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Visit the game's page: https://minifun.games/td/

Hi, I'm the solo dev of Towerful Defense: A Rogue TD. It's roguelike tower defense where you control a single tower to fight against hordes of aliens coming from all directions. Pick your tower, equip up to 4 skills, and choose from a variety of traits and items to craft powerful builds that lead you to victory.

The game is participating Steam's Next Fest in June, with an updated demo and it's available right now.

You can ask me anything about the game here. And don't forget to add it to your wishlist :)

[–] FVS@kbin.social 1 points 4 months ago

Thank you! I overestimated the popularity of the term "prologue".

 

About the game: A tower defense action roguelike where you control a single tower to fight against hordes of aliens coming from all directions. Pick your tower, equip up to 4 skills, and choose from a variety of traits and items to craft powerful builds that lead you to victory.

I'm here to answer any questions you have about the game!

 

Hello, I've been working on the game, Towerful Defense: A Rogue TD, for almost a year now. I'm about to release the game after Steam's Next Fest in June. And I'm about to release a free version of it, a prologue in May 8th. You can wishlist the prologue now to get notified on the launch day.

I'll answer any question you have about the game here :)

[–] FVS@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago

no, it's only single player

[–] FVS@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago

Thank you! That means a lot to me :)

[–] FVS@kbin.social 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes, with native Linux build and full controller support, it will run great on the SD.

 

Watch this new trailer and also an Xbox announcement!

About the game: A tower defense action roguelike where you control a single tower to fight against hordes of aliens coming from all directions. Pick your tower, equip up to 4 skills, and choose from a variety of traits and items to craft powerful builds that lead you to victory.

To learn more about the game, visit the page I created for it: https://minifun.games/td/

Or you can ask me anything about the game here :)

 

Hello, a year ago I launched an idle clicker game, Beat Stickman: Beyond, on Steam. It was a very ambitious project of mine, and I put so much love into it, but unfortunately, it wasn’t a success. A typical indie dev story, I guess 😅

I acknowledged that it was I didn’t get it right, I tried to learn from it and actually moved on since then (in the sense that I did work on a couple of other projects, and currently working on another one of my own).

But recently, the thought that lots of stuff I worked very hard to put in the game will be forever undiscovered bothers me really bad. (I sold 368 units, with 60 units returned/refunded, but because of the game’s design, I doubt any of the players has unlocked the stuff at the end of the story). So, when I finally have time, I decided to do something with it, the goal is to make my work (hopefully) appreciated by some players out there.

So, here’s the things I’ve done:

  • Rebalanced the game and will ship it as a free DLC: I’ve made it much easier to fully unlock the main story, it should be under 5-10 hours now (it used to be almost 100 hours required, insane I know, and it was a hell of drag, so it’s bad).

  • Quality of life update: I added Dark mode so your eyes won’t get burned by some super bright (white) background. I added Windowed mode so you can let the game run in the background/second monitor while you’re doing other tasks and sometimes stare at it, giving it some click of love. I added the ability where you can use a button on your keyboard as your mouse’s left button so your finger won’t get hurt (it used to be a really bad situation since in the game, you already had to move the mouse frequently, combining it with clicking and sometimes holding is a real pain). And a few minor changes that aren’t worth mentioning but together they do make your experience smoother.

  • Deep discount to the base game: finally, all the changes don’t matter if you don’t feel like getting the game, so I’ll discount the base game to the deepest ever.

About the game

It’s an idle/clicker/incremental game (yeah, it has all of those) where you beat the Stickman with all different kinds of things. The loop is simple: you beat the Stickman, gain coins from doing so, and use coins to upgrade your things more powerful to beat more powerful Stickman. The game has a narrative and your key progress is narrative-driven. I designed it to have an immersive feeling, that you’re not simply interacting with a game but interacting with an imaginary sci-fi system. I leveraged many in-game actions to create progress mechanisms.

So, as I said, I acknowledged that I haven’t done a good job of getting all those things to work perfectly. But, I hope with all the changes I’ve recently made, you will find some specific things in the game that may love.

The DLC, update and discount launch will be on Monday, October 23 at 10 AM (PDT), the discount lasts 7 days.

You can wishlist the game and DLC now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1494280/Beat_Stickman_Beyond/

I overkilled some beats to make these trailers myself 🥲:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp6ar2zyYI4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8N7_O8RlV8

I hired a team for $2K to make this trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qiRMZh7uAA

Thanks for your time,

P.S.: I intended to make a short post announcing the upcoming content, update, and discount. Ended up remembering the time I developed the game and overshared.

[–] FVS@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you, that certainly helps!

 

Hey, I previously shared with you the videos of the game I'm spending my own time working on. Thank you for your feedback and suggestions! Here's the latest video which showcases 3 skills of the game that I'm implementing. Hope you like it, and any questions you have, I'm here to listen and answer.

About the game: Towerful Defense: A Rogue TD is a roguelite horde survival game with a tower defense theme and a twist: you don't have to move to avoid enemies but must use skills actively. Pick your tower, equip up to 4 skills, and choose from a variety of traits and items to craft unique builds that can survive waves of hostile aliens.

For more about the gameplay, features, and screenshots you can visit https://minifun.games/td?utm_source=m_gaming

 

Hey, I previously shared with you the videos of the game I'm spending my own time working on. Thank you for your feedback and suggestions! Here's the latest video which showcases 3 skills of the game that I'm implementing. Hope you like it, and any question you have, I'm here to listen and answer.

About the game: Towerful Defense: A Rogue TD is a roguelite horde survival game with a tower defense theme and a twist: you don't have to move to avoid enemies but must use skills actively. Pick your tower, equip up to 4 skills, and choose from a variety of traits and items to craft unique builds that can survive waves of hostile aliens.

For more about the gameplay, features, and screenshots you can visit https://minifun.games/td?utm_source=m_gamingbeehaw

[–] FVS@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

yeah, kind of!

[–] FVS@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

minimalistic art, characters are all simple shapes, you shoot bullets 😆

[–] FVS@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you for being honest. But hey, how dare I compare my side project to those mega super hits? I just used them as references since they are really games that inspired mine. It's not and not meant to be VS or Brotato killer. No. But I do hope and am trying my best to make it have values of its own. Give it a chance when the free demo is out, will you?

[–] FVS@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Oh, sorry for somehow I only see your comment by now. You'll have "passive skills", too. They are called, in the game, Support units. And artifacts to modify the gameplay as you progress through the run. But your skills (you can equip up to 4 simultaneously) are (in most builds) the main damage engine, the main source to trigger cool synergies.

[–] FVS@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Thank you, I was just trying to make it look funny somehow, but sure, if it messes with the algo so I'll best change it back to normal.

[–] FVS@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, thanks, helpful advice 👍 I overestimated the popularity of the "B" game 😛, I guess.

[–] FVS@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago
 

Think of the game as Vampire Survivors, but instead of you having to move and all the skills are passively activated, now you just stay in one place, but you must actively use the skills. That makes sense because the game has tower defense theme, as the name suggested. There is another difference though, it’s how players progress. My game doesn’t have meta-progression, you don’t have any upgrades outside a run. And the level-up rewards and shop system of the game are strongly inspired by the game Brotato.

You can learn more about the game here: https://minifun.games/td?utm_source=m_gaming

I'm working toward a free demo, hopefully, it will be released in a few months.

 

Think of the game as Vampire Survivors, but instead of you having to move and all the skills are passively activated, now you just stay in one place, but you must actively use the skills. That makes sense because the game has tower defense theme, as the name suggested. There is another difference though, it’s how players progress. My game doesn’t have meta-progression, you don’t have any upgrades outside a run. And the level-up rewards and shop system of the game are strongly inspired by the game Brotato.

You can learn more about the game here: https://minifun.games/td?utm_source=m_gamingbeehaw

I'm working toward a free demo, hopefully, it will be released in a few months.

I'm here and happy to answer any questions you have about the game!

 

About the game: a roguelike tower defense where you choose from hundreds of items to craft your unique and powerful builds to defend your only tower against 20 waves of enemies.

Here's the link to the Steam page (don't forget to wishlist and follow if you like the game): https://store.steampowered.com/app/2453610/Towerful_Defense_A_Rogue_TD?utm_source=m_gaming

I'm working toward a free demo, hopefully, it will be released in a few months.

I'm here and happy to answer any questions you have about the game!

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