{"author_link":"\/author\/epicruins195\/","author_name":"Epicruins195","author_uid":"60072","comments":[{"author_name":"Caspila","author_uid":"45038","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 5:38am","epoch":1450157580,"text":"Looks like the links are broken!"},{"author_name":"flukeshot","author_uid":"42528","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 5:42am","epoch":1450157820,"text":"Yeah, links are broken atm."},{"author_name":"AuthorX","author_uid":"56526","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 5:47am","epoch":1450158120,"text":"Broken links - did you make your game public on itch.io?"},{"author_name":"BloodJohn","author_uid":"26449","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 5:50am","epoch":1450158300,"text":"I'll be original\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Links are broken! :("},{"author_name":"Epicruins195","author_uid":"60072","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 5:50am","epoch":1450158300,"text":"Oops, forgot to make it public. Fixed the broken links."},{"author_name":"Charging Llama","author_uid":"29677","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 7:26am","epoch":1450164060,"text":"Really enjoyed the graphics and the idea and design. Only complaint would be that at a certain point you just can't stop them, not enough lava. Still fun though! :)"},{"author_name":"zaniarm","author_uid":"65319","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 7:41am","epoch":1450164960,"text":"Brilliant game, solid gameplay and I just love the graphics. So nice and soothing :)"},{"author_name":"AdamAlexander","author_uid":"64995","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 7:51am","epoch":1450165560,"text":"The game looks great, and it's fun being able to build up your island. Couldn't entirely figure out how the mountains affected the pirates, sometimes they would just walk over the tops of them. Also I didn't know what to do with all my life energy, I guess this is for future content? Overall it looks like the makings of a great game!"},{"author_name":"Strike","author_uid":"56894","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 8:03am","epoch":1450166280,"text":"Good, now my entire office is trying to figure out what's the best way to build this island :D"},{"author_name":"Epicruins195","author_uid":"60072","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 8:32am","epoch":1450168020,"text":"@Charging Llama\r<br\/>Thanks! I cut it close getting the game finished as is, didn't really have time to balance it much. The game seemed too easy so I made it much harder before release, maybe I went too far?"},{"author_name":"Epicruins195","author_uid":"60072","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 8:34am","epoch":1450168140,"text":"@AdamAlexander\r<br\/>Thanks. The pirates are supposed to avoid the mountains unless there are no other possible paths, but my implementation isn't exactly what you'd call &quot;good code&quot;. Life energy is mainly used to grow jungles which damage the pirates. Could be explained better in game, but I ran out of time for a tutorial."},{"author_name":"micky","author_uid":"63864","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 11:15am","epoch":1450177800,"text":"good concept, had some fun playing :)"},{"author_name":"AdamsMcCall","author_uid":"62022","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 11:29am","epoch":1450178640,"text":"Awesome game, nice concept, nice graphics :D"},{"author_name":"jsmars","author_uid":"3933","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 11:34am","epoch":1450178940,"text":"Hey man, awesome game! I probably played 45 minutes. Really great start and could have been superb if you had some more time. Was surprisingly fun even tho there was so little. A bit of audio, more options and difficulty would really help, but it seems you know a lot of what you need to do.\r<br\/>Got to 800 moves and got bored because it didn't get any harder, and also it was too slow waiting on all the pirates to move, I'd suggest making several move at the same time so that waiting on pirates never took longer than a second or so.\r<br\/>Here is my island: http:\/\/imgur.com\/RrbFuc7"},{"author_name":"Lapiroxx","author_uid":"66346","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 11:40am","epoch":1450179300,"text":"Interesting idea, would looove to see this fleshed out a bit more, I think it really has potential. :)"},{"author_name":"Afendar","author_uid":"54436","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 11:55am","epoch":1450180200,"text":"Funny game ! Graphism are good and mechanic is fun ! I like it I have played 1 hour of your game XD."},{"author_name":"ashdnazg","author_uid":"21623","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 12:06pm","epoch":1450180860,"text":"This is an interesting game, requires more thought than it seems at first. \r<br\/>I messed up (more than once...) by losing my life income :D\r<br\/>Your graphic style looks great!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Sound effects and music were really missing, it's best to leave an hour or two for hacking something (anything) in (such as recording silly sfx with a crappy microphone) even at the cost of leaving other stuff out."},{"author_name":"Epicruins195","author_uid":"60072","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 1:27pm","epoch":1450185720,"text":"@jsmars\r<br\/>Thanks for the feedback! Originally the pirates did move all at once, but that changed in the last few hours due to some problems with the way I was animating them. The mid-late game definitely needs some serious improvements, and also some ways to mix it up so that all islands don't end up as jungle spirals of death."},{"author_name":"Epicruins195","author_uid":"60072","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 1:32pm","epoch":1450186020,"text":"@ashdnazg\r<br\/>It is way too easy to mess up at the start. Maybe I'll start the game with a forest next to the volcano, or maybe just plant a tree on the volcano. :)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Its a shame about the lack of audio, but I got caught up in fixing bugs with the AI (why did I choose to implement path finding in my first Ludum Dare), and polishing things that really aren't that important (like the UI hover information). I'll be sure to plan out a time frame for my next jam. Thanks for the feedback!"},{"author_name":"NuclearCellar","author_uid":"66283","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 3:22pm","epoch":1450192620,"text":"Very addictive strategy game. Once you realize you build jungles you are unstoppable."},{"author_name":"HongerTrollie","author_uid":"64529","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 5:32pm","epoch":1450200420,"text":"Lovely game. I like the graphics style.  I see you have &quot;removing mountains&quot; in the future direction list... Good idea :)"},{"author_name":"candlesan","author_uid":"42159","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 7:23am","epoch":1450250280,"text":"Great game! Loved the simple graphics, very attractive. The gameplay was interesting! After about 600 turns of creating snaky mazes for the pirates I walled myself in completely to see what happened and they jumped. Lots of fun!"},{"author_name":"Rodaja","author_uid":"29557","time":"Dec 18, 2015 @ 11:27am","epoch":1450437720,"text":"Good game! Seems you have most concerns already on your list. I was having a lot of fun creating a spiral of death until I misclicked and created a mountain blocking the path, and then the pirates started to just jump the mountains and ended my plan. Had a lot of fun, as I said, and wish to see this become a full game. Good job!"},{"author_name":"thebrickanator","author_uid":"50329","time":"Dec 20, 2015 @ 7:24am","epoch":1450595940,"text":"pretty nice ;)"},{"author_name":"MercuryXGames","author_uid":"56141","time":"Dec 29, 2015 @ 4:17pm","epoch":1451405520,"text":"This game is quite fun, but needs more tweaking when it comes to difficulty. The game is easy at start, gets too easy in the middle of the game, and is nearly impossible late-game. Loved the design tho"},{"author_name":"astrophics","author_uid":"54166","time":"Jan 4, 2016 @ 10:24pm","epoch":1451945940,"text":"Really cool game! Nothing to say about graphics\/gameplay, but it would've been nice with audio\/music"}],"images":["ld34\/60072-016afa338315ba4204cd13e3c927045b.jpg","ld34\/60072-08825dad7203ab946eba68c1d3d55cf9.jpg","ld34\/60072-836361a598d6cd9a9aabcf3f95d21ce1.jpg","ld34\/60072-9bf636bea948d62cc0f132eb7a967d14.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/epicruins195.itch.io\/island-defence","text":"OS X"},{"url":"http:\/\/epicruins195.itch.io\/island-defence","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/h20vpoqrh841u57\/Island%20Defence%20v1.0.1%20%28Source%29.zip?dl=0","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"5897","g_author":"60072","g_event":"LD34","g_eventkey":"31","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"6003","g_title":"Island Defence","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"217","g_commentcount":"26","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/60072-shot0-1450150402.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/60072-shot1-1450150402.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/60072-shot2-1450150402.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/60072-shot3-1450150402.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"FIXED THE BROKEN LINKS\r\n\r\nYou play as a sentient volcano expanding your island into the vast ocean, while defending against greedy pirates that hunger for the treasure buried deep below you.\r\n\r\nMade in 72 hours for the Ludum Dare 34 Jam.\r\n\r\nTOOLS\r\n- Unity\r\n- MonoDevelop\r\n- Gimp\r\n- Blender\r\n- Sublime Text 3\r\n- Dropbox\r\n\r\nINSTRUCTIONS\r\n- Left mouse: Erupt, Right mouse: Grow\r\n- Middle mouse button: move camera\r\n\r\n- Expand your island\r\n- Grow forests to produce Life Power\r\n- Upgrade your volcano (by placing adjacent mountains) to produce Lava\r\n\r\n- Pirates will periodically attack, with the goal of escaping with the treasure buried beneath your volcano\r\n- Shoot the pirates with lava at the beginning\r\n- Build up mountains and jungles to funnel and defeat invading pirates\r\n- Once it is dug up, the pirates will try to escape with the treasure - but you can still delay them\r\n\r\n- Survive for as many turns as possible AND\r\n- Have fun (I hope)\r\n\r\nKNOWN ISSUES\r\n- Game balance may be completely off, I don't know. I haven't had enough time to test it properly (I barely \"completed\" the game in time).\r\n- There are sound and music buttons in game, but no actual audio. I didn't have time to implement any.\r\n\r\nFUTURE DIRECTION\r\nIf I continue to work on this game, which I probably will at some point:\r\n- Game balancing\r\n- More ways to defeat pirates\r\n- Multiple pirate units (E.G. Pirate Bosses, flying steampunk pirates?)\r\n- Visual connection of tiles (E.G. mountains forming together instead of just repeating)\r\n- In-game tutorial\r\n- Only being able to expand from existing ground tiles\r\n- Actual models for pirate units\r\n- Saving\/loading games\r\n- Scenarios\r\n- Smarter pirates (or dumber depending of difficulty)\r\n- A way to remove mountains\r\n- Larger maps\r\n- A better title\r\n- Procedural generation\r\n- Optimization\r\n- Music and sound effects\r\n\r\nCHANGELOG\r\nv1.0.1\r\n- Fixed units pathing across mountains when they shouldn't\r\n- Fixed infinite ensnaring of treasure-carrying units","title":"Island Defence"}