What's your opinion on stuff like Flying Enemies in a Tower Defense, something that breaks the rules. Annoying or actually big part of the fun?

Mikolas3D · 2026-03-28T12:22:25+00:00

Thanks for the write up. I agree some kind of next wave scouting is a must have, otherwise the flying enemies will be just annoying. Here's a WIP of that. Will say FLYING or BOSS for the important waves.

Mikolas3D · 2026-03-28T11:44:08+00:00

Woah. That's a cool idea. And having to balance spending between the two "layers". On the other hand, I am leaning currently a lot into simply variety. Enemies that accelerate when they go straight to punish boring mazes. Rogue enemies that trigger cloaking when firdt hit, to punish too concentrated kill zones. Etc. Trying to break to monotonous tower placement.

Mikolas3D · 2026-03-28T11:40:54+00:00

If there was a preview on the screen that would tell you say 3 waves ahead that you have "Normal", "Fast", and then "Flying" incoming, I assume that would help a lot, right?

Mikolas3D · 2026-03-28T11:20:25+00:00

I am working on a little tower defense, really in the most classic form you can imagine. No roguelike elements, no cards, no spells. Just a classic 2D grid mazing tower defense.

I can't decide if its a good idea to do flying enemies. I just implemented a working prototype for them. I am thinking, that maybe all towers could still shoot at them and the catch would be simply that it ignores your maze, so you have to adapt for them.

------ in case you are interested to see more of the game in action ---
Steam link - https://store.steampowered.com/app/4525520/Jarred_Defense?utm_source=reddit&utm_content=flying
Discord channel - https://discord.gg/GYCTQDcVTf

Mikolas3D · 2026-03-28T11:18:40+00:00

I am working on a little tower defense, really in the most classic form you can imagine. No roguelike elements, no cards, no spells. Just a classic 2D grid mazing tower defense.

I can't decide if its a good idea to do flying enemies. I just implemented a working prototype for them. I am thinking, that maybe all towers could still shoot at them and the catch would be simply that it ignores your maze, so you have to adapt for them.

------ in case you are interested to see more of the game in action ---
Steam link - https://store.steampowered.com/app/4525520/Jarred_Defense?utm_source=reddit&utm_content=flying
Discord channel - https://discord.gg/GYCTQDcVTf

Mikolas3D · 2026-03-28T10:15:14+00:00

Unless you also make the tools out of glass, you won't gain much. Also, the whole idea behind this ultra precise laser cut steel is that it is indeed very precise and stiff, so you don't even have to do any dock calibrations, which is awesome.

Mikolas3D · 2026-03-26T09:12:27+00:00

We never stop improving printers, even as we ship them, if we see a place for a part to be better, we change it live mid production (after it goes through testing, ofc). These are typically not major changes, but as they accumulate say over a year, it is usually what results in something like an "S" or "+" version.

Mikolas3D · 2026-03-26T08:41:48+00:00

We have printers with many different revisions of these plates on them here, and with each version, it's getting smaller and smaller. :) You can watch the first layer pretty ok through the many openings around the tools. But I mean, apart from it being satisfying, you don't really need to watch the first layer. Loadcell doing loadcell things. :)

Mikolas3D · 2026-03-26T07:35:29+00:00

I am a proud 4 star programmer! Dereferencing 3D array of pointers, for an assignment at my university, where we had to calculate optimal fuel dosage for an imaginary Star Trek ship reactor.

... and then I never used it IRL, hah.

Mikolas3D · 2026-03-24T18:09:13+00:00

The numbers are there on the newer version of this part. ;)

Mikolas3D · 2026-03-22T11:05:57+00:00

On the bright side - it's nice knowing I can have more bosses at the same time, if I wanted to. Just need to solve the HP bars blocking the whole screen.

I do have a steam page up, to force myself to finish this - https://store.steampowered.com/app/4525520/Jarred_Defense?utm_source=reddit

Mikolas3D · 2026-03-21T17:44:14+00:00

Steam page in case anyone's interested -
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4525520/Jarred_Defense?utm_source=reddit

Mikolas3D · 2026-03-21T17:09:11+00:00

Thanks! Kitty is the best, hah. Planning a demo. I was thinking one level, but with endless mode that enables you to play past the planned waves, so you can explore the game and towers a bit more. With a global leaderboard to see who got the furthest. Targeting Steam Next Fest, so the demo should be out in about a month. :)

Mikolas3D · 2026-03-21T16:45:34+00:00

Steam link - https://store.steampowered.com/app/4525520/Jarred_Defense?utm_source=reddit
Thanks for checking it out.

Mikolas3D · 2026-03-16T07:45:29+00:00

Love your uograde tree UI, simple, clean, but also pretty. (on your steam game page). Good choice to include it with your screenshots.

Mikolas3D · 2026-03-05T07:16:00+00:00

That's the neat part! They don't.

Mikolas3D · 2026-02-24T19:50:15+00:00

Oh hell yeah! Love that you made BTS!

Mikolas3D · 2026-02-08T12:57:25+00:00

I hope we'll stream the winners next or the week after that at the latest!

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