The Ancient Immortal by Vinyl Pixels

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made by Vinyl Pixels for LD33 (JAM)
Made in Pico-8.

A tower defense game where you play as an evil deity stuck on Earth. Grow your limbs to exterminate those puny humans trying to kill you! Survive until 2500 A.D. to win.

There are 2 game modes, 7 finished monster limbs / parts and 20 human units divided into 7 eras.

Feedback

richy486
25. Aug 2015 · 08:53 UTC
Creepy graphics! too bad about the performance, but great game!
walaber
25. Aug 2015 · 17:24 UTC
(from pico-8 forums)
really fun, an impressive UI and implementation. performance got so bad it made it nearly impossible to play as things got hectic... please finish it though, it's really cool!
Connors
25. Aug 2015 · 19:29 UTC
I got in a situation where all the humans seemed to be spawning in one or two rows for a while and there were enough humans built up in row #2, from different time periods might I add, that I could not make anything last in that row long enough to kill them all. I tried repeatedly making the carapace and saving up to build lots of towers but nothing worked. That's how I lost.

The lag is most noticeable when I'm in the selection menu, which is quite bad.

But hey, it really is impressive what you've done here regardless. I like that you parodied Plants VS. Zombies. Please keep working on the balance and whatnot, it's a neat little game.
Jani Nykänen
26. Aug 2015 · 13:32 UTC
I'm not big friend of tower defense games, but I still had fun playing this one.
zatyka
26. Aug 2015 · 19:21 UTC
Was really really easy, then ridiculous difficult at the end. It seemed like all the powerful mobs were came at once, and on the same row. Performance was pretty bad at the end.

With that said, I think it was an impressive LD game, especially for the pico-8. The UI was slick, making the game very easy to pick up.
JustinJ
28. Aug 2015 · 00:57 UTC
Really fun! Things got pretty easy in the middle once I had a sizable force, but got really tough once those laser guys showed up. I look forward to a more finished version! The UI was fantastic! I also have to say I love the thought of a war waging over thousands of years between humanity and some huge alien :)
spotco
28. Aug 2015 · 06:39 UTC
loved the theme :)
jhrrsn
28. Aug 2015 · 14:08 UTC
Super cool! Great visual design, and very satisfying PvZ-style gameplay! Shame about the performance issues, I'd love to see your Pico-8 source just so I could figure out how you achieved it at all though!