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Tower Defense Paradise! by Sokuaisushi

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made by Sokuaisushi for LD 41 (JAM)

thumb.png A humorous mix between a tower defense and a visual novel.

(Note this is our first ever Game Jam, so please go easy on us!)

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You get a mix of humorous visual novel and strategy maze based tower defense, where your choices in the visual novel affect the strength of your towers.

Controls - Left click to advance visual novel - Left click to place tower (after selecting type) - Right click to cancel tower placement

"It's not a bug, it's a feature!" goodnufbug.gif

Programming and art done by Tyelor Klein (@Sokuaisushi), and Derek Sams (@DSCreate).

Background music "Beyond" by Lacky Inspired on SoundCloud

Music filed under Attribution 3.0 United States (CC BY 3.0 US)

Link: https://soundcloud.com/lakeyinspired

Windows https://sokuaisushi.itch.io/tower-defense-paradise
Source on GitHub https://github.com/DScreate/TowerDefenseParadise
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/tower-defense-paradise

Ratings

Overall 731th 3.32⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Fun 507th 3.38⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 452th 3.52⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Theme 424th 3.8⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 902th 2.917⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Audio 468th 3.188⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Humor 203th 3.614⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Mood 740th 3.095⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Given 32🗳️ 18🗨️

Feedback

Dubs_checker
24. Apr 2018 · 02:08 UTC
Its a lot better than we usually do.
Lightyn
24. Apr 2018 · 04:45 UTC
Love the music and feel! Checkout our "farming" nonsense here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/spoons-loaded
YuukiMakoto
24. Apr 2018 · 04:46 UTC
the visual novel tower-dating things can be a real interesting concept if you spend more time on it after jam. Like some anime style art or something.

We have also made a little game here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/typer-world-cup
You'll have my eternal gratitude if you'd check it out:-)
🎤 Sokuaisushi
24. Apr 2018 · 04:50 UTC
Thank you all so much for playing our game :smiley:

Now to play all of yours!
AzimuthGames
24. Apr 2018 · 05:40 UTC
The role play was pretty funny XD Though the pink text was hard to read. It was a good solid tower defense game and I liked being able to build lots of walls for making a maze. My game is a plane based one at https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/aerowrit-textflight-sim
GameDevMumin
24. Apr 2018 · 06:13 UTC
I laughed a lot during dialogs XD Game needs some improvement - just adding sounds when enemy gets hit etc. (it is very important, ya know!). But you hadn't a lot of time and it was your first game jam, so - it is pretty good for it! :D https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/remember-or-die Here is mine :D
svdvorak
24. Apr 2018 · 12:23 UTC
Pretty fun mashup of genres and very cute text. BLAMMO :)
Though I had issues when trying to build things in the TD-mode. It would deduct the cost yet not actually place the tower or wall.
Keithdae
24. Apr 2018 · 16:11 UTC
That was a cool concept, really fun dialogue ! Well done :)
🎤 Sokuaisushi
24. Apr 2018 · 16:12 UTC
@svdvorak that should only be happening if you try to make it impossible to path between the spawn and goal.

If you make the path impossible it will refund the tower you just placed but minus 10 credits for each time you've tried to block the path (to stop people from abusing it).

So a wall that blocks the path refunds no money, and then the next time you try to block the path you lose 10 credits, so on and so forth.

Thank you so much for rating and reviewing our game though! I'll be sure to do the same for you game when I get home :smiley:
🎤 Sokuaisushi
24. Apr 2018 · 16:15 UTC
@Keithdae thank you so much for the positive words of encouragement! We are so happy you like our concept and our dialogue :smiley:

I'll be sure to rate and review your game when I get home!
Elfcirynn
28. Apr 2018 · 19:46 UTC
Really kinda hope this gets polished up some more, would love to see what a fully realized version of this would look like! Well done!
TheMonsterFromTheDeep
03. May 2018 · 21:17 UTC
A good start to a game. I'm very intrigued as to where the tower-defense + dating-sim might go -- it could be, for example, the way to level-up towers, or maybe if a tower feels neglected it could choose to stop working. I think that would be pretty funny and certainly very unique.

I did only play the 1.01 version, so maybe I missed a couple of things. But it was fun nonetheless, and with future work could be pretty neat.
urbanhelsing
15. May 2018 · 15:24 UTC
Awesome tower defense. Very fun!
Anubhav Kashyap
15. May 2018 · 15:25 UTC
This is definitely one of my favourites, I'd like to see how it ends up. :thumbsup:

Link to my game -
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/123
Random Thoughts
15. May 2018 · 15:37 UTC
Of all the theme combinations I've seen so far this surprised me the most. good job!
shrinjoy_fox
15. May 2018 · 15:38 UTC
cool game man
here is our game:https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/boomball
🎤 Sokuaisushi
15. May 2018 · 15:43 UTC
Thank you all so much for the kind words!! I'll be sure to rate all of your games too :)
Lost Dutchman Software
15. May 2018 · 16:02 UTC
Your post on the front of site hooked me, I had to play this! Its a surprising combination and I had blast playing it.
🎤 Sokuaisushi
15. May 2018 · 16:05 UTC
@Lost-Dutchman-Software thank you so much for the kind words!! :) I'm really glad you enjoyed our game!
Langotriel
15. May 2018 · 19:12 UTC
The music is really nice to jam to :P

I wish the game was longer and I also wish the game characters had different things to say depending on the towers you used (I never used missle towers for example so it would be fun to see that tower get mad).

Great work, though!
🎤 Sokuaisushi
15. May 2018 · 19:31 UTC
@Langotriel Thank you so much for the kind words!! I'm glad you liked it :)

We had the idea to do things like that but ran short on time to implement such features.

And thank you so much to everyone who rated us and helped get the game above 20 aggregate ratings!!
nilead
15. May 2018 · 19:47 UTC
I miss having some characters to look at given that it has some visual novel elements to it? Although the gameplay was pretty fun!
codemaster
15. May 2018 · 19:49 UTC
Loved the music! I like the idea of a tower defense mixed with dating/relationship story. I think back to StarCraft 2 when you are able to customize your units depending on how your progress through the story.

Would really like to see this expanded upon after the jam, great job!
🎤 Sokuaisushi
15. May 2018 · 19:49 UTC
@nilead Thank for the review!!

The Visual Novel portion should have characters though. (They should be pixel art towers with anime blush).
jusw85
15. May 2018 · 20:20 UTC
I wanted to try it out, but there doesn't seem to be a Linux build :( Seem like it's Unity from the source code, next time you could also try exporting to WebGL, Linux, etc it's actually pretty easy and increases your audience :)