Sheep Defence Game
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| Sorry about the double up. I forgot to mention you have sheep, sheep in hangliders and sheep in tanks. You have lasers, Machine gun, bomb and missile turrets and 5 levels with approx 45 minutes of play. Here's a screenshot:  I welcome positive comments but please be nice. It's my first game! Heres the link to the Website to get the download. Link Here Cheers!! |
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| Might as well just link to those images [in your other thread] they don't load for me. Hanglider.jpg Sheep in a tank.jpg |
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| Hmm, neat little game. I like it, certainly is a change for the genre. And the sheep in a hanglider looks hilarious. Some suggestions though: 1. Make it easier to get money when you start out, I got three towers and wasnt able to buy anymore before I died. 2. Make a "quick move" button... like that shoots you forward faster, just to help you get around. 3. I like the whole, one turret does more damage to stuff then others, but make it so they all at least SHOOT at the thing, aka, the MGturrets shoot at the tanks. |
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| My tester (ie. mate) wanted me to take the "all turrets shoot at stuff" out because he hated having a tank roll past while the slow bomb turret aimed at the nearest sheep. It's a possibility though. As for the money thing, play it two or three times and you get to know that the first level is easy with three turrets and you'll have money left over at the end. Don't want to make it too easy! Thanks for the tips, hope more people give it a go! Get game here |
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| How about this then, the targets that are weak against them take priority over the others? Think you could do that one? |
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| No problem to prioritize targets. You should have seen the problems trying to get the AI turrets to track a moving target with different speed bullets! I'll add it to my "to do" list. I would also appreciate help on artwork. I CANT MODEL! I need a better castle and the terrains need more time and effort spent on them. Thanks for the input. |
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| Was pretty fun! Laser is overpowered, you can kill anything with it fairly easy if you upgrade. Also I noticed on the max upgrade for turrets, for me, the bullets were bugged. It wasn't that hard to beat actually, I flied through levels 1-3 and 4-5 were a bit harder. Good game, I love tower defense games. |
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| Laser too powerful huh? That'll go on the "todo" list. Did u upgrade it to level 5? Each upgrade adds range/ammo amount/turret health/shot frequency. so I guess it could get pretty tough.... suppose that's why you need people to test it. As for the bullets, they don't always collide. I thing it's too do with a maximum entity/entity collision limit, If anyone has any idea I would be pleased to hear from you. More levels? Someone could try to make some more in L3DT and I'll use my custom path tool to get them in the game. |
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| i'll make some landscapes for you i have a few on hand actually what size map and such do you want? [edit] i could host it for you too so you have a direct link [edit2] after playing for a while heres some thoughts about it. 1. the terrain textures need to be large compared to the terrains 2. the money needs to come faster |
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| A new host site would be great. I don't want to spend money on a website so that would be tremendous. Terrains are 256x256 but I had a though to make them bigger and limit the player to the inside so you don't get to the edge (similar to Battlefield2 maps) What do you think? The texture size is low so that they run on slower computers but could easily be increased. Money is a balance issue. More people who play it need to say what they think. I like it reasonably challenging to start but I can tweak it easily. If ur reading this- Download and test! we need more input Get it here |
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| well i'll upload it, have you heard of officelive.com ? its a free website hosting and stuff, you should check it out. heres the zip http://mtnhome3d.com/Documents/Sheep_Defence.zip |
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| was trying to test the download but the server is temp offline..... |
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Played again, was fun, but got bored owning on level 2 (Got to level 5 yesterday) owned the level with just a laser turret and homing missile turret (Upgraded both to max, laser was upgraded immediately to max in beginning) :) |
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| download working now, played, was fun. |
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| Yeah, Thanks for the input. I will tweak down the upgrade benfits but keep them cheap. I had no idea the laser got sooooooooo powerful! I'll update it soon, will let you all know. |
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| OK. So it's update. Changes include: 1. Turrets now prioitize targets. 2. Laser Turret does much less damage 3. All turrets upgrade 3 levels only 3. All turret upgrades are now less extreme Here are the updated files Complete updated Zip SheepDefence exe only |
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| Played, you hit the nerf pretty well. Now the laser is absolutely worthless:D lol, maybe later you could make the weapons effective against certain types of units only. Laser hits any units, used to be very damaging at level 5, now upgraded to level 3 (max now) its worthless :D Keep it up bro, I love tower defense games like I said. |
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| Some people are never happy!! Without fully testing it's hard to get the balance, and balance makes the game replayable. I halved the damage of the laser but maybe should have allowed 5 levels of upgrade still. Damge amounts are fully changeable. What should take most damage from laser, sheep/hangliders or tanks? Don't want to screw with it too much. And finially, I want to give it away freeware, so what site is best to contact? |
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| I'd say most damage to tanks. And take no offense bro, I was only trying to help. |
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| Keep your miniguns close, but keep your Heat Seeking Missle Launchers closer. If you put 1 or 2 Missle Launcher at the castle 2 Miniguns, 1 on the inside of a curve, the other on the other side. and 1 Bomb launcher Upgrade often Now that's the best strategy That was pretty fun, the first ever Tower Defense game I've ever played was on Age of Empires 2, and on there it was REALLY REALLY fun until the master server was shut down due to Age of Mythology (either that or Age of Empires 3). |
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| Still need idea on where to release it freeware? Anyone done anything like that before? What site do you download your freeware from? Is it good enough to pop it on Indiegamer? GIA_Green_Fire_ : Get past level 5 and I'll be impressed (especially with a crappy laser) Future upgrade on it's way. I have testers lined up for tonight: watch this space! |
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| hey srcoder about those terrains, i was thinking you could do with 2 colormaps that are different sizes and just pick the bigger one if the user selects the "high spec" option. also the wasd keys need to make you move faster. |
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| Thats a good solution. The terrains are made in L3DT if you want to give it a go. High Spec computers could have much bigger terrains too. I hate seeing the edge of the map. I could load very big terrains and limit movement to the middle. L3DT Homepage If people want high spec lets give it to them. |
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| i have l3dt and would love making maps for you |
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| I probably could've gotten past level 5 if I wouldn't have quit on level 3 with over 500 credits to spare(Yes, I quit, I didn't lose :P), I had other things I wanted to do in that one day. I didn't use the lasers because they suck... lol... I just placed the other turrets down in just the right spots and I was invincible! |
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| Someone I talked with about the game reckoned more levels were essential. In L3DT just create a randomish terrain and bulldoze a path. Edit the attribute map when it's created to some kind of dirt color and let it do it's magic. send a link to the L3DT project files and I can include them in the game. as for: I just placed the other turrets down in just the right spots and I was invincible! That's the point! Good placement is key but level 5 has 4 paths not just 1! |
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| i can't do any work in the saphire part of l3dt(the 3d part with the bulldoze function) on vista, it always crashes. |
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| Well that sucks. Can you edit the attribute map to make the path instead? Just paint the path with one type of attribute (ie. stone) You can quickly load it up in blitz to see the result just export the texture map, the light map and the heightmap and stick them on. Send me any good ones! |
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| i'll try the attrib map but i always get poor results when its done this way. |
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| Can you use terraEd and import the heightmap into L3DT? Any terrain editing software will do, however. I just used l3dt cos it's free and does the hard work for me. The game engine uses the heightmap, lighmap and texturemap. So anything that can export these jpg/bmp will do. Have fun creating. |
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| So anything that can export these jpg/bmp will do. try png to preserve quality at little cost or targa and use a detail texture to add detail when seen close up, i'll show you an example soon. [edit] heres those examples i told you about   i'll use l3dt and work on it, the bigger the map size though the better. |
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| I always keep in mind the low spec computers. I add another layer of texture for the blood so already that is 3 layers. email me the maps and I will path-ify them! |
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| i'm e-mailing them to you as i speak. |
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| hi folks, i have an update that has taken a while to get here but it finally has come. the sheep come faster and the laser is better. http://www.box.net/shared/kzqicpe88k |
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