Guardians of Lalaland by blanky

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made by blanky for LD 43 (COMPO)

Lore

Your clan lives to protect the people of the floating Isle. Lately the Moantain people starting "sacrificing" the people by sending them of to the hole in the middle of the Isle, or as they call it, sacred wholly-pooly. angry face.

Don't lose a soul!

Instructions

The instructions can be found on the start screen as info "bubbles" on the icons and text. Be sure to read it as it disappears once you start playing the game.

Here is the general idea: It's a tower defense game. Mine stone to build towers "Rescue Centers". refer to the info "bubbles" in the start of the game for more information.

The idea was to restrict the build of the rescue centers to the grass areas only.

Still having troubles?

#

Trouble placing rescue centers? Click on and hold the rescue center button and drag and drop the rescue center on a piece of grass where the sacrifices travel.

Theme Applicability

The whole game is about sacrifices that "must be made". Not by the player, but by the the "enemy". This is accentuated by the angry face text in the lore. The DAYS info bubble (at the start of the game) further accentuate this with the 'at 5am' text. There must be a strong feeling of "MUST" to do this at 5am each morning...

Tools used:

  • Unity
    • SuperTiles2Unity
  • Tiles
  • PyxelEdit

Ratings

Given 8🗳️ 5🗨️

Feedback

wie_
03. Dec 2018 · 15:09 UTC
I played this, and you explained the lore, but there was no sort of guide on how to play the game. There is just two buttons which i don't understand what they do. Also i don't really know how this fits the "sacrifices must be made" theme, when you are trying to avert sacrifices.
🎤 blanky
04. Dec 2018 · 05:07 UTC
I updated my comments to address the missing info you highlighted. Thanks @wie
Kaleido
04. Dec 2018 · 17:51 UTC
Still a little confused about how to play the game! I like the story and visuals.
🎤 blanky
04. Dec 2018 · 18:21 UTC
Thanks for the feedback @kaleido. I added some more feedback info for the next guys comming to try out the game.
dob
09. Dec 2018 · 06:58 UTC
The game doesn't seem to work. I clicked the "rescue center" button, but nothing appeared on screen, and I had no option to do anything after. I mined stone, did it again, nothing. Eventually, guys walked to the middle of the screen, and despite building three or four invisible rescue centers, they died. Game over. Then, when I replay, the remaining guys are still on screen and die almost immediately. No idea what's going on. Interesting idea and a nice 8-bit graphics style, though.
🎤 blanky
09. Dec 2018 · 12:17 UTC
Thanks for the feedback dob.
I noticed now that I should have made the rescue center button to click and place instead of drag and drop :(
Would have been easier to know how to play.
The mining has a cooldown. The dark image replacing the button was intended to convey that it is on cooldown. A loading spinner would probably have been beter :/

Sorry that you couldn't really play the game.
Raveroth
11. Dec 2018 · 16:43 UTC
Nice!