Protect Both Worlds by Perjoka

made by Perjoka for LD30 (COMPO)

You are a deity!
Protect a small world by Building Towers to protect it from evil creatures.
But beware! The evil souls of your victims revive and want to enter your spirit realm. You can't let that happen! Shoot
them all to protect your own world!

For now Windows only, OSX will follow tomorrow.
Edit: OSX Version is now online.
I also tried to build a version that runs on Windows XP, but i don't know if it works as i can't test it.

Start the game with Protect Both Worlds\LD30\Binaries\Win32\LD30.exe.

You might need to install UE4PrereqSetup.msi first, to install required libs for Unreal Engine 4.

Have fun!

Windows	http://ld30.k17.eu/ProtectBothWorlds.zip
OS/X	http://ld30.k17.eu/ProtectBothWorlds_osx.zip
Windows XP (don`t know if it works)	http://ld30.k17.eu/ProtectBothWorlds_WinXP.zip
Source	http://ld30.k17.eu/ProtectBothWorlds_Source.zip
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-30/?action=preview&uid=38892

Ratings

Coolness	100%	1
Overall	3.13	638

Audio	2.27	769
Fun	3.10	504
Graphics	3.27	432
Humor	2.24	611
Innovation	3.10	602
Mood	2.74	776
Theme	3.36	475

Feedback

Vallar

24. Aug 2014 · 19:51 UTC

Great fun. It got me going for quite sometime. It needed some time to get used to the two screens and the dividing of your attention among the two areas but I figured a strategy out and it seems working.

Well done :D
(10,300 score :P)

Sequenceko

25. Aug 2014 · 07:34 UTC

Confusing at the start, but combining tower defense and shoot m up is good idea. Just needs more work.

Lord Draficus

25. Aug 2014 · 07:42 UTC

I had a blast playing this game. It needed a little bit of time trying to figure out how to build the towers quickly enough once the enemies really started coming on the right side.

Great job!
(29,300 score ^_^)

Snuux

25. Aug 2014 · 07:43 UTC

7000 score! Thanks for game! It's awesome!

zapaman

25. Aug 2014 · 07:49 UTC

Took a few tries till I nailed my coordination! I likes it, I likes it!

magmaCrab

25. Aug 2014 · 08:21 UTC

Good game, had some fun shooting evil creatures. But the game crashes sometimes in the main menu.

Vallar

25. Aug 2014 · 10:11 UTC

This comment to rate since I played before pre-voting.

synchingfeeling

25. Aug 2014 · 13:20 UTC

Initially confusing but then I got it! Great mechanic, really innovative, kinda want to play this as a 2P game now, both games feeding into each other.

TheMorfeus

25. Aug 2014 · 14:34 UTC

Looks fun, but cant play it due to Windows XP :C

Drew Van Camp

25. Aug 2014 · 14:40 UTC

Oh cool! I like the challenge of keeping tabs of both worlds! Took me a few tries before I started getting anywhere, but I'm a fan of the concept! Good take on the theme!

🎤 Perjoka

25. Aug 2014 · 14:58 UTC

@All Thanks for all your feedback, happy that most of you seem to enjoy the game :)
@TheMorfeus i created a Version that "should" run on Windows XP, would be nice if you try it out.

c_livid

25. Aug 2014 · 15:15 UTC

The OSX build is broken.

🎤 Perjoka

25. Aug 2014 · 15:46 UTC

@c_livid which OSX version? I tested it on Mavericks, but don`t know if it runs on older versions. If you also have Mavericks i have no idea what the problem might be :(

How exactly is it broken, doesn`t start at all?

c_livid

25. Aug 2014 · 16:07 UTC

After ctrl+opening it, it works on OSX (unsigned). The single sound gets annoying after some loops but the graphics look lovely - everything glows :D. The double gameplay gets hectic but is a nice idea. I had some problems while aiming - the bullets always end up in a slightly different place than intended.

(21,600 score :) )

JetL33t

25. Aug 2014 · 16:30 UTC

Hi, fellow Unreal Engine user :P I like it a lot. How did you implement the UI? UMG?

🎤 Perjoka

25. Aug 2014 · 16:46 UTC

I used UMG and like it a lot, really easy to use.
Just found some annoying bugs that i had to work around but i guess that`s the price to pay when using experimental features ;)

SwiftIllusion

26. Aug 2014 · 11:11 UTC

That was cool. Liked how because you had to re-defeat enemies destroyed by the towers, you had to plan placement better than just 'spam towers in single area' as you often would in this kind of game. Was fun :).

bobrocks

26. Aug 2014 · 16:53 UTC

For some reason the camera angle stood out to me as just about perfect! Not sure that it actually matters, but it caught me. I like the game quite a bit now that I've figured it out. I would love to see the idea expanded upon.

RFMTeam

26. Aug 2014 · 17:02 UTC

Not a bad concept, but it gets overwhelming very fast!

nerd burglars

27. Aug 2014 · 19:05 UTC

I really enjoyed playing your game. It did take a min to catch on, but it got addicting from that point on! Graphics are cute too ;)

lkr

27. Aug 2014 · 19:09 UTC

Original addition to the TD genre. I really liked the extra layer of having to think about the right side at the same time as I was building on the left.

Would have been neat to see the concept even more fleshed out :)

kristof

27. Aug 2014 · 19:33 UTC

That’s great fun! Although it took me some time to understand the two stages.

Chikun Dev Team

28. Aug 2014 · 06:18 UTC

Great game, good idea. lacking is sound, also hard to play on laptop. Good job. - Flurkin

RaycoSantana

28. Aug 2014 · 11:10 UTC

I had a blast playing this.

Pat AfterMoon

28. Aug 2014 · 12:51 UTC

7300 pt !
Interesting mix of the 2 genres, and the theme "connected worlds" is well used.
Good start, I would like to see an improved version, with separated waves, keyboards shortcut for placing towers... etc.

abeing

28. Aug 2014 · 14:26 UTC

well made game, but I find it too hard/fast

JoshuaBurr

28. Aug 2014 · 16:27 UTC

When I try to open this in OSX it tells me that the file is damaged and should be moved to trash (I tried downloading twice).

🎤 Perjoka

28. Aug 2014 · 18:23 UTC

@JoshuaBurr you might need to open it with ctrl+click as it`s unsigned, c_livid had the same problem

RawboSaurX

28. Aug 2014 · 19:35 UTC

I love this! one of the best entries I've played. Awesome theme implementation too. Obviously more levels and enemies would be great, but there's not really anything bad to say here. It's simply a very well made and unique tower defense game.

Crefossus

29. Aug 2014 · 11:16 UTC

Having to tap the mouse to fire kind of detracted from the experience for me.

Impressive amount of work for 48h.

On death perhaps zoom in on the enemy that killed you so that you could show off your hard work on the enemy :D

The layering of the black bars/ bg/ game area seemed excessive - maybe just use the tan for the entire background?

AtomicVikings

29. Aug 2014 · 17:08 UTC

Nice game! This is a nice way to spice up a tower defense game. Great job! :)

KingBolonzo

02. Sep 2014 · 06:40 UTC

awesome dude im keepin it 4 ever

vividhelix

03. Sep 2014 · 07:36 UTC

Good idea, gets difficult really fast. Took a while to get used to the multitasking, but then it became fun :)

Crocanti de Pollo

05. Sep 2014 · 21:59 UTC

I'm so rubbish at tower defense games. Having said that, I think yours is well made and the shooter part kept me going for a bit. Nice work.

Jupiter_Hadley

06. Sep 2014 · 21:28 UTC

Hard game but cool graphics! I included it in part 17 of my Ludum Dare 30 Compilation video series, if you’d like to check it out :) http://youtu.be/02vIiZyi3-c

Noaksey

06. Sep 2014 · 22:41 UTC

Play this game, liked it! I got 23,500 - I'll link video in comment when uploaded.

Tom Gardiner

12. Sep 2014 · 07:25 UTC

Sorry I didn't get to stream your game, I ended up being busy over the week. With that said, I really like tower defense games and I find them rather addicting, and this was a nice twist on what we're used to playing. Very fun but like other people say it gets overwhelming quite fast (who necessarily said that was such a bad thing?)