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How does your game interpret and use the Theme / Halloween?
Pumpkin Parade Guardian is a cozy-spooky Halloween tower defense game for Game Boy Advance. By day you plant scarecrows, lanterns, cauldrons and other defenses around a pumpkin patch; by night zombies, ghosts, skeletons, werewolves, banshees and moon moths parade down the path to steal the pumpkins. You must survive ten nights, culminating on the final night with the Headless Horseman leading the parade. Every pumpkin saved is a victory.
Game Engine?
Game Engine / Tools (Other)?
Custom Game Boy Advance homebrew (GBA ROM, playable in browser via emulator)
Graphics & Audio: What did you create or use?
Have you participated in a game jam before this one?
Roughly how much time did you spend developing? (in hours)
24
Anything else you'd like to share about your game or development process?
AI disclosure (as on the project page): AI-assisted, code. The game is a Game Boy Advance tower defense game, playable in browser and as a downloadable GBA ROM.
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The GBA tower defence idea worked well in the browser, with a Day 1 build phase on the checker patch and then Night 1 bringing a zombie down the purple path while my scarecrow fired. Placing with Z after a few tries felt satisfying once the candy dropped from 150 to 100. My constructive note is that the place key was not obvious at first, since A did not place a tower for me, so a clearer on screen place hint would help.
The game was cut of in my Browser but what i was able to play was fun. I liked the music and the verity of towers. I always like myself a towerdefens game.
Thanks so much for playing, and for the kind words about the music and the towers — sorry the display got cut off in your browser, and I really appreciate you giving it a go anyway.
no fullscreen mode on web? sounds were great 8bit :) that's allways 10/10
Thanks so much for playing, and for the kind words about the 8-bit sounds — I hear you on the fullscreen question, and thanks for flagging it.
3 runs and the further I got was 6th wave. Guess those pumpkins were too much for me.
The gameplay was fun- the fact I played the game 3 times is a proof of that :) The units are interesting and appropriately Halloween themed. I gotta say, I think I never played a tower defense game on GBA emulator before!
Over all- cool game with a cool use of the theme and unique retro take! Nice work!
Thanks so much for playing — and for sticking with it through three runs! Glad the towers and the theme clicked for you.