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Star Forge

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Master Builder 5 Points

Build 10 towers in a single game

Capital Offense 10 Points

Destroy 15 Capital ships in a single game

Normal Victory 10 Points

Complete game on Normal Mode or higher

Hard Victory 25 Points

Complete game on Hard Mode or higher

Insane Victory 50 Points

Complete game on Insane Mode or higher

Survival of the Fittest 50 Points

Get a score of 6,000,000 in Survival Mode.

Author Comments

A few weeks ago I was eating cereal for breakfast when out of nowhere I was blind sided with an idea for a game. I knew it had to be simple, it had to have a lot of action, a base you can build, and explosions- LOTS of explosions. I knew what I had to do, so I dropped what I was doing, kissed my wife and 8 month old son good-bye, and set off to make just that. This is that game. This is Star Forge.

This is one of my favorite games we've made at Hero (that's actually saying a lot), and I hope you enjoy it too! Once you beat the standard game we also threw in some survival modes to give you room for bragging to friends.

May the Forge be with you.

Controls:

Defend the Forge! Use the Forge button and your mouse to cycle through components, place towers, upgrade them, and hold off the enemy. Pause and other settings can be changed while in the game in the bottom right corner. Pause the game to view menu options.

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Very nice game here the graphics and art style is most impressive the game seems too hard though i would suggest some moderate elements maybe even some check points of sorts, And the game is fun but would be nice to have a time or more tome to complete areas etc, regardless this was a pretty fun game

~X~

Great game. Really fun to min-max and find the best strategy for it. I wouldn't recommend aiming for higher after you get past the survival mode 6 million achievement award though, the higher you get the more annoying it is. I don't think you can get more than 8 million if even 1 tower dies in survival mode (setting you back a huge amount of time).

My strategy summarized:
1-Abuse AI targeting. You only need four turrets with max (6 armor), one for each corner of the screen. Try to always have 1-3 health packs per armored turret, so you can have breathing room to not panic-switch to health packs, and instead focus on building more turrets.

2-In survival, armor isn't too useful until 3 million ish because turrets can heal from upgrades.

3-My damage turrets are range-range-range-lightning-lightning-anticapital. My meatshield towers are 6-armor meatshields. Every other damage turret, I use range-range-range-amplifier-lightning-anticapital instead, so that most or all of my towers are damage boosted. The damage boost seems kind of weak, but the upgrade takes very little time for the forge to make, so it balances out.

I wish you could place turrets and stuff while the game is paused.

Too hard, requires pause-scumming to proceed.

Graphics, sound, music, presentation overall: Excellent!

However there are too much flaws that bring down the game score considerably:
1- Abscence of checkpoints: It's very frustrating to die at the last wave (which is much longer and filled with capital-class ships btw) and having to restart.
2- Heavy clicking/managing on a fast pace: Strategy games are better off giving player TIME in order to actually strategize. Since this is a defacto "tower defense" game, then I can state clearly that the "breaks" the player get between waves is not enough.
3- The towers AI is bogus. They often keep firing on soon to die ships, allowing others to take cheap shots at them. Adding insult to injury: The shots go on forever (so their range are a LIE!) and won't damage any other enemy (in range of the tower or not).

I don't see how can this game be healthy to kids. I don't think most of them will ever reach the last wave.

Listen to me right now HeroInteractive. I've played basically every single one of your games. THEY ARE ALL PHENOMENAL. Thank you very much for adding these fun games. I didn't even need to play some to write a review, I know the outcome. You darn hero you.

awesome game but it really need checkpionts also a campaign or history mode will se so awesome

Credits & Info

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Score
3.21 / 5.00

Uploaded
Jun 21, 2011
3:20 PM EDT
  • Daily 3rd Place June 22, 2011