Ultra-Violent Graveyard Defender (PICO-8)

A fun tower defense game by Return (Dennis Feldmann & Alexander Sinzig)!

This video shows my strategy for beating the bulldozer boss. It involves a single zombie at the start, placed on the "special" wall in front of the graveyard. This wall covers the path twice, so the usefulness of any towers built here is doubled. Once I have enough coins, I build a single ghost near the entrance, but centered along the long part of the path for maximum coverage. After that, I place more zombies on the special wall, which needs to be done on the fly as more coins are earned from the wave 4 enemies. The bulldozer will begin to overlap the wave 4 enemies, but it isn't a problem as long as I build zombies ahead of it around the bend. The ghost plays an important role in slowing down the bulldozer for the zombies, which allows them to deal more damage as it moves. The zombies should finish the bulldozer off just before the graveyard.

I modified the cart to run in 60fps to shorten the video. I also made changes to the controls for ease of use, and added sound effects and a change of color for the cursor for better audio/visual feedback on inputs, as well as a boss hp counter for the bulldozer, since I wanted it to diagnose my strategies (is this cheating?).