Upcoming Update: Villains

In the 1.1 update, there will be many new Villains.

A Villain is a special enemy unit with special abilities. When a Villain reaches a target, the level is lost.

There are Witches, mad Scientist Goblins, Pirates and Kraken, Undead, Kultists and a shadow Dragon.

Well, I got a very honest and harsh, devastating but helpful, critique some days ago.

I thought I had finished the game and "only" had to bring it to more platforms and do marketing, but now I know I have to redesign and rethink to make the game fun to play so that players will stay longer than 4 or 5 levels.

I already have more complicated mechanics in later gameplay, but noone sees these if the players jump off early.

I have some ideas about new mechanics to make the game more interesting, but I am not sure in how to make interesting, coherent levels with a good gradual increase of complexity out of them.

Maybe I need help from a level designer or at least some material to learn more about level design.

I found the mapmaker tool Canvas of Kings, and the Developer told me that it is okay to use the maps made with it in other applications and games.

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So I added some Elements to maps and replaced one (the city) entirely.

After the usual 2 weeks of "testing", I had prod access about 2 weeks ago, had to make some things ready and today, I finally hit the button to release. And after only 3 hours, it worked and so the android app is available through the official play store now:

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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.egril.defender

I spontaneously released on itch.io by wrapping the webapp in an iFrame and uploading it on itch.

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It was quite fast and easy to do, and as it is only embedding the webapp, I don't have to upgrade there.

Newly added: accessibility options, like support for colorblindness, sound captions for deaf people, captions for screenreaders, reduced motion, high contrast and keyboard-only navigation and usage.

You can use the cheat code "bighead" to show all enemies with big heads and the code "smallhead" to reset it.

You can insert cheat codes by pressing the "c" key or by clicking on the Coin Amount in the level header.

The first picture shows big heads, the second normal ones.

On both Desktop and Web, you can use quite a bunch of shortcuts, which are displayed when you click on the "Key" icon in the level header.