Gnome Man's Land
A short game featuring a unique twist on the tower defense genre made for the Code Ninjas Sensei Game Jam Summer 2025. Defend your garden from the Party Animals by recruiting the Gnomes! Gnomes aren't strong on their own, so grow plants (and the occasional taco) in the garden to power them up. Beat all 4 seasons to win!
Credits:
Developers:
- Bryce Kuhn https://brycek.itch.io/
- Praetorian Park https://silverphantomstreams.itch.io/
Music produced in cooperation with:
- the postman https://soundcloud.com/postm4n/
- Seth McMullen
Assets:
- Key Mouse Studio - Customizable Skybox
- Kenney Assets - UI Icons, UI pack, Food, Tower defence pack
- Dungeon Mason - Party monsters
- Snoozy Rat - Gnomes
- Khurasan - Toasty Milk font
- Imagex Fonts - Bing Bam Boum font
Sounds:
Comments
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Fun little game, but it has some issues:
1. Fire is way too OP. All you do is just put 3x fire guys everywhere and you get to build more of them way faster than enemies scale up.
2. If you try and buy a new gnome while holding a crop, the crop simply vanishes. But the spot on your patch where the crop was picked up from is now impossible to plant on for the rest of the run.
3. I once missclicked a new chili on top of a half finished chili, causing the new chili to vanish and the half finished one to instantly finish. I thought this might be a feature, but wasn't able to consistently replicate it. So guessing a bug.
4. Then you get to the ice level and you need PERFECT map generation RNG to barely get past wave one, because the first wave is a full end game wave with ramped up speed for some reason. Then wave two is the same thing and even OP fire isn't enough, because you die before you have time to get the full fire setup in.
After some more re-rolls I found an even better rolled map that actually let me win without leaks. But jesus christ. I shouldn't have to re-roll maps 10 times to even have a chance at playing the last level. The other maps were literally impossible to win on. At the end the enemies were moving so fast i couldn't even track them with my eyes.