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Anti Matter by Chris Maire

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made by Chris Maire for LD30 (COMPO)
This is my first ludum dare entry. It's a deep space tower-defense tug-of-war.

Edit: There is a bug that causes you to not be able to build on planets for a little while, in my experience it was around ~15 seconds or so. It only occurred fairly late game for me, but aside from that, I don't have firm steps to reproduce the issue, so if you experience it please leave a bug report and let me know if you have any idea what the cause might be.

Controls:

W A S D CTRL SPACE FWD LEFT BACK RIGHT DOWN UP

LEFT MOUSE BUILD

MOUSE WHEEL / + / - SELECT TOWER

TAB SHOW INFO

ENTER SHOW CONTROLS

SHIFT + 4 / $ CHEAT

Tools Used:

Unity3d
Paint.NET
Maya 2015
Bosca Ceoil

Feedback?

@dinosaursssssss

dinosaursssssss at gmail.com
Web http://dinosaursssssss.itch.io/anti-matter
Windows http://maximum-extreme.com/antimatter/antimatter_alpha.zip
Source http://maximum-extreme.com/antimatter/antimatter unity project.zip
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-30/?action=preview&uid=32418

Ratings

Coolness 42% 1523
Overall 2.88 880
Audio 2.55 647
Fun 2.76 805
Graphics 2.88 704
Innovation 3.08 620
Mood 2.89 630
Theme 2.75 864

Feedback

haveric
25. Aug 2014 路 05:12 UTC
I like the game idea, but I feel like I don't have enough control or that it is too slow to accomplish anything. I got lucky once and a mortar killed enough to take over another planet and I won. The rest of the times, I've lost miserably watching my towers knock out one enemy every 15 seconds.
PowerSpark
25. Aug 2014 路 05:13 UTC
Really fun to play and defend, but a bit too difficult.
馃帳 Chris Maire
25. Aug 2014 路 05:19 UTC
I found a fairly large bug in the submitted version that was making it impossible to build. I believe it's fixed in this version: http://maximum-extreme.com/antimatter/
mattperrin
26. Aug 2014 路 05:22 UTC
Some neat ideas, liked the scaling trick to show distance but kept getting my butt kicked.
GAFBlizzard
26. Aug 2014 路 06:36 UTC
I'm a bit confused since I only seem to be able to build 2 turrets with the starting money, and since I never get any more money before the enormous waves of enemies arrive, I can only kill a few enemies before losing.
Mezzenstein
27. Aug 2014 路 01:56 UTC
Yeah, isn't possible without the cheats. It's a cool kind of tower defense. I liked the music also!
liquidminduk
28. Aug 2014 路 09:36 UTC
nice difficulty on this one. Would like to be able to build more different things to take out the enemies though
MarekkPie
28. Aug 2014 路 23:33 UTC
Love the idea of 3D, space tower defense, but as other have said, it doesn't look like there is a way to win unless you cheat. You earn money too slowly compared to the onslaught on UFOs.
sprawl
28. Aug 2014 路 23:42 UTC
The game is very interesting but needs some balancing. Otherwise its a very high quality jam game. The graphics are really nice, especially the explosions. It makes the game very satisfying to watch.

The only way to win for me was to build everything one 1 planet. When it got captured, it kept shooting and eventually saving itself. Eventually I had a large enough force on the planet to destroy any incoming UFOs.
Nooner Bear
01. Sep 2014 路 16:04 UTC
Super fun, but the game ramps up in difficulty almost instantly. I wasnt sure how to build any more than two rockets then suddenly a fleet of enemies is heading my way. Was there no way to see what rocket I was building or did I miss that?
SelfishGenome
01. Sep 2014 路 16:19 UTC
Controls were a bit confusing, had no idea which tower I had currently selected to build. Also the size of the web player was too big for my screen so i may have missed a few things.
jukimv1986
02. Sep 2014 路 03:14 UTC
Impressive results for a first timer! I must say that it is rather difficult and the controls could improve, but it was fun to play and see how the aliens invaded all my planets :( great job!
Warboys
13. Sep 2014 路 06:46 UTC
Found it extremely hard, a bit stingy with the money :P

The idea is very interesting, it would be cool to see it developed further