Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD56 → Beetle Tower
By turbogros, doot, Zakku and NIPA
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 9 | 4.37 | 60 | |
| Fun | 29 | 4.22 | 60 | |
| Innovation | 75 | 4.00 | 60 | |
| Theme | 11 | 4.54 | 60 | |
| Graphics | 16 | 4.71 | 61 | |
| Audio | 21 | 4.29 | 59 | |
| Humor | 44 | 4.11 | 59 | |
| Mood | 38 | 4.32 | 60 |
Really fun game! Graphics are cute, sounds are cool and music is awesome. Controls are neat and intuitive, I really like the feeling of picking up a guy, giving it a tool and putting it back in. It's probably a bit easy as long as you pick a bit of everything, but for a sweet and short playthrough it's totally fine. Also really well polished on top of all that. Great job!
Incredible entry, everything ties really well together, the music, the awesome animations and the intuitive gameplay. I felt maybe being able to pick enemies and place them back further away made the game a bit too easy ? I'm also not entirely sur why having a weapon made these critters turn on their friends, but maye I'd do the same with a giant knife on my back, who knows.
Really cute game, I love the art and the animations, great job!
Interesting game, nice graphics. Didn't find any defects. Thanks for your work!
I really like how they begin to smile once you tame them :smile:
Super cool tower defense game! It's awesome turning the enemies into defenders, great idea! It's visually stunning too. Bravo!
Very fun game to play! Art is stunning, animations are all so great I attached objects on insects when it was useless just to see them <3 Managed to reach wave 7 then got swarmed :( Impressive work well done!
Excellent game! Super easy to understand, clever design in the style of rock/paper/scissors, and really beautiful visuals and music. I love my beettle army <3
Oh my gosh, Tower Defense done differently! The idea of capturing the attackers and using them as weapons is pure genius. Thanks for this amazing game!
Loved everything about this game. The art is gorgeous and perfectly fits the gameplay, the music is great, everything is super understandable and fun
Plus, I managed to win, yay! 🎉
A wonderful game! An interesting idea and a high-quality implementation, I had a lot of fun playing it! :>
Cool game idea! I liked it! Good job!
The graphics are simply stunning and the animations are a joy to behold. 🐞💖 The idea of turning enemies into defenders is a real hit! 🎉 The music creates a great mood and the controls are very intuitive. 🎶 Although the game may seem a bit simple, it is perfect for short sessions and brings a lot of fun! 👏💯 Great job, team! 🌟
This is a great concept and really well presented and executed! Great work team!
Extremely well done! The gameplay was fun, the difficulty ramped up well (although I'd have liked more time at the higher difficulty level -- that's when it was really starting to get fun!), the art and animations were precious, and the sound effects were delightful.
Amazingly cute art! The style fit perfectly with the theme and it is just so incredibly adorable! One of my absolute favorites this jam!
very cool game, i love dragonflies with knives!
Wonderful game! Simple concept really well executed. The visuals are stunning and the music is awesome. Congrats!
Sooooo awesome, really fun concept. I totally like tower defense games and the idea that you re-use enemies for defending is really nice. Also that all different insects can be coupled with the different weapons. Nice graphics style, fitting music, very polished. So, congrats for this nice little game, I really had fun playing it until the end. :smile:
Amazing entry that feels to be crafted with passion and care. All the parts of the game fit consistently together, all of them have sounds and SFX so they are satisfying. The graphics and music are outstanding. The only thing I'd complain about is the cursor hand which felt a bit clunky, sometime missing an obvious catch.
Big thumb up to my "slingshot dragonflies" squad for defending my fort!
Really cute
This was a fun game! Well polished, too. I'd love to hear how you got this idea, though. That's creative. :D And I won. It's always a plus in my book if the game has an end. ^^
Great entry. Art, music and polish is all really good. It's a bit hard to see the smaller insects behind the larger ones but I would definitely have played for longer with higher difficulty, it's fun!
Really cool entry! I won on my second try. As others have mentionned, would have been great to have more difficulty options available, but also being able to move insects around with no other restrictions than doing it one at a time is quite OP. Still a very fun time, turning insects against each other is a pretty funny premise too. (albeit a bit morbid but let's not think too much about that :joy: ) The graphics are obviously amazing and the music and general sound design is great! Congrats to the whole team!!
Incredible entry! Beautiful, polished and really fun. Converting enemies in a really fun mechanic. The player's dynamic avatar is very expressive!
I'd love to understand my sticker situation better, i.e. where are my new stickers and how long do I have to wait and why. Maybe give the player the extra balancing task of actually drawing the stickers by hand while the fight is unfolding? Would be fun to have to grab a marker and actually earn your new sticker by drawing it in the bottom bar. This way you could also choose which sticker you want to draw, and more valuable ones might be trickier or take longer to make. This would also prevent player from constantly grabbing enemies and just pushing them back or putting them in the way of projectiles because right now this tactic seems OP.
Awesome game, thanks!
Beautiful entry, It's so cosy i feel like a child playing with little bugs !! GG
Super cute game ! :D I reach wave 6
I love your game ! it's so pretty and I really liked the difficulty that increases little by little, it gives us time to get to grips with the game and I had a lot of fun! I hate flying insects as much as in real life they gave me a hard time!
Any combinations with no limitations - I respect that!
Here is my playthrough:
https://youtu.be/koRj6d_OAjk
Wow the art is amazing!
Your game is really so cool and polished visually! The tower-defense is quite simple but works so well at the end with the two sides to manage at the same time, the difficulty is well managed!
Nice polished Tower-defense game! I really like that it warns you when creature approach off-screen. And the art and music also fits very good together.
Really well done! Good job
Really nice submission. Consistent art (really like the portrait), and very interesting gameplay adaptation with the box ! Well done !
Very cute and enjoyable game. The gameplay is well executed and and has surprisingly amount of depth. I love the cheerful, sunny, mario-esque even, music.
Well done!
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@yorsh @fishmasterino @trasevol-dog @13x666 Thanks a lot! I agree that being able to push back ennemies is a bit too strong, but we felt like it was in line with the "childish playfulness" we wanted for the game. We also added a stamina (grab an insect for too long and your hand will turn red then you'll drop it) + slower hand movement on big beetles, but we tuned it down a lot when balancing the game because it was a bit frustrating. We'd definitely need to find a better solution if the game was longer!
@laywelin Great job! Wave 7 is the last one and we made it a bit too difficult, it's always so hard to balance jam games! Thanks for playing ✨
@owlycode Thanks! I agree, more feedback on what your hand is currently hovering would be nice.
@ntimi So initially we thought of a tower defense game from the perspective of a child, where you'd grab stuff in your garden to make towers, like a rock and a stick to make a hammer tower. Then we thought about being able to grab enemies too to add them to your tower, and then we scoped down to only have enemies + stuff, and then scoped down even more to not use stuff from the garden but stickers!
@ani Thanks! Oh you are right, I could have made it so that the small bugs would always be in front of the bigger ones. I'll thought about it next time I make a game like that, thanks 🪲
Nice game,very interesting plot!!!!Nice job!!!!
Very nice game! Super fun and easy to play. I had a little trouble understanding how to play the game at first with the interface in drawings, but playing, I quickly understood and it was very fun and smooth. Good job!
Very well polished and fun game. Great concept as well. Congrats!
Sympa ! Les visuels sont cools et engageants, et la musique met bien dans l'ambiance ! C'est très amusant, mais un poil simple je dirai ? J'ai aussi l'impression de manquer de "choix" dans les décisions que je fais par rapport aux combinaisons que je dois faire (je prends le premier insecte qui vient, et je lui associe le premier élément qui a poppé à ce moment ; ou alors il faut attendre d'avoir le choix mais avec les vagues qui arrivent, j'ai juste envie de prendre les premières combinaisons qui viennent.) En tous cas, un twist rigolo sur le genre, ça peut se pousser ! :D
Clément
Whew, I got my butt kicked on wave 7, but this is SO ADORABLE! I love that you can make the enemies your allies but also just grab em and shove em back while you wait for another piece of equipment lol. Really clever idea, and with such adorable art!
Love it! We need more TD with good vibes.
Its fun setting up artillery, and the smiling stickered bugs are easy to tell apart from enemies. Great job on the upbeat music, and making the sound effects subtle enough not to over-pile upon each other. What does the sign on the fort mean?