Spring RTS Engine

GemCraft Chapter 0
http://armorgames.com/play/3527/gemcraft-chapter-0

Oh MAN, this game has taken like 30 some hours of my life.

It's not bad, but a bit too much grind for me.

yeah i found this about 7 months ago, had a few of my friends playing it, the last level is pretty impossible.

Spawn_Retard wrote:yeah i found this about 7 months ago, had a few of my friends playing it, the last level is pretty impossible.

I had 6 level 7 gems built on the last level before being overwhelmed the last time I played, the "mana farming" method seems to be key (setting up a bunch of traps with mana grabbers right behind a slow-down trap) as I was getting only one or two until I tried it. One of the nifty things is that you can re-spec your skills to match a level better, mostly I've been running full mana gain, cheap-gemcrafting, higher-min-damage, fire speed, duel-gem boost, and 2 gem mastery (usually lime-red for that multi-hit-splash) and then spending the rest on max-damage and range boost... I'm thinking the range boost is unneeded for this level as I have to build at least seven towers and they never fail to have something to shoot at, maybe I'll try taking increasing orange mana mastery to improve my mana farming.

there dosnt seem to be a whole lot of skill to this compared to the hard difficulties of Vector TD

I'll admit that for a Straight Tower Defense game it's pretty basic.

There's strategy involved in things like budgeting, getting higher scores and figuring out which skills are needed to beat a given level in a given mode, until you've played for a while those things don't factor in.

if u put "some effort" in (kind of stupid to use theese words in context of a flash game xD) and grind all levels to glowing frame score, the last boss is pretty doable.

but u realize there is gemcraft chapter zero out there already? D:

I've been playing Gemcraft Chapter 0, that's what I was posting about... GemCraft (the orriginal) pales in comparisson

oops

finally another tower defense game

holy shit Caydr.

Where is AA?

Got raped and now it has self-esteem issues

What about you Advanced War MOD?

it appears caydr is back, I wonder fi there have been any recent advances since he left

SinbadEV wrote:What about you Advanced War MOD?

srsly. It's Advance Wars, you screwed up both words. Even my nephew knows it's "wars" not "war".

zwzsg wrote:I was thinking debate about the GPL license meaning, drama about comm napping, AA/BA bashing, Let's make an Advance War mod threads, etc...

See, he almost got it, why can't you? Go stand in the corner. And get a new avatar or you're banned.

Caydr wrote:

SinbadEV wrote:What about you Advanced War MOD?

srsly. It's Advance Wars, you screwed up both words. Even my nephew knows it's "wars" not "war".

My nerd cred has gone down 3 points, but I didn't need those points because I own a copy of Game Boy Wars that I purchased from a junk store while I was in Japan.

...and anyway, what ever happened to it? I think sheekel (or whatever he was called) was working on one too...

Man, that's the problem with real life, some-day robots will do all the menial work, our education system will make even idiots smart enough to program, and than people like Smoth and Caydr can devote their lives to making pretty games, waited on hand and foot by robot slaves and human lakies... YOu would have thought that last scentence was sarcastic but in fact I really do appreciate your efforts and have a hard time convincing myself not to be annoyed when a valuable contributing member of the community's efforts are hindered by real-life... man, I think my sarcasm filter is broken... I keep trying to start those scentences honestly but they keep finishing off sounding sarcastic... crap... I'm on one of those caffeine+sugar/sleep deprivation/lack of creative outlet/mal-nourishment fueled brain benders and am probably about to post some kind of crazy crap that I'm going to think is genious.... maybe I already have... AhhhH!!!!!

I stopped working on it specifically because sheekel - or whoever - started working on it. Why bother competing over an idea when you're already strapped for time? Worked real well for AA...

I miss AA