I found this game on flashtowerdefence.com. played the demo and invested the 9.99 . well definitely the best 10 bucks I ever spent. I have played through the game and finished all the levels and LOVE the ending. The replay value is amazing. This is one of the more original games I have ever played. I have been playing games since pong was a stand alone console on a 13" black and white TV. I was a big fan of homeworld and the story here rivals that game. I look forward to digging into the many user created maps and maybe making a map or two of my own. My hat is off to the one man team that brought this game to us. I bet his family missed him a bit though. :P
Thanks for the great comments....
If you were playing pong on a bw tv you must be an 'old' guy like me :) I started with an atari 2600 (well a sears branded version). Wrote games on an atari 400 when I was a kid and went crazy as a teenager on a c64. Ah the good old days when a big game dev shop was 3 guys not a movie studio....
Hey wait a min you called me old. I dont think so. atari 2600 LOL the football game took up many hours of my life. 3 stupid sprites that all moved together.
No no no.... I said 'old' (note the quotes :)
I played adventure on the 2600 till I wore out about two joysticks.
Anyway.... speaking of that family missing me part (here I am posting on my own forum while santa is out making the rounds!).
Merry Christmas everyone!
Quote from: betadata on December 24, 2009, 07:58:08 PM
I found this game on flashtowerdefence.com. played the demo and invested the 9.99 . well definitely the best 10 bucks I ever spent. I have played through the game and finished all the levels and LOVE the ending. The replay value is amazing. This is one of the more original games I have ever played. I have been playing games since pong was a stand alone console on a 13" black and white TV. I was a big fan of homeworld and the story here rivals that game. I look forward to digging into the many user created maps and maybe making a map or two of my own. My hat is off to the one man team that brought this game to us. I bet his family missed him a bit though. :P
I am just like you found it at flashtowerdefense.com and god. I never pay for games and this was just addicting as hell.
heh so nice to see the old guys enjoying a good game and reliving the old days ;)
Yeah, I'll let you guys in on a secret... I don't usually buy games, and the constant nagging to "BUY BUY BUY CREEPER WORLD ONLY 9.95.99 WE ACCEPT CREDIT CARDS AND LOOK AT ALL THESE SPARKLING REVIEWS" pissed me off so much that I was about to just pirate the game... then I played the training sim one more time and was like "Dayum, this shit is pretty well made."
On a related note, the main knuckle cracker website is annoying as hell and I hope it changes.
whats wrong with it?
The aggressive marketing is irritating... the screenshots and youtube link and BUY BUY BUY...
I dunno, maybe it works, but I dream of a day when the game will speak for itself...
well you need to have a link on the home page so people can buy insteado searching the website dont you?
I am like the OP, except I played the Simulator at Kongregate. I don't find the front page too commercial, in fact it's what I'd expect from a pay-to-play game's site. Now, if this was an entirely different site i.e. a blog whose owner made a game, a front page with "BUY MAH GAME" would be annoying.
One of my friends said he 'cracked' the game and got the full version for free. He said it was easy aswell, so I'd suggest you get better security. ;)
it's always going to be easy enough to find cracks for any game, security isnt in question here, but it's people like that who'll make the game suffer unecesserily
Yeah, there is no stopping piracy. PC games suffer greatly from this. Everybody thinks it is harmless because they see companies like Valve make bunches of money. What they don't see are all of the companies that no longer exist, or games that never got made.
All I can do is to make CW as much fun as I can and as good a value as I can. I've tried to make it provide many hours of entertainment and brain exercise. I've also tried to not just 'fire and forget' the game, but continue to nurture and participate in the community after its release.
But, I'm thankful for everyone who has bought the game and their support of indie development!
and we thank you for being a far above average developer in both contribution to the game and to the community :D
And we thank you for the most awesome and addicting flash game ever!
i think we've done enough ego swelling for now :P
Haha, ok.
Hmm... my brother calls this game 'gay' because some levels can take up to an hour...
What I don't like is that I've now opened TWO Eater Eggs that simply recommends another game. I cry foul! Once is overlookable, but twice? You're using *my* money and effort to advertise to me????
Chopraider is another game I made over a year ago. Don't worry, it is totally free.... I'm not trying to push anything over on you. You couldn't buy it if you wanted to. It's not that unusual for one game to have an egg that mentions previous works from the same author. It can provide neat continuity for anyone who played the earlier titles.
Hey, I didn't mind the first Eater Egg about your other game. I agree that is more or less OK. It's the second egg, I'm complaining about. Additionally, I'd like to have the easter eggs and their text displayed somewhere in my games. I thought there was something in one of them, but now I can't remember it. And I don't want to really play al lthe games again just to find the one I'm looking for.
Oh, BTW, apart from Gump I'm now done. It was nice, a few were kind of hard and I doubt I have the skill to beat them at double down. Good game overall, but I'm now totally exhausted.
I'm confused ???. What are Eater Eggs? What do you mean taking your money? Is Virgil robbing you? ???
easter eggs are little tid bits developers place in games that arent to do with the core part of game but are instead something extra, and virgil's not robbing anyone
Ok, i must admit i used an illegale version of creeper world.. :o
But this game is so great that i bought it immediately!
Tnx for the great game! Its worth every penny!
lol... i bought it right after i played the online version at BubbleBox. I had to beg my parents to let me buy it...
Thanks for the the purchases.... every purchase is a vote of confidence.
So, as to the meaning of all of the Special Ops maps. A good number of the maps were part of a theme of things that have influenced me.
1: Classic Earth. This reminded me of the board game Axis and Allies. I thought it would be cool to fight across the continents.
2: Super Tax-Man. I live in NC, and our wonderful government has decided to declare war on e-commerce. So now, for instance, if you run a web site and live in NC you can no longer be an amazon.com affiliate. This has destroyed I don't know how many e-businesses in our state. It makes me sad.
3: Gump. Not the box of chocolates part, but the feather part. How Forrest's insight at the end of the movie about life being both random yet there also being fate (and how the feather's journey represented this).
4: Mouse Shadow. "Mouse shadow of the second moon" Google it, then read the book.
5: Chess. Seems obvious enough (it looks like a chess board). But think about chess for a minute. An 8x8 board with only 6 unique 'units'. Talk about the tightest most awesome strategy game ever. Makes Creeper World look like Supreme Commander by comparison.
6: DTD. Not the first defense game by any measure, but desktop tower defense was probably the most popular first gen defense game. It's emphasis on minimal graphics and a 'path-less' screen were inspirational.
7: Poison. I thought it looked funny (not everything has to have a really deep meaning :)
8: ChopRaider. My last public game was ChopRaider, so I though I'd make a whole map that looked like the helicopter in that game. Since it was about flying, I threw in a whole load of spores.
9: Air. I'd have to say that Adobe AIR was pretty influential in the game design and limitations....
10: KC. It's the name of the company and the web site, so it seemed like a fitting final map.
This is the only game in my entire life that I have bought as well.
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i played the sim on kongregate then i thought ok i want to buy this so i called my farther and he paid it (have to pay him back though :(. one of my better buys ever. thank you virgil