{"author_link":"\/author\/dbralir\/","author_name":"DBRalir","author_uid":"10296","comments":[{"author_name":"Starmen","author_uid":"13726","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 1:01am","epoch":1346115360,"text":"This was really, really nice. It could've done with some instructions as I just kind of blundered about at first, and knowing what each of the upgrades did would've been handy, but I really would love to see more tower defence games with this kind of mechanic. You really are onto something. Great work."},{"author_name":"Cake&amp;Code","author_uid":"10976","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 7:05pm","epoch":1346180400,"text":"That was really cool! I too blundered through the game at first before realizing the upgrades were stacking when possible! Awesome idea and well executed too. The levels were different but it seems like my &quot;brute-force&quot; as many towers as possible approach worked for all of them (+continuous laser). Maybe some enemies that are immune to certain attack types would be a good addition. All in all, pretty darn fun!"},{"author_name":"kevincorrigan","author_uid":"15028","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 7:06pm","epoch":1346180460,"text":"I like this game, I like most Tower Defense games, this is good."},{"author_name":"ameliayn","author_uid":"15254","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 7:08pm","epoch":1346180580,"text":"When I try to play on the web, I get a ClassNotFoundException: com.pickandblade.towerevolution.GameContainer"},{"author_name":"DBRalir","author_uid":"10296","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 7:53pm","epoch":1346183280,"text":"If anyone gets a &quot;ClassNotFoundException&quot;, I really don't know what to do about it.  In my experience, this usually means the JAR file did not download or was corrupted.  Try checking your firewall or clearing your browser's cache."},{"author_name":"Switchbreak","author_uid":"2645","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 2:55am","epoch":1346208600,"text":"Really fun! The maps are well laid out and require some actual strategic planning to beat. Kinda frustrating how the shuffles can leave you SOL though. Would have also liked some sound! I hope you develop this game further."},{"author_name":"Accidental Rebel","author_uid":"5728","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 12:37pm","epoch":1346243520,"text":"Surprisingly fun! A fresh take on a genre that I have left long ago but it seems with this one, I might come to like it again. Continue this, please! :D"},{"author_name":"michax","author_uid":"14308","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 6:15pm","epoch":1346263800,"text":"What a nice TD game :) Loved upgrade system! Good job!"},{"author_name":"Zelen3d","author_uid":"13310","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 9:49pm","epoch":1346276640,"text":"This is possible the funnest game I played since I started rating games. It took me lots of time to get the game running...(realizing that I have to open the .html and not the jar). plus at the current time your web link shows error 404."},{"author_name":"Sergey Mohov","author_uid":"9963","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 10:07pm","epoch":1346277720,"text":"Dude, getting an error, man."},{"author_name":"DBRalir","author_uid":"10296","time":"Aug 30, 2012 @ 12:15am","epoch":1346285400,"text":"My sincerest apologies for the website being horrible, everything should be fixed now."},{"author_name":"darkshadow","author_uid":"15698","time":"Aug 30, 2012 @ 1:43pm","epoch":1346333880,"text":"I got this error from trying to run the java frame:\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Java Plug-in 1.6.0_31\r<br\/>Using JRE version 1.6.0_31-b05 Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM\r<br\/>User home directory = C:\\Users\\Alexander Dawn\r<br\/>----------------------------------------------------\r<br\/>c:   clear console window\r<br\/>f:   finalize objects on finalization queue\r<br\/>g:   garbage collect\r<br\/>h:   display this help message\r<br\/>l:   dump classloader list\r<br\/>m:   print memory usage\r<br\/>o:   trigger logging\r<br\/>q:   hide console\r<br\/>r:   reload policy configuration\r<br\/>s:   dump system and deployment properties\r<br\/>t:   dump thread list\r<br\/>v:   dump thread stack\r<br\/>x:   clear classloader cache\r<br\/>0-5: set trace level to &lt;n&gt;\r<br\/>----------------------------------------------------\r<br\/>\r<br\/>\r<br\/>java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: com\/pickandblade\/towerevolution\/GameContainer : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0\r<br\/>\tat java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)\r<br\/>\tat java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(Unknown Source)\r<br\/>\tat java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)\r<br\/>\tat java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)\r<br\/>\tat java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)\r<br\/>\tat java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)\r<br\/>\tat sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)\r<br\/>\tat sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)\r<br\/>\tat sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)\r<br\/>\tat java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)\r<br\/>\tat sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2ClassLoader.defineClassHelper(Unknown Source)\r<br\/>\tat sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2ClassLoader.access$100(Unknown Source)\r<br\/>\tat sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2ClassLoader$2.run(Unknown Source)\r<br\/>\tat java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)\r<br\/>\tat sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2ClassLoader.findClassHelper(Unknown Source)\r<br\/>\tat sun.plugin2.applet.Applet2ClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)\r<br\/>\tat sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2ClassLoader.loadClass0(Unknown Source)\r<br\/>\tat sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)\r<br\/>\tat sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)\r<br\/>\tat java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)\r<br\/>\tat sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2ClassLoader.loadCode(Unknown Source)\r<br\/>\tat sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2Manager.createApplet(Unknown Source)\r<br\/>\tat sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2Manager$AppletExecutionRunnable.run(Unknown Source)\r<br\/>\tat java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)\r<br\/>Exception: java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: com\/pickandblade\/towerevolution\/GameContainer : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0"},{"author_name":"DBRalir","author_uid":"10296","time":"Aug 30, 2012 @ 3:16pm","epoch":1346339460,"text":"@darkshadow, it seems you are using an older version of Java.  I will see about making my game compatible with 1.6, but I suggest updating."},{"author_name":"tupperwarespoon","author_uid":"15839","time":"Aug 31, 2012 @ 10:05am","epoch":1346407200,"text":"A nice idea, however I found that I was getting far too many upgrades, and not nearly enough towers. I was just changing my tower for the sake of using my options, not because I wanted to."},{"author_name":"Desi Quintans","author_uid":"14456","time":"Sep 1, 2012 @ 6:12am","epoch":1346479620,"text":"This was a good idea, but I did exactly what tupperwarespoon did, in that I used upgrades for the heck of it instead of actually needing them, or needing to put much thought into where I needed them most."},{"author_name":"thewiseguy99","author_uid":"14421","time":"Sep 2, 2012 @ 1:01am","epoch":1346547360,"text":"You had me at tower defense :)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Nicely done and very fun. I enjoyed it a lot."},{"author_name":"Vladp995","author_uid":"2185","time":"Sep 6, 2012 @ 11:45am","epoch":1346931600,"text":"Really cool idea, tower with 7 canons XD\r<br\/>But it's too easy when you instantly get the next upgrade, maybe you can add a timeout or something else so the game would be more challenging. Well done."},{"author_name":"Teknik","author_uid":"15737","time":"Sep 8, 2012 @ 7:28pm","epoch":1347132180,"text":"interesting change to a tower defense. i like that the upgrades are random. but it makes it to easy i think with the amount of new choices you let the user take."},{"author_name":"kibertoad","author_uid":"7122","time":"Sep 16, 2012 @ 6:02pm","epoch":1347818220,"text":"Balance seemed odd and icons not intuitive enough, but overall it wasn't bad :)."}],"images":["ld24\/10296-00a1eec2acc9027ec3d5cba4133abaa2.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/mc.pickandblade.com\/towerevolution.html","text":"Web"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/58229441\/Tower%20Evolution\/towerevolution.html","text":"Web (Mirror)"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/58229441\/towerevolution.zip","text":"Offline"},{"url":"http:\/\/mc.pickandblade.com\/towerevolution_src.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"29830","g_author":"10296","g_event":"LD24","g_eventkey":"12","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"29860","g_title":"Tower Evolution","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"105","g_commentcount":"19","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\/\/163678\/10296-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"A simple tower defense game in which your towers combine different upgrades to become a unique weapon.\r\n\r\nIf for some reason my very temporary and unreliable website goes down, the standalone version is basically a mirror of the site.  Open the HTML file to run it.\r\n\r\nInstructions are on the webpage.<\/p>","title":"Tower Evolution"}