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Mongols are invading and you must defend Japan from them! A tower defense type of game.

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Did you know rice was sometimes used as a currency in medieval Japan.

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Controls

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Very entertaining! The controls were hit-or-miss, like sometimes 1 click selected/placed something, sometimes I had to double/triple click before anything happened.

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I like the different tower options, both for defense & resources. It seemed a little too easy that the rice farmers produced even when a wave wasn’t happening, since I could just wait a bit and build all the defense I wanted. Also a minimum-build distance would have increased the challenge some more, since eventually I realized I could just make a wall of towers to win.

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Simple TD game\nNot bad, but the main problem is low interactability - it’s really hard to select towers types and place it (somehow they aren’t select well enough), units are moving with a steps and you can’t see tower attacks.\nAlso you can’t see towers range.\nWith reworked view game can be really interesting.

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Controls were very clunky to me. Tower placing worked once in n tries. And then I got stuck in some submenu with “pagoda”.

\n","games":["Weird Cannon"]},{"typ":2,"at":348216079,"author":"Matt Hackett","login":"richtaur","gh":24601,"url":"https://valadria.com","twitter":"richtaur","text":"

A charming aesthetic that reminds me of the early days of the Internet. Unfortunately I found the interface a bit clunky and had a hard time selecting items or performing tasks. But fits the theme well and runs without error. Nice job!

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Definitely a little clunky, and hard to tell before the first playthrough exactly where the enemies are going to come from. On second playthrough, I just build a few rice producers and put tons of creepers everywhere, which led me to victory! Well done overall!

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Nice work making a TD game in only 13kb! I like all the upgrades and that you can grow rice. I found it hard to control, but overall a great job.

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A lot of my inputs don’t seem to be working, but it sounds like a solid concept - just needs some tweaking when it comes to the controls.

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Didn’t work on mobile touch, could not place towers

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It is a bit hard to understand what is going on, as there is very little visual feedback. I also found it difficult to select and place towers. I had to double click, but sometimes nothing happened.

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