I'm working on a video game with @TobiasVyseri. A small tower defense game, a satire of the classic Flash tower defense genre that was popular before Flash's demise. 2D, 10-30 levels.
Neither of us have ever designed a video game before, but we are serious about it; she's already made a lot of the art assets, and I'm learning Godot and have a prototype that is playable albeit extremely simple and boring.
Counts as released if any member of the public can play it without needing to contact me or jump through other hoops. An open beta counts, a closed beta does not. A demo version does not count. A version only available from my website, not yet approved by distributors (e.g. app stores, Steam) does count.
Update 2025-03-06 (PST) (AI summary of creator comment): Minimum Quality Standard Update:
The game must not be a lazy, unfinished demo.
For a paid release, at least one person the creator does not know must be willing to pay for it.
For a free release, at least one person the creator does not know must explicitly say they enjoyed playing it.
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3.00Well I've been stuck for the past ~48 hours on "how do I position a rectangle in a specific location in the window", so not off to a great start. According to the people I'm asking in the Discord, Godot just does not support this desire, WTF. Pretty sure they're wrong though.
Success! After 3 days I have figured out how to position a rectangle. Now the rest will surely be trivial.
@IsaacKing did you ever play the tower defense game "Antbuster"? imo one of the greatest free online flash games ever made
@bens I tried it a long time ago but didn't like it. I'm trying to play it now but it's nearly unplayable. The visual design is terrible, I can barely read the text. And it keeps prohibiting me from placing towers without any indication why... Nice concept but seems poorly executed.
My favorites were Bloons TD 3&4, The Space Game, and Vector TD. Core Defense is also really nice, more recently.
@IsaacKing this antbuster? https://armorgames.com/play/522/antbuster
I like it because the ants adapt and learn to avoid the towers by following the trails of those that survived, the completely open architecture is kind of unique, and the pie stealing dynamic is pretty clever and adds a whole other layer of complexity.
the graphics are crude, but I think it was designed by one dude (Marcel Stein) for fun
plus the tech tree and synergies between the towers results in a lot of amusing strategies
I dislike betting or predicting on stuff where the prediction impacts the results but overall it seems you want to release something by eoy and worst case you'll release a beta so likely you'll succeed.
Do you have any minimum standards that'd stop you from plopping the current demo onto your website and saying it counts?
I have submitted a M$10,000 limit order on YES, as an incentive for me to actually get this done.
@IsaacKing Good luck, I'm rooting for you! Gamedev is notoriously fraught though, (I have projects that I haven't publicly released even when in some cases it'd be minimal effort to do so...) so I'm betting NO on priors
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