In the 13th century, a kingdom stood as a beacon of prosperity and peace. At its heart a structure said to be blessed by the gods themselves. Many tried to destroy it but in every attempt they failed. Driven by dark ambition, a neighboring realm, launched waves of archers and swordsmen to conquer it. The tower’s guardian, had lost much of his army in previous wars. He knew that facing the enemy directly would be suicide. Thus, using the tower as a strategic point, he rallied the remnants of his troops.\nEach wave of assault tested not just their strength but their unity, resilience, and cunning.\nWould the Last Tower stand or will it fall?
\nBuy units and protect the tower.
\nFor a better game experience use a mouse :)!
\nAnd special thanks to Mark Vasilkov for sharing his pixel art strategy
\n","source":"luisgurmendez/the-fall-of-the-last-tower","stars":1,"comments":[{"at":347486979,"author":"Christoph Schansky","login":"DerBenniBanni","gh":5499976,"text":"What? Zoomable realtime strategy with timespeed control in 13k? Very nice!\nI like the graphics, the animations and the handling of troops.
\nMaybe it could be even better with some more troop types (knigths on horses for flank-attacks, peasants swinging flails to bind units for the archers, etc.)
\nUnfortunately i am really bad at strategy, could not defend many waves. But it makes fun, so i tried it a couple of times! Good entry!
\n","games":["WitchCup1276"]},{"at":348113526,"re":347486979,"author":"Luis Gurmendez","login":"luisgurmendez","gh":17949470,"text":"Thank you very much!!\nYeah one of the things I regret most was to not add more type of troops I wanted to add knights, but I didn’t had much space, and for me the art was what took more bytes. The “ai” logic was pretty much the same for archers/swordsman just changing initial values like attack range, I feel like knights would have similar logic but well, that is the idea of this competition!
\nThanks for the feedback I’m glad you enjoyed it!
\n"},{"typ":2,"at":347739035,"author":"Luke Stapley","login":"CocosLuke","gh":53160446,"url":"https://cocos.com","twitter":"GameAddict","text":"The idea is there. But I feel you should have added a button for speeds and purchases. If not, at least share the instructions on the bottom of the page.
\nI think that the idea is great, but man, the waves get pretty intense at the end. Not sure if by choice or by how the code works out.
\n"},{"at":348113693,"re":347739035,"author":"Luis Gurmendez","login":"luisgurmendez","gh":17949470,"text":"I totally agree, I should have remove some functionality to gain some bytes and add those buttons. Regarding the waves, I could reach wave 23 after lots of attempts :D it gets pretty insane, specially when your army is all over the map, and the enemies reach your “spawn line” after that there isn’t much you can do :D .
\nThanks for the feedback!!
\n"},{"at":347773681,"author":"Homer Dilpleu","login":"HomerDilpleu","gh":66157330,"text":"I loved to play this game! I like the mouse controls which are intuitive to scroll and zoom. At first I was lost because the screen was not centered in the tower, but this game is really well done!
\n","games":["Cathedral builder"]},{"at":348113402,"re":347773681,"author":"Luis Gurmendez","login":"luisgurmendez","gh":17949470,"text":"Thank you very much :)) and thanks for the feedback!!
\nI feel lost too when playgin the game now, I had a similar experience in prev entry, I play it too many times that lost perspective on new people playing it. I’m so angry because it was a really easy fix, camera.position = tower.position.\nThanks :)
\n"},{"at":347808822,"author":"Steven Lambert","login":"straker","gh":2433219,"url":"https://stevenklambert.com/","twitter":"StevenKLambert","text":"Well done:
\nFeedback:
\nThanks for the feedback! I agree on all your points, but the one on camera movement, probably depends on the screen size, I spend a lot of time adjusting that movement threshold to make it work exactly as age of empires I’m sorry you find it hard to work with, will totally try to fix it if I iterate over the game :).
\nRegarding the archers being so frighten… I feel you, it’s annoying to me too it was too late to fix that when I notice it
\n"},{"at":347863833,"author":"Michael M.","login":"Schnark","gh":17846729,"url":"https://schnark.github.io","text":"Unfortunately, the controls didn’t correctly work for me: I have “search as you type” enabled in my browser, and you don’t call .preventDefault() on key events, so when I try to buy new units etc., the page search opens for me.
:panic: I’m so sorry that happend to you, yeah I should have preventDefault everywhere my bad
\n"},{"at":348099315,"author":"Javi Agenjo","login":"jagenjo","gh":393515,"url":"http://tamats.com","twitter":"tamat","text":"Nice game. The lack of clickable UI to do the most basic actions made it slow. But I liked the presentation and gameplay.
\n","games":["Knights of Acre"]},{"at":348112997,"re":348099315,"author":"Luis Gurmendez","login":"luisgurmendez","gh":17949470,"text":"Totally agree, I didn’t had any space left unfortunately, but that was the idea. Also I was hoping to add range for archers + strength + armor but didn’t had space for that either :(. For next year I would first build functionality then art :joy:
\n"},{"at":348109325,"author":"Armaan Mohammed","login":"ArmaanMoh","gh":94212438,"url":"https://armaanm.itch.io","twitter":"ArmaanM_GameDev","text":"I liked the game, the little sprites were cute and it fits the theme! But the camera movement confused me for a while 🤔and i think it would be more intuitive for the camera to already be pointing on the castle!🙂 Clickable buttons to spawn stuff would be better, simpler and faster! Buttons and Camera Movement aside nice and simple game with cute graphics! 😁
\n","games":["The Magna Carta","Age of The Demigods","A Dogs Adventure"]},{"at":348112901,"re":348109325,"author":"Luis Gurmendez","login":"luisgurmendez","gh":17949470,"text":"Totally! I was struggling the last week to fix the button to spawn functionality, I had to hack the keyboard thing because I wasn’t able to cut down some more bytes :(. I wish I had a spare few to fix that, I think I had like 40 left but in so much hurry I wasn’t able to add it. Also I wanted to increase range + armor + strength but couldn’t reach that either :(. Thanks for the feedback!!
\n"},{"at":348116517,"author":"Alexey Kalmakov","login":"rndD","gh":850302,"text":"Going full archers was not the right strategy =) Wave 13 got me.
\nZoom and camera control are very impressive. And I like small details a lot. Good entry!
\n","games":["Mini Merchant"]},{"at":348134493,"author":"Mark Vasilkov","login":"mvasilkov","gh":140257,"url":"https://mvasilkov.animuchan.net","twitter":"mvasilkov","text":"This is glorious! I was struggling with the micro (on a touchpad, too), but at the same time I feel like with a good micro I could kite the enemy fairly efficiently, so that’s a good skill check right there.
\nLoved how the map ends up covered in rivers of blood, and the grass and forest are looking great.
\nThanks for choosing convenient keys for units, that’s really important in an RTS!
\nSeeing the assault units charge into battle was cool, seeing the ranged units peace out and scatter was fun and super unexpected :)
\nOne thing I’d change would be, remove the delay when buying, and spawn at the mouse. Like when playing Protoss in SCII.
\n","games":["Super Castle Game"]},{"at":348135880,"re":348134493,"author":"Luis Gurmendez","login":"luisgurmendez","gh":17949470,"text":"Thanks for the feedback!! And thanks for sharing your art style :)).\nThat would have been a great idea! Spawn units at mouse position omg why didn’t i thought about that! Damn!! I totally agree the spawning cooldown as useless, I should have remove it I was doubting but I think you are right :)).
\nThanks!
\n"},{"at":348218496,"author":"Misael Braga","login":"misabitencourt","gh":5315140,"text":"Great RTS Game! I have loved to play it!
\nThe zoom option with mouse scroll was a fine choice.
\nI missed the sound effects.
\n","games":["Death Sea XIII"]},{"at":348606247,"author":"Stiggstogg","login":"Stiggstogg","gh":53380538,"twitter":"Stiggstogg","text":"Very nice and polished game! Pretty cool what you were able to put in 13 KB. The only thing I was missing were sound effects.\nSome feedback to further improve the game:
\nWhen a lot of units are created, the game hangs, somehow everything froze for me. I prefer archers who shoot in place without moving away. It would also be great if, when selecting troops, I could see how many units of troops I have. As for me, it seemed to me that by the time they reach that tower, the war will be over :D.
\nNice game - congratulations!
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