Version 1.1.0.0 - Kill the flowers (in time), protect the wrists!


Welcome to version 1.1.0.0! Here are the key changes: 

PROTECT THE WRISTS

First of all, I want to thank you for your feedback (mostly from Facebook)!  Without it, I would have continued to mutilate the wrists of my players by forcing them to hold on to the left mouse button for no good reason other than "realism".  From now on, the trimmer will simply be active at all times. The left mouse button is now used for placing Wall-Safe Bombs.

KILL THE FLOWERS (IN TIME)

Another issue we encountered was the possibility to stall by simply cutting the flowers in a perimeter around the center, racking up points indefinitely (or until death by boredom). To mitigate that, there is now a 20 second time bank that is awarded at the beginning of the game, plus 10 additional seconds after each level cleared. After some playtesting, this should be more than enough to play up to the natural ending of the game (death by wall shortage).

THE NEED FOR SPEED

One thing I noticed after playing my game over and over was that the first 15 to 25 levels were feeling pretty boring and slow. The initial trimmer and bomb speeds took forever and didn't feel satisfying compared to the middle and endgame (speed increases every 5 levels starting at level 15).  Trimmer and bombs are now faster from the get go.

MY FIRST BUG!

Big highscores were not saved properly at the end of the game, resulting in a discrepancy between the actual score and the score that was saved. For example, 145 260 270 was saved as 145 260 000. This is now fixed.

Thanks for playing!

Files

LawnDefender_1_1_0_0.exe 36 MB
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