I’m extremely excited to announce the launch of one of our recent projects: Pirates Love Daisies!
Microsoft approached us a few months ago and asked to work with us to build a best of breed tower defense game in Javascript and HTML5. I was a bit hesitant at first – it’s been quite awhile since I worked with JS and HTML in any great depth, and most of my memories were of fighting browser incompatibilities and cursing the lack of decent developer tools. However, we did some quick code spikes to get a feel for what was possible and decided that this was a great opportunity to gain some applied experience with a new technology while working on a fun project.
Concept
We teamed up with local illustration group Pulp Studios and started brainstorming ideas for the theme of the game. Fairly early on we latched on to the idea of pirates (I mean really, who doesn’t like pirates!), but we needed something for them to defend. We considered going with the typical tower defense model, and simply have the user prevent creeps (enemies) from getting from point A to point B, but I’ve never liked that narrative. What exactly is at point B that’s so important?
We decided that the creeps were out to steal something valuable from the pirates, but we weren’t sure what that should be. Gold was an obvious choice, but it was boring, and it made more sense as the currency for purchasing units and upgrades. Then it hit us… Daisies!
Why daisies? Because Pirates Love Daisies, of course. The fact that daisies are visually iconic, seemed to be appropriately fun and quirky, and would work well aesthetically may have factored in as well.
With the illustrators working on sketches, we got down to writing code [...]
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