Text Tower Defense by EarthenSky
For my submission I decided to make a text-based tower defense game.
I learned while making this game, that balancing a game is pretty difficult.
^^

Windows download is in the Download section of the itch.io page.
| HTML5 (web) | https://earthensky.itch.io/text-tower-defense |
| Windows | https://earthensky.itch.io/text-tower-defense |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/text-tower-defense |
Ratings
| Given | 0🗳️ | 0🗨️ |
The verdict, after 10+ attempts: It's possible, but barely. https://i.imgur.com/q9Z0C7l.png
I found that there was an _extremely_ narrow strategy that could win. In the early game, tower placement has to be on a very small set of tiles; I found the only way not to enter a downward spiral starting with wave 4 and continuing in waves 6 and 7 was to build my first three short-range towers in a very specific part of the map. After that, short towers had to be ditched completely (at a very specific point - I think it was wave 12 or 13) and long towers placed very carefully in the outside positions, moving inward, or else they would be overwhelmed by the number of enemies.
The game did at least get me invested enough to spend a respectable chunk of time trying to puzzle it out, but it would have been more enjoyable with just a little bit more leeway in tower placement.