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Alrecenk<p>First trailer for Portal Foxes TD is up. Not very flashy, but it should let players know if the game is for them. <a href="https://peoplemaking.games/tags/gamedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gamedev</span></a> <a href="https://peoplemaking.games/tags/indiegame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indiegame</span></a> <a href="https://peoplemaking.games/tags/towerdefense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>towerdefense</span></a> <a href="https://peoplemaking.games/tags/vr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vr</span></a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32iBkzi_s84" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=32iBkzi_s8</span><span class="invisible">4</span></a></p>
ArcaneTD<p>Our first post on mastodon. 👋 We will post updates about our game Arcane TD here. Give it a try now on arcane-td.com<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TowerDefense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TowerDefense</span></a><br> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gaming</span></a><br> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gamedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gamedev</span></a><br> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/indiegame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indiegame</span></a><br> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/game" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>game</span></a><br> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/indiedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indiedev</span></a><br> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gaming</span></a></p>
NitramiuZ<p>Me thinking some random offsets would make the lizard movement more organic</p><p>The buggy result:<br><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/godot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>godot</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/pixelart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pixelart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/towerdefense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>towerdefense</span></a></p>
Allie<p>December 21, 2023 - Day 355 - NewPlay Review<br>Total NewPlays: 375</p><p>Game: Warstone TD</p><p>Platform: Steam<br>Release Date: May 24, 2018<br>Installation Date: Dec 21, 2023<br>Unplayed: 0d<br>Playtime: 19m</p><p>Warstone TD is an isometric tower defense game with some basic RPG, strategy, and city building elements (so says the blurb).</p><p>I've started hammering my unredeemed keys list a little bit harder, with the challenge to get it down under 200 before the 1st of January. Just to make the next 10 days a little more gruelling!</p><p>Warstone TD was one of them, from Feb 2020; the "TD" is for Tower Defense.</p><p>It's a little bit different to most tower defense games I've played, as the game starts with several (I guess they're called) warstones along the path that the mobs follow, and you can choose to build from several optional unit types at each location.</p><p>During each round you might unlock an extra warstone to place somewhere else, but I think this is where the element of strategy comes in.</p><p>Also, after some rounds, you get a double-strength warstone which increases the range of the units (not sure what else it does).</p><p>So far it doesn't seem like you can change or upgrade a unit once activated, so it's an interesting twist on the genre, and I don't have a lot of traditional TD games anyway, so it's kind of fun.</p><p>After the initial gameplay introduction, the game sets a story about a wizard who's seen the future, and that he's going to be handed over to a group of invaders by the town, and so he enlists the help of the player (fourth-wall break, nice), to do the city-building thing, and build and arm the city so he doesn't meet that grisly end.</p><p>It's a cute framing device and gives some nice RPG elements to push the game outside of the standard tower defense genre.</p><p>Warstone TD is kind of fun, and definitely something I'll return to when I'm the mood for that kind of game; it's</p><p>3: OK</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/WarstoneTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WarstoneTD</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/TowerDefense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TowerDefense</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/RPG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RPG</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Strategy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Strategy</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/CityBuilder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CityBuilder</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaming</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Project365ONG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project365ONG</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Project365" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project365</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/NewPlay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewPlay</span></a></p>
Allie<p>September 9, 2023 - Day 252 - NewPlay Review<br>Total NewPlays: 273</p><p>Game: Rock of Ages 2</p><p>Platform: Steam<br>Release Date: Aug 28, 2017<br>Library Date: Feb 2, 2019<br>Unplayed: 1680d (4y7m7d)<br>Playtime: 15m</p><p>Rock of Ages 2: Bigger &amp; Boulder is a bizarre tower defence boulder-racing game.</p><p>There's a bunch of games that never made it to being reviewed this year. Many of them were multiplayer games; some of which are still on sale, but invariably had no-one to play against, other than bots or the bizarre individuals who get their kicks from hacking a game and then killing anyone who tries to play.</p><p>There's another group of games that didn't make it. Frequently ancient, wouldn't run on Windows 10. Alas, their time has come and gone.</p><p>Rock of Ages II is a little weirder. It's just over six years old, but absolutely refused to load.</p><p>Load &gt; Crash. Load &gt; Crash. Load &gt; Crash.</p><p>[Tech support mode on]</p><p>Event viewer is recording the crash, but not making it clear what's at fault.</p><p>To the Googles!</p><p>One fix says to disable networking. </p><p>That... actually works. Not a good solution, but it must be something new in Windows 11 network code, right?</p><p>Actually, no.</p><p>I went through a stage of this project where I just started all the games for a minute to shorten my "year" list for unplayed games.</p><p>When I started ROA2 previously *before* I upgrades, it had worked fine without crashing.</p><p>Digging into the Steam discussions: "Changing this global OpenSSL variable fixes it!"</p><p>No, thank you. I don't think I will.</p><p>A bit more on the Googles leads to a page on Intel's website, that explains that certain versions of UE4 contain an older OpenSSL library, that triggers a crash on 10th Gen and newer CPUs, and by setting that OpenSSL variable, it tells UE4 to ignore the SHA extensions.</p><p>However, it only needs to be set in the launch options for the game, not globally.</p><p>We're off to the races.</p><p>Literally. This is a game in which you play Sisyphus (I think?) and roll a boulder through an obstacle course towards the castle of your AI opponent (who are various historical figures acting in decidedly non-historical ways).</p><p>Inside your castle, workers are quickly carving your boulder from a solid rock. While this is happening, you frantically set up your various defenses to try and knock the AI's boulder off course, while they are doing the same.</p><p>As soon as your boulder is ready, you roll it towards their castle, and try to smash down their door. Boulder hits door, does damage, rinse and repeat.</p><p>First one with a smashed door loses. All of this is wrapped in a classical music soundtrack with Pythonesque graphical stylings.</p><p>I lost, beaten soundly by Joan of Arc (!)</p><p>I think, if I were in the right mood, Rock of Ages 2 would be:</p><p>3: OK</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/RockOfAges2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RockOfAges2</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/TowerDefense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TowerDefense</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/MastodonGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastodonGaming</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaming</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Project365ONG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project365ONG</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Project365" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project365</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/NewPlay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewPlay</span></a></p>
Allie<p>Apr 15, 2023 - Day 105 - NewPlay Bonus Review<br>Total NewPlays: 113</p><p>Game: Fortified</p><p>Platform: Steam PC<br>Release Date: Feb 4, 2016<br>Library Date: Jun 7, 2018<br>Unplayed: 1773d (4y10m8d)<br>Playtime: 29m</p><p>Fortified is 1950's-inspired alien-invasion third-person 3D tower defense game.</p><p>It's boring.</p><p>I played across two characters, over three levels, and it was just just... boring. </p><p>A good tower defense game needs your weaponry and income to scale up appropriately to whatever you're fighting. That balance can be difficult to achieve. Orcs Must Die manages it. Fortified does not.</p><p>The "attack" buildings feel incredibly slow and underpowered, and the monsters feel generic and annoying, rather than threatening.</p><p>I like to at least reach a checkpoint, or finish a level in a game, and not quit out mid-level, but in all seriousness, I should have, because playing longer to complete the last level didn't make it any more entertaining, which is a fundamental issue. If a game isn't challenging, then it needs to at least be fun.</p><p>I can't even offer a hope that there's something under the surface. While 1950's-style the interstitial graphics and interface would feel at home in a pulp sci-fi magazine, the in-game assets feels like generic cut &amp; paste models from a free unreal library.</p><p>Could Fortified be more than the sum of it's pulpy parts?:</p><p>1: Nope</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/Fortified" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fortified</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/TowerDefense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TowerDefense</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/MastodonGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastodonGaming</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaming</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Project365ONG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project365ONG</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Project365" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project365</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/NewPlay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewPlay</span></a></p>
Allie<p>Mar 1, 2023 - Day 60 - NewPlay Review<br>Total NewPlays: 66</p><p>Game: X-Morph: Defense<br>Platform: Steam PC<br>Release Date: Aug 30, 2017<br>Library Date: Jan 10, 2020<br>Unplayed: 1146 days (3y1m19d)<br>Playtime: 28m</p><p>Remember when tower defense games were the flavour of the month, and everyone seemed to be making one?</p><p>X-Morph: Defense is an isometric, sci-fi, tower defense/top-down shooter mash-up... in which you play the bad guys.</p><p>As part of an alien fleet invading Earth, you control a ship that can attack the ground &amp; airborne defenders, while also building towers, and creating blockages to increase the path lengths of the attackers.</p><p>There are five waves per level, and in the last wave, you face off against a single boss.</p><p>Loading up, I was a bit "Oh, a tower defense game." By the time I finished the level, it was after midnight, and I was "more, please".</p><p>Except, I'm on call, and I really do need to go to bed.</p><p>Load up X-Morph: Defense and lay the smackdown on those xenophobic humans, because it's:</p><p>4: Good</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/XMorphDefense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XMorphDefense</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/TowerDefense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TowerDefense</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Shooter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Shooter</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaming</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Project365ONG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project365ONG</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Project365" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project365</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/NewPlay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewPlay</span></a></p>
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