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Unconventional Tower
Description:
Once upon a time there was a mighty wizard who designed and forged most of the epic weapons you know from any fantasy game (remember Sulfuras?). That time is long gone.
Hundreds of years have passed without any incidents. But at one point, the darkest of all creatures began to creep to the surface… And they are after the wizards gold!
The wise wizard knew about that long before it happened and began to research on the creatures and how to stop them.
'Long before it happened' means three days ago.
Unfortunately, the wizard wasn’t able to create a powerful weapon to defeat the darkness itself, but at least he found a way to slow and eventually destroy the creeps. Plus he found a way to teleport his gold to an other dimension, but that takes time and the creeps (we shall call them taxmen) are on their way!
In this unconventional game you can not only control the wizard’s staff, which serves as two weapons in one, but also the tower on which the wizard stands itself!
The staff has two properties: From one end you can shoot „normal“ bullets that rout the enemies. If you turn it around, the other end of the staff shoots a mighty lightning bolt which destroys all enemies in its pathway.
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This is my first game ever. I'd appreciate feedback! Thanks for playing! :)
Downloads and Links
Ratings
 | Coolness | 72% |
| #227 | Audio(Jam) | 3.39 |
| #347 | Humor(Jam) | 3.21 |
| #487 | Fun(Jam) | 3.10 |
| #511 | Innovation(Jam) | 3.10 |
| #538 | Mood(Jam) | 3.03 |
| #595 | Overall(Jam) | 3.12 |
| #676 | Graphics(Jam) | 2.95 |
| #690 | Theme(Jam) | 3.12 |
Comments
Crazy Wizard! The moving tower is awsome and works great with the Controlls. Well done, and fun to play!
This is awesome!
First off: very well done for a first try, keep it up!
Great music, love the graphics. It took me a while to get that the staff has two "weapons".
I would have liked to see my score, maybe you could implement that in a later version?
Excellent job for a first game! :D
It was fun to control the tower and shoot the taxmen, but other end of the staff was really difficult to aim since it went in the other direction.
Your first game ever? Are you kidding me?
Absolutely fantastic, ESPECIALLY for a first go!
Great visuals, sound, fun mechanic (love that you aren't stationary). Great job!!
Cool, good work. I love that you can move the big tower around. Music gave the game a great feel. Took a while to work out the other end of the staff, but I like how it works. What's not to love about fending off tax men.
good first entry. As I played, I could only imagine how awesome it'd be to have an anti-tax collector weapon in real life.
Next year I'll use your game for my tax return, instead of Turbo Tax :D. Though I think that the taxman won't be too happy :P.
Very nice, the particle fx were great, satisfying explosions and decent sounds.
Nice to see someone try something totally different!
Great job for your first entry. I like how the two ends of the staff worked - a nice twist on mouse aiming.
:) Fun game.
Good to see people using unity player still too..I had to download so many games this LD ;)
Really good, man! Had fun there, nice one with the moving tower! taxmen? lol
good work, nice concept of moving tower! Each enemy could have some internal counter, after some limit he dies. But it is funny this way anyway :)
Nice game!! Congratulations on your first creation :D. The controls respond very well. The music was nice and I liked the graphics and effects too. For me it was not so obvious firing with right click. The first time I fired the other side of the staff the bullet (comet) went upwards, so I understood that you have to rotate the staff and aim with the other side. But at the end I understood and was a lot of fun. Good job and nice wizard :D
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Very funny
Nice first entry