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Island Defence

By epicruins195

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness363
Overall2173.65
Innovation2303.53
Theme2533.97
Graphics2693.90
Fun3313.39
Humor5852.54
Mood6143.10

Comments

caspila 2015-12-15 05:38

Looks like the links are broken!

flukeshot 2015-12-15 05:42

Yeah, links are broken atm.

authorx 2015-12-15 05:47

Broken links - did you make your game public on itch.io?

bloodjohn 2015-12-15 05:50

I'll be original

Links are broken! :(

epicruins195 2015-12-15 05:50

Oops, forgot to make it public. Fixed the broken links.

dakkon69 2015-12-15 07:26

Really enjoyed the graphics and the idea and design. Only complaint would be that at a certain point you just can't stop them, not enough lava. Still fun though! :)

zaniarm 2015-12-15 07:41

Brilliant game, solid gameplay and I just love the graphics. So nice and soothing :)

adamalexander 2015-12-15 07:51

The game looks great, and it's fun being able to build up your island. Couldn't entirely figure out how the mountains affected the pirates, sometimes they would just walk over the tops of them. Also I didn't know what to do with all my life energy, I guess this is for future content? Overall it looks like the makings of a great game!

strike 2015-12-15 08:03

Good, now my entire office is trying to figure out what's the best way to build this island :D

epicruins195 2015-12-15 08:32

@Charging Llama
Thanks! I cut it close getting the game finished as is, didn't really have time to balance it much. The game seemed too easy so I made it much harder before release, maybe I went too far?

epicruins195 2015-12-15 08:34

@AdamAlexander
Thanks. The pirates are supposed to avoid the mountains unless there are no other possible paths, but my implementation isn't exactly what you'd call "good code". Life energy is mainly used to grow jungles which damage the pirates. Could be explained better in game, but I ran out of time for a tutorial.

micky 2015-12-15 11:15

good concept, had some fun playing :)

adamsmccall 2015-12-15 11:29

Awesome game, nice concept, nice graphics :D

jsmars 2015-12-15 11:34

Hey man, awesome game! I probably played 45 minutes. Really great start and could have been superb if you had some more time. Was surprisingly fun even tho there was so little. A bit of audio, more options and difficulty would really help, but it seems you know a lot of what you need to do.
Got to 800 moves and got bored because it didn't get any harder, and also it was too slow waiting on all the pirates to move, I'd suggest making several move at the same time so that waiting on pirates never took longer than a second or so.
Here is my island: http://imgur.com/RrbFuc7

lapiroxx 2015-12-15 11:40

Interesting idea, would looove to see this fleshed out a bit more, I think it really has potential. :)

afenda 2015-12-15 11:55

Funny game ! Graphism are good and mechanic is fun ! I like it I have played 1 hour of your game XD.

ashdnazg 2015-12-15 12:06

This is an interesting game, requires more thought than it seems at first.
I messed up (more than once...) by losing my life income :D
Your graphic style looks great!

Sound effects and music were really missing, it's best to leave an hour or two for hacking something (anything) in (such as recording silly sfx with a crappy microphone) even at the cost of leaving other stuff out.

epicruins195 2015-12-15 13:27

@jsmars
Thanks for the feedback! Originally the pirates did move all at once, but that changed in the last few hours due to some problems with the way I was animating them. The mid-late game definitely needs some serious improvements, and also some ways to mix it up so that all islands don't end up as jungle spirals of death.

epicruins195 2015-12-15 13:32

@ashdnazg
It is way too easy to mess up at the start. Maybe I'll start the game with a forest next to the volcano, or maybe just plant a tree on the volcano. :)

Its a shame about the lack of audio, but I got caught up in fixing bugs with the AI (why did I choose to implement path finding in my first Ludum Dare), and polishing things that really aren't that important (like the UI hover information). I'll be sure to plan out a time frame for my next jam. Thanks for the feedback!

nuclearcellar 2015-12-15 15:22

Very addictive strategy game. Once you realize you build jungles you are unstoppable.

hongertrollie 2015-12-15 17:32

Lovely game. I like the graphics style. I see you have "removing mountains" in the future direction list... Good idea :)

candlesan 2015-12-16 07:23

Great game! Loved the simple graphics, very attractive. The gameplay was interesting! After about 600 turns of creating snaky mazes for the pirates I walled myself in completely to see what happened and they jumped. Lots of fun!

rico-albe 2015-12-18 11:27

Good game! Seems you have most concerns already on your list. I was having a lot of fun creating a spiral of death until I misclicked and created a mountain blocking the path, and then the pirates started to just jump the mountains and ended my plan. Had a lot of fun, as I said, and wish to see this become a full game. Good job!

thebrickanator 2015-12-20 07:24

pretty nice ;)

poptartftw 2015-12-29 16:17

This game is quite fun, but needs more tweaking when it comes to difficulty. The game is easy at start, gets too easy in the middle of the game, and is nearly impossible late-game. Loved the design tho

astrophics 2016-01-04 22:24

Really cool game! Nothing to say about graphics/gameplay, but it would've been nice with audio/music