Hello all,
It has been a year since Dofense was released.
Thanks to everyone who purchased and played the game. It hasn't reached wider audience, but I'm glad it has reached at least a few.
I have read your feedback over the past year about the difficulty. As I spent past year working on Gods of Defense, I've developed better understanding of game design. I wanted to address the frustration that players felt when they were stuck in the early stages of Dofense.
In the 1.1 update, I've added a progressive hint mechanism for all the main campaign levels. Every time you fail, a new hint will be presented about the strategy to adopt. After 2-3 failures you will be presented with screenshots of partial solutions. If you still keep failing a screenshot of the full solution will be available eventually. These hints are now available for the 27 levels that introduce you to the core devices of the gameplay. The Mission battles are for you to solve on your own without any hints.
There are also some minor UI updates, e.g. explanatory tooltips.
While working on this update I got a chance to replay Dofense after a long time. I really enjoyed playing it again. I really think the puzzle-solving nature combined with Tower Defense offers a unique experience. Not to mention the full-fledged level editor. I hope more players discover it. Therefore, I wanted to reduce the frustration that was causing some players to give up too early and miss the juicy parts.
Hope this will help.
And yes, you can now purchase Dofense as part of "Defense Instinct" bundle at a 10% discount. This will be a great addition to your game library.
Do let me know what you think.
Thanks,
Cheers!