Hoard Frenzy by ryan0788

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made by ryan0788 for LD27 (COMPO)
I promised myself that I wouldn't affiliate myself with #LDTD, but halfway through I realized that I was doing it anyways. I'm sorry. Don't hate me.

In this game you have to defend your base against ever-growing waves of zombies, every 10 seconds. You buy the tiles that you want to place, but a worker has to unpack it before you can place it so defend your workers! (Or they will unionize) You gain coins by killing zombies.

Ratings

Coolness 45% 1281
Overall 3.26 356
Audio 2.81 399
Fun 3.41 192
Graphics 3.15 401
Humor 2.06 660
Innovation 2.81 667
Mood 2.83 470
Theme 2.74 902

Feedback

easytospell
26. Aug 2013 路 14:52 UTC
it was really fun, then i got a huge wall of the cannons that cost 10 moneys that the zombies couldnt do anything about i guess that equals winning :)
馃帳 ryan0788
26. Aug 2013 路 16:10 UTC
@easytospell Thanks! If you wait a few waves lots of tank zombies come and it gets challenging :)
BradleySmith
26. Aug 2013 路 23:36 UTC
The pixel art is beautifully intricate, well done! Rated highly. :)
jwolf
26. Aug 2013 路 23:53 UTC
Pretty fun! It's quite challenging early on, although if you survive long enough it gets pretty easy (even with the tanks). Might be due to a performance issue with too many guns firing...but that's just a quibble. Overall, this is a pretty solid entry.
olafurw
27. Aug 2013 路 00:51 UTC
This is a pretty clever take on the PvZ/Tower defence genre.
borden
27. Aug 2013 路 00:56 UTC
Very cool. A personal favorite. I would really like the worker mechanic, but if a zombie gets back that far it's game over anyway.

Just needs some balancing.
It has a backwards difficulty curve, and it can be hard to line up the guns.
Tork
27. Aug 2013 路 00:59 UTC
Like the game, still way too many lines of action, also it took me a while to be sure which row of a zombie would be for a gun
Joxno
27. Aug 2013 路 01:23 UTC
Quite a fun take on TD!
I like it that the buildings are delayed due to the workers running about,
although after you figure out the rhythm of the start of the game (placing turrets when & where) it becomes a linear progression.

Ended up with wave 100 & 90% of the map is covered in cannons ^_^
Vile Smile
27. Aug 2013 路 01:33 UTC
Nice!

I wasn't sure what I was doing at first. A tutorial level would be helpful, but the game is great otherwise.
frogcheese
27. Aug 2013 路 08:38 UTC
Couldn't get it to run :( I'm on Mac OS X 10.8.4, running Java 7. I get to a window that lets me choose the screen dimensions, but it immediately crashes when opening the game window.
馃帳 ryan0788
27. Aug 2013 路 16:49 UTC
@frogcheese I'll take a look at that today, I think it might be because of the font loader? Does anyone know if Mac supports .ttf files?
Thermite
28. Aug 2013 路 00:26 UTC
Very relaxing watching my wall of cannons mow down creeps. Good work!
SneManden
28. Aug 2013 路 09:14 UTC
Very nice game, quite fun! Love the idea of the human that has to open the crates - however, you could expand further on that mechanic: e.g. make him set up the guns too?

However, I had a minor problem: the zombies are not grid-aligned, meaning, sometimes they fall inbetween you lines of your shooters; thus making it hard to place your guns or impossible to shoot at them.

The graphics were nice, great work!

Btw, a small note about controls/where to put guns, etc. would be nice.
馃帳 ryan0788
28. Aug 2013 路 16:50 UTC
@frogcheese I'll take a look at that today, I think it might be because of the font loader? Does anyone know if Mac supports .ttf files?
Myyyvothrr
29. Aug 2013 路 15:08 UTC
Nice game, like the conecpt! Would have preferred a visible grid though...
DY
29. Aug 2013 路 15:27 UTC
Take me a while to figure it out (Click on turret -> Why the hell he put that turret ther?! -> WTF that turret dont attack! -> OHH!!! I CAN REPOSITION IT OMFG!!!) but finally http://imgur.com/OMhtaAK
lucidlarva
30. Aug 2013 路 22:58 UTC
Very fun. I love seeing strategy games with this theme.
Jupiter_Hadley
31. Aug 2013 路 04:00 UTC
Loved this game, it was great!! I featured it in my Ludum Dare 27 compilation video series, if youd like to check it out :) http://youtu.be/7EzKbFuvC2A
thesunnyk
03. Sep 2013 路 14:04 UTC
The game is very similar to plants vs zombies, with the caveat that there's a new wave every 10 seconds. Quite a fun game, but rather unforgiving to a beginner. Difficulty curve needs some fine tuning, but other than that I'm having trouble finding fault. I like the presentation, I like the game design, I generally just like it :)
bushmango
14. Sep 2013 路 18:00 UTC
Fun game! Crashes if you buy up all of the available worker unpacking slots with flowers, lol.
bvanschooten
16. Sep 2013 路 21:21 UTC
This is a nice take on PvZ, something I haven't seen before here. Very enoyable. Imo there is one frustrating flaw, which is that it's so hard to see in which spot you have to place a gun in order to hit a zombie. But that should be quite easy to fix :-)