Anyone got gimmick ideas for tower defense games? Are they still a viable genre to sell on steam? #gamedev #indiedev (gif is yet _another_ old prototype I made a while back) - ThreadSky

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shingpapi.bsky.social • 22 days ago

Anyone got gimmick ideas for tower defense games? Are they still a viable genre to sell on steam? #gamedev #indiedev (gif is yet _another_ old prototype I made a while back)

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helcius.bsky.social•22 days ago

Tower defense but you have a controllable hero in the lanes

shingpapi.bsky.social•21 days ago

this is cool but I feel like it's also a default feature on every TD out there at this point, maybe except for bloons (never played bloons)

helcius.bsky.social•21 days ago

I thought more in the ways of games like Warlords Battlecry 3 (it's pretty obscure I think). It's an RTS where your hero unit is very customisable, persists between missions and levels up to eventually become very powerful with an RPG-like system/power curve. Have you ever prototyped an RTS before?👀

grizzo13.bsky.social•22 days ago

TD is still viable w/ no gimmicks imho! this prototype looks great

vegmuffin.bsky.social•21 days ago

Of course!! I'm making a mazing multi-waypoint tower defense game with fog of war mechanics, I'm following a couple other TD devs (check out Emberward, Everwarder, Isle of Arrows, Islets defense for modern takes on the genre). The more the merrier!

parishsoftworks.bsky.social•22 days ago

i'd look at starcraft or warcraft arcade. Theres a lot of tds with cool gimmicks that arent all that fleshed out.
this flash td has a really good metagame too imo
https://www.kongregate.com/games/undefined/protector

hartyl.bsky.social•22 days ago

looks good!

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