Fold Wars Prototype

Devlog

• New Tower artwork
  February 21, 2018 by Jayesh#tower-defense, #RTS, #indiegame

  Today's update brings revamp of tower artwork. The new tower sprites are minimal, crisp, distinguishable, work at both normal and double resolution. Also updated the drawing of walls between adjascent... Continue reading

  
• Where's my gold?
  February 20, 2018 by Jayesh#tower-defense, #indiegame, #animation, #RTS, #html5

  New animation in ship that shows how much gold has been hijacked by the enemy and successfully carried to the ship. Also now the ghosts carrying the gold have a special glow around them. This makes it... Continue reading

  
• New Ship Design
  February 17, 2018 by Jayesh#screenshotsaturday, #animation, #tower-defense

  The ship is now very informational. It gives the player a peek at the size and speed of the upcoming waves. I completely redid the design by doing all the animation in code. Previously I was using Spi... Continue reading

  
• Level 4 - twice the resolution, block tower
  February 16, 2018 by Jayesh#tower-defense, #html5

  Today's build comes with a new level - number 4. This one has twice the resolution of the map, that means there is lots of real estate to build towers. This will allow very deep waves. More variety of... Continue reading

  
• Tower efficiency visualization
  February 10, 2018 by Jayesh#tower-defense, #strategy, #RTS, #visualization, #html5

  Tower defense strategy is all about placing towers at strategically right positions at right time. The spatial strategy is quite clear by looking at the map. But the temporal strategy is not. In other... Continue reading

  
• Strategy visualization
  February 07, 2018 by Jayesh#visualization, #tower-defense, #html5, #indiegame

  Here's a first installment of strategy visualization technique once you have finished the level. It's a composition of plots that let you see your gameplay as a whole. Right now the plots are unlabele... Continue reading

  
• Performance optimization
  February 03, 2018 by Jayesh#tower-defense, #performance, #path-finding, #html5, #javascript

  Last week I spent some time rewiring the path computation algorithms for the enemy units. There was some scope to save both computation and memory by changing when and how the paths of each enemy unit... Continue reading

  
• Enemies marching in the lanes
  January 28, 2018 by Jayesh#tower-defense

  Implemented lanes for the enemies to march this week. Now they appear spread out and don't look like a single train or a crawling snake. Try it out... Continue reading

  
• Today was spent in Heap Profiler
  January 25, 2018 by Jayesh#performance, #html5, #html5game, #chrome-dev-tools, #heap-profiler

  After implementing levels with hardest difficulty that have hordes of enemy waves, I hit performance problems. The browser would become visibly unresponsive near the end of the level. So today I spent... Continue reading

  
• Tower plan with Walls, lot of waves, Difficulty levels
  January 24, 2018 by Jayesh#tower-defense, #performance, #difficulty

  Building towers in FoldWars now automatically creates walls, thus giving a better visualization of your strategy. Also added lot of waves in each of the level. Moreover each level now has 3 difficulty... Continue reading

  
• Level 3, with Laser and Sprinter
  January 22, 2018 by Jayesh#tower-defense

  Added a new level (3rd) in the latest update. It comes with a new enemy - Sprinter - which moves faster than others. It's difficult to catch it with slow aiming Gun and Canon. To deal with it a new to... Continue reading
• Laser Teaser
  January 22, 2018 by Jayesh#tower-defense, #teaser

  Added a new tower and a new enemy. It's coming out soon. Here's a teaser... Continue reading

  
• In-Sync music
  January 20, 2018 by Jayesh#music, #screenshotsaturday

  Spent the entire afternoon yesterday inside VCV Rack to compose these beats. Had to juggle a bit with timing, but happy with the outcome. Here's a gif for Screenshot Saturday... Continue reading

  
• New enemy, New tower, Creepy music, Detailed tower menu
  January 18, 2018 by Jayesh#music, #tower-defense, #html5

  There's new enemy in town. More powerful and better shielded. Also there's new tower to face the threat of new enemy. It can deliver fire power that's more lethal and reaches farther. The level 2 has... Continue reading

  
• New level, Scoring, Block tower
  January 16, 2018 by Jayesh

  Fold Wars now has a scoring system. You score more by killing more enemies while keeping maximum number of factoids (the yellow gems) in the pavilion. Building towers and ammo, takes away from the sco... Continue reading

  
• Hello world
  January 11, 2018 by Jayesh

  This is the first public release of a prototype game I'm working on. It's 2D Tower Defense game with abstract artistic style. So far only one level is implemented, but more will be coming soon. Play i... Continue reading