{"author_link":"\/author\/wyzfen\/","author_name":"Wyzfen","author_uid":"87","comments":[{"author_name":"matthias_zarzecki","author_uid":"3880","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 10:26am","epoch":1335176460,"text":"Nice take on tower defense! Also, I'm a bit motion-sick now."},{"author_name":"mikolalysenko","author_uid":"5670","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 8:13pm","epoch":1335211680,"text":"Can't play on linux :("},{"author_name":"Pixelulsar","author_uid":"10737","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 8:18pm","epoch":1335211980,"text":"Great concept and it was pretty fun!  However, once I got all four towers and upgraded them I just needed to watch until the game ended.  It was lacking a bit in features, but I'd love to play it again if you add in more featues."},{"author_name":"Hume","author_uid":"11218","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 8:18pm","epoch":1335211980,"text":"Tower defense on an...icosahedron? Woo!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Well, the enemies don't attack the planet. But, the turrets work and can be upgraded. That's all good.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I think that if I could have died, I would have very quickly."},{"author_name":"AlwaysGeeky","author_uid":"11531","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 8:36pm","epoch":1335213060,"text":"Tower defence is always good :)"},{"author_name":"Wyzfen","author_uid":"87","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 8:45pm","epoch":1335213600,"text":"Thanks for the comments.\r<br\/>I've got a long list of features still to add (including enemies attacking, more \/ stronger enemies and towers, and different tower \/ enemy types)."},{"author_name":"dr_soda","author_uid":"8342","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 9:57pm","epoch":1335217920,"text":"Not bad, though I agree with Pixelulsar.  The game does seem to lack involvement after you've placed all your turrets.  \r<br\/>\r<br\/>I like the little blasty sound effects!"},{"author_name":"Gremlin","author_uid":"12047","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 10:43pm","epoch":1335220680,"text":"Agree with some of the things above (need more turrets! and upgrades!) but you've got a very promising start, here."},{"author_name":"R3ason","author_uid":"6105","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 9:18am","epoch":1335258780,"text":"Great! Love the unique twist on a tower defense game!  As a previous poster mentioned, it is a bit easy once you have all the towers, but hey, considering it was done in 12 hours, I'm certainly impressed! Great job!"},{"author_name":"Gareth Jenkins","author_uid":"7693","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 9:21am","epoch":1335258960,"text":"A better difficulty curve would make a lot of difference -- it just ended without me figuring out how to develop skills."},{"author_name":"Darien","author_uid":"7355","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 9:20pm","epoch":1335302100,"text":"It's a good start, to be sure."},{"author_name":"YSelf Tool","author_uid":"10854","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 9:22pm","epoch":1335302220,"text":"Nice game, good idea (3d tower defense), fun to play, just lacking music\/sound :)"},{"author_name":"schizofunky","author_uid":"11944","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 9:22pm","epoch":1335302220,"text":"Very nice! Shame it isn't longer! I can imagine given more time you could expand on this lots with different turrets and bigger worlds! :)"},{"author_name":"LukeRissacher","author_uid":"10956","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 9:26pm","epoch":1335302460,"text":"Interesting concept; couldn't place more than 4 turrets though, despite getting a lot of resources - would be cool to have to keep upgrading constantly, while the onslaught gets crazier and crazier :) No bugs or anything though, worked good."},{"author_name":"uberneen","author_uid":"10893","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 12:31am","epoch":1335399960,"text":"I finally got my unity plugin fixed!\r<br\/>Good game, a bit shallow but a solid concept."},{"author_name":"jwolf","author_uid":"11073","time":"Apr 27, 2012 @ 9:57pm","epoch":1335563520,"text":"It needs more, but it's a pretty good start!  The graphics and style are pretty decent."},{"author_name":"desmarkie","author_uid":"12355","time":"Apr 27, 2012 @ 10:01pm","epoch":1335563760,"text":"Short and simple. Not a huge td fan, but I like the 3d element here."},{"author_name":"zkenshin","author_uid":"12839","time":"Apr 28, 2012 @ 3:29pm","epoch":1335626640,"text":"Interesting take on Tower Defense games. Liked it :)"},{"author_name":"geekygenius","author_uid":"6529","time":"Apr 29, 2012 @ 9:30pm","epoch":1335734700,"text":"Neat way to do a tower defense, I would have liked to be able to rotate the world to get to some of my turrets on the other side, but that also might be a challenging game mechanic. Good job!"},{"author_name":"Wyzfen","author_uid":"87","time":"Apr 30, 2012 @ 9:32am","epoch":1335778020,"text":"Thanks for all the comments.\r<br\/>Geekygenius: you can rotate the world using the cursor keys."},{"author_name":"Zythiku","author_uid":"10786","time":"May 1, 2012 @ 5:03am","epoch":1335848280,"text":"Interesting idea. The sound effects were really satisfying."},{"author_name":"Pacifist Games","author_uid":"10510","time":"May 6, 2012 @ 8:48pm","epoch":1336336980,"text":"I enjoyed it, would love to see it expanded.  I didn't like how the world spun, made it harder to select what I wanted to.  The graphics were nice and colorful, great job!  :)"},{"author_name":"asfdfdfd","author_uid":"2404","time":"May 6, 2012 @ 8:56pm","epoch":1336337460,"text":"Good idea."},{"author_name":"CherryNukaCola","author_uid":"4966","time":"May 8, 2012 @ 8:45am","epoch":1336466400,"text":"Strangely compelling... couldn't figure out how I was gathering resources, but maybe that was just silly me!"},{"author_name":"Birchmountain","author_uid":"10933","time":"May 10, 2012 @ 4:00pm","epoch":1336665300,"text":"A fun idea that looks good and play well!"},{"author_name":"TyrusPeace","author_uid":"5305","time":"May 10, 2012 @ 7:52pm","epoch":1336679220,"text":"It was a bit too hard to figure out the paths for the enemies, but I realized that didn't matter too much since they'd just start orbiting anyhow.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Nice work for 48 hours!  This is definitely a good start for something if you're interested in taking it further; I'd just be a bit worried about the motion sickness issues some others have brought up in this case."},{"author_name":"Raptor85","author_uid":"7131","time":"May 11, 2012 @ 9:59pm","epoch":1336773240,"text":"can't test, no unity web player on linux"},{"author_name":"Terra","author_uid":"2414","time":"May 13, 2012 @ 3:39am","epoch":1336880040,"text":"Pretty clever! Not much challenge though."}],"images":["ld23\/87-7a52abf2b2d2981f5f985ca3623454b7.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/7760581\/LastColony\/LastColony.html","text":"Web (Unity)"},{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/7760581\/LD23-LastColony.rar","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"30153","g_author":"87","g_event":"LD23","g_eventkey":"10","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"30183","g_title":"The Last Colony","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"462","g_commentcount":"28","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\/\/123793\/87-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"I'm happy with how this turned out - an onslaught style tower-defence game in 12 hours :)\r\n\r\nI still need to add more waves, balance it, give them abilities (shields etc) and add more than one tower type.\r\n\r\nMade with unity, bfxr and spacescape.\r\n\r\nControls:\r\nRotate the view with the cursor keys.\r\nClick on a triangle to select it, then click the 'build' button to construct a tower (the button is just below the planet).\r\nThere's a limit of 4 towers (I put the limit in at the end as it's too easy - you can beat it with just 1 tower)<\/p>","title":"The Last Colony"}