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Multiplayer is where it's at!

Death Wish is an "action survival tower defense game," it's also a contest entry in the 2013 Halloween contest and so far the only game I've played with multiplayer.

Story
There is no story in game but on the game page there is a blurb about how Kayla is trying to purify her mind after a curse has been placed on her. There is a blog were if you wish a person dead they will die and her fellow students have cursed her. I would have loved to have seen such a plot in game but I guess for reasons of health and time it didn't happen.

Graphics
Visually the game is fairly simple with the rooms but much more complex when it comes to characters and monsters. Death Wish himself is particularly impressive and looks positively sinister.

Gameplay
The gameplay for me is split in two phases. crystal active and crystal not active. When it's not active the monsters will chase Kayla and try and kill her. During this phase Kayla will need to create a crystal and as many defences around it as possible all while avoiding been killed. This phase lasts 30 seconds from the crystals creation. Then the crystal activates and the monsters will now ignore Kayla and try and destroy the crystal. All the defences Kayla has made will now work and defend the crystal. If the crystal survives 40 seconds then it will destroy all the monsters and all of the defences. But it will make the room blue, from then on any monsters in that room will move slower. You repeat this until either Kayla dies or over half the rooms are blue at which point Kayla wins.

It's a bit complicated to start with but when you're playing you pick it up quick enough. If that was all the game was then I would have called it average but the game really shines in multiplayer where it becomes highly addictive as you compete with your friends. I had no issues when playing online, it is one of the smoothest online play experiences I've ever had.

Et cetera
I would recommend you try this game with friends, you'll have much more fun that way. The main things which I think need improving is the tutorial and I would have preferred the option to play with a controller. If you would like to play with me, drop me a PM but be aware that I have 13 or 14 more games to go through, so you might have to be a bit patient.

Here's my first play throughs:

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Glad you enjoyed it! Very happy to hear it was a smooth online experience, lots of effort into making that as smooth as possible, and I haven't had many people to try that with (thatbennyguy and I played and it seems really smooth from my side, but forgot to ask him if the movement and everything was good on his side.)

"The main things which I think need improving is the tutorial and I would have preferred the option to play with a controller."

1. Tutorial is a definite there - that little video isn't nearly enough to explain it, and it leaves the first few games as painful learning experiences I think.

2. Controllers should be fully supported - I tested with my Xbox 360 controller that I use on the PC - the only places the controller won't work are:
- Hitting the "Confirm" button when creating and naming a new profile
- The multiplayer screen since it was complex and I didn't have time to make all those options work with keyboard and mouse

Let me know if you're having trouble with controllers, I can't all out with button on the controller does what since they map differently, but there should just be the directional keys and a Confirm and Cancel button.

Again, thanks for playing, looks like I've got more work to do with this still, so hopefully I'll have some even more interesting revisions in the near-ish future. (But taking at least most of a month off after this contest to recover!)
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