{"author_link":"\/author\/masadow\/","author_name":"Masadow","author_uid":"22572","comments":[{"author_name":"dearenot","author_uid":"29100","time":"Dec 15, 2013 @ 4:56pm","epoch":1387126260,"text":"that's good"},{"author_name":"ReactorScram","author_uid":"29177","time":"Dec 15, 2013 @ 7:49pm","epoch":1387136640,"text":"Got to 15,560. Really fun but I would suggest that the tower moves as close to the cursor as possible. Right now when the cursor is over a road, the tower completely stops moving, so it feels like it's lagging."},{"author_name":"Masadow","author_uid":"22572","time":"Dec 15, 2013 @ 10:34pm","epoch":1387146540,"text":"Thans for your review. I actually add a point to see where the mouse point. I keep the idea of putting the tower as close as possible for a future release. I have to stop now :("},{"author_name":"sensenmann666","author_uid":"31079","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 3:09am","epoch":1387163040,"text":"Interesting concept and a nice take on the static tower defense paradigm"},{"author_name":"tklovert","author_uid":"30001","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 5:21am","epoch":1387170960,"text":"We both did the same idea! Yeah lol!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Yours is done VERY well though. I like your take on it much more."},{"author_name":"tiffi","author_uid":"21552","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 5:23am","epoch":1387171080,"text":"I really enjoyed this game! Great concept!"},{"author_name":"Masadow","author_uid":"22572","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 5:25am","epoch":1387171200,"text":"tklovert: Ahah I've bookmarked yours yesterday already ! I will give it a try next week. I think I've started with something similar as you, but finally get rid of all these clicking stuff that made the game slow. I chose to make a game more action based than reflexion based :)"},{"author_name":"Blupsy","author_uid":"25359","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 5:44am","epoch":1387172340,"text":"Mechanic is pretty darn cool, and can't be fun and frantic at times."},{"author_name":"jillytot","author_uid":"29382","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 5:45am","epoch":1387172400,"text":"This is pretty cool. High marks across the board. Interesting mechanic, i played a few rounds."},{"author_name":"Bloated Hippo","author_uid":"21024","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 5:49am","epoch":1387172640,"text":"Really entertaining!"},{"author_name":"Kettlecorn","author_uid":"7609","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 5:55am","epoch":1387173000,"text":"I hate tower defense games, but thankfully this is a parody of one. Nice job!"},{"author_name":"Crowbeak","author_uid":"16689","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 9:54am","epoch":1387187340,"text":"This is great -- the second only-one-tower tower defense game I've seen so far, but I like this one better because you can just put the tower anywhere."},{"author_name":"kewry","author_uid":"12789","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 1:19pm","epoch":1387199640,"text":"Nice twist for a tower defense. The artwork was slightly small   for my taste, but it was quite enjoyable!"},{"author_name":"Hemuuuli","author_uid":"12944","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 2:44pm","epoch":1387204740,"text":"Really solid game. It is a bit hard to keep track of how much money you have and what upgrades you can afford."},{"author_name":"DanielVF","author_uid":"31898","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 3:51pm","epoch":1387208760,"text":"This is fun! You've got a great game mechanic!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>As other have mentioned, it would be nice to have a better way of handling the upgrades, since with the frantic pace, it's hard to even have time to look at how much money you have."},{"author_name":"Homletmoo","author_uid":"8408","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 6:34pm","epoch":1387218540,"text":"Very nice concept. Perhaps could have been a bit more zoomed in, though."},{"author_name":"Jago","author_uid":"4020","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 8:19pm","epoch":1387224840,"text":"Love the concept! Difficulty was just right: it was challenging yet fun. I actually thought about similar one tower tower defence game, but dumped the idea."},{"author_name":"ocarina of lime","author_uid":"30625","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 8:20pm","epoch":1387224900,"text":"Very fast paced for a tower defence game, gets very difficult very quickly. Learnt quickly to upgrade as soon a possible. Audio gets a but repetitive but that's ok. Graphics are actually really good, everything is easy to see and the enemies stand out although are a bit small. Overall is pretty awesome."},{"author_name":"Daniel X. Moore","author_uid":"2816","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 8:24pm","epoch":1387225140,"text":"Pretty good, though it was a little hard to see everything because it was so small."},{"author_name":"Masadow","author_uid":"22572","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 8:29pm","epoch":1387225440,"text":"Ocarina of lime: I started with a slow paced game, but it was very annoying. :(\r<br\/>\r<br\/>all: Thanks for your comments, with so many good feedback, I will definitely continue to work on this !"},{"author_name":"AnnaGavaldaKedavra","author_uid":"17388","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 8:31pm","epoch":1387225560,"text":"Really fun and addictive game! Simple but very nicely done. I like the multiple fire upgrade so i save money and then i lose...I'll try again."},{"author_name":"Wukkopi","author_uid":"4857","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 8:45pm","epoch":1387226400,"text":"Really nice game, only that the power powerup is a little bit op. Nicely balanced otherwise."},{"author_name":"moop","author_uid":"2573","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 9:15pm","epoch":1387228200,"text":"Really cool twist on tower defense."},{"author_name":"mactinite","author_uid":"26320","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 10:07pm","epoch":1387231320,"text":"I got overwhelmed pretty fast but this was interesting. I liked your take on the theme. First tower defense I've played this go 'round!"},{"author_name":"Anachron","author_uid":"27481","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 10:35pm","epoch":1387233000,"text":"Cool concept, and very challenging. Like tower defence but more action-oriented and frantic."},{"author_name":"recursor","author_uid":"1105","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 1:46am","epoch":1387244460,"text":"Now I've seen everything. A movable tower defense game. It was quite fun. I especially appreciate the upgrades as they gave me a goal to work towards (besides not getting killed)."},{"author_name":"oxysoft","author_uid":"25340","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 2:09am","epoch":1387245840,"text":"Fantastic interpretation of the theme, graphics were kind of lacking but the game was very fun and satisfying. But like ReactorScram said, it feels like the tower is lagging because it stops following when you hover over roads"},{"author_name":"Crigs","author_uid":"30740","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 4:09am","epoch":1387253040,"text":"Gotta echo previous sentiments that this was a really clever twist on the TD genre. It felt and played very well. Great job!"},{"author_name":"arkeus","author_uid":"4155","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 7:19am","epoch":1387264440,"text":"Love the idea!"},{"author_name":"YsenGrimm","author_uid":"18530","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 11:10am","epoch":1387278300,"text":"Funny game, would love to see a &quot;full&quot; game with this concept. Good work :D."},{"author_name":"LatFoued","author_uid":"30371","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 5:37pm","epoch":1387301520,"text":"Nice idea, but it lags sometimes. Good job"},{"author_name":"local minimum","author_uid":"24765","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 5:49pm","epoch":1387302240,"text":"Good. It took me a while to get the upgrades and when I did I didn't have enough time to do anything rational so I just hammered on the Q W and E. That is, maybe give some initial feedback for us non-TD gamers that one can now buy e.g. Firerate."},{"author_name":"Masadow","author_uid":"22572","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 6:44pm","epoch":1387305540,"text":"local minimum: I'm not a TD gamer and like you, I'm having a very hard to time to make rational use of upgrades. I will work on that ! Still have to think about how to design it ;) Thanks for your feedback"},{"author_name":"supremefist","author_uid":"6395","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 8:33pm","epoch":1387312080,"text":"Well done!  Got 15000 :) Was fun!"},{"author_name":"Dining Philosopher","author_uid":"18490","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 9:18pm","epoch":1387314780,"text":"Nice twist on tower defense! At first the mouse seemed to be lagging, but now I see that the red dot indicates the cursor, and that when you move the cursor over the roads, that the tower won't follow. It would be better if the tower would always be placed at he closest possible position to the cursor.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>By the way, thanks for playing our game, but you played a premature version of the game (2 hours before the jam deadline). Maybe you want to check out the final version. :)"},{"author_name":"joserodolfofreitas","author_uid":"31713","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 2:11pm","epoch":1387375560,"text":"The game is nice and it requires interesting choices."},{"author_name":"AtomicVikings","author_uid":"25123","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 2:11pm","epoch":1387375560,"text":"Fun game! Improve on a couple of things and I expect this game to go on kongregate!"},{"author_name":"jdpalmer","author_uid":"28804","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 5:39pm","epoch":1387388040,"text":"Neat twist on the genre."},{"author_name":"Alink","author_uid":"11244","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 9:50pm","epoch":1387403100,"text":"Simple but fun game. Nice variation on the tower defense genre and good use of the theme."},{"author_name":"sprawl","author_uid":"29314","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 11:59pm","epoch":1387410840,"text":"The upgrades make this gun very fun. Got 16.3k \r<br\/>\r<br\/>In the balance, you could probably make the slow ones get harde to kill, because it took more shots to kill the small ones at the end :P"},{"author_name":"Masadow","author_uid":"22572","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 12:11am","epoch":1387411560,"text":"sprawl: I take note ! I'm so bad at my own game, I never reach a such score ahah"},{"author_name":"joserodolfofreitas","author_uid":"31713","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 3:14am","epoch":1387422540,"text":"Hey Masadow,  Im just passing by to say that I really appreciated your  feedback on my game. Thank you very much! \r<br\/>And wow, 45 hits!!! Im glad you enjoyed it."},{"author_name":"DustyStylus","author_uid":"15902","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 2:42pm","epoch":1387463820,"text":"Really nice variation on the tower theme. Oddly enough, the enemies didn't move on my version? (which made it rather easy for me) ;-) I think this was because I ran the .swf directly as the web page wasn't loading for me. (maybe there are some variables set up in the web page) Anyway, really nice game! (and thanks for your review of mine)"},{"author_name":"joserodolfofreitas","author_uid":"31713","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 5:57pm","epoch":1387475520,"text":"Masadow, that would be nice. Do you have twitter? \r<br\/>Perhaps you might like to play an alpha version of my upcoming game. It's not on the same style, but it would be nice to listen what would you say about it :)"},{"author_name":"KunoNoOni","author_uid":"6464","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 2:50am","epoch":1387507500,"text":"Very interesting take on the theme and the first ever single tower TD I've ever played. I really liked it. Good Job."},{"author_name":"fluffypillow","author_uid":"26652","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 11:35am","epoch":1387539000,"text":"Great game!"},{"author_name":"CatOnMars","author_uid":"24717","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 11:54am","epoch":1387540140,"text":"Nice combination of action and tower defense! I like this concept. Also the music sounds good. You may make the UI more apparent though."},{"author_name":"mortus","author_uid":"20884","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 4:23pm","epoch":1387556280,"text":"Fun game and a refreshing take on a genre! Controls are funny sometimes, the cannon won't move sometimes even if you move mouse (or is it a feature?)."},{"author_name":"Masadow","author_uid":"22572","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 4:48pm","epoch":1387557780,"text":"mortus: It is because you have your mouse on road. I've fixed that already with a better control in my post mortem version :)"},{"author_name":"Optimus6128","author_uid":"17470","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 8:08pm","epoch":1387569780,"text":"It took me few minutes to get it, clicking frantically to place the tower, then I realized. Great concept, plays nice!"},{"author_name":"CosmicAdventureSquad","author_uid":"22946","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 10:32pm","epoch":1387578420,"text":"Great simplified take on the tower defense genre. The enemies feel well-balanced too."},{"author_name":"SnoringFrog","author_uid":"20952","time":"Dec 22, 2013 @ 6:46am","epoch":1387694460,"text":"This game was challenging, but extremely fun. Great work."},{"author_name":"SuperPokeunicorn","author_uid":"9858","time":"Dec 22, 2013 @ 11:02pm","epoch":1387753020,"text":"Initiative spin on a tired genre, but very difficult. One thing to note it that I did not even notice the HUD at first as it did not stand out very well and was rather small."},{"author_name":"Donutttt","author_uid":"30043","time":"Dec 24, 2013 @ 2:03am","epoch":1387850280,"text":"Really good idea, and an interesting play on the tower defence genre. Great work!"},{"author_name":"zkenshin","author_uid":"12839","time":"Jan 5, 2014 @ 7:51pm","epoch":1388951160,"text":"Neat idea, well done!"},{"author_name":"deepnight","author_uid":"2982","time":"Jan 6, 2014 @ 9:30pm","epoch":1389043500,"text":"Excellent idea, perfectly fits the theme :)\r<br\/>The game could be much more strategic if the Tower could hit every targets in range. In your version, it's actually basically useless to place the tower in angles or crossroads because of that.\r<br\/>Good job :)"}],"images":["ld28\/22572-514c1635a3b32ef0dff75b453e8a0f8b.jpg","ld28\/22572-bf44a4431d5a6da4acd8877e5640c404.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/s\/1b2o3kai84287yv\/index.html","text":"Web"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/v7a8waot0l7vq6p\/lonetower.swf","text":"Flash (.swf)"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/Masadow\/LD28-TheLoneTower","text":"Source"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/Masadow\/flixel\/tree\/lonetower","text":"HaxeFlixel Hacked"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/usbdws9eshmq0ci\/lonetower.zip","text":"Windows (missing sounds)"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"21409","g_author":"22572","g_event":"LD28","g_eventkey":"20","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"21438","g_title":"The Lone Tower","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"190","g_commentcount":"56","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/308734\/22572-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/308734\/22572-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"EDIT: I've uploaded a windows version for those who can't run flash version. However, there are some sounds that doesn't play and I don't know why, sorry.\r\n\r\nHere we go, my second ludum dare :)\r\n\r\nI wasn't mean to participate due to a lack of time. But I'm glad to be there !\r\n\r\nI'm happy with what I've done, it took me so much time to find core mechanics with this game concept ! I spent almost 10 consecutive hours on balancing monster's. So I hope you will find it hard, but also that everyone will have enough time to have fun before loosing :D\r\n\r\nSo here we go with the game itself, it is a kind of tower defense. The main difference is that You Only Get One tower. Don't feel so bad ! You will be able to move it everywehere as it follows your mouse :)\r\n\r\nThe goal of this game, like any TD is to defeat monsters before they reach your base, here, the right side of the map. Be carefull, you will only get one life !\r\n\r\nKilling a monster will reward you some score points and money. Money is used to make some upgrade whereas score points allows you to level up and increase your range.\r\n\r\nThere is 3 kind of upgrade\r\n\r\n* Firerate: Fire more often at ennemies. Upgraded with Q\r\n* Power: Damage deal to enemies. Upgraded with W\r\n* Target: How much ennemies you can shoot at once. Upgraded with E\r\n\r\nI spent a lot of time trying to make a decent music, it sounds good but very repetitive, mute it with M if you want to get rid of this.\r\n\r\nMusic was made with LMMS.\r\nSounds were made with sfxr.\r\nArts were made with PyxelEdit.\r\nCode was made with Haxe and HaxeFlixel.\r\n\r\nIf you are going to compile it, instead of using the standard HaxeFlixel library, please download the one given in links.\r\n\r\nDon't forget to enjoy the game, and every comments are welcomed :)\r\n\r\nFuture:\r\n* Lengthen the music loop\r\n* Better tower placement when mouse is on road\r\n* Rework the UI\r\n","title":"The Lone Tower"}