20:33

I really liked the ammo resupply mechanic, made me have to think carefully about shooting which makes a change in these sorts of games :)

koalagames 2014-12-10 20:59

Thank you very much everyone :D

jed-tiotuico 2014-12-11 10:38

I love the cute pixel graphics and the defense gameplay mechanics. The artwork is consistent (except for the grass) I wish you had time for sound and music so I would be immersed with your game longer. I got bored quickly though after 3-4 tries because it got repetitive. Good luck and keep on shipping games!

crushenator 2014-12-11 11:19

I made my first game when I was 13. Glad you are using Java . Cool game.

koalagames 2014-12-11 21:07

Thanks :)

ramonparaiba 2014-12-13 15:01

11/09??? (Joke)
Congrats, dude!

pjimmy 2014-12-13 17:31

nice game, it's a great accomplishment considering how young you are, looking forward for your next games, well done :)

theunderminor 2014-12-16 14:08

I think I'm the only one here, but I can't get it to run. Win7 64bit.

koalagames 2014-12-16 15:28

@scias if it says "Java exception has occurred" or something similar please update your JDK :)

oh_andrej 2014-12-18 22:43

Very solid entry! I appreciate the added complexity of being able to avoid fire and blowing up TNT with the right timing. Graphics are nice too, I especially like how your tower actually gets destroyed bit by bit. I only have two quibbles and one issue with this game:

1) The bullets seem a bit slow, making it hard to hit TNT or ammo boxes when they are far away; making them faster however could potentially make them too hard to dodge and the gameplay too chaotic. Maybe make it so you can shoot the parachute as well and not just the box? That way things would be a bit easier to hit. (Maybe I just suck at aiming though.)

2) The gun seems to fire a bit higher than the mouse cursor. You can get used to it after a while, but coupled with the slow bullets and small targets this can lead to some problems early on :P

The only real issue I ran into is running out of bullets...at that point you have basically lost the game, since you need to shoot the ammo crates to get more bullets, which you can't do when you're out of bullets :D

All in all a very fun game with a solid execution and nice attention to detail. Good job!

koalagames 2014-12-19 13:40

Thank you very much, @oh_andrej :)
You are right about the quibbles, but I think they make the game what it is :) (I could have made it better, though).

About the running out of bullets, I wanted to make the plane drop a box with ammo just above you when it happens, but didn't have time :(

ottersden 2014-12-20 21:04

This is good, great effort on your part. Keep practicing, and don't stop!

HelkeGames 2014-12-22 20:47

Awesome game! I found it really fun to play! Congrat

cxsquared 2014-12-22 20:52

Nice work. I liked the sprites. The game was quite fun. Good work.

koalagames 2014-12-23 16:09

Thank you :)

rd127p77 2014-12-24 18:02

Great Game, though it could be for mac and linux not just windows

rd127p77 2014-12-24 18:02

Loved it

el-pepi 2014-12-28 21:57

Pretty nice for your age! Quite challenging and fun.
I really wish you had added some sound.

dans17 2014-12-28 23:34

Very nice game. However, I found the shooting to be very slow and inaccurate.

koalagames 2014-12-29 16:12

Thank you all :D
@Dans17, what do you mean by inaccurate?

lxd1 2014-12-29 16:31

Fun

01rafael 2014-12-29 17:38

Awesome graphics!

koalagames 2014-12-29 23:19

Thanks @lxd1 and @01rafael :)

maxmetallica 2014-12-30 00:26

nice work

ams 2014-12-30 00:42

Nice game, simple but fun ^^

mohammad 2014-12-30 01:18

Pretty addicting gameplay! I liked the variaty the game had roboffer