I found the tower placement mechanism a little bit clunky but all round this was a fun tower defence game, well done! Also +1 for the effort adding animated previews on the itchio page.
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Lunar Bastion's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Overall | #17 | 3.952 | 3.952 |
| Graphics | #24 | 4.190 | 4.190 |
| Gameplay | #26 | 3.762 | 3.762 |
| Theme interpretation | #42 | 3.762 | 3.762 |
| Innovation | #64 | 3.333 | 3.333 |
| Audio | #71 | 3.429 | 3.429 |
Ranked from 21 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
GitHub repository URL
https://github.com/ACB-prgm/GameOffGameJam_LunarBastion
Theme interpretation
Literally shooting a giant cannon to defend a moonbase
Comments
Such a great game! the art is amazing, polished mechanics, smooth gameplay, replayability and solid design.
The only thing I would love to have as a user, is the number of turrets (the 2/6 data) in the UI all the time, it would be very much appreciated and help when you are in a hurry to deploy a new turret.
I’m quite happy that I reached 12 minutes :)
Outstanding game! Well done!
Really fun game! 
During my gameplay I found:
- Id like to be able to click to deeply without having to press enter ( i almost never pressed abort)
- I didn’t realise that I could upgrade my mine until quite far into the game!
- I had a tough time using the mortar on the left side of the screen when my tab was open. Maybe autohide the tab/reduce its alpha if you have an ordance selected?
- Id like to be able to upgrade my turrets just by clicking them and choosing to upgrade there (rather than selecting upgrade in the tab and then selecting the turret)
- Id like to be able to build walls!!
TBH i really enjoyed the gameplay, and played much longer than I intended haha.
3 years ago (+1)
Awesome feedback man!
- I thought about getting rid of this feature, but I decided against it because you can pretty reflexively hit enter to spawn, and then you get rid of the possibility of misclicks.
- Yeah, I need a tutorial badly but ran out of time haha :(
- I think I'll either make this an option or just make it the default because it is a good idea. The only reason I didn't do this was that I was worried players might accidentally click something and not know how to unhide the tabs, but a tutorial would clear this up.
- This definitely feels like you have to go back and forth too much as it is haha. The reason I did it like this was just because it was easier to program this way. What you said is actually what I intended to do in the beginning.
- I'm still on the fence (pun) about adding walls/barricades because I wanted players to really feel like they weren't safe, and also that they needed to use the ordnance from the cannon. I think once I tune up the difficulty curve, there should be less need for barriers, but we'll see.
And love to hear that you actually had some fun playing! I spent more time than I intended playing your game too haha.
Cool! Yeah time in these hackathons are helpful to urge us to finish something up, but tbh I think its be nice if we’re allowed to edit our games after voting begins to start incorporating feedback from players! Like you, I need to add a tut to my game :)
Id love to try your game out again if you do add new stuff in the future :) Its really fun and very beautiful.
3 years ago(+1)
Hey renato, Thanks for playing!
Yeah, I anticipated this, which is why I made the hide/unhide tabs button [h]. I knew people would miss this without a tutorial tho, so that's definitely something I want to work on.
I'm testing on a Mac with a trackpad. And the issue was that when I click on a turret and move the red marker across the moon area, it would be stuck an a location and I'm not able to move it. I've tried the game again now, and it seems to be OK with no issues. It could be that the game was detecting clicks as I moved my fingers across the trackpad and the turret got place correctly, but I thought that it was stuck. Maybe adding support for keyboard movements as well would make placements easier for me, or maybe I should've just used a mouse :P
Hey CrazyFizik,
Thanks for playing! Yeah the difficulty curve is one of the things I did last and definitely need to work on. It gets too easy for a bit, then just becomes impossible almost. I have thought about adding mobile troops, like tanks and stuff, but I want the Ordnance/Space cannon to be a big part of the game still.
Thanks for playing! I think I still need to work on the difficulty curve a bit but I'm glad you liked it!.
When did you encounter the bugs? I wasn't getting any errors or warnings in the editor. The only thing that is a lil sketchy is in the title screen, I am using the get_tree().create_timer() method instead of timers (which I am going to change) which I put a bandaid patch on which seemed to fix it.
The game crashed right on the main menu for me after some time (due to the issue in the rocket bullet script), and if I started the game quickly enough to prevent that, it would crash due to the `Global.Base` being an invalid instance.
Godot has this tricky behavior where a node freed with `queue_free()` does not assign its previous references to `null`, but to something called a "previously freed instance". That doesn't evaluate as `false` when you do `if target:`, and thus it would then try to call methods on the previously freed instance, triggering errors (in debug mode) or crashes (in release mode).
I suggest you give it a run with Godot 3.2.4 beta 3 which does a better job at reporting these issues than 3.2.3 stable.
3 years ago(+1)
Hey thanks for playing!
It is endless, but I want to add a few more enemies to gradually come in and a boss like enemy that would be more static and take up a large part of the screen. Maybe you have to take out its tentacles to kill it or something idk.
I also wanted to add dialogue and involve a lil story, so maybe I could make a beatable mode and a survival mode. The story is that the US gov knew there were aliens on the moon and deployed you at this mining base anyway, and the reason you have to pay for earth to defend your base is because they need to make sure your mine is worth the investment it costs to protect. So it would be cool to add an ending and then display some stats like #turrets lost, #upgrades purchased, etc.
Thanks for playing!
14:52 is great! The difficulty curve is a lil messed up and around 14 minutes in it gets wayyy hard. My best it 16.12 I think. Definitely something I neeed to spend some time adjusting! And I am considering continuing development for sure! could work well on mobile I think.
I will def give your game a try!
3 years ago(+1)
Thanks!
Yeah I need to adjust the difficulty curve for sure. I also want to add more enemies, but art tends to be the limiting factor for me. I actually wanted to have animations for the enemy attacks, as well as totally different sprite for the turret upgrades, but didn't get a chance to do that.
I am having trouble running your game in browser and I'm on mac so I can't download. I know its me somehow because it looks like others have played your game in browser, so i'll try again later.
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