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What is this? A Cake for Ants?! by glitchroy

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made by glitchroy for LD 40 (JAM)

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Ants and other critters want to eat your hard earned cake! :cake:
Defeat them with microwaves, toast and various kitchen appliances in this tower-defense style game.
Can you reach wave 25?

Controls:

  • Resize with "M"
  • Restart the game with "R"

Left Mouse Button: - Drag Units to buy them - Rotate Units

Right Mouse Button: - Pan around the board - Click on units to sell them for half price

Spacebar or "Start"-Button: Start Wave

If an ant get's stuck on the way to it's goal, you can hold CTRL to speed it up. (This does not speed up your units, though!)

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Thanks for playing and have fun!

Windows https://glitch-roy.itch.io/ld40-a-cake-for-ants
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/what-is-this-a-cake-for-ants

Ratings

Overall 374th 3.63⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Fun 126th 3.87⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 1076th 2.413⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Theme 1057th 2.63⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 424th 3.729⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Audio 354th 3.386⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Humor 285th 3.477⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Mood 603th 3.238⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Given 39🗳️ 15🗨️

Feedback

Miguel Polvora
05. Dec 2017 · 22:37 UTC
nice tower defence, good job!
chispaLBC
05. Dec 2017 · 22:46 UTC
I love this game. Great music, nice graphics... but :

* it gets repetitive after 10 waves
* some waves dont give enough money
* you can't move a unit once you placed it

But knowing that this was made in 72 hours it's a 10/10 :smile: (well maybe the theme is not really correct hmmm)
Neill Robson
05. Dec 2017 · 22:59 UTC
Lovely game! I found myself a bit addicted to it, which I didn't at all expect! Was a bit confused at how the game adhered to the theme (unless you were just referring to the waves of enemies getting worse). Fantastic job overall though!
spaceturtle
05. Dec 2017 · 23:00 UTC
I really like the graphics and the theme! The speed up key is a very useful feature. I think the gameplay would be more interesting if it was more difficult, I played until wave 15 but didn't lose any health.
Reality Blind
06. Dec 2017 · 00:23 UTC
Nice graphics, good job !
Poorwill
06. Dec 2017 · 00:26 UTC
It's a decent tower defense game. I feel that the fact that tower placement wasn't grid based was also innovative, it did make placing towers in tighter places a tad bit finicky. Nice game overall. I appreciate the memes also.
Sand-Gardeners
06. Dec 2017 · 00:40 UTC
Very well done tower defense for a game made in 72 hours! Wished there was a grid or being able to move units so space don't get wasted uselessely! Good job though!
mateusculpo
06. Dec 2017 · 00:48 UTC
Music very good
Very good graphics
Nice gameplay
and a bug, (I lost some towers by putting them in places I can not even sell, out of sight)
Raphael Huot
06. Dec 2017 · 00:48 UTC
Cutest tower defense I ever played :) I loved it! Nice audio too :P
Siege
06. Dec 2017 · 01:22 UTC
Most fun I've had while judging so far! Great work!
fluidvolt
06. Dec 2017 · 01:56 UTC
Very cool! Don't typically play tower defense games but this one was simple enough for me to enjoy! The visuals are very slick and clean, and the set-up christmas-y music is nice and relaxing. Good work on this!
Squatch
06. Dec 2017 · 02:58 UTC
@fluidvolt

Didn't expect you to be here. Love your music!
Squatch
06. Dec 2017 · 02:59 UTC
Neat little tower defense game. There's one glitch where if you hold down left click when creating a tower and press right click it crashes the game.
Noah Beckman
06. Dec 2017 · 03:06 UTC
Wow Love this Got to wave 22 probably could play this for a long time. Great Entry!

Come check out our game!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/virus-detected
Cpttritium
06. Dec 2017 · 03:29 UTC
Great example of a tower defense, and using the appliances were awesome towers. Very good visuals, for such a low resolution.
Versatile Box
06. Dec 2017 · 04:23 UTC
Hey, that's pretty good!
Loved them graphics
SubWooferX3
06. Dec 2017 · 07:16 UTC
Very fun, My only complaint is that the game runs at a very tiny resolution, not giving a lot of space for gameplay
Raogs
08. Dec 2017 · 18:37 UTC
maybe a bit too toaster.. em i meant easy. But quite good.
Stormharrier
09. Dec 2017 · 09:58 UTC
I thought this was really difficult, until I read the instructions properly and realised that the speed up key only affected the enemies and not my appliances! After that, and once I got to about level 10, it was a bit too easy - pretty much all of the enemies were dead by the bottom of the first loop. I got to level 26 without losing any health at all. But balancing aside (who has time for that in a game jam!), it was really enjoyable! The idea of fending off bugs with kitchen appliances is particularly good! And I'm really impressed at how small the download was.