Neat tower defense game! The idea of your resource for buying/upgrading your unit being the same as your health is a great way of naturally building in risk/reward. I found the difficulty a bit off as the early game is pretty difficult since you start with fairly low money and one dragon isn't enough to kill everything on its own. But then it gets very easy very quickly, before the steep ramp up at the end. So difficulty felt all over the place for most of the time. That said, I really enjoyed playing it and strategically placing/upgrading my units. So awesome job!
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Dragonic Defender's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Enjoyment | #5 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Concept | #11 | 3.846 | 3.846 |
| Use of the Limitation | #15 | 3.692 | 3.692 |
| Overall | #15 | 3.712 | 3.712 |
| Presentation | #41 | 3.308 | 3.308 |
Ranked from 13 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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2
Software used
Unity
Use of the limitation
The gold you use to hatch/upgrade is also your health! The gold was stolen and is being stolen back!
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87 days ago(+1)
Yeah I built difficulty tuning systems into it early on but unfortunately only had the last two hours to test, tune, and compile.
Glad you liked it though!
Yeah, the balancing was difficult. Ultimately I tried to tune it to around 10 minutes if you’re really good, since it’s an endless game and figuring that most people aren’t going to care to play a jam game for too long. Trying to make people feel engaged like they were making meaningful decisions while also reward good decisions was difficult. Especially since I really only had the last two hours for balancing lol.
Glad you enjoyed it!
89 days ago(+1)
The tower defense games I like the most tend to be the ones with set slots and you be creative in which ones go there.
Glad you liked it!
90 days ago(+1)
if you purchased a dragon for the amount of gold you have, you ‘d run out and therefore get a game over so I made it so you had to have greater than that number.
Thank you for giving it a play!
90 days ago(+1)
Thank you! All the SFX were made myself by recording them or in SFXR. Glad you enjoyed it!
90 days ago(+1)
it’s stated in the “How To Play” section. Your money also acts as your health. There’s some risk/reward involved in picking which dragons to hatch/upgrade knowing it’s also costing you health.
90 days ago(+1)
Thank you! Most of the SFX was done myself with my mic. Anything else was made quickly in JFXR.
And yeah, the red dragon AOE attack is the most visually appealing. Probably could have spend more time masking VFX for the others but started getting close the end of the time limit lol.
Also, it’s tuned to have a basically auto-fail state at around 10 minutes in if you’re reeeaally good (figured most people aren’t playing a game jam game to vote for longer than that). The difficulty ramps up quick.
Thank you for playing!
90 days ago(+1)
Definitely. You have to be careful in the beginning with how you’re placing your dragons. I’ve found that a couple wrong placements can go wrong quickly. Could have spent more time tuning that but was getting close to the time limit.
Thank you for playing!
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