a low-rez tower defense PICO-8 game
Beetroot Paul's submission for the LOWREZJAM 2022, which requires games to have resolution of 64x64px.
This game is available to play in your browser on https://beetrootpaul.itch.io/towers-of-survival
Controls
- in-game button
Xor keyboard keyXorV- enter tower building / choose a selected tower / place a tower - in-game button
Oor keyboard keyZorC- open menu / cancel - in-game arrows or keyboard arrows - select next or previous tower / choose a place for a tower
Enemies are approaching. There are 10 waves of them. We need to survive.
There are 3 types of towers you can build:
- laser - the fast one,
- v-beam - the stronger one; its beam covers all tiles above and below, therefore you cannot build anything else on its way,
- booster - this one makes all surrounding lasers and v-beams shoot longer and re-charger faster; you can "stack" boosters to increase total boost – each laser can be boosted up to 8 times and each v-beam up to 6 times (not 8, because 2 tiles are reserved.
Our base have 5 cores. Each enemy is capable of destroying one core. Without cores, we cannot survive, it's that simple.
Good luck! You are our last hope…
It's a PICO-8 game, therefore I had to sacrifice some clean code practices in meeting console's constraints. Currently stats looks like:
- the codebase uses 8136 tokens out of 8192 available (29 left, 99% used),
- the codebase consists of 64084 chars out of 65535 available (1451 left, 98% used).
Development:
- (optional) Install nvm
- (optional) Run
nvm installto setup proper Node.js version - (once) Run
npm installto download dependencies - Start PICO-8 and load towers-of-survival.p8 cart
- Run
npm startto start a watcher which generates minified Lua sources for the game every time a file is changed. Please be aware all files has to be included (#include) manually in the cart's Lua itself.
Used version of PICO-8: 0.2.4c
Shield:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
