{"author_link":"\/author\/esayitch\/","author_name":"esayitch","author_uid":"16000","comments":[{"author_name":"donan","author_uid":"22213","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 7:25am","epoch":1377501600,"text":"A bit confusing at first, but its a really original gameplay :D\r<br\/>Good work!"},{"author_name":"Dooleus","author_uid":"27530","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 7:27am","epoch":1377501720,"text":"I like the art style and the sound effects. The gameplay is pretty simple and doesn't offer a whole lot of depth. It's not really what I would call tower defense, despite the fact that you are defending a tower.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Also, I believe that using a music asset that you did not create is in violation of the rules of the 48 hour compo."},{"author_name":"KeithE.","author_uid":"25189","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 7:30am","epoch":1377501900,"text":"Dig the overall aesthetic.  I was a little overwhelmed when first booting it up but once I parsed through all the text it started clicking.  Good job!"},{"author_name":"loolpolo","author_uid":"26076","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 7:33am","epoch":1377502080,"text":"It's kind of confusing but the music is good and i liked the art too."},{"author_name":"rot13","author_uid":"25958","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 7:42am","epoch":1377502620,"text":"Pretty good game, might look a bit complicated at first but fun once you get the hang of controls. I liked the art style, too."},{"author_name":"Brassawiking","author_uid":"13137","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 8:07am","epoch":1377504120,"text":"Good and innovative. Needs some tweaking as of now it seems like a real long drag to finish a match. This has HUUUGE multiplayer potential =)"},{"author_name":"01010111","author_uid":"11474","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 6:45pm","epoch":1377542400,"text":"Awesome entry, it was pretty tough, but I really liked the game, excellent graphics and audio!"},{"author_name":"grayhaze","author_uid":"23957","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 8:35pm","epoch":1377549000,"text":"Really fun once you get used to the controls. Well done!"},{"author_name":"stenol","author_uid":"24796","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 8:37pm","epoch":1377549120,"text":"Not easy to learn but after that it's a funny game !"},{"author_name":"Static 64","author_uid":"22813","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 8:39pm","epoch":1377549240,"text":"The game is tough, but the method of executing commands is extremely unique.  Nice thinking!"},{"author_name":"Martin_Monosys","author_uid":"20047","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 8:42pm","epoch":1377549420,"text":"Didn't really know what was going on, pressed some buttons and then lost. Not very satisfying...\r<br\/>Anyway, you shouldn't use music you downloaded somewhere in the competition, it's against the rules!!!"},{"author_name":"mobyvb","author_uid":"10171","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 8:50pm","epoch":1377549900,"text":"super fun. My favorite game so far. I was about to skip it because I thought it would take too long to learn, but it's very intuitive in my opinion, even with such a minimal tutorial. I admit that I kinda suck at the game (I didn't hurt the enemy tower at all), but it's still really fun and unique."},{"author_name":"esayitch","author_uid":"16000","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 8:51pm","epoch":1377549960,"text":"In regards to music (I've seen two comments regarding that), I was going by the following (in the rules):\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Fonts, drum loops, drum samples, and sampled instruments are allowed IF you have the legal right to use them.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>And if you check the site I got the track from, it's free to use and to publish in games :P\r<br\/>\r<br\/>On other news, thanks al ot for the feedback, it is really appreciated :D"},{"author_name":"PapyGaragos","author_uid":"7971","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 9:49pm","epoch":1377553440,"text":"I think you need to choose your colors more carefully : some parts of the screen are hardly lisible; and there is an overall &quot;what the f*** is going on ?!&quot; feeling at the beginning that will probably make some people quit before they understand how the game is supposed to be played."},{"author_name":"Brian Stegmann","author_uid":"24792","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 1:26am","epoch":1377566460,"text":"I'll have to admit, I really wanted to get into it but the controls were a bit confusing. If there was an easier way to pick commands, it would be a lot of fun. Otherwise the concept (mouse-free rts), graphics and music are pretty cool."},{"author_name":"lcass","author_uid":"26653","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 5:20pm","epoch":1377623700,"text":"I LOVE THE GRAPHICS, Retro."},{"author_name":"lazyeels","author_uid":"17400","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 5:24pm","epoch":1377623940,"text":"I felt very nostalgic and wanted to pull out my Amiga. Cool concept and graphics and sound."},{"author_name":"Paraknight","author_uid":"21239","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 5:51pm","epoch":1377625560,"text":"Brilliant game once you get the hang of it! My favourite strategy was to build three boosters and two generators then just sit back till I have around 150 power. Then delete one booster and one generator, build two factories and flood the place with slaughterers. Instant win!"},{"author_name":"Lidfrid","author_uid":"12884","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 6:07pm","epoch":1377626520,"text":"Wow, it tooks me sometimes to understand the control, but i really appreciate that mechanic!"},{"author_name":"RobotParking","author_uid":"26005","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 6:32pm","epoch":1377628020,"text":"MAGICKAL TOWER PIXEL WAR. I DIG WHAT IT INVOKES."},{"author_name":"Lurieh","author_uid":"25112","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 8:09pm","epoch":1377633840,"text":"Great entry, prolly my favorite so far!\r<br\/>Lacks maybe of a rock paper scissor effect of some sort, spamming slaughterer can beat all the rest alone.\r<br\/>Towers have too much HP, less HP with maybe a number of rounds to win. That is of course if you plan to go further with this game :)"},{"author_name":"bitserum","author_uid":"24347","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 9:46pm","epoch":1377639660,"text":"Nice graphics, a theme of 10 seconds is lost on me here but never the less, it is awesome and it is fun tweaking around. AI is challenging enough. Great job."},{"author_name":"Vile Smile","author_uid":"26636","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 10:04pm","epoch":1377640740,"text":"The mechanic was very good and the gameplay was great. The music and art fit very well. Good job!"},{"author_name":"Kragnir","author_uid":"26709","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 11:52pm","epoch":1377647220,"text":"Interesting game. The amount of hp the base have is way too high."},{"author_name":"motty","author_uid":"25335","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 12:18am","epoch":1377648780,"text":"Neat little game. Graphics are nice but could be clearer. Love the deliberately arcane control mechanic."},{"author_name":"dancingflame","author_uid":"24718","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 3:46am","epoch":1377661260,"text":"Good tower offense! This game is fun to play but I feel the slaughter is a bit too strong. Nice game overall :)"},{"author_name":"flarb","author_uid":"21519","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 5:22am","epoch":1377667020,"text":"Pretty cool trimmed down RTS."},{"author_name":"withoutpillow","author_uid":"27525","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 5:24pm","epoch":1377710340,"text":"original and complex."},{"author_name":"RoyBatty","author_uid":"27802","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 5:22pm","epoch":1377796620,"text":"Took me a minute to catch on but quickly able to hold my own and advance, congrats on a great first entry! Controls took the game to a new fun level. :-)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>-thatwhichis, team RoyBatty"},{"author_name":"acro","author_uid":"21612","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 7:43pm","epoch":1377805080,"text":"clever use of 10 seconds! I didn't feel like I was getting anywhere, though. Is it winnable, or genuinely infinite as the title implies? Spamming behemoths wasn't as effective as I thought it might be... Only criticism, there's somehow too much text and it's a bit fiddly getting started."},{"author_name":"gre","author_uid":"18803","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 7:45pm","epoch":1377805200,"text":"I really don't get what's happening out there, you need to clearify the graphics IMHO"},{"author_name":"Almax27","author_uid":"21581","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 7:49pm","epoch":1377805440,"text":"Didn't get it at the start but it's pretty interesting, 999hp might be a bit long though :D"},{"author_name":"Thermite","author_uid":"27791","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 7:55pm","epoch":1377805800,"text":"Really smart design, just needs tuning for each match to finish a bit faster. . Good job!"},{"author_name":"esayitch","author_uid":"16000","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 7:58pm","epoch":1377805980,"text":"@acro: Game is winnable, easiest strat is play defensive until you got about 200 Power, then make mega Slaughterer push :) \r<br\/>@all: Thanks for the feedback, making games accessible is something I generally struggle in, but now I know on what to work!"},{"author_name":"klianc09","author_uid":"20290","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 8:00pm","epoch":1377806100,"text":"This is kinda hard. I really liked the controls, they made this much more interesting."},{"author_name":"michail","author_uid":"20486","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 8:24pm","epoch":1377807540,"text":"Nice game, and the graphics are also good!\r<br\/>But as for the music I found the reminder-of-rules post for the previous LD, I think it explains a lot (link: http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/2012\/04\/16\/a-quick-reminder-read-the-rules\/ ).\r<br\/>\r<br\/>&quot;The most important restriction some weren&rsquo;t aware of: ALL content must be created within 48 hours! This means you are NOT allowed to use graphics, sounds or music previously created by you or others. You are NOT allowed to use downloaded graphics, sounds or music, even if they are free and even if you modify them heavily! The only graphical third-party content you are allowed to use in your project are Fonts. The only third-party audio elements you are allowed to use are drum loops, drum samples and sampled instruments used for music creation.\r<br\/>You are, however, allowed to use Content generators that create graphics, sounds or even music on-the-fly based on parameters given as input. sfxr is a popular example.&quot;\r<br\/>\r<br\/>So I think you cannot use downloaded music from Internet in compo. You can use drum loops\/samples to make your own music, but not use a whole music track."},{"author_name":"esayitch","author_uid":"16000","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 8:57pm","epoch":1377809520,"text":"Ah damn :( Didn't know that... well... will be wiser for next LD I guess :P"},{"author_name":"fluffypillow","author_uid":"26652","time":"Aug 31, 2013 @ 2:17pm","epoch":1377958320,"text":"Really good gameplay. It's interesting how many things you can do with only 3 keys :)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>It's kinda hard to control with non-english keyboards since Z is on the place of Y."},{"author_name":"PaperBlurt","author_uid":"26530","time":"Sep 1, 2013 @ 8:55pm","epoch":1378068600,"text":"Nice job. Seems like Flixel offers plenty of possibilities for the non-coders. Must check it out!"},{"author_name":"esayitch","author_uid":"16000","time":"Sep 2, 2013 @ 1:40pm","epoch":1378128900,"text":"Wrote about 2000 lines of code (in flixel) to make this :P"}],"images":["ld27\/16000-023460e44c48a2c8c3fa955878de5a3b.jpg","ld27\/16000-7f651b8a1aedf7f3c5fc669dbcb9da88.jpg","ld27\/16000-4fd6a83b60d2741d79999e339ee5a7e0.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.swfcabin.com\/open\/1377463101","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.filedropper.com\/ludumdare27","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"24216","g_author":"16000","g_event":"LD27","g_eventkey":"18","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"24246","g_title":"Tower Infinity","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"332","g_commentcount":"40","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\/\/273708\/16000-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/273708\/16000-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/273708\/16000-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"NOTE: Game link might take 20-30 seconds to load!\r\n\r\nABOUT THE GAME:\r\n\r\nThis is a mini-RTS that doesn't use a mouse and takes away all the burden of micro-managing your units (even baddies like me can play it)! Your goal is to protect your tower and destroy your enemy's tower. To do that, you add modules to your tower that allow you train units, improve its defense, generate Power (a.k.a MONEY) or periodically send a group of weak units at your enemy.\r\n\r\nCommands are all carried out at intervals of 10 seconds; meaning once the big huge red counter reaches 0, all of the commands currently in the queue are carried out... you can also see what your devious opponent is carrying out, and react appropriately!\r\n\r\n\r\nCONTROLS:\r\n\r\nYou toggle the Z,X, and C keys on and off, and based on that, a command is generated (don't worry, the game explains what each command does).\r\n\r\nPressing Space will add the command to your Tower's queue, or, if the thing is not possible (you don't have enough Power for example, or you need to build something else first), then it notifies you why that is.\r\n\r\n\r\nGENERAL (FUN) INFO:\r\n\r\nThis is my first LD entry! Huzzah!\r\n\r\nI made everything using Flixel, paint.NET, and sfxr, barring the tubular, awesome track playing at the background, which was gotten from www.nosoapradio.us (a lifesaver!)\r\n\r\nI had a day to work on it due to a full time job on Sunday (I know, I know), but it turned out all right! Well, I hope so at least. If you liked it, drop me a line, if not, drop me two!\r\n\r\nAlso, peaches are tasty and Dani Ludum is innocent >:)","title":"Tower Infinity"}