dislekcia
07-05-2009, 12:56 PM
OMW
This game is crack. Utter, total, refined and purified crack.
Popcap have taken a tower defense concept (lanes of zombies moving across a screen, grid based tower placement and all towers block zombie progress) and just iterated on it, polished it and messed around with producing as many interesting mini-games as possible.
This game destroyed yesterday for me. Now I'm taking it apart to learn how they did it... The main answer is amusing (if not really challenging, until the last few levels) gameplay that constantly switches itself up. Then taking that core gameplay and embedding it in 3 seperate meta-games that are all interlinked and awesome.
Finishing the game is fun. Playing through it again and stamping your mastery on those bloody zombies by farming fields of flowers that do nothing but give you money so that you can buy upgrades for your virtual tamagotchi garden which will give you unique plants and MORE money to be able to afford the truly ridiculously expensive upgrades that will keep you alive during the later levels of the game? That's terrifyingly good game design.
I don't know how I'm going to get time to play "hardcore" games again.
This game is crack. Utter, total, refined and purified crack.
Popcap have taken a tower defense concept (lanes of zombies moving across a screen, grid based tower placement and all towers block zombie progress) and just iterated on it, polished it and messed around with producing as many interesting mini-games as possible.
This game destroyed yesterday for me. Now I'm taking it apart to learn how they did it... The main answer is amusing (if not really challenging, until the last few levels) gameplay that constantly switches itself up. Then taking that core gameplay and embedding it in 3 seperate meta-games that are all interlinked and awesome.
Finishing the game is fun. Playing through it again and stamping your mastery on those bloody zombies by farming fields of flowers that do nothing but give you money so that you can buy upgrades for your virtual tamagotchi garden which will give you unique plants and MORE money to be able to afford the truly ridiculously expensive upgrades that will keep you alive during the later levels of the game? That's terrifyingly good game design.
I don't know how I'm going to get time to play "hardcore" games again.