Defense of Your Craft by josefnpat
### Build for 10 seconds and then fight off the attackers with your friends!
Visit the web page for this game: http://missingsentinelsoftware.com/content/defense-your-craft
Defend your space station in this free-form tower defense game with up to five players! Use the money you accumulate to build more defenses, but be quick; you only have 10 seconds until the next wave!
Choose between three different classes:
* Soldier - Short range, but he packs a punch. His special is a shield boost that absorbs a lot of damage!
* Ranger - Long range, and faster than the rest. His special is a explosive area discharge! (You don't earn money with the special!)
* Medic - Pretty dopey, but his special is the only thing that can heal in the game!
For more games, visit missingsentinelsoftware.com!
Update: Due to the basic binaries having different versions of PhysicsFS between OS X and windows, I didn't catch this bug. This was fixed here. https://github.com/josefnpat/LD27/commit/b6ac91e37746bbb1ff3559c5b4b5676b769a1297 OS X users need to play b6ac91e (Downloads have been updated!)
Visit the web page for this game: http://missingsentinelsoftware.com/content/defense-your-craft
Defend your space station in this free-form tower defense game with up to five players! Use the money you accumulate to build more defenses, but be quick; you only have 10 seconds until the next wave!
Choose between three different classes:
* Soldier - Short range, but he packs a punch. His special is a shield boost that absorbs a lot of damage!
* Ranger - Long range, and faster than the rest. His special is a explosive area discharge! (You don't earn money with the special!)
* Medic - Pretty dopey, but his special is the only thing that can heal in the game!
For more games, visit missingsentinelsoftware.com!
Update: Due to the basic binaries having different versions of PhysicsFS between OS X and windows, I didn't catch this bug. This was fixed here. https://github.com/josefnpat/LD27/commit/b6ac91e37746bbb1ff3559c5b4b5676b769a1297 OS X users need to play b6ac91e (Downloads have been updated!)
Ratings
| Coolness | 90% | 2 |
| Overall | 3.40 | 246 |
| Audio | 3.20 | 199 |
| Fun | 3.23 | 319 |
| Graphics | 3.09 | 427 |
| Humor | 2.09 | 644 |
| Innovation | 3.09 | 465 |
| Mood | 2.83 | 470 |
| Theme | 3.11 | 620 |
Here's the error message: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/168626814/Screen%20Shot%202013-08-26%20at%204.29.18%20PM.png
Sorry for the weird black bar overlay. I'm streaming. xD
@PaidGEEK Glad you liked it. I was hoping folks would get the 10 seconds thing.
@leafo I think that might have been an accident ... haha ... Thanks for watching!
@moonmagic I'm getting a lot of folks not liking the controls, and it makes sense. I should have abstracted movement from shooting.
@Pestodesign Thanks, I spent quite some time balancing it. As much as I could witha cat on my arms ...
@Impmaster Fixed!
@codifeye I'm glad you liked it. iNudge is a great tool!
@GNecro1 <3
@Crowbeak Thanks for pointing this out, it has been fixed. Thanks for playing it on your stream!
@Aurel300 Fixed!
@BlackBulletIV Thanks! The game is designed to be 1 to 5, so it scales properly.
Oh. and love<3
It's also a shame we can only give 5 stars for audio. The music is great!
I also only tried in single player.
Make it a bit easier, would be really fun.
I got to about level 6 with my laptop trackpad.
Love2d is amazing:) I'm glad you took advantage of it's controller adaptability or however you want to describe it.
I think you should keep working on it and make it even more fun:D
For anyone who thinks the game is too hard in single player, keep in mind the game is only supposed to last about ten minutes per round! I have solo beaten level 8, but I will admit it is hard as hell.
@Linus Lindberg - Explosions ALMOST made it in. And then I realized I had been working for 22 hours straight. With 6 hours left, it was no time to add more features.
@vrld - The controls most def need some cleaning up. I'm thinking of separating the axis so that move is wasd and aim is mouse (for xbox, move would be left stick, and aim would be right stick). I'm glad you liked the music. I seem to have a quick and dirty way of making awesome music now, which is great for LD's. I'm glad you like the game! It means a lot coming from you!
@Ramon Imbao - Cheers!
@panuo - The most I have as a tutorial is the splash screen at the start of the game that shows the controls, but regardless this would be a really good idea. I was hoping that upgrading turrets would be an "accidental" learning thing, where someone would accidentally build a building on an older building and realize it upgrades. I need to figure out how to make that clearer.
@flamecow - I'm glad you liked it! Go get some controllers and play with a buddy! I hear ps3 and 3rd party controllers work as well!
@rzfmzn - Cheers!
@epicSpeedTurtle - I'm glad you enjoyed it. The game is only supposed to be a 10 minute game, but I'm glad I got you coming back for more!
@ratalaika - Thank you! I spent two hours sitting chatting with folks thinking about a theme. Originally the game was NOT going to be set in space. Haha!
@Latcarf - Yes, the controls could use some cleanup, I agree. Here are some tips: build your buildings around your base to slow down enemies, and upgrade them to help kill them! Be sure to figure out how your alternate works. Get more players to get more advanced tactics down!
@ellipticaldoor - Thank you! I'm getting mixed reviews on the controllers, but it's good that I'm getting good and bad feedback about it. the controls are ... not what one would expect.
@headchant - Thank you, that means a lot to me! I spent two hours getting the idea, and then made a MVP by hour 28 (which as leafo pointed out on the stream).
@apaneske - Cheers!
@SpiralCodeStudio - Hards's the name of the game! If you want to do better, understand how the building upgrades work, build a better defense, and for god's sake: find some friends!
@Sheep - I'm glad you found it intuitive! The intro music is from my lovesplash library! github.com/josefnpat/lovesplash/
@alts - With multiple players, folks can take different roles, so you can let your friends do the building, and you can do the shooting! Yell at them too. It should help.
@MunkeeBacon - I'm impressed! The trackpad folks didn't like the controls at all (go figured!). I'm glad you like it, LÖVE is an amazing framework with a lot of capability. I may just do that, so I can get it into vapor!
@LittleThor - I'm glad you were challenged! I will work on the controls. Heh.
@Niavlys - I'm glad you like the game. The violet bad guys are the "bosses" of each class.
@recursor - Haha, building on previous buildings is how you upgrade! I'm working on the controls. As for playing this with your kids, I'm honored! I'm glad you liked it, and hope your kids do too!
The game crashed when I tried to toggle to fullscreen, but fullscreen worked after I pressed "M" to switch resolution. My res is 1366x768.
Controls felt fine to me, but I was mostly playing the Ranger. I think the fact that the soldier needs to get close, but can't back away and shoot, might be the problem for most folk.
Sadly not able to play on Multplayer, but I suspect that with more players, the base building would be a lot more rewarding.