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Stellar Swarm

By mostlyhydrogen and superbusyrobot

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall3883.3632
Fun3463.2332
Innovation5452.8231
Theme4013.4032
Graphics4123.4332
Audio4562.5032
Humor5182.2229
Mood6282.6931

Comments

sun-wukong 2017-05-09 11:51

Oh, I love this concept of "active tower defense", made dozen of prototypes myself but still didn't find a formula fun enough to make into a full game.

joror 2017-05-15 15:45

Cool pixelgraphics! I was intrigued by the tactical possibility of different turret placement locations, but could not figure out if there was any good reason not to cluster them for protection.

mikolak 2017-05-15 16:09

My only gripe is that there doesn't appear to be anything to defense other than the turrets, so the optimal strategy is just placing the turrets right on top of each other (also, a keyboard shortcut for the nuke would be nice). Otherwise, solid entry, definitely had fun.

ben-mceldowney 2017-05-16 00:33

A nice effort! Some upgrades or the ability to place additional towers between waves would be welcome. I dig the aesthetic.

ricardo-morastico 2017-05-16 02:06

Nice game, I liked the option to control the torrents, i took a little to understand what i had to do, also you could put some "drops", so i could have more then 1 bomb.

lucentbeam 2017-05-16 02:11

As others pointed out, there's not much reason to do anything except cluster the turrets in the very center.

Still, I thought it was quite a lot of fun, andI like the vibrant and detailed look of the sprites. I'd be curious to hear some of your stretch goals that didn't make it in.

bentglasstube 2017-05-16 04:39

An interesting take on a tower defense, but it lacked some depth (presumably due to time constraints). I think with some more mechanics instead of just endless shooting it would be a really neat game, though. Excellent work on the art and sounds.

drury 2017-05-16 04:49

62710 is best I can do

I like the graphics, the sound effects were non-intrusive which is good, wish there was music though. The game has nukes which instantly makes it awesome, only needs building destruction to make it even better.

nikkilak 2017-05-16 11:32

I love the idea! Would definitely play more if you developed it further :)

gael-philippe 2017-05-16 11:35

Cool graphics ! The mechanics are cool, it would be nice to have other kinds of turrets or some thing. I really enjoyed playing this game !

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bigsoutherly 2017-05-16 11:37

At first thought it was a normal tower defense game until I noticed the twist. Well done i liked the mechanic!

kepons 2017-05-16 11:37

Nice little game, the difficulty is pretty solid and the presentation is also good. As it's been mentioned before, there could be some restrictions on turret placement and the ability to get more weapons.

fireslash 2017-05-17 06:09

Neat idea with turret placement. Initially I thought this was a tower defense game, so there was some confusion as to optimal placement, and why the just died the first round.

alexandr-rum 2017-05-17 08:23

Here she is a real old school pixel art! Good management, I scored 16K points and I liked it.

gama-croma 2017-05-17 09:27

Nice game, enjoyed bullet economics.

nergle 2017-05-17 16:35

I like the idea of interactive tower defense.

furiouswitch 2017-05-18 12:47

Very nice! The shooting and delay mechanic was great. I would recommend that you make full screen mode available or zoom in more to be able to enjoy the game more and not strain the eye. Good work :)

taylod05 2017-05-18 18:29

Really enjoyed this game as a whole! I did find if you stack all three in the center together it makes it a bit easy but I really enjoyed the click and shoot gameplay.