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Mormon Tower Defense - Gospel App & Game Contest

Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2014 12:19 am
by Leisure321
Hi,

So I got this idea from the ideas page, it's a tower defense game based on 1 Nephi 8.
I need more ideas for unique aspects to make this game more mormon-y. Does anyone have any towers or features in mind?
(This only works well with Google Chrome right now)

Here's the actual game: http://cdelphinus.com/test/mormontowerdefense.html
Here's a trailer for it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7LZqvcmqlo

Re: Mormon Tower Defense - Gospel App & Game Contest

Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2014 5:22 pm
by jirp
missionaries long range shot that only occasionally works.
fellowship another shooter. Works twice as well on targets hit by missionaries also with an short time period.
prayer shooting tower can affect multiple individuals in a single shot but short range
church attendance narrow circle area affect temporarily shields from other negative effects
hymns wider area affect only reaches some.
temple attendance area affect temporarily shields from other effects. Gets slowly stronger with each use that results in a save.

Uchtdorf is proportionately to strong under the current design.

Re: Mormon Tower Defense - Gospel App & Game Contest

Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2014 10:00 am
by dustinrwh
I would also think of something other than the wrecking ball. Miley Cyrus isn't really modest so I don't think it is the best thing in a gospel-related app.

Re: Mormon Tower Defense - Gospel App & Game Contest

Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2014 12:19 pm
by michaelfish
Perhaps to give players more power/points, have them answer a scripture chase reference, identify a prophet, apostle, temple, other.

Re: Mormon Tower Defense - Gospel App & Game Contest

Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 2:02 pm
by swtbentley
Very interesting!

Here are a few thoughts from the perspective of the Contest's sponsors (the Church and LDSTech), its creators, and its judges:
- while we understand your point about the wrecking ball image, it's just not an appropriate image for this contest. Plus it inadvertently promotes Ms Cyrus (which is not a good thing). And there are probably intellectual property issues with using it.
- floating, spark-emitting heads of Church leaders seem a bit ... irreverent?
- we don't want to crush your creativity, but maybe there are some other ways of covering those concepts if this is to be entered into the Contest.

We've added a new FAQ item that provides some guidance. See https://tech.lds.org/wiki/ContestFAQ.

Re: Mormon Tower Defense - Gospel App & Game Contest

Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2014 12:33 pm
by cdtrumpeter
This would also work really well modeled off of the war chapters of the Book of Mormon! Captain Moroni defending their cities against the Lamanites and erecting towers of defense and digging ditches round about... etc