{"author_link":"\/users\/andreas-roschal","author_name":"Andreas Roschal","author_uid":"1078121","comments":[{"author_name":"Evgeniya Zapolnova","author_uid":"1127377","time":"2020-04-21T02:05:54Z","epoch":1587434754,"modified":1587434754,"text":"It's so cute! Nice crab with cool weapon :) This mood was exactly what I wanted right now","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"superjai","author_uid":"1004177","time":"2020-04-21T02:32:36Z","epoch":1587436356,"modified":1587436356,"text":"Awesome","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Camden Obertop","author_uid":"1186251","time":"2020-04-21T02:35:41Z","epoch":1587436541,"modified":1587436541,"text":"I haven't played a lot of tower defense games, but I really liked the way that you guys innovated on the genre. It was fun to be able to move around and place the tiles manually, and the crab throwing its arm like a boomerang was really funny. The graphics reminded me of a flash game, make of that what you will. Good job team!","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Garett Cooper","author_uid":"1013943","time":"2020-04-21T02:45:12Z","epoch":1587437112,"modified":1587437112,"text":"Lot of fun to be had here, great take on a tower defence game! This was probably the game that I played for the longest of everything I've tried so far. Good job!","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Ryan Harriman","author_uid":"1188064","time":"2020-04-21T14:47:34Z","epoch":1587480454,"modified":1587480454,"text":"I really like your game.  The music and mood\/humor were awesome.  Very clean and polished.  \n\nHad a little trouble upgrading towers.  It showed green on the tool tip but wouldn't allow me to upgrade it. \n\nMy favorite game so far.  Really nice.","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Carol03x","author_uid":"1188292","time":"2020-04-21T14:50:08Z","epoch":1587480608,"modified":1587480608,"text":"I spent like 15 min playing this game whitout getting bored  which is a lot more then other games i played here, really good game. Good Job!","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"nickavv","author_uid":"1001426","time":"2020-04-21T14:51:31Z","epoch":1587480691,"modified":1587480691,"text":"Pretty fun! I like the sort of active tower defense where they can be coming from any direction so you have to really have a good setup on all sides. I didn't really get a lot of shells until I was down many turtles, but once I started really building a lot that last bit of the game lasted a while. The music and sound are a little repetitive but overall good entry!","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"valisse21","author_uid":"1180614","time":"2020-04-21T18:41:02Z","epoch":1587494462,"modified":1587494462,"text":"Very cute and funny game! These turtles made my heart melt! ","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Chiranjiv","author_uid":"1181129","time":"2020-04-22T02:38:05Z","epoch":1587523085,"modified":1587523085,"text":"Super awesome game! you guys did a great job. ","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"HuddyBuddyGreatness","author_uid":"1188459","time":"2020-04-22T02:44:59Z","epoch":1587523499,"modified":1587523499,"text":"Great game concept and great execution. I just wish there was some sort of in game tutorial that walked you through the difference between all of the towers and introduced things slowly over time. I get it is a jam game but no one enjoys having to read an essay in order to be able to play. Also the graphics are great, very cute","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"bklolo","author_uid":"1186003","time":"2020-04-22T02:53:16Z","epoch":1587523996,"modified":1587523996,"text":"Cowabunga!","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Ricna","author_uid":"1189146","time":"2020-04-22T02:56:21Z","epoch":1587524181,"modified":1587524181,"text":"I loved the camera movement :) The song is nice but comes to boring after sometime (i have this \"problem\" with almost all games, even AAA games, so its understandable).\nReally nice game. Graphics and mechanic was very well done! Congratulations!  ","likes":4,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"MicroChasm","author_uid":"1049749","time":"2020-04-22T03:31:58Z","epoch":1587526318,"modified":1587526318,"text":"Very polished, well done. It's frantic and you don't want those little turtle friends to get taken. I'd like the towers to be more bombastic maybe, but that's a small critique. Well done. ","likes":3,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"ballipilla","author_uid":"1183459","time":"2020-04-22T13:16:19Z","epoch":1587561379,"modified":1587561379,"text":"Very well done. clean visuals. I wish there was a small tutorial as it took me a while figure things out.","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Zerion","author_uid":"1187595","time":"2020-04-22T19:14:30Z","epoch":1587582870,"modified":1587582870,"text":"My beach was a real battlefied at the end ! Loved it :)","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"olafstromberg","author_uid":"1012297","time":"2020-04-22T19:27:44Z","epoch":1587583664,"modified":1587583664,"text":"Very fun game, nice graphics and gameplay and became very frantic by the end. The turtles were very cute so I was sad about each one that was stolen :( Very good job!","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"frompdx","author_uid":"1202844","time":"2020-04-22T19:40:26Z","epoch":1587584426,"modified":1587584426,"text":"Great work!  This feels very polished.  I like the hybrid tower defense approach.","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"heyycap","author_uid":"1080037","time":"2020-04-22T21:06:42Z","epoch":1587589602,"modified":1587589602,"text":"Great job! I'm impressed that this was only made in a weekend. The main music got repetitive quickly. Gameplay was addictive and built pretty well. I felt umbrellas were the best strategy.","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Trexxak","author_uid":"1187273","time":"2020-04-29T13:01:09Z","epoch":1588165269,"modified":1588165269,"text":"I like turtles!\n\nCool tower defense-y game! Really liked how the difficulty curve kept ramping up. And also the inclusion of the crab dance. All in all great work!","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Molpe","author_uid":"1009343","time":"2020-04-30T20:11:39Z","epoch":1588277499,"modified":1588277499,"text":"Great game! I love turtles \u2665 And now I hate seagulls :D \n\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NBYOpSSjYmk","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"arowx","author_uid":"1002178","time":"2020-05-01T14:46:26Z","epoch":1588344386,"modified":1588344386,"text":"Great work.  Maybe some kind of build\/upgrade circle around the crab to help people know that you can only build within a certain radius or just have the crab move to the build location.\n\nMaybe higher towers could force the birds to go around them to give the game the full TD walls of towers affect.","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"ghostmaple","author_uid":"1013290","time":"2020-05-03T05:47:58Z","epoch":1588484878,"modified":1588484959,"text":"Nice entry. This twist on the typical tower defense is enjoyable and the speed-up on the music is a nice touch too. Polished and well-packaged. After three plays, my best score was 430 saved. (So close, only ~15 eggs unhatched)\n\nThree nitpicks (because it's a good enough entry that I'm down to just nitpicks!) - 1) The title screen shows a rather funny crab grabbing a seagull. I want that as a tower! 2) I saw a few comments that didn't understand how the upgrades worked. My guess is that it's not clear that you have to be in range, since I continually had this problem when the I lost my crab in the fray. Suggestions: Color\/mark the player in a slightly different way from the tower crabs so it is easier to find (different color, circle underneath it, etc.) and when in place\/upgrade mode maybe mark the max distance you can target towers somehow. 3) On my first playthrough I couldn't quite understand what the different towers did so I eventually tried to just use urchins (poison?) and umbrellas (long range?). I came back to the game page and read the descriptions and it all made sense from there. Tooltips on mouseover perhaps?","likes":3,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"lectvs","author_uid":"1011460","time":"2020-05-06T06:00:58Z","epoch":1588744858,"modified":1588744858,"text":"A nice entry with a lot of character! Enemies could be a bit more varied, but I like the different kinds of towers.","likes":2,"format":"md"}],"format":"md","images":["ld46\/202991-71485b65516394314e87b05b78d308f8.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/andreasroschal.itch.io\/what-the-shell","text":"Youtube"},{"url":"https:\/\/andreasroschal.itch.io\/what-the-shell","text":"Youtube"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"63481","g_author":"1078121","g_event":"LD46","g_eventkey":"77","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"278800","g_title":"What the Shell","g_status":"PVT1","g_place":"51","g_commentcount":"23","g_site2_node_id":"202991","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"202991","n_urlkey":"278800","n_parent":"176557","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/46\/what-the-shell","n_slug":"what-the-shell","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"78121","n_created":"1587427382","n_modified":"1587484776","n_version":"617432","n_status":"COMMIT"},"node":{"id":202991,"parent":176557,"superparent":9,"author":78121,"type":"item","subtype":"game","subsubtype":"jam","published":"2020-04-21T01:28:33Z","created":"2020-04-21T00:03:02Z","modified":"2020-04-21T15:59:36Z","version":617432,"slug":"what-the-shell","name":"What the Shell","body":"In **What the Shell** you play as a crab and have to protect small turtle hatchlings on their way to the ocean. Drive off seagulls by building different types of sand towers that are occupied by your armed comrades. Try to keep as many turtles alive as possible.\n\n![Composed_5.png](\/\/\/raw\/921\/31\/z\/30055.png)\n\n|   |   |\n|---|---|\n|![gif1.gif](\/\/\/raw\/921\/31\/z\/303fb.gif)|![gif2.gif](\/\/\/raw\/921\/31\/z\/30412.gif)|\n\n![Composed_1.png](\/\/\/raw\/921\/31\/z\/2fe51.png)\n\n# Controls\n\n* **WASD**: Move\n* **123456**: Select different towers to build\n* **Q**: Start destruction mode\n* **E**: Start upgrade mode\n* **Esc**: Pause\n* **Mouse**: Aim\n* **Mouse Wheel**: Zoom in\/out\n* **Left Mouse button**: Depending on your current state:\n  * Shoot claw as boomerang\n  * Build selected tower\n  * Destroy hovered tower\n  * Upgrade hovered tower\n* **Right Mouse button**: Depending on your current state:\n  * Cancel tower building\n  * Cancel tower upgrade\n  * Cancel tower destruction\n\n# Gameplay\n\nYou control a crab on a beach playing field. On the left side, turtle babies will hatch from their eggs and start crawling towards the ocean. From the top and bottom seagulls will spawn periodically over time that want to eat the turtles.\n\nYou can defend the turtles by building sand towers along their path. Towers are occupied by other crabs and have different kinds of projectiles or waves that will work as auto turrets for you. Towers can also be upgraded to further improve their efficiency and effectiveness. For building and upgrading towers you need seashells which you earn by defeating seagulls. If you misplaced a tower or need space you can also destroy them which will give you their initial cost back.\n\nAdditionally you can also detach and throw your own claw as a boomerang to attack seagulls yourself.\n\nIf a seagull reaches a turtle, it will grab it and try to fly away with it. Once the seagull reaches the top or bottom border, the turtle is lost for good. If you defeat the seagull before it can escape, the turtle will drop and continue crawling.\n\n# Win condition\n\nYou win the game if you manage to keep the majority of the baby turtles alive. If more than 30 turtles die you lose the game.\n\n![Composed_2.png](\/\/\/raw\/921\/31\/z\/2fe57.png)\n![Composed_3.png](\/\/\/raw\/921\/31\/z\/2fe65.png)\n\n# Tower types\n\nThe following tower types can be built:\n\n|Urchin Tower|Conch Tower|5G Tower|Umbrella Tower|Seastar Tower|Bucket Tower|\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n|![Tower_Spikeball.png](\/\/\/raw\/921\/31\/z\/30ef5.png)|![Tower_Conch.png](\/\/\/raw\/921\/31\/z\/30ef7.png)|![Tower_5G.png](\/\/\/raw\/921\/31\/z\/30efc.png)|![Tower_Umbrella.png](\/\/\/raw\/921\/31\/z\/30efd.png)|![Tower_Seastar.png](\/\/\/raw\/921\/31\/z\/30f04.png)|![Tower_Bucket.png](\/\/\/raw\/921\/31\/z\/30f00.png)|\n|Throws urchins that attach to seagulls and deal small amount of damage multiple times.|The sound of this majestic conch slows down all seagulls in its range.|Creates shock waves that deal damage to all surrounding seagulls over time.|Shoots an umbrella over large distances. Has the highest range of all towers.|Throws a seastar that chains off seagulls a certain amount of time.|Shoots multiple projectiles in a broad spread.|\n|Upgrade to increase frequency, range and damage.|Upgrade to increase range and slow effect.|Upgrade to increase range.|Upgrade to increase frequency, range and damage.|Upgrade to increase frequency, range, damage and the number of chains.|Upgrade to increase frequency, range, damage and the number of projectiles.|\n\n# Enemy types\n\n\u200bThe following enemy types exist:\u200b\n\n|Normal Seagull|Tanky Seagull|Fast Seagull|\n|---|---|---|\n|![seagull_flying_3.png](\/\/\/raw\/921\/31\/z\/3102a.png)|![seagull_flying_3_red.png](\/\/\/raw\/921\/31\/z\/3102b.png)|![seagull_flying_3_blue.png](\/\/\/raw\/921\/31\/z\/3102c.png)|\n|medium health|high health|low health|\n|medium speed|low speed|high speed|\n\n# Tips\n\n* The UI shows you many important numbers, including remaining unhatched eggs, the number of turtles that successfully reached the ocean, and how many turtles you can lose before losing the game.\n* The UI also shows a minimap for an easy overview on the whole beach area.\n* The minimap also indicates from where enemies will soon spawn in with an exclamation mark.\n\n# Technical details\n\n* The game was made in Unity 2D.\n* All used graphics and sounds have been made by ourselves.\n\n![Composed_4.png](\/\/\/raw\/921\/31\/z\/2fe75.png)\n\n![gif3.gif](\/\/\/raw\/921\/31\/z\/30632.gif)","meta":{"author":[78121,128428,78120,127294,197322],"link-01-tag":[42336],"cover":"\/\/\/content\/921\/31\/z\/2fe21.png","link-01":"https:\/\/andreasroschal.itch.io\/what-the-shell","allow-anonymous-comments":"1","link-02":"https:\/\/andreasroschal.itch.io\/what-the-shell","link-02-tag":[42337]},"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/46\/what-the-shell","parents":[1,5,9,176557],"love":0,"notes":23,"notes-timestamp":"2020-05-06T06:00:58Z","grade":{"grade-01":35,"grade-02":35,"grade-03":35,"grade-04":35,"grade-05":35,"grade-06":35,"grade-07":35,"grade-08":35},"magic":{"cool":125.58685768634,"feedback":6,"given":53.625,"grade":35,"grade-01-average":4.227,"grade-01-result":51,"grade-02-average":4.167,"grade-02-result":54,"grade-03-average":3.606,"grade-03-result":595,"grade-04-average":4.121,"grade-04-result":304,"grade-05-average":4.242,"grade-05-result":350,"grade-06-average":3.803,"grade-06-result":349,"grade-07-average":3.985,"grade-07-result":151,"grade-08-average":3.924,"grade-08-result":323,"smart":-29.775311682322}},"text":"In **What the Shell** you play as a crab and have to protect small turtle hatchlings on their way to the ocean. Drive off seagulls by building different types of sand towers that are occupied by your armed comrades. Try to keep as many turtles alive as possible.\n\n![Composed_5.png](\/\/\/raw\/921\/31\/z\/30055.png)\n\n|   |   |\n|---|---|\n|![gif1.gif](\/\/\/raw\/921\/31\/z\/303fb.gif)|![gif2.gif](\/\/\/raw\/921\/31\/z\/30412.gif)|\n\n![Composed_1.png](\/\/\/raw\/921\/31\/z\/2fe51.png)\n\n# Controls\n\n* **WASD**: Move\n* **123456**: Select different towers to build\n* **Q**: Start destruction mode\n* **E**: Start upgrade mode\n* **Esc**: Pause\n* **Mouse**: Aim\n* **Mouse Wheel**: Zoom in\/out\n* **Left Mouse button**: Depending on your current state:\n  * Shoot claw as boomerang\n  * Build selected tower\n  * Destroy hovered tower\n  * Upgrade hovered tower\n* **Right Mouse button**: Depending on your current state:\n  * Cancel tower building\n  * Cancel tower upgrade\n  * Cancel tower destruction\n\n# Gameplay\n\nYou control a crab on a beach playing field. On the left side, turtle babies will hatch from their eggs and start crawling towards the ocean. From the top and bottom seagulls will spawn periodically over time that want to eat the turtles.\n\nYou can defend the turtles by building sand towers along their path. Towers are occupied by other crabs and have different kinds of projectiles or waves that will work as auto turrets for you. Towers can also be upgraded to further improve their efficiency and effectiveness. For building and upgrading towers you need seashells which you earn by defeating seagulls. If you misplaced a tower or need space you can also destroy them which will give you their initial cost back.\n\nAdditionally you can also detach and throw your own claw as a boomerang to attack seagulls yourself.\n\nIf a seagull reaches a turtle, it will grab it and try to fly away with it. Once the seagull reaches the top or bottom border, the turtle is lost for good. If you defeat the seagull before it can escape, the turtle will drop and continue crawling.\n\n# Win condition\n\nYou win the game if you manage to keep the majority of the baby turtles alive. If more than 30 turtles die you lose the game.\n\n![Composed_2.png](\/\/\/raw\/921\/31\/z\/2fe57.png)\n![Composed_3.png](\/\/\/raw\/921\/31\/z\/2fe65.png)\n\n# Tower types\n\nThe following tower types can be built:\n\n|Urchin Tower|Conch Tower|5G Tower|Umbrella Tower|Seastar Tower|Bucket Tower|\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n|![Tower_Spikeball.png](\/\/\/raw\/921\/31\/z\/30ef5.png)|![Tower_Conch.png](\/\/\/raw\/921\/31\/z\/30ef7.png)|![Tower_5G.png](\/\/\/raw\/921\/31\/z\/30efc.png)|![Tower_Umbrella.png](\/\/\/raw\/921\/31\/z\/30efd.png)|![Tower_Seastar.png](\/\/\/raw\/921\/31\/z\/30f04.png)|![Tower_Bucket.png](\/\/\/raw\/921\/31\/z\/30f00.png)|\n|Throws urchins that attach to seagulls and deal small amount of damage multiple times.|The sound of this majestic conch slows down all seagulls in its range.|Creates shock waves that deal damage to all surrounding seagulls over time.|Shoots an umbrella over large distances. Has the highest range of all towers.|Throws a seastar that chains off seagulls a certain amount of time.|Shoots multiple projectiles in a broad spread.|\n|Upgrade to increase frequency, range and damage.|Upgrade to increase range and slow effect.|Upgrade to increase range.|Upgrade to increase frequency, range and damage.|Upgrade to increase frequency, range, damage and the number of chains.|Upgrade to increase frequency, range, damage and the number of projectiles.|\n\n# Enemy types\n\n\u200bThe following enemy types exist:\u200b\n\n|Normal Seagull|Tanky Seagull|Fast Seagull|\n|---|---|---|\n|![seagull_flying_3.png](\/\/\/raw\/921\/31\/z\/3102a.png)|![seagull_flying_3_red.png](\/\/\/raw\/921\/31\/z\/3102b.png)|![seagull_flying_3_blue.png](\/\/\/raw\/921\/31\/z\/3102c.png)|\n|medium health|high health|low health|\n|medium speed|low speed|high speed|\n\n# Tips\n\n* The UI shows you many important numbers, including remaining unhatched eggs, the number of turtles that successfully reached the ocean, and how many turtles you can lose before losing the game.\n* The UI also shows a minimap for an easy overview on the whole beach area.\n* The minimap also indicates from where enemies will soon spawn in with an exclamation mark.\n\n# Technical details\n\n* The game was made in Unity 2D.\n* All used graphics and sounds have been made by ourselves.\n\n![Composed_4.png](\/\/\/raw\/921\/31\/z\/2fe75.png)\n\n![gif3.gif](\/\/\/raw\/921\/31\/z\/30632.gif)","title":"What the Shell"}