Maze Defenders Press Kit

Maze Defenders is a Tower Defense that takes inspiration from games that defined the genre from over 20 years ago.

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About the game

Developer
Johan Lindberg
Release date
June 29th 2023
Press Contact
td.mazing@gmail.com
Platforms
Android and iOS
Price
Free
Languages
English
Features
Mazing, Crafting, Runes and Competitive levels
Monetization
Opt-in Ads and IAP

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Description

Maze Defenders is a Tower Defense that takes inspiration from games that defined the genre from over 20 years ago.

Highlights

  • Mazing: You control the path the enemies will take, create eloborate mazes to maximize your towers efficency!
  • Tower-synergies: Get the most out of your towers by using other towers, runes and effects to create powerful synergies.
  • Classic TD Feeling: Inspired by the old games that defined the Tower Defense genre from over 20 years ago.
  • Strategic depth: Create your builds, try them out, refine them, there is always something to improve.

Game Trailer

If Warcraft 3 and Path of Exile bad a baby, it would be Maze Defenders. Jokes aside that is a bold claim, but those games have been the inspiration since the start.

Maze Defenders is a classic Tower Defense where mazing, crafting and creating elaborate builds are the key elements.

The game will feature 20+ unique Towers for the player to craft, upgrade and equip with runes and other items.

There are five worlds to battle through in the campaign, each one more difficult than the other. Skilled players may seek greater challenges (and thus greater rewards) in the seasonal levels or test their builds to the max in the endless levels.

One very important aspect of the game is level modifiers. A level modifier has the ability to change the way a level is played. It can for instance modify the number of spawned enemies, make them stronger or perhaps cause all Towers to shoot an additional projectile. Modifiers can be both good and bad for the player.
Some levels will have few of them and some levels will have many of them, forcing the player to think and adapt their playstyle.

The player will be able to unlock different Builders, each providing an unique set of bonuses and abilities. Builders act as both worker for building towers and an offensive tool for laying down decimation upon your foes.
For instance: The Fire Mage can call down Molten Meteors that deal brutal damage to enemies caught in the destruction.
Or the Druid that provides bonuses to Crit-damage and can cast Empower that buffs nearby Towers damage and speed.

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Background

The game has been developed by Johan, a developer from Sweden who tries to juggle work, freetime, parenthood and shipping a game and all that entails.

The idea behind the game originally came from a discussion Johan had with a friend, where they talked about why all Tower Defenses on the market today are all shallow clones that follow the same formula. (With some notable exceptions)

Based on their market research they wanted to avoid tiresome concepts like 2D, static pathing, annoying monetization being limited to 4 towers.
Development of the game began in the summer of 2018, was put on ice for a few months and then resumed on new years day 2019.

My goal has always been to provide that nostalgic feeling of playing an old Tower Defense and adding in mechaniques from newer games I've enjoyed.

Credits

Kyle Landon - ArtStation

Did many of the textures and artworks.

Testimonials

NimbleThor - Top 3 Weekly

"... this is also where really starts to shine in my opinion because its astonishing amount of customization options allow for a high amount of strategic freedom."

GameExp

"After playing for a couple of hours of the game myself those choices really stand out..."

AppGames

"Maze Defenders is the 3D Tower Defense Game that We All Need."

Pocketgamer.fr

"With Maze Defenders , the developer wants to go back to the basics of tower defense and give players an experience like back in the day."

NimbleThor - Top 10 TD's 2022

I did a giveaway where the top 50 commenters received a promo-code to be used ingame.

Thank you for checking out Maze Defenders, if you require any additional resources do not hesitate to reach out to me and I'll get it sorted!

Johan Lindberg
td.mazing@gmail.com

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