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Keep It Alive! by Almartmen

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made by Almartmen for Ludum Dare 46 (JAM)

WORKS BETTER IN FULLSCREEN MODE

Instructions:

  • WASD to move
  • E to grab
  • SPACE to use

Keep your generator alive for as long as you can!

  • Generator: Degrades over time, feed it batteries to keep it alive!
  • Vendor: Swap batteries for turret boxes!
  • Turrets (blue boxes): Grab a box and place it anywhere to defend your generator from spiders! Heal them with batteries!
  • Batteries (yellow capsules): Spiders drop them when dead (33% chance). Use them as described above!
  • Spiders will attack turrets to try and get to the generator!

Known issues: - Try to use the blue fullscreen button, the other one works weird. - Try to not bump into objects as colliders are buggy and you may end up below the map.

Gameplay.png

Credits: - Robot model (Edited): toxicredpanda| https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/robot-d948af38348e471d8f9e3585521b332b - Spider model (Edited): Scorrer30| https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/spider-fbx-7f424c7c68294a5d91fe52c69eb0775e - Generator model (Edited): EL27 | https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/generator-3c62ef7edb9d46cfa9fbffbf65e2e124

The rest of the models are our own creation.

Youtube https://krankenkraken.itch.io/keep-it-alive
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/keep-it-alive-37

Ratings

Overall 2083th 3.071⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Fun 1552th 3.159⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 1855th 2.955⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Theme 1411th 3.571⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 1821th 3.136⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Audio 1305th 2.925⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Humor 1750th 2.35⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Mood 2176th 2.7⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Given 37🗳️ 7🗨️

Feedback

xPutin88
20. Apr 2020 · 19:03 UTC
Cool Idea and great work!
DreamerofDays
20. Apr 2020 · 19:08 UTC
didn't realy get what i needed to do, the screen whas to small so part of the screen was not vissable. couldn't figure out how to give things to the generator
Ripp
20. Apr 2020 · 19:09 UTC
I had fun, playing it and i like the general idea
Syrapt0r
20. Apr 2020 · 19:10 UTC
Very nice tower defense. Took me a while to find that space builds turrets but after that everything was really nice. Love the animation on the generator :D

I also somehow fell through the terrain at some point ^^
Nate Wert
20. Apr 2020 · 19:11 UTC
I had a lot of fun playing. The music was a really nice touch and the sound of the towers was incredibly satisfying.
Riadazz
20. Apr 2020 · 19:11 UTC
nice approach to the theme but after a while there is way too many spiders, maybe add upgrades to the defense towers throught the game
HackTrout
20. Apr 2020 · 19:12 UTC
The graphics were good as well as the audio. The enemies spawn very quick after a short time as I was getting used to the rules and I was quickly overwhelmed by spiders. Good adherence to the them, well done!
Jack Maxwell
20. Apr 2020 · 19:12 UTC
The camera movement is really clean and its fun to figure out where to put turrets to kill the most spiders and not shoot each other. I found that i didnt really need to think about powering the generator that often though.
Pretty fun!

Also, a little bug maybe?

![Screenshot (87).png](///raw/a90/e/z/2df20.png)

(Im under the map)
nicolasmaclean
20. Apr 2020 · 19:14 UTC
Great Game!! It's satisfying to watch the turrets kill spiders and the sound effects make placing turrets or using batteries feel good. I think the biggest issue is lack of variety in towers and no way to upgrade or streamline the player's role in the game to collect multiple batteries at a time or to move faster, but of course the time constraint makes it quite difficult to pack much more than you got.
tomd1013
20. Apr 2020 · 19:17 UTC
The mechanics are good, some more tower or enemy types would have been nice.
Chance Slaughter
20. Apr 2020 · 19:18 UTC
Awesome game, great job! Wish it was a bit more clear on the controls however, struggled to figure out how to use the Vendor at first. Overall very fun though!
Gray Fustos
20. Apr 2020 · 22:57 UTC
Fun game, I think I fell through the floor at one point but I like how there's no grid and you can see where your range and where they overlap. Controls felt a little touchy at times but yeah nice job.
Bloody_xDlol
21. Apr 2020 · 00:37 UTC
great game concept. it's Fun to play. is there a way to create more towers?
and btw I couldn't make it full screen
Dario Sanchez
21. Apr 2020 · 08:31 UTC
Thanks everyone for the comments! We know there are issues, bugs and no progression, but we ran out of time! Cheers :-D
Darkfire92
21. Apr 2020 · 15:52 UTC
score:386 XD Great Game!! I love kill spiders and the sound effects are awesome :D
OldBlack
23. Apr 2020 · 10:25 UTC
Decent concept and nice graphics. As others have said, could've definitely done with further progression/mechanics.

Also, I did experience a bug toward the end where my player disappeared and the camera zoomed way in.