{"id":1950,"edition":11,"categories":1,"features":0,"size":12447,"name":"One Guard","authors":[{"name":"Alpine Games","url":"https://alpinegames.itch.io","twitter":"Alpine_Games","login":"Alpine-Games-Dev","gh":143655814}],"description":"

A 13th century tower defense game, set before the invention of the balloon in 1824.

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You are the one and only guard protecting the largest defense tower. Nothing much happens here so you took the job. One day day you are attacked by another kingdom.

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Can you defend the tower?

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Controls

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Enemies

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Upgrades

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Thank you for playing!

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Super simple gameplay loop - but I found myself playing it multiple times. Kudos!

\n","games":["Feast Night"]},{"at":347261150,"author":"Tiago Correia","login":"dosaki","gh":1957450,"url":"https://dosaki.net/","text":"

Simple and fun. Those red-shirted guys were super fast!\nI found that Arrow Speed is probably all I needed.

\n","games":["Swords & Quills"]},{"at":347261155,"author":"Rob Louie","login":"roblouie","gh":5448110,"url":"roblouie.com","twitter":"rob_louie","text":"

The audio was really nice, and the bow following your cursor was a nice touch.

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Either a health refill upgrade or the ability to continue would have been good, and the hurtbox on the tower seems a little big, it felt like I took damage just before the enemy hit it, which felt unfair.

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Still, while it’s simple, it’s well done. Nice game!

\n","games":["Upyri"]},{"at":347266926,"author":"John Swana","login":"swashvirus","gh":30010266,"twitter":"swashjunior","text":"

Short game lots of ideas nice sound

\n","games":["Trench Fisher"]},{"at":347282203,"author":"Steven Lambert","login":"straker","gh":2433219,"url":"https://stevenklambert.com/","twitter":"StevenKLambert","text":"

Well done:

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Feedback:

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A solid entry, and one with some a bit of strategy at play with the upgrades, and enough variation to support different player styles. I liked the music and the “tips”.

\n","games":["13 Drums"]},{"at":347309954,"author":"Andrei Iacob","login":"porumbeii","gh":66866296,"text":"

The music is super cool, great game! Would like to see more upgrades/enemy types.

\n","games":["13 Samurai"]},{"at":347331724,"author":"Andy Killorin","login":"Speedy6451","gh":37423245,"text":"

I loved the atmosphere, nice audio.

\n","games":["Simple Sailing Simulator"]},{"at":347334497,"author":"Mefistofel","login":"mefist0fel","gh":1374506,"twitter":"Polar0cean","text":"

Simple game defence game, just need to hit enemies with a bow.\nNot super interesting, but where is some gameplay and even upgrades.

\n","games":["Castle wars"]},{"at":347339531,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"

I enjoyed playing, felt a bit like a missile command game but upside down.

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The different enemy types were good and I played through a few waves with the various upgrades.

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I can see this game being easier on a touchscreen.

\n","games":["Princess of Corinium"]},{"at":347341955,"author":"Crystal Parker","login":"Vertfromage","gh":29644308,"url":"https://vertfromage.github.io","twitter":"vertfromageio","text":"

I liked it, the music was good, and the bow and arrow worked well. The graphics could have been a bit better. The kill box was a bit generous as you could shoot over their head and still kill them. I found it a bit annoying that you couldn’t shoot them at the bottom of the tower.

\n","games":["Journey to the East: Silk Road Adventure"]},{"at":347355624,"author":"Thiago Romão Barcala","login":"thiagorb","gh":821208,"text":"

Simple but fun! The megafast ones were very tricky for me. I managed to get to round 10 after a lot of tries, but didn’t manage to finish the game.

\n","games":["Duelo"]},{"at":347399026,"author":"Homer Dilpleu","login":"HomerDilpleu","gh":66157330,"text":"

Super cool entry, I enjoyed playing it. I liked the faster arrows and was really scared by megafast red enemies :).\nI also liked the relaxing music!

\n","games":["Cathedral builder"]},{"at":347407962,"author":"Brian Hambley","login":"Hambo3","gh":10634997,"text":"

Very likeable. Determined to complete this, got to lvl 9 so far :)

\n","games":["Go Forth and Conquer"]},{"at":347451413,"author":"Ryan Tyler","login":"tyler6699","gh":50468,"url":"https://carelesslabs.co.uk","text":"

Simple but fun!

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What could have improved the game:

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Could have maybe had the tower fall down by one block height everytime it was hit to add to the tension of being hit.

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Over all a fun game!

\n","games":["Fort Knight"]},{"at":347512003,"author":"CaptainAligna","login":"CaptainAligna","gh":145273384,"text":"

Despite being a very simple game, I had a lot of fun playing it!

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It is exactly what I expected of a tower defense, the controls were simple and everything was clear.

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And yes, I did enjoy the music~

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it was spot on the theme and the gameplay was interesting. however the controls didn’t include the mouse pointer/movement to change directions for the aim and it would have been nicer if there was a target symbol for the player to identify which direction the bow was facing-all in all it was fun! thank you very much!

\n","games":["Rock Feud"]},{"typ":2,"at":348215536,"author":"Matt Hackett","login":"richtaur","gh":24601,"url":"https://valadria.com","twitter":"richtaur","text":"

Playable & fun little castle defense game. Reminds me of Asteroids but with a medieval theme. I believe there was an upgrade screen but it skipped by quickly when I thought I was clicking to shoot my arrow (a delay before showing the popup might help with that).

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Appreciate the music, sounds, & breaks between levels. Nice work!

\n"},{"typ":2,"at":348827223,"author":"Björn Ritzl","login":"britzl","gh":1300688,"url":"www.defold.com","twitter":"bjornritzl","text":"

Congrats on completing JS13k! The game is pretty well balanced, although the red mega fast enemies are annoyingly hard to hit.

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Hi there!

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Great job on this submission - it was a classic tower defense with a good implementation and solid mechanics. Here’s my review and feedback:

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  1. Overall, great game and fun to play. Made it to level 9 on my first play through and was upset I couldn’t get further :)
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  2. I’d suggest a little more randomality to how the enemies spawn. I could see the pattern of left to right to left (etc) and thought it became a bit predictable towards the end.
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  3. I couldn’t review the source code because the link didn’t show any public repositories
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  4. It would have been nice to add some cinematic elements to the transitions between levels, such as dramatic pauses or fade/in fade out. Perhaps you can consider something there for transitions?
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Feel free to hit me up on Twitter/X @jedihacks to have a discussion!

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Does this link work for you? https://github.com/Alpine-Games/One-Guard

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