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Tower Rancher by PaperbackGorilla

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made by PaperbackGorilla for LD 41 (JAM)

Tower Rancher is pet sim, tower defense game!

Adopt a young tower and improve its stats with various training minigames. After 10 days send it valiantly into battle as it defends the village against hordes of baddies looking to do harm!

If your first tower doesn't succeed, don't worry! You'll be able to raise four more to help it fight, before the oldest one needs to be replaced.

Controls :

LMB to click on various UI

Escape to bring up options menu

Everything else is explained in-game!

Have fun.

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Windows https://paperbackgorilla.itch.io/tower-rancher
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/tower-rancher

Ratings

Overall 47th 4.15⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Fun 234th 3.725⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 126th 3.95⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Theme 27th 4.429⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 122th 4.31⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Audio 140th 3.825⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Humor 199th 3.632⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Mood 298th 3.625⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Given 29🗳️ 2🗨️

Feedback

frozenfire92
24. Apr 2018 · 03:28 UTC
This game was a lot of fun. It was very polished from start to finish, and quite balanced in terms of difficulty. I would definitely be interested in playing a full version. The graphics, sound, and theme all complemented each other quite well. Good work
Bodaciouslycrazy
24. Apr 2018 · 03:34 UTC
Fantastic job! I honestly think this is an improvement to tower defense as a genre. ;)
tigerj
24. Apr 2018 · 03:36 UTC
I had a really fun time, I noticed if I pressed space bar for range training it would auto win on start.
BitJester Media
24. Apr 2018 · 03:38 UTC
Definitely the most adorable tower defense *I've* ever played. My tower's name is Tori and she is a very good girl.
Sondrian
24. Apr 2018 · 03:47 UTC
What's this?! A game where I can power level my tower'mon to smash the enemy flat? I'll take two! I had a lot of fun playing this game. Good music that took me back to my days playing game boy late at night smashing team Rocket's groin in. The idea of building up your tower was an interesting idea, and a good use of the theme.

Some of the mechanics need tweeked though, I was able to win with only two towers and one of them did all the work. The speed upgrade is unreal. I had one tower doing something like 8 dmg attacking 0.75 times per second, and the second tower had a damage of 2 and attacked something like 6 times per second. It wa almost 3x the damage output.

Overall it was a great entry and I really enjoyed it. Short but sweet. Great job!
Atreyu
24. Apr 2018 · 03:59 UTC
This is a very hilarious game and I absolutely love the concept
Inventivum Games
24. Apr 2018 · 04:11 UTC
Good job the game was great how ever it was a little easy i finished the game with only two towers i think it would be good to keep making it better with more levels, you could have it going real time so you could be training new towers while the battle was still going.
GeroX
24. Apr 2018 · 04:31 UTC
The Game is really nice, but I accidentally skipped text in the Attack Training.
Amazura
24. Apr 2018 · 20:51 UTC
Nice game and love the arts.
Jungle
25. Apr 2018 · 12:59 UTC
Nice entry! Funny game and theme. The idea to pet the towers is very nice, minigames are simple yet funny. Congratulations.
Beebo Studios
25. Apr 2018 · 13:17 UTC
This game is amazing! Really, there is not a thing I don't love about this idea and implementation! It's weird how attached you can get to buildings made of stone :D
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