Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD55 → Oil Creatures
By krakadushka and palvel
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 374 | 3.75 | 58 | |
| Fun | 425 | 3.62 | 59 | |
| Innovation | 765 | 3.17 | 59 | |
| Theme | 598 | 3.66 | 58 | |
| Graphics | 361 | 4.00 | 59 | |
| Mood | 497 | 3.64 | 58 |
Cool reverse game idea))) But I was bored and took a long time to kill the tower. It would be better to divide it into mini levels. It would also be good to work with the economy. Improvements are very expensive and the wait is long. The idler needs more dynamics.
Loved this game!! Really great line of increasing difficulty with amount of resources/upgrades you have, kept me engaged the whole time! The sound design! Turret shooting sound is 10/10!
I love the art, not my genra, but pretty cool that you made it :)
Very nice concept! I found it a bit too difficult to get the oil, but with some balance changes, this game could be very great!
I really enjoy the art that's being used and overall the game was enjoyable, if maybe a bit too long. I feel like the melee units are mostly cannon fodder before you can get some points into movement and by that point the tower has enough damage to kill them quite easily, this means it's a constant back and forth with getting enough stats for your units so the hard hitting ones (axe) can reach the tower, but by that point the tower has likely evolved again making the upgrades "void". This had me rely on the ranged units mostly!
This is a simple balance pet peeve however and doesn't take away from the fact that I had a bunch of fun trying to min-max strategies to get the tower lower, fast. Overall a really enjoyable little game, good job!
I liked it, that turret was not easy to beat, i really wanted to destroy it :D the last part with the wave that destroy all your units it's a bit op, but it was fun anyway. Good job!
I'm a sucker for these types of games. Very well polished for a jam game. Played to the end :)
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Tendinitis The Game (TM). And I love it. I just wish there was a failure state, like dying or running out of resources/time.
Cool game. I thought the 3D looking tower was a cool centerpiece given the mainly 2D style. Would be nice if you bound the unit placement to 1,2,3 number keys. I couldn't beat the game once the tower got to 20% health because the destroy all thing happened too much.
A very visually pleasing game! I liked that it can be played for a long time and even implemented character upgrades. It would be cool to make more powerful enemies have to be killed a little longer. Your team did a great job with the jam.
Had a lot of fun with this one. I liked flipping a tower defense game into being the one who attacks the tower. The oil on the ground was a little hard to see. Thanks for sharing
The art was great. The gameplay was challenging enough to be really fun and the boss felt very satisfying to kill. One small minus because the last boss clears your summons frequently and that felt very punishing.
I really enjoyed this, I like the inverse tower defense concept and the balance of the three units. It took me a second to differentiate the rocks from the oil but once figured out it was smooth sailing!
The game looks amazing and a little spooky, the vfx are very cool and punchy. But the game sorely lacks a losing condition, the stakes are just too low and you basically win no matter what. But I still enjoyed it, it has great potential!
Absolutely love the art and concept.
Very sticky game! Interesting concept and funny game😍
Oh I enjoy this game a lot! It's all fun once figured out how to play. But I hope the oil can be more visible or just be easier to collect? Overall good game!
The mix between 3D and 2D art works super well, the mechanic is also fun it reminds me of some old flash games. I guess with more feedback to know that the puddles are interactive, and to know what is currently selected would greatly improve the experience. Great work it really stands on its two feets
At first I could not understand how to play because I thought that my task is to defend the tower xD But when my friend suggested that I need to spawn monsters to attack the tower the things turned around! Eventually I managed to destroy the tower, however thought that it's gonna be impossible for me. I found my strategy and reached to the great explosion of the tower! But a lot of time has passed before I realized some mechanics :) (e.g. big monster can destroy tubes (or whatever it is) to allow the smaller monsters-archers to reach the tower)
I liked the sound very much! The game feels complete with all those sound effects
so fun! feels very polished for a game jam game. great job
Really liked the game, it took a while to understand the oil collection but then I killed the towers fairly quickly. Great job.
I think it would be better if the oil was collected automatically. I also think that the area attack in the last phase is too strong. I've had all my archers summoned just after the wave had passed and they died. But overall it's a great game and I enjoyed it. Good job!
This tower has NO CHILL.
I enjoyed a lot this game. Unit spawning + improvements and collecting the puddle. It felt good!
I love that artstyle! The game also feels really nicely designed such that you're never stuck unable to progress, but it still requires some strategic timing and positioning. Well done!
Super cool game! The art are just fantastic, I love it. One issue is that it would be better if the selected character could be highlighted, sometimes it's not clear which one I choose.
Nice game! It took me a while to take out the tower, but I did it! Graphics was really nice. Gameplay wise some slight adjustments might help, like highlighting the current selection of units, and allowing hotkeys to select them quickly, like 1,2,3.
Great game! Cool gameplay and sounds, good music and graphics. I would honestly play a more advanced version with more units/tower evolution/other things... ^^
I didn't get in my first run how the oil was collected but finally figured it during the second. Also, do the pipes that spawn on the map have a meaning/utility ?
What could be missing: - An indication of which unit type is selected. - Shortcuts to select units type directly. - A way to visalize the bonuses we buy.
But that's details, it was really fun. Thanks for that!
The graphics are very beautiful. With a little more feedback it would have still been cool.
Great polish and presentation. Very entertaining, I played until the end. Great work!
Somewhat easy but very addicting. great work!
Cool game, I liked it!
@blaise-ebuth Thanks for the feedback! The pipes spawn has meaning) Unit has to destroy the pipe on it's path to move on. At that time unit could be killed by the tower.
I loved the concept and very well executed! I think there could be some keyboard shortcuts to change the spawn type and gets a little repetitive and frustrating towards the end. But fun! Would like to see a full game out of this!
It is a very unusual and atmospheric game, the visual is quite interesting, it looks stylish and funny! Good luck with your project, I would have played it more than once!!!
Really good stuff! And very well conceived and executed! I nearly got rsi from clicking and selecting the creatures to spawn, but I played through and would def play more advanced game in an extended form, Really Nice Work!
so good this game is,spent lots of time on this one,nice game art and mood,wish to have more kinds of summons or other strategy to choose
The designs of the oil creatures remind me of Tarboy, the old Youtube/Newgrounds cartoon.
Great art and overall feel of the game. Very polished. Props to whoever decided on the artstyle, it looks very clean ith the flat coloring.
Interesting reverse tower defense ! There is one mechanic I took a long time to understand : collecting oil is actually done with the mouse ! I though I had to make minions run over it to collect it, which made the start of the game way slower than necessary... Graphics are cool and the oil theme is quite original, plus the game looks pretty polished, well done !
I really have fun playing this game! very good.
This is a really great game and feels very mature. Once I got that I could click and drag to place in an arc, I started making some real progress, too. The collectible oil was a little unclear sometimes, but really I would have had no complaints, if, in the heat of the end of the battle against the final stage, I had not accidentally clicked restart in the top right. I am truly heartbroken xP please add a confirmation dialogue, or put that in a menu behind ESC.
oilgame.PNG I really enjoyed this game. It was fun to try to find a good spawning strategy.
I liked the art and it was was a fun little clicker... but I didn't feel like there was any way I could lose so maybe some type of timer would make me want to reply it to beat my previous time? Also I'm not sure if any of my upgrades ever took, the unit displays didn't show any change and I didn't know if I was upgrading all of them or just the last one clicked? (Also, in general I couldn't tell which unit I had selected.)
10/10
I liked it a lot. The only thing missing I think is sfx feedbacks for when I spawn my minions. Other than that, I loved the art style and sounds, and the mechanic of the game.
This remined me a lot of Grow Castle (a tower defense mobile game) but with a reverse tower defense take. It's a neat idea and you could expand on this further.
Great sound design and art direction, the whole game has a really striking mood. The gameplay itself was fun too, though I ended up having a hard time spotting the oil puddles for a while due to them blending into the background. Attacking the tower and seeing it change forms was a really solid way of demonstrating progress, though I found myself hoping my decisions would evolve during that process as well, since I found myself falling back onto the same strategy a lot of the time. Overall a very solid entry and I would be interested to see where you guys would take this idea in the future :]