Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD42 → Pre Alpha Build
By plusminus, skigfx, awix, Arthur Brukh, noisyninja and Glebzyk
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 122 | 3.90 | 365 | |
| Fun | 133 | 3.77 | 365 | |
| Innovation | 283 | 3.51 | 365 | |
| Theme | 183 | 3.98 | 366 | |
| Graphics | 180 | 4.10 | 368 | |
| Audio | 164 | 3.68 | 358 | |
| Humor | 569 | 2.63 | 311 | |
| Mood | 279 | 3.48 | 342 |
Had a lot of fun with this one! The shapes are evil; thanks for making it so hard to fit them together nicely haha. In your screenshot it looks like building types can take different shapes? Or you can break down buildings? Thanks for making me laugh with the "help" button. Also ,love the pixel art.
Nice work!
It looks really cool! I liked the overall mood and tetris-like setting of buildings :) And your pixelart is great :)
@rosypenguin Thank you for playing. You can upgrade buildings' size in laboratory (select it and hope the screen doors would open, then press buttons there with words "size"), but you have do destroy your old buildings to set new smaller and better ones.
@rosypenguin every new game generates different buildings shapes, yes
Tower defense Tetris. Reminds me of the classic Amiga game Rampart. Oh man that was glorious. Anyways back to the review..
Graphics are for sure the strongest driving force for this game. Nicely done artist!
Theme is very well implemented and the game is innovating.
It really needs some sound effects for the turrets and the enemies to give much needed feedback on whats going on. For example scorpions stop animating when they attack. At one point I thought the game crashed. Music is awesome Synthwave stuff. There seems to be multiple tracks of music? Nice, but that's not alone carrying the audio side of the game unfortunately.
Help button says NOPE to me! WTF help button, you are not very helpful! :smiley:
Would be nice to have a button that would change the shape of the building as a keyboard key, like R is for rotate. Maybe pause key also. Just a personal preference.
The building HP isn't displaying in real time, so the player needs to click on the building again to refresh the HP.
Sometimes I ended up resource buildings all destroyed but got decent defenses up. Maybe destroying the building yourself could refund some resources? Or there could be very slight resource generation by default.
I hope the building block would stay with the cursor after I place the building, so that I could quickly build multiple similar buildings. Now you need to click the building icon again every time.
Both the enemy variation and building variation seems good. Had to have rocket launcher for the tanks and blast cannon for the fast horde of enemies. Yet I don't know what the expensive laboratory does.
One enemy from the top were shooting my wall off screen where turrets couldn't fire back. It kept shooting my wall for like 2 minutes, giving me unfair time to generate resource.
Overall, I give this game quite high score. Well done!
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im unbeatable!! also, those doors very often don't fully open. so I can't get to the destroy button. Overall - awesome game!
@sloyd good job, I was able to build that kind of base only with dev tools :D
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As I went commenting here and other places, I let the game run in the background. Here's the result. RAM used over 2Ggigs
Untitle124d.png Few bugs in UI, but i like it.
@keppu nice review. I didn't know about range attacker bug. I thought about generate new form of buildings after each build, but I came to the point, that too much random generation becames monotonous and not really challenging
@sloyd as I said, you shouldn't be able to reach that stage :D no pool can protect from 2000 units colliding each other and doing logic in Update)
Super cool game ! I like the idea of building a base but in a "tetris" kind of style. Music and graphics are amazing. Are you going to work on a post jam version with the ellements you didn't had time to add ?
@hishicorne we'll make a fixed off-jam version later with every assets we have, but wasn't able to implement due time limit. but it's nothing gamechanging: animations and sfx. well, also I'll fix interface layout and 2 other bugs people found here. As for production, I don't think we'll do it for now. May be later. We have our projects.
I love this ! Good Job !
This looks very polished and it has a complementary art style. It's a pretty new and neat concept. I tried coding a small sort of Tetris last LD, but that was pretty buggy in comparison with this one. Nice work!
Also play and rate my game at(if you want): https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/evolucity-build-as-high-as-you-can
I dig the artstyle, although the menu screen doesn't feel like it's in the same universe.
The concept is to be explored, it's obvious you didn't have time to balance the gameplay, but it's a good try.
Great game guys, i know how hard it can be to be working on a small team with big ambitions ;)
@anstabo at start we thought we'd have a big team. I wouldn't take that project if I knew how it will go)
Really cool concept and artstyle !
The pixel art is one of the best I have seen so far in the jam. Awesome! Even that is not finished, the idea of mixing the tetris concept with building and tower defense is super great and fun. I totally encourage you guys to finish it! Awesome game!!
This game is really interesting, and a scoring systym may make it more satisfying. BTW, good job!
Awesome gfx and nice music I like this game
feel relax to play it ,good feeling to kill thousands of them,good~~
Very cool game. The random building configurations are a very nice touch. The art and music is also very good. Could be cool with some elite or boss enemies with a different colour.
Very fun! i i made my computer lag! haha maybe it miss some big bosses!
If you have some time, you can play and rate my puzzle game https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/dont-mess-up
Fantastic. The shapes are so twisted it just emphasises on the theme. Took me a couple of tries to understand the resource mechanics but it was very fun! Old school EGA pixel art was nice too :)
Wow, what a wonderful game!! I really liked the music, art and mechanics like Tetris. At first, I didn't understand that it was possible to rotate the buildings in different ways and for the first time I gained 4970 points, the second time I figured out, 9429! Oh, I'm making progress in this game !! :D
After playing the game for a while now. I see it could use a score system, maybe based on kills and buildings lost. Had this base running in the background for around 2 hours while I played and rated other games hehe :) ld.jpg
It looks cool and has promise, but there are a bunch of issues that make it less than ideal: - The rotation controls are bad. A single button to rotate or a keyboard key to rotate is what you need. Individual rotation buttons per building is silly and cumbersome. - The help > nope button... But why? - I assume that the shots turning in mid-flight is a bug. - If you build stuff, you're pretty much set to not die for a while. There's little sense of urgency in progression. The balance is off but I guess that's a long term problem. - I couldn't really tell much about the two resources the game seems to have. Resource generation is not visualised.
LOVE the art. Cleaning up the core gameplay and it could have great potential.
@tuism
1) there is 'r' hotkey and every buttons do the same form everyone. There are a lot of them so people would notice there is the possibility :D
2) not enough time
3) yep. thanks to enemy pool :)
4) not enough time to balance :D
5) Well, there are solar panels on energy farm. and metal plant is like a lot of smelters.
Great entry, really nice graphics, loved the title screen, got an oldschool terminator feeling over it! The music was also right on, and the game got a great atmosphere, the mechanics was interesting and put it right on track for the theme, overall a great entry! Good job! Cheerz!
Good graphics, and decent gameplay, although I didn't really understand what the different buildings did or how to upgrade them and most of it was automated, but I still thoroughly enjoyed it!
Wow this is impressive what you have done. A small strategie game in some days. I like the beatiful graphics.
6599 points.
Game feels very polished for being pre-alpha. The buildings, menus and enemies all look great.
It's a bit too easy for a stretch before the enemy hordes get really large.
impressive idea and well executed. pieces are hard to fit together but offers a great challenge Artwork is definitely amazing to look at, well done artist or art team.
Great entry and interesting idea on the theme!
Really fun game! Love the pixel art and the music. The varying shapes for the buildings made it really work with the theme.
The pixel art is so polished! The UI and art assets feel completely cohesive already, and there's a lot of polish. Great work!
Really nice graphics and sound!
The gameplay is fun - it gets very exciting hoping your Blast Cannons shoot the enemies that are close so you can build something where they are etc.
It was very ambiguous why/how much of the resources I was generating, and sometimes it was unclear why I couldn't place a building in a certain spot.
The graphics are so good I would like something more zoomed in version, like your first screenshot!
Really cool game, I liked the mashup of tetris and tower defense. I would like to see the finished product if you all decide to work on it post-jam.
Review? Nope.
Seriously though, this game suffers from a lack of information. You spend you first couple of plays learning what each building does. I'm still not entirely sure how the lab works; it mentions a farm... what farm?
The graphics are great and the sound is pretty good too. The game is fun too but help your players out.
Great game! As @kunonooni said, the mixed product between tetris and tower defense does the job, it's really nice. Every category did a great job <3
Классно вышло. В тему вписывается идеально и стиль выдержан во всей игре. Такое даже под мобилки есть смысл запилить. И музон ещё топовый =)
awesome,the game is polished,very fun
This was really cool! (I'm no good at rts though) the tetris influence on the buildings was brilliant. very simple to get into, while still having quite a lot of depth to explore. It would have been nice to have the hp of the headquarters displayed permanently on the HUD. Overall a really great effort! Looking forward to seeing more of your team's stuff in the future!
very good !!!
good game! cool soundtrack and graphics, I love it)
The game is very addicting. I love how the shape of the bases are random with each playthrough, as it adds a lot of replayability. One of my favourite aspects has to be the music too, as it's catchy. I can tell a lot of effort was put into this one~
Unbelievably amazing graphics and game UI! The audio is great and it's really fun! A well polished game that deserves to get a good score at the end! :)
Nothing short of a fantastic entry. I am actually intrigued by the concept. It is such a wonderful blend of puzzle and strategy that I haven't personally seen before. Top marks for innovation for sure.
The music was good, the sounds were decent and the presentation was good! The game itself has no end so with that in mind, I think the balance was about right and I got about 3700 points on my best run (third try).
It isn't always easy to know why I can't upgrade certain things in the lab, despite having the required resources. Maybe I need some other upgrades first (Seems to be the case) or the cost is different from the cost that is displayed.
I honestly think this is one of the most solid LD entries I have played (so out of about 100 LD games). It is probably my favourite puzzle game from any LD.
Good job!
Well done overall. After you've filled up all the space with everything you can build, it feels like you have nothing left to do but wait until the forces overwhelm you. I also felt like walls were pricey for what benefit they gave you. Graphics were a very positive part of this; it was a nice touch to give every enemy their own unique look and animations to make it easier to tell what they were even in a crowd.
What a great game!!! Only after 30 minutes of playing, I found out there is a button to rotate the building. I love the gameplay influenced by tetris, which makes the game more attractive as well as challenging and fits the theme. Moreover, the graphic of the game is fantastic, especially the HUD. Overall, the game is addictive and very fun. Congrats! (The help button say "nope" to me => I count this as Humor ^^)
Awesome menu screen and music! The gameplay was also pretty fun, having to fit in all those shapes! I was a bit confused about upgrading at first, then I realized you had to click on the lab to do it, haha. Help? Nope. That was funny.
Well crafted game jam game! Good job! :)
I really like the game, especially the concept! The graphics are nice, and I enjoy the sound! There are some things I wish you could add, like having a minimum ore/power generation so it doesn't become impossible to build things. And maybe make it so you can flip the buildings (mirror them)? But all and all, it's a really great game! 😃 (And I laughed when I pressed the help button and got "Nope".)
Very lovely graphics. The gameplay features also are very nice. I really enjoyed playing this game!
Very nice and well polished. Would be nice if the main gameplay mechanic had more of a reason to exist (perhaps make it so the buildings cant should through eachother so you have to think more carefully). But it was a fun time nonetheless!
Ill be honest, it was really fun. i have a few pet peeves but mostly because the game itself has no end which i don't really enjoy personally but i know its more of a design choice than anything else. I will say that the game stops being fun when the enemies lag so much off screen that i cant prepare for the wave to build up my defenses in time and its just pointless to continue after that.
in terms of innovation i didn't quite see anything i haven't seen before, i also felt the lack of an actual tutorial was also annoying, if there are hidden controls past the press R to rotate than i have no idea. hell i didn't even know the laboratory was for upgrading until i saw a your 'tips' which is actually just how to play the game itself? kind of a d*** move...
Now that the peeves are out of the way, i love tower defenses! and this was fun and it totally fit the theme! awesome art and the music was good to listen to also! Good job!
I love the graphics of the game and the concept but I found it quite confusing at the start because I was greeted with a NOPE when I pressed the help button :). Other than that it was a good game, except that sometimes the window didn't open to access the buildings. Can't wait to see what this develops into!
This game is nice and funny, I enjoyed it much :) I would like to know some stats for those buildings (attack power, speed etc.), but I understand you didn't have enought time for it :)
it was really fun. loved the graphics and the music the game was just simply awesome. Nice one
This is an amazingly solid entry, had a lot of fun trying to figure out which buildings would fit. The game was not hard to get into and I learned as I played, tutorial could still be nice, but of course you can't do everything in a weekend. Thank you for making and congratulations!
Great entry. It was good fun to play. Excellent use of the theme. I wanted right click to rotate the buildings, but that's a minor grape. Graphics and audio were good. There's nothing bad to say about it.
Good stuff :8ball:
Far too easy, need to increase the difficulty, or make the range of weapons limited. Good work.
fun game!the graphics are awesome!
Great game! Seriously lots of fun to play it!
A very good game from my point of view! I really liked feeling that my base was becoming more resistant! Even though my first few game were disastrous! The difficulty could be a little better adjusted but the concept works very well and respects the theme of the Jam! Good game!
nice idea with the different building structures to be forced to managed space, really awsome and idea and the graphics and audio area well made too. Good Job!
Really liked the game!!! Loved the idea, one of the best o far!! Keep up the good work mates!
Whoa. Incredible graphics and outstanding music. And also provide a fluid gameplay with a ingenious mechanic.
The game is a very pleasant experience, absolutely well done.
This is a really neat game! I liked it a lot, the artstyle fits well and the music is cool. I would have liked it if we could have dragged or at least not having to select it each time I wanted to build more than one.
A very solid experience, great job on making that game!
My Base
One of the best games I played. Very well done!
Great entry, good mood, well polished game on every aspects, concept, graphics, music and overal ambiance. Congratz :clap:
Realy nice Game! Good artwork! The audio was nice.
Hey ! Your game was cool with good audio and graphics, the mood is great :-) I got stuck when buildings wouldn't build anymore altough I had the money, what's the issue ?
really fun game ^^ love the pixel art on it
@josscomposer was the blueprint all green? I haven't seen any bugs with building. There are a lot of them with upgrades though :D
Very great idea, nicely done. I didn't understand the laboratory, and I managed to survive at 999 score but after that, there was a HUGE wave of enemy that destroy all my building xD.
Anyway it's an excellent entry, well done !
Very exciting project!
Really, really cool game ! I had a blast playing it ! I suffered from some lag and audio issues using a ton of blast cannons, but otherwise, I'm a fan of the audio and mood of the game !
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Fun little strategy game, gets pretty easy once you've build enough turrets.
@fluffy-kaeloky Thanks for the feedback, we know about the problem with the sound, maybe it can get even more awesome in the game!
Very nice entry, the graphics look good, it was fun and the audio was great, keep it up !
Really nice concept and great pixel art. After you build everything you can, "nope", there wont be any more help :smiley: Audio was also great. Good job.
The idea has potential. As you said: better interface, a bit more feedback and this is a great little diversion. You should polish this up, add progression, more buildings, a tech tree and what-not and release it! :thumbsup:
Good game! Very well put together in all aspects. One of my favorite entries so far :)
I found a few bugs on the UI, but overwall is a great game. Excellet job with the art, music and sound effects. Also, the sound effects could be a little louder, it would increase the feedback to the player :)
Cool game, just polish it aand add some stuff and its a winner :)
@foxserranu but there is a settings panel in the menu. you can add master volume and decrease music volume, the u'll get your sfx volume boost)
default master volume is 30%, so people wouldn't be stunned if they set their other volume settings to maximum and forgot about it.
A really good game, really fun and addictive, and love the way the progression works! One of the best games I've played. Great pixel art and stunning soundtrack - I really love them. It has a lot of potential! :)
Pretty cool game. Keept me interested for quite some time!
Very fun and innovative game! I didn't even know the labratory got used for upgrades until I played and came back to read the comments, so I had to play again.
Totally a great use of the theme, and the fact that the buildings are randomized (so you can't really develop a perfect strategy over multiple games) is brilliant.
Great job!
Nice User Interface. It's quite easy on the eyes. Art and sound play well together. Keep up the good work!
Tower defense type game used for theme, not a bad idea but not too innovating. The Music/SFX are very stock, not very unique or compelling (sounds perhaps too similar to terminator) but are simple and gets the point across for a basic game. Not bad at all.
I love the idea, please push it further =)
Awesome game! Very fun to play and quite addictive! The randomness and the tetris like style makes each run unique. Nice idea and very well executed! If you're going to continue development, consider having a more visual way of showing the buildings HP. When it gets crowded and you have too much to handle, clicking on each individual building can be troublesome. But overall, amazing job!
The game was a good concept. Defiantly needs improvement. Felt my goal wasn't clearly defined. I still had fun playing.
I play the game.
Cool concept, using tetris as space to build, and change every new game. Visual is good and have good fun. Don't have anything more to say.
Nice game!!!
Amazing game. Best one I played so far. The game is fun, especially because of the weird shapes that add a great twist to the base building/tower defense gameplay. What I find especially impressive is the consistency in artwork, audio, music and mood that really elevate this game to another level. Please expand this game further.
great
Nice game ;) Very good job. I like the factor of randomness combined with some strategy and those "Just-Watch-And-See" style games.
I like it! Tetris meets tower defence - would have been a good entry for LD41 too :) The UI was a little confusing, I didn't immediately understand what the numbers meant - perhaps a short tutorial round before sending in the hordes of enemies? But maybe I'm just slow. The music and graphics are cool, nice work!
Nice game, fits very well with the theme, whith some improvements can become a great game.
One of my favourite games i've played from LD42 so far, very fun game, great graphics and sound!
A fun tower defense game, since it is real time and you need to act fast, some hotkeys for building and rotating would have been nice. Otherwise there's not much to criticize. Pretty solid game here.
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Would have liked better instructions about how the lab worked, but I loved the artwork and the difficulty and pace of the game. Having to decide how to place the pieces was also a fun addition. Not really sure what walls were doing. Besides the fact some things were not clearly explained, the game was fun and enjoyable.
thanks @awix for commenting on our game, thus seeing what your team did here. really fun and i find it really interesting the idea of random size buildings. great job!
Pretty good game, seems to me like you ran out of time though? There are some details that I would have changed, but I assume you just didn't get to them; The end screen is rather boring, The characters don't face the movement direction, the rocket launchers don't have explosions. The art style is very nice too :)
@thegunmaster yeah, for us its was more like "running our of time") not that it's smth new)
I loved the pixel art and music of this game!
It's great, but got pretty laggy at the end :D I think it's a little bit too easy, though. Fully upgraded base fends of these blue hordes really nicely with some human attention to replace turrets. I really love the art.
Great job! Great art style, great music, great gameplay. The "nope" answer under the help button is surprising but... well done anyway!
Score: 1156. The art and the music are good but is so incomplete. Some buildings are quite powerfull like the blastcannon and the walls seems useless. I missed a goal or something else. Quite fun tho, I understand the lack of time.
I've played this game the longest so far! This was really accessible and still engaging! I only dream of what it would be like if you finished your plans. The art and audio are :kissing_cat: Very nice job! Screen Shot 2018-08-15 at 10.03.45 AM.png
Понравилась идея совместить тетрис и ТД. Правда, я ждал, что каждый раз фигура для построения выбирается случайно, а не определена заранее для каждого типа зданий.
Жаль, что помощи нет, но издевательская надпись "Nope" при попытке ее вызвать позабавила)
Экономика, конечно, страдает: если не осталось металла и шахт нет, считай, проиграл. По крайней мере источник ресурса не должен требовать этот же ресурс для постройки, если это единственный источник.
Удачи!
@n-feofentov фигуры рандомятся на каждую игру. т.е. одинаковых игр нет ) помощь добавить просто не успели. но кнопку не убрали, потому что отказ в помощи показался нам забавным. судя по комментариям, все шутку оценили :) с экономикой провал потому что геймдизить приходилось на ходу всей командой (геймдизайнер, который согласился на джем за 2 недели до старта в последний день извинился и учавствовать отказался).
спасибо за отзыв, для нас это важно
@naked-kiwi thank you for playing. theres alot of features we'd like to add, if only we had more time, including arts and animations.
@hasparus thanx mate :D If only we had gamedesigner for balancing..
WooooW, A palette you used is amazing! what was it? The best tower defence I have played so far during the jam. Good Job!
@skigfx мне кажется, описание чересчур оправдывающееся для неплохой игры :р апгрейда башен очень не хватает, мне кажется, было бы клёво (наверняка выше где-нибудь предлагали), если бы это работало как-нибудь наподобие того же тетриса, где дают бонусы за заполненные столбцы \ ряды
Very satisfying experience. The music goes well with the gameplay but is also kind of tiring at times, good concept. Clicking the "help" button only for "Nope" to pop up made me laugh out loud(I understand the time restraints).
I played it, died pretty fast, closed it, started reading these comments, saw some cool screenshots, thought to myself: "that looks pretty nice, I can do that as well!", restarted, got better, but go frustrated again, closed it, comments again, ahh fuck it one more time. That happend like 3 more times. :D It's pretty fun, but also kinda frustrating since the form of the buildings is sometimes just straight up bullshit. But that's the game! And I like it! I'd love it if you made a real version with more time and a bit more thought to it etc. Great Entry! Oh, and the art and the sound fitted well ^^
@kostbllb ага, строишь линию, она пропадает, тебя сжирают :D
Very nicely done. I get that most games are really short, but I actually ended up playing this for a while! Missed opportunity with sound effects, the increase spawn and cannons could really lend itself nicely to some very very simple and short blast sfx sounds. I did like the music however
This game is really good! Good music, graphics, and the concept is quite fun. Honestly I would like to know what each thing does, although I have some guesses. I don't know what the lab does, and I couldn't get enough metal. At the same time, the wall which should be really cheap is really hard to build given the cost.
But awesome game, with an upgrade system it would be a joy to play.
Great job! I absolutely love the graphics, looks fantastic! Having each building take up a different number of tiles in different configurations made for some interesting strategies for placing them. Sometimes I got a bad set of tiles but it was very easy to start another game and try again. Great use of the theme and a really polished experience. Very nice!
Графа и концепт отличные, игра отменная)
Хочется увидеть развитие этой идеи и поиграть в полный проект)
Awesome game! I would like to see an improved balancing for costs/effectiveness of buildings but overall a very pleasant experience worth playing multiple times.
Hard to grasp at the beginning, but I found myself playing this game wayy longer than I expected! Really no big flaw, it just needs some polishing, great potential here.
Great game overall, with the music being on point and some of the sound effects being very well made. The graphics were very good and the overall game design was well put together. However i did find that the destroy button didn't open for me once whilst playing, maybe i didn't last long enough. Very polished, however it is a shame that there was not a tutorial. This game fits the theme well however if you position your buildings correctly - like the comments above have, you don't seem to need to have any more space. Good game.
very nice game :) thanks for making it :)
@kostbllb апгрейды в лаборатории. визуализации нет, к сожалению.
@farfadet46 thanks for playing and appreciating
@sohakes we didn't have much time to balance and I didn't want players to build 2 rows of walls and be unkillable, so wall is more like decore element :D
@player-2 if there would be 9x9 instead of 10x10, it would be too hard for a jam)
@sohakes wall have 300hp btw!
That was fun! Good job on the art and the game mechanic. I really like how you gotta strategy your building placement so that it fit on the tile. Overall I think the game is extremely fun and addicting. Can't wait to see more what come from you guy.
This game is fantastic! I really enjoy playing it... Everything was put together in a fantastic way!
The only thing that made me "eh..." was the GameOver screen! The graphic is fantastic, but when you die you get that 'more than basic' "GameOver + Score" panel!
That was fun! Good job !
@stroe-andrew we also have tons of animations for units. but in game they can only walk)
I love it looks, but that being said, I've always had a weakness for pixel art. The music is nice too, it's not so 'in your face' that it makes it hard to think, but it's also upbeat enough to get me pumped. Health bars on the buildings (or lack thereof) I think is the biggest issue I have with the game, as I'll sometimes lose 2-3 buildings in one moment because I had no idea they were low on health. Usually I quickly died after that.
I think a useful improvement would be a border between buildings, so it's easier to see what you've got in play, especially when you have multiple of the same building rammed together.
But overall I loved the game, even if I did really poorly at it.
@ursidaegames at start we wanted to make building solid, not modular. but after we calculated 48 tiles for each building, out artist sad: modular it is)
Awesome mechanic of the tetris base building! Would love to have a wave number or something for a sense of accomplishment. Personally I get a bit unmotivated when I know it is just endless until I die. Other than that it is such a great game!
Very fun game ! Characters, musics, sounds make a set. It's original. the concept to rotate building is cool. Animations are really fun.
I love this little game! The UI art and animations are wonderful. Very little to critique, but I would love some smaller buildings, a wave counter or other progress indicator, and for the blaster pew-pew to be a little quieter.
Overall great job!
Edit: Just read that you can rotate. Oops! I guess I missed that.
This is one of the most unexpected genre mashups I've ever played and I think the concept works incredibly well. Keep going! I'll play more of this.
Great game! Settings have music and SFX slider bars which I never remember to do in my own games, art is great, and gameplay is fun. I never was able to build the lab during my playthrough but I imagine it lets you upgrade things. I think displaying the score somewhere during the game would be really helpful so that people who are trying to get a high score know how much longer they have to hold out. Other than that minor nitpick great job! Also loved that I pushed Help and it just said 'nope'
Have fun out there
Very interesting game and really fun to play. Just this that the game kind of gets laggy after a while otherwise everything was good. Nice job
Wow, stunning visuals! This seriously looks like it was a huge undertaking, but finished or not, it really came out looking great. Really interesting combination of themes, too!
Really great pixel art, and the Ui was solid too! Just wish there was a tutorial, I had no idea what each tower did at first. Overall really great, and clever use of the theme!
Vigorous visuals, snazzy SFX and giddy gameplay. A good addition to the ranks of LD42! Pity you didn't manage to get all the things you wanted in...
Very fun to play, I also like the retro-style graphics :slight_smile:
the Tetris/BaseBuilding mix fit's the the theme very well, great work! :smile:
Great take on the theme. It's fun to play once you get the basics. Maybe it could help with more feedbacks (when building are available, when they're not...). And you should change the SFX, it gets awful quite fast and make the game unplayable.
very interesting game and very beautiful one. Its a pitty there is no goal because I would have continue playing for sure :) well done on your entry
I enjoyed this game
Really nice game, and good adaptation of theme - 5/5!
Wooow, I'm too bad, but the game is awesome and beautiful
Exceptional job you've done! Very fun to play! thanks for sharing! awesome take on tower defense, and I love meh some tower defense! pretty steep learning curve, but the tracks are awesome to keep one company while getting to know the game! Great job!
Guy you're crazy, don't you have life? You created such an amazing game in that short time and then you've rated 330 games? OMG guy, props for you. Game is polished up that I haven't caught any bugs or impolishments. Great work, I belive that you'll expand the game and sell it. Keep working and good luck!
Отличная игра! Новая интересная идея. Геймплей затягивает и заставляет играть снова и снова. Постоянно чувствуется челлендж и напряжение что заставляет тебя думать быстрее. Очень понравилась визуальная составляющая. Особенно UI. Музыка тоже очень в тему и создаёт соответствующее настроение.
@skyrex Thank you,we are really burning for these few days,and here's the result. I did not even expect the game to have such great interest.
@wetbox спасибо за отзыв, мы старались чтобы всем понравилось;)
Nice game, it's really funny, the graphics are excellent and the sound fx too. I want more, with goals and more terrain grid. Good job :)
Thanks, man, we tried.
Wow loads of feedback and I can see. Game is very much enjoyable. I think I played this one the longest. The good Graphics are spot on ( menu, front screen, explosions) you did that in just 3 days wow!! Sounds Gameplay
I do agree with some of the feedback you have already received, It does not tell me how well i did as compared to last time ( score or timer maybe). At the end I was swarmed with such a huge group which was impossible to defeat ( or maybe I missed on something :). Game definitely has potential with building upgrades, scoring system.
Cool strategy game! It's a pretty neat idea!
The art is great, but I think the gameplay is lacking a bit because there isn't much to and the enemies always do the same thing (move towards you and attack). Adding buildings that slow enemies or buff/debuff buildings/enemies would add a bit of variety, but having different enemy patterns and attacks is maybe more important.
Good job.
The game is awesome, i would like to see the final build on steam! or anywhere else
Fantastic game! Very nice graphics, and a great application of the theme to a tower defence.
An interesting take on the tower defense genre. I liked the tetris-like mechanic and I thought you implemented it well. The graphics were nice (save for the green field in the middle of nowhere as your setting, I feel like the surface of Mars or something would have been a far better choice for the menacing mood). The music was some great stuff and for the most part I can't really add much other than work on explaining the mechanics more clearly as the 'nope' on the help button is a funny joke sure, but it still doesn't actually help a player in case they can't fully grasp everything that is happening. Good work on this!
I LOVE the RTS feel to this game. The music is awesome and the game play is passively fun. It has a very tetris feel to it which adds challenge to the build mechanic. I really enjoyed this game.
Very enjoyable. Looks superb, well made pixel art. I had a good time playing this! Good job, all of you
I loved this game! It's a really nice one, congratulations!
Cool music and mechanics!
Probably one of the most interesting games I’ve played at this LD! Great mechanics, just amazing :shield: Really awesome!
It's like tetris, but it's a RTS and you choose which block come next!
Mechanics, graphics and sounds are on point! The game feel polished too. Great job.
i like it))
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This was as good as I could've came up with 14k score :D Thanks for the fun! Great build!
Nice game! And the "Nope" said by the help button made me feel like a little space ship abandoned by the command center :laughing:
Whew, this was pretty fun. The Nope button was hilarious, and everyone should click it at least once. Just playing around with buildings, I was able to quickly figure out what each one does, for the most part, except for a couple Laboratory upgrades. I never did get very far, unfortunately. I've never been very good at this style of game. I'm a slow-paced kind of guy. :) But I definitely appreciate what you've got here. I gave it several playthroughs and enjoyed it.
Hey there ! Your game has definitly a lot of potential, I hope you're gonna keep working on it 'cause I'm pretty sure it can be a very solid game. Arts and SFX/music are great, what I really liked is how you designed the interface in a clever way to make you work less (with the minerals and energy ressources directly linked to the amount needed to build up something for instance). I didn't especially feel like I was running out of space during my two playthrough, but seeing other players' screenshots, I feel like I must have been doing something wrong :P Also, the shapes are incredibly boring, thus making the game quite fun ! Good job !!
A mixture of Tetris, and tower defense, a very clever interpretation of the theme. Very good job, I hope you will continue to evolve this prototype!
"Help" --> "Nope" hahah I liked it ! Super game with nice graphics ;)
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So, many games in a gamejam event puts the concept of a tower defense with the main theme, because that i dont think that is really innovative. Anyway, the combo of a RTS economy and tetris worked fine here :D
The graphic is good but some litte detais messy this buid: Configurations with standard ui unity art. And enemies dont flip when rushing from the left side.
Definitely the most fun entry I've played so far, I loved everything! I can't think of any cons except for son QoL improvements when deploying an object. Awesome game!
Interesting take on a tower-defense game. I've always been a fan of this type of games, so this one was pretty fun to play. Good job.
Great idea! Reminds me of the RTS game I played before.
Lots of fun, good job!
I really liked this! The idea of mixing a Tetris-like spacial puzzle into a tower defense game works really well! The graphics were excellent (I especially liked the explosions) and the audio was great too. The "Nope" also made me laugh, so props for that too. One thing that bothered me was that if I tried to place a building that I couldn't quite make, I lost the placement cursor and had to click back on the building. That was a little irritating. Other than that, no complaints. Great work!
The concept of game is really interesting. Graphics(besides the end menu ;D) and music is lovely. Good Job!
When I placed a blast cannon and it began shooting the creeps, I learned what I could build to kill creeps. If you continue to develop this, when I clicked on solar plant and some other buildings, I wasn't clear what they did.
Wow, I must be really bad at this because even after several attempts, I can't even afford the laboratory. I need to keep spending all my money to build guns just to stay alive! It's a fun game though with good graphics and music. Reminds me a bit of Rampart for NES.
This is really well made. Good idea for the theme, well executed, awesome animations. I only had two complaints: you can't place the same thing twice without clicking on the purchase menu again; and some of the sound effects were too loud. Other than that, super awesome!
@dominic Thanks for feedback, to build several buildings of the same type you need to clamp the left shift.
Well done! I'd be willing to bet with the number of comments that whatever I was going to say has already been said, but the art and feel of the game is great. Music and sound were adequate, but I think the game could have enjoyed a little more frantic music and overall feel.
I'm still not sure what some of the buildings do. I'm assuming that the smelter and solar give you more building materials, but what does the lab do?
The art gives me Advance Wars nostalgia - it looks really nice.
Art and music are great! Love the RTS feels. Didn't get a really high score (2591) but I admit I'm not skilled enough to try and grind for the highest scores :'> But I had fun nonetheless. The only big complain I could make is that when you wanna place a building and misclick or have an enemy go on the cell suddenly, you have to re-pick the building in the menu, losing some precious seconds... Great job overall!! :>
@minibobbo Thanks for the feedback, The lab opens access to improvements in building, Solar farms and smeltery, increace income.
Lol damn dude!!
Again gotta say, great game. Most fun game I've played in this dare 42!!
came back to it again tonight, because I was itching to get more of a mastery, and realized that I can use R to rotate, and Shift to build multiple buildings!!! WOAH! GAME CHANGER!!!
I can't believe i scored 16.5k last night without knowing those 2 hotkeys, but uh....... I broke the game tonight! XD I was guessing that game would crash sooner or later, because I was loading around 3 frames in 10 seconds, and unfortunately I didnt get to screenshot my final score, because it did crash. Just for your development reference, I'm using an i5 8400...
Seriously though, great job on creating a challenging game, that is genuinely rewarding, and well balanced!! Kudos! Looking forward to the final version guys!
@kinsei Thanks for the feedback, if the left shift is pinched, this building will not disappear on error.
@faet I guess noone realy thinks about optimization during the jam, but yeah, with that many colliders and raycasts in logic, you need a supercomputer to have 60 fps with even 1k enemy spawned)
thank you for your reviews :)
Awesome puzzle/tower-defense ! Your take on the theme might be one of my favourite concepts of the LD. Congrats for putting all that together in a mere 72 hours !
Pros : - Strong concept, almost flawlessly executed and thematically adequate - Nothing gives me more joy than mixel art that crisp - Great soundtrack makes for a great "end of the world" mood - In my opinion, balanced difficulty curve - "Help ? Nope."
Cons : - Some form of in-game tutorial would be very helpful
Anyway, that's an awesome entry, that could totally be polished into a releasable game.
This is a really well made game! I like it. But somehow i feel like i am a worse player than everyone else. This is hard as balls!
Good job devs!
Really cool game concept, and the art is extremely good. Quite difficult I found!
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Holy cow that was a lot of enemies! Awesome music, cool SFX and art. The game balancing was a little weak, but I feel that's the case for a lot of game jams, it's hard to get it right with such little testing. Good job on the theme, and the variety of buildings and enemies as well. Nice job!
love the art and the music was on point! it was simple yet a lot of fun! My only gripe was it's difficult to tell which building is upgraded at a glance. Also, the interface on the lab could be better explained, I have no idea what the numbers actually mean.
Definitely a dark, entertaining game. Very impressed with what you were able to accomplish in 72 hours! Those enemies are creepy! I love it.
Really great idea and fantastic execution. I would have liked a little more direction. But as you said, you ran out of time for the help stuff. Great game though!
I thought that the shape of the block is random will improve the replayability. I was bad, I could not endure a massive raid, but it was super fun. This is Masterpiece!
Really neat entry! Like this take on tower defense. The visuals were really cool, the audio was great, the randomized building shapes made it interesting, strategizing was fun. Great job!
Fun game with a neat idea. I liked how you have a whole bunch of guns, you're just killing it. Then, a big wave comes and destroys everything you worked for. Great job!
My only complaint about the game is when the music changes (or at least I think it does) it overrides the volume settings and blasts at full volume.
Nice job, good take on the theme with the randomized building shapes. The graphics are pretty solid too. This could make for an interesting mobile game. Great work!
Really well Designed. I like that i had to think about where i placed my buildings
It was very interesting to play this game. Beautiful graphics, interesting mechanigs and good balance.
had fun! it took me a while to get the laboratory and figure out how to upgrade things- usually by that time though I can't keep up with the number of enemies that appear on screen. wasn't sure how to destroy buildings myself if that was possible. nice job!
Awesome game ! Normally I don't even like this type of game but I loved this one. The take on the theme was very cool. This tetris-like feel combined with the stress of the enemies coming, the nice graphics and the awesome music made it a wonderful experience! Enemies also looked very cool.
This is a masterpiece!) An interesting strategy game, I played it for a very long time.
Amazing entry, the concept is a great idea and I spent a really good time playing this game. Great work!!
I found the concept of this little strategy / puzzle game really interesting! I loved the graphic style and the visual effects! It was very smart to take the game Tetris back to make something new! However I think that with some additional feedbacks this game would be even better! Great job! :)
By the way please feel free to leave us some feedbacks on our game!
Somewhere between Frostpunk and Tetris. Great concept and fun game. Controls could be improved but it's still a good game anyway
Funny game, it remember me Starcraft... With a gameplay of tetris, really cool idea !
Nice game. Really fun to play. Hope you add more animation and explosions and keep working on it!
huh... very tense :D took me a while to get the hang of the game. Terminators vs player :D
Excellent game! Such great graphics - I loved all the art and pixel work, and great music too. Gameplay wise also quite nice, had to really search to find that 'r' was rotate (right mouse button would have worked nicely too)
That a replay had different building shapes was a cool touch - mixes it up. (but likely harder to balance) The only gripe I really have is that the walls are prohibitively expensive. Would have expected them to be cheapest, instead they are the most expensive per tile?
Do try and create a post-compo version, would love to see it. :smiley: :thumbsup:
Very nice game. The graphics and audio were great, and the user interface was clean and easy to use. I liked the mix-up of Tetris and tower defence, and the way the parts' shapes were procedurally generated was also really cool.
Awesome game! Overall one of the best I've played yet. :grinning:
Art is superb, lots of different assets, well animated and all consistent in style, awesome!
Audio incredible, fits well and builds a great atmosphere.
Gameplay fun and interesting with a nice difficulty curve to keep you going back. My one gripe was being unable to place buildings over enemies as once a lot of enemies were in your base, there was very little you could do to counter them.
Theme is clearly great here as I was indeed constantly running out of space! Who would've thought!
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I think it's the best game I played on this LD, everything is so great. Want to play it again and again!
Awesome game! Like tetris combined with a tower defense. I got 1304 my 2nd try once I figured things out, the music and sound effects got a little repetitive but the graphics were awesome. I would suggest being able to select from a few different grid sizes, and maybe a mode that changes up the piece shapes every time you place one instead of every game. I definitely had a couple lucky pieces my 2nd game, and if I played it right could have fit rockets and blasters on every square. Or maybe I'm crazy and they never changed between my 2 games, but that'd be cool either way. Pausing was a little broken, could destroy pieces and pause between placing to give myself more time to think, I bet learning to take advantage of that could make the game a bit less challenging. Overall, super well done! Excited to see if you do something with it Post-mortem
cool!
Love the music! Took me a while, but I finally figured it out and survived till end game.