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I go back to the game, building more turrets to protect my oil!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1111861,"author_name":"groennisse","author_uid":"groennisse","epoch":1728849365,"text":"great music :) amusing sounds effects, had me chuckling","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1112654,"author_name":"CGraen","author_uid":"cgraen","epoch":1728911375,"text":"Fun game, would have liked some visual feedback on the health of my stuff and the enemies.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1113338,"author_name":"Ty Victorson","author_uid":"ty-victorson","epoch":1728949174,"text":"@cgraen glad you liked it, I agree I had plans to add health bars but ran out of time!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1115632,"author_name":"Agent__Maxwell","author_uid":"agent-maxwell","epoch":1729185363,"text":"Pretty fun, although waves seemed to come too infrequently to pose me any threat.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1116939,"author_name":"Baturinsky","author_uid":"baturinsky","epoch":1729368994,"text":"Group select would be great.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1116961,"author_name":"oller125","author_uid":"oller125","epoch":1729372479,"text":"A good start. As others have mentioned, some health bars and group select would be really useful.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1116997,"author_name":"JojoPalambas","author_uid":"jojopalambas","epoch":1729379001,"text":"Nice game! Very hard to make a RTS in 3 days, congrats for that!\n\nIf I may, it would be great to have a little more feedback on attacks, it can be hard to see \/ understand if troops or tanks are firing or not, and maybe understand why sometimes they seem to miss the target","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1117030,"author_name":"David Zhao","author_uid":"david-zhao","epoch":1729386478,"text":"Pretty fun, I like the design of the mini troopers. Let me remind of my childhood time\ud83d\udc4d","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1117057,"author_name":"smilewood","author_uid":"smilewood","epoch":1729392678,"text":"Cool RTS game, well done in a game jam. I liked the music and the sound effects made me laugh. The fighters have really bad aim, but piling enough of them together made up for it. I did find a bug where clicking the building select button would immediately build that building under where the button was regardless of if I had the resources for it, but otherwise the game worked great, great job!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1117157,"author_name":"Iaroslavik","author_uid":"iaroslavik","epoch":1729411080,"text":"Good job ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1117212,"author_name":"Ty Victorson","author_uid":"ty-victorson","epoch":1729420276,"text":"Thanks to everyone for playing! \n\n@agent-maxwell I agree there is a 40 second wait between waves it could be shorter for sure!\n\n@baturinsky & @oller125 We had planned to add group select but it didn't make it in in time, totally agree though!\n\n@jojopalambas Yep having some shooting effects would be a good addition, and yeah, I didn't have time to fix the little guys aim!\n\n@smilewood Glad you enjoyed it! And oh no a cheese!! ","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1118522,"author_name":"Onoin_King","author_uid":"onoin-king","epoch":1729613527,"text":"i think the idear is nice but its kinda clunkey to play with a nodebook\n","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1118785,"author_name":"FireFalls","author_uid":"firefalls","epoch":1729643677,"text":"Good ol' tower defense-like gameplay! I ran into a bug where when I put down one of the buildings, the model stuck to my cursor. I could still buy and place other units though, so it wasn't game breaking, but it definitely covered a portion of the screen. I liked the music!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1118954,"author_name":"simex","author_uid":"simex","epoch":1729672575,"text":"I'd really like to try this, but on an ultra-wide monitor the UI disappears :cry: if you ever make a build with windowed mode, or a web version. give me an @ :heart: ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1119702,"author_name":"Ty Victorson","author_uid":"ty-victorson","epoch":1729767461,"text":"@simex Just added a new build to fix the UI issues, its not windowed so if you are still having issues let me know!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1119707,"author_name":"simex","author_uid":"simex","epoch":1729769131,"text":"@ty-victorson UI fix worked like a charm!\nEnded up playing until wave 8 (but I think I could have gone indefinitely) drills are a really good investment :sweat_smile:\n\nI love games where you end up with a lot of units fighting around in pure chaos, so I had a really good time. I started exploring the map (which is HUGE btw) and maybe there is a missing mechanic I didn't understand, but I found little reason to expand away from the HQ, I was also unable to interact with the bunkers that where found about on the map.\n\n![ld1.png](\/\/\/raw\/de6\/3\/z\/6910b.png)\n\n![ld2.png](\/\/\/raw\/de6\/3\/z\/6910c.png)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ldjam-media\/sha256\/b0\/b0976b3582f07d3bfa952885ea79983ece9f8aa5f7769ad66df2ac24d8ca6034.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/ty-victorson.itch.io\/little-defenders","text":"Link"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"94854","g_author":"1123744","g_event":"LD56","g_eventkey":"115","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"443621","g_title":"Little Defenders","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"707","g_commentcount":"17","g_site2_node_id":"395855","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"395855","n_urlkey":"443621","n_parent":"395186","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/56\/little-defenders","n_slug":"little-defenders","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"123744","n_created":"1726090299","n_modified":"1778498126","n_version":"1269867","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD56","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9,"_trust":4,"author":123744,"body":"You may be the last of humanity, defend against then endless onslaught of creatures build and expand your base and survive as long as you can! 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