360k views in 2 weeks... this genre is starved for content. You need a lot of polish, but your concept is interesting and fun. I've been playing for 2 weeks now, and that's way more time played than we normally get out of a game. Nice job.
The only thing this suffers from is that you don't have in-game instructions, instead having it in the kongregate description. It doesn't deserve it's low score. As someone who's played all idle games on kong, this should be a ~3.7 rating.
You've captured the essence of unfolding games - always something new to look forward to, something to keep your attention, reasons to walk away and reasons to pay attention, and every way to spend resources is positive. This is an amazing game, and I can't wait to see how you upgrade it over time.
Idle games are fun because every choice is a positive choice. This game actively tricks you into making negative choices. I don't find this fun at all.
You are right that is what idle games are about. I wanted to experiment a bit and see how would it work out if some choices were negative. It certainly is not like your everyday idle game, but I think some change is good sometimes.
I think it's great! I didn't need instructions to pick it up within 5 minutes, and I love the 3 minigames within 1, that actually tie a lot of other incremental ideas together. My largest complaint is that winning monster battles doesn't do much - maybe give us gold to buy resources ourself?
@llamaknight
we love this game so much because unlike other tower defenses, there are no lives, just mana, adding a new layer of complexity. Probably the biggest reason though is the fact that you can anger each wave making them stronger, so the goal of the game is to skirt the edge and fight monsters that are just barely too weak to get by. That edge-walking is a fun development that you don't see in almost any other tower defense.
count to twenty, then do it again with adding an 's', then count thirty fifty, sixty, etc, then hundred, thousand, million, etc.
also: triangle, square, hexagon, pentagon, etc.
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Thank you for the encouraging words :)