May2020-Attack Of The Karens by Daniel Whittaker

made by Daniel Whittaker for Ludum Dare 46 (JAM)

Premise
It is May 2020 and you and your phone are the only thing standing between the last 5G tower on Earth and a relentless horde of ravenous Karens.

Fortunately, due to severe tanning bed withdrawal, the Karens are highly sensitive to light and can be slowed down just by raising your phone torch to them (F).

When they start to overwhelm you, turn your phone screen to them (R) to destroy them with cold hard facts and logic.

Instructions
Nothing lasts forever though... Collect and use Tools to repair the tower (1), Fuel to power the generator next to the tower (2) and Batteries to charge your phone and stop it screeching at 0% charge as shown on the map. Find Pumpkin Spice Lattes to sustain you on your glorious quest.

Credits
Daniel Whittaker: Coding + UI
Janet Simeonova:Modeling and textures for Karen
Alex Wamsteker: Level Design + UI
Jacob Martin: Narrative Lead + UI
Gavin Chuong: Audio Design

ChangeLog
21/04/2020: Removed left over debug sphere. Fixed infinite flamethrower bug. 21/04/2020: Speculative fix for bug where enemies would continue to damage a tower even after being killed.

Youtube	https://github.com/blaze237/LD46
Youtube	https://dwhittaker.itch.io/attack-of-the-karens
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/may2020

Ratings

Overall	922^th	3.611⭐	20🧑‍⚖️
Fun	848^th	3.5⭐	20🧑‍⚖️
Innovation	1288^th	3.25⭐	20🧑‍⚖️
Theme	1274^th	3.639⭐	20🧑‍⚖️
Audio	696^th	3.5⭐	20🧑‍⚖️
Humor	73^th	4.167⭐	20🧑‍⚖️
Mood	785^th	3.632⭐	21🧑‍⚖️
Given		22🗳️	19🗨️

Feedback

jaybaus

21. Apr 2020 · 19:48 UTC

This is art.

Shardykins

21. Apr 2020 · 19:54 UTC

A joyous experience that really challenged my perception of the media

Hutchy27

21. Apr 2020 · 20:08 UTC

A shotgun would had made this a truly life-changing experience. Music really added to the experience.

bobost2

22. Apr 2020 · 08:18 UTC

"Avocado toasts is why millennials can't afford houses" - This had me laughing for a few minutes :D

FeverDream Tim

22. Apr 2020 · 22:09 UTC

The Karens are the most powerful entity to ever populate this planet, I was not able to fight back...

neuronezero

23. Apr 2020 · 16:46 UTC

I want to speak to your manager's manager !!!
I liked the puns, graphics and music.

The "combat" was ok. The "Fact-thrower"(phone) Aiming is a bit off center, feels wrong.

Karens respawn is too fast, if you kill them at their spawnpoint, they instantly repop and hit you. (Maybe randomize respawn somewhere else ?). I didn't really see them going for the tower, they attacked me when I got close enough.

Nice little game!

🎤 Daniel Whittaker

23. Apr 2020 · 18:36 UTC

Yeah unfortunately there's a bug which only seems to be effecting some players where karen's will sit idle until the player approaches instead of swarming the tower. As far as i can tell its some weirdness with unitys navmesh system but weve not been able to get to the bottom of it yet :(

Kyle Bowman

23. Apr 2020 · 20:08 UTC

"i'll put my grandma in a woodchipper before I let the government take my rights" XD good lord.
Great job on this game guys it's pretty funny. The mini-map is a really nice touch. The music fit really well with it. Now all you need is a mystery box with guns and you've got black ops 2 zombie mode lol.

Langotriel

24. Apr 2020 · 11:58 UTC

This game was funny as hell. "Avocado toast is why millennials can't afford houses" or whatever the line was has to be the favourite XD

I guess this is why we should all remain in Karentine (ba dum tss).

Ulcius

24. Apr 2020 · 12:43 UTC

if only cold facts could defeat Karens in real life :D
Loved the Karen model and quotes, had me laughing all the time!
The UI, especially map is really nicely done. Overall it's new and fun approach to actual tower defense, liked it very much.
It got a little bit laggy after few replays. I had to shut down game and start it again for it to work smoothly. That wasn't big of a deal though.

MantarayTV Games

03. May 2020 · 18:26 UTC

It's scary how polished this game is! You'd expect a game like this to be some joke game, but this is actually good! Good job, you really surprised me haha!

ROBOWARRIOR1982

03. May 2020 · 18:32 UTC

Nice game really fun ! I like the low poly graphics, and the use of the smartphone! Good job !

pepperkep

12. May 2020 · 03:31 UTC

This is pretty funny and also well polished. The gameplay gets somewhat repetitive quickly though. It looks nice though and I had fun so great job!

LouieJams

12. May 2020 · 09:47 UTC

Fun defense game with silly humour. I like that you gave the Karens comical voicelines, defintley added to the sillyness! It took me while to get the hang of navigating the map and using my phone strategically, there were a few times I'd need to keep running to wait for my phone battery to come back!

I never really ntoiced the tower health going down, they always seemed to target me first and all my deaths were from being attacked rather than failing to defend the tower health? It may of been that I did not suruvuve long enough hah. Fun entry :)