1) What do we get when upgrading ? Is it better to buy a new tower or upgrade ? What do +5 damage mean ? We need to get some facts ! 2) Difficulty needs to be reworked. The first level of any game should be easy, not almost impossible. 3) Fast forward speeds things too little. 4) Health : a few high health enemies can kill you ? Nonsense. 5) Hits always do exactly the same damage, add some randomization. 6) Read number 2 again. The strategies need to be learned progressively, or else the player will know everything by the end of level 1 and be bored on level 2.
I never thought it would be possible to rip another game so much and get away with it. (I'm thinking about Advance Wars, for those who've never played it).
Way too random ... sometimes you die because of lack of pills, sometimes so many dices fall that you have no possibility to avoid them ... Also, collision detection is not precise enough.
Pretty good game, however the way that the enemy suddenly generates a huge army when you start destroying his castle, apparently without the constraints that the player has (cool-down time), is quite frustrating. Reminds of how the first strategy games on PC had to cheat to be able to beat the player.
Serious unit balance issues. Won easily by building only riders until level 6. Then started to add panzer and dragons and built mostly dragons on level 8.
@buster : there was no jump in Doom dumbass...
The original control scheme was :
up-down : go forward-reverse
left-right : turn left-right
shift : run modifier
alt : strafe modifier
ctrl : shoot
space : use button/open door
Not very usable per modern standards. This version lacks the strafe modifier. Needs to be much much more responsive, too.
About licensing issues, the Doom engine has been open-sourced so I guess it was possible to port it to flash. However content was never licensed. Doom was originally a shareware with the first episode free. Maybe this game could be legal if only the first episode is included, but IANAL. The full version is still on sale for about 10$ ...