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not sure if it's intended, but building on pre-established wall blocks, and then removing the turret will remove the pre-built blocks :) allowing you to free space and make nicer layouts
Not intended, but not really an issue. The main reason I placed those blocks there were to somehow help the player so it shouldn't be a problem if you remove them. :o
Hey, my tip would be to make use of the disruptor in places where the boss is pinned down by the harpoons aswell as making the harpoons hit the boss 2-3 times. Also, thank you!
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to get past level 9: Read the description, shock the head to open up the eyes on the body, kill like 4 eyes and the boss dies.
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Good game, great game for a first release !
It felt a bit repetitive in the end like many TD: make a small maze where you can stack 8 blasters in the same line for shock therapy, use player fire + mini me and harpoon for the 2nd portal. Machine guns become obsolete with the blaster and the blaster really outshine everything else except for buff-unit and bosses. Then each new stage is tedious because you make the same maze for 5 min, but thanks for that save feature when you lose !
There are great ideas in the game, but I think they would be much more brilliant if the game had more strategical balance (for ex. less enemies but harder to dispose of). The disruptor acting as a shield typically ruins a very good idea : making a turret enemy is great, it could be specific to a boss.
I must still say again, you have very good idea, Hopeslicer, and I think you will make excellent games in the future if that's what you plan to do.
Thank you, Mouxine! I really appreciate your feedback and kind words! :') To be honest I am aware of these facts, I experienced them myself. I am frustrated by the fact that I couldn't translate my ideas as I envisioned them but I had to stick to a decisive plan otherwise I would've never broke the chaotic loop I was in, consisting of adding/removing features and mechanics every week. I hope I delivered a somewhat enjoyable experience, either way, I took home lots of experience and I hope I could prove it through my next project. Thank you again!
Have you made use of the harpoons with the decimator upgrade? Usually I build things in the right part of the screen and have 1 harpoon pointing to the second portal. One disruptor for +25% damage @the maze entrance is also useful. Hope this helps!
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Enabling third-party cookies let level descriptions etc. appear. Now I'm a little put off by the fact that a number of websites seem to be using my PC as an external drive, and I can reach 1 GB of garbage data no problem thanks to this. I can play the game now, I guess.
Hey, you can whitelist only kongregate so other sites won't be able to access cookies. The domains are kongregate.com and konggames.com. I have always had third party cookies enabled and don't think the cookies did any harm or wasted so much space. I believe every game on kongregate with save/load has to use cookies to store your progress. :o
Something may be blocking the cookies from this specific page or kongregate. Unfortunately, I don't really know how to pinpoint the problem but since you can't progress past level 1 I'm pretty sure the game can't access the cookies to save and load the progress. The settings should be something like this https://i.imgur.com/PMUf4vQ.png (you can even press the Allow button and add the kongregate.com and konggames.com domains to trusted sites). Hope this helps!
Every 3 seconds they release a nova which causes nearby enemies to resonate. Every enemy has a specific buff they receive when they resonate so that's why it is necessary to keep them away from the other with the harpoons.
Vanguards gain 15% damage resistance when they resonate. They might heal when their resistance go past 100% but at that point the result is pretty much the same. I am fixing the healing part but the damage you do is still 0%. *edit* Should be fixed by now!
Oh man, I've tried to catch this bug but I just can't reproduce it on my pc. Somebody else already reported and since then I've tried to find the problem. Ah, I got it rofl, the thingy which opens to reveal the button closes after 6 seconds and if you didn't press yes/no in that time period you won't be able to close it anymore. *edit* You can close it if you press the red switch again. I am working on a fix right now! *edit2* Fixed!
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The harpoons decimator upgrade is an excellent idea with a lot of potential. Especially when it is difficult to place the main turret in range/with line of sight of the second portal. Though with the other upgrade, using it to stun and debuff enemies from the first works wonders too.
Two things to keep in mind however. First, abilities that trigger on hit don't, when shooting the line, so if you intent to rely on it, try to avoid them. Second, the shots are not conveyed directly tot he target, they are merely sent in its direction. This can meant that they impact other enemies instead of the one you want to focus fire.
Another quick tip: In the second half of the game, place your main turret diagonally to the first portal and your maze. It makes tho turret ships (fire in cardinal directions) a non issue.
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i'm confused by the mini-me. does it really only do 1 damage? then i can spend 200 to make it do 2 damage? why would i do that when a machine gun is cheaper and faster with 10 damage.
Hey, the mechanic goes like this. Every enemy takes bonus damage from the player. If you look in main menu at each enemy you'll see a "Player Damage" tab which varies from bluul to bluul. The mini-me does 100% of the player damage. If an enemy says it takes 25 player damage then a mini-me does 25 damage with each hit or 50 damage with the Unity upgrade. The bigger bullets upgrade further increases this damage by 50%. Hope this helps :o
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Projectiles being shot at your main gun that can take lives away adds a new dynamic to the game which I feel takes away from being able to sit back and enjoy watching your engineering marvel blast all the baddies since I am paranoid and focusing on shooting all the stray projectiles afraid it will take away a life. With the little ships that swarm you and fly passed barricades at least I was able to put a tower or 2 in strategic positions to keep them off me maybe add one that can shoot down those projectiles too :p
Hey, I just made a quick update. The disruptor turret now melts projectiles. Just cover the dangerous angles and you should be fine. :p There were many people which disliked the enemy projectiles and I nerfed them a lot but it seems they are still a problem. But no more! I should've thought of this way sooner :(
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It could be my browers's problem, using chrome and the font size is so big that I can't read the instruction for the final boss.
The description goes like this "Shocking it's head will open the eyes on it's tail.Eyes are very susceptible to player damage but invulnerable when closed.While closed the eyes release 4 projectiles in each cardinal direction." Btw, that's not the final boss there are 6 more levels after the snek.
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It would be awesome if pathing of enemies would not go around my baricades, off the map where I cant build. Makes whole concept of pathing irrelevant. Confine pathing TO map, not OUTSIDE of map.
It does not make the concept of pathing irrelevant in any way, it just prevents the player from making paths using the screen borders. It's just a balance thingy.
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IMPORTANT: Firefox has by default disabled THIRD-PARTY COOKIES, so if you are unable to save progress, start the game, press [N] or start the wave button aswell as some strange artifcats that is the cause.
I suggest white listing Kongregate on the third party cookies.
Here you can find more informations; https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
Hey, gian, the game already has a profile which saves your progress and such, so everytime you load the game you should continue from where you left off. If you are on firefox I suggest turning on Third Party Cookies or white list Kongregate on Third Party Cookies list.
Hey, I think I found the fix, Firefox has by default disabled Third Party Cookies a feature which make most of the html5 games unplayable. If you want to be able to play my game you should enable Third Party Cookies or atleast white-list kongregate. I disabled third party cookies on chrome and I couldn't even have persistent data aswell as pressing [N] or start wave button ingame.
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on level 5 wave 2 when i beat all enemies it won't progress to upgrade screen. i can still shoot but there's no enemies left and i can't do anything but reset level.
How many times it happened? *edit* I think I found the bug, at level 5 mini bluuls have some sort of spawning velocity and they might moved out of the screen boundaries, I am uploading the fix right now. This is extremely rare tho. :o
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im not sure if this is intentional or not but when i did level 6 my progress got restarted and i needed to do lvl 5 again, AND i lost all my acheivements, pls fix
Hey, numberfy2, this sounds strange indeed. There is nothing in the game code regarding the save deletion without a confirmation first. I am afraid the save got wiped from an external source. Also, did the save delete just as you completed level 6? Or did you close the game and returned to play again after some time? (btw try to press the arrow in the Data Panel, your mission may be hidden when you restart the game)
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Hey guys, it's been 2 weeks since I have released Spacedust Defender and I must say that it blew away all the expectations I had for my first release. (in a positive way :') ). I am deeply grateful for all the heartwarming comments and the positive feedback/criticism since I learned A LOT. I have been constantly adding new features at the request of the players and fixing most of the bugs and I think I reached the point where I can wrap up this project and move to the next. A few days ago I sketched an idea and now I am almost close to a mini prototype. If you are interested to see how it looks you can check it here: https://twitter.com/i/status/1063203034665295872 ( VERY WIP) . Once again, thank you all, I hope my next game will be even more to your tastes/enjoyment and it will have a proper Start Game button. Have a good day!
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Do the tech cards do anything? I worked to unlock an achievement and there is zero description of what the unlock does and it kinda seems like it missing content? you may want to fix that
Can you tell me exactly which one? Tech cards are the abilities/upgrades you get after each wave. There are like 3 unlockable ones (Executor - small chance to deal huge damage, Scrapper - restores 2 health and Giff Turret which gives you 1 fully upgraded machine gun to place). :o
I should've thought of this before writing this messy code :( .
I made the gameplay strictly based on levels and when I tried 1 week ago to implement an infinite mode, at the suggestion of another player, I realized that I need to modify half of the code.
I wasn't prepared. :(
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hey man, its a good game you made it here. I'm just missing two things. 1) An autofire option 2) The possibility to reuse the same map on next level (atm we can just reuse the map after we die on a level). Anyway, gonna give it 5/5
Thank you! I really appreciate it. :')
There is already an auto-fire option on [Space].
I don't think I can implement this feature because each level has a different layout. You might find yourself building on a meteorite or portal haha.
Anyway, I am glad you like my game, thank you again!
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In my opinion the minions that go through the barricades are extremely annoying if you built a maze for them but all that work just goes away
Hey, they are very few in number and only last from lvl 4 to 7, also they have 1 hp. They are just a distraction. The bluul egg can be killed pretty fast (@8 hits) before hatching so with good positioning you can avoid them all game.
I haven't found a place to add new things on the screen, everything I tried to place was easily missclicked while building. But why do you think it is necessary?
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so far it isn't bad. If anything allow us to preview how a path will be effected before a barricade is placed. The amount of times i'd have to restart a level already because 1 oddly placed barricade suddenly making the enemies decides to go along the outside of the map is..kinda high xD
You can sell barricades and turrets if you misplaced them by simply pressing [Right Click]. It is specified in the level 1 tutorial and controls. You get the full refund too at any point in the level. Hope this helped. :o
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This game is awesome, but Ive been stuck on level 15 for ages. I know the boss needs to be hit inside the ring but cant seem to do enough damage to him even with traps and grappler hooks slowing him down. Overall 4.5, very well balanced game
Hey, thank you for the kind words! I really appreciate it. :')
I usually placed the harpoons in such a way that the boss intersects with its range at least 2 times. Also place a Disruptor in the places where the boss is pinned down for +25% damage. Hope it helps. The "Big Think" achievement also helps with the pin damage.
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Pleas, make some changes to the wave start button.. it's put a little bit over the bottom part of the map area, and when we need to move or creating something there, we accidentaly click the button and the game starts without we had finished positioning the obstacles...
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@Hopeslicer: on Firefox, clicking on "[Click] to start the wave" does seemingly nothing. Disabling all kinds of blocking features (ad blocker, protection against tracking) does not help, either.
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Ah, yes, when I changed the level the achievements worked, thank you. Took me a while to get past lvl 6.
Good game, well made. Maybe starting to get a little difficult for my taste
The Shiny Bluuls can be annoying if they blend in with the others, at least 1 mini-me with Unity is necessary.Also, getting the Bluul Slayer achievement should make the game a bit easier till level 10. Thank you for playing!
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really nice little td. good work there :)
one little thing i noticed: you can place turrets on prebuilt barricades and then sell them to get rid of those barricades. i guess this is not intended.
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Have a problem with Mozilla under linux, don't seem to be able to click to start any waves. Also 'N' doesn't work and I can't shoot, though don't know if that's intentional if there is no wave. However the menu does seem to interact with the mouse.
This sounds like there's a problem with the keyboard input in mozilla firefox or maybe a problem with the focus.
You can't shoot when there is no wave but not being able to press 'N' shouldn't happen. Can you start the wave by clicking on "[Click] to start the wave"?