Fight or Flight

enjl 2022-04-05 20:55

Love the premise, and the creatures you defend yourself from are really creepy and great! My experience has unfortunately been hampered by me being unable to figure out how to actually gain more gold, so I sadly had to watch as my base slowly succumbed to an ever-growing onslaught of insectoids and cheetahs. I think with a bit more player guidance, and perhaps a small grace period at the start to let players figure out how everything works, this could be a game I could sink quite a while into.

angrybeard 2022-04-06 09:18

i like your implementation of the tower defense mechanic, the playfield looks very clean and it is easy to place structures. But i also need a couple of tries till i found out the basic mechanics of manning the towers and mining gold + i didnt realy got the concept of the rocket. So more tutorials would benefit your game i think :)

sodoj 2022-04-06 09:20

First of all, thank you so much for making this game available in WebGL!

When I started the game, I was really confused. I started making buildings, but they didn't seem to do anything at all. Luckily, I figured out quickly that you are supposed to fill them in with capable soldiers and the game quickly became really fun management/tower defense rump!

Good stuff!

oddballdave 2022-04-06 09:20

This is a solid tower defence game. Very simple to understand, and hits all the right marks for the genre. Then the added twist of trying to evacuate the workers was very clever. It's a constant balance of trying to have enough workers to man towers and trying to save as many workers as possible. I'm wondering as the developer what your best score is? Is it possible to get a perfect score or, as in life, do some sacrifices _have_ to be made?

Good Stuff :8ball:

pev 2022-04-06 09:33

Good idea to combine tower defense and escape strategies! I couldn't find my balance though, units number is too small and saving 9 people seems to be a good idea... I think you can extend the idea after the jam and add more tower kinds.

nikolay-fedotenko 2022-04-06 14:11

Cool tower defense game! Congrats with completing your jam

erikengineengineer 2022-04-06 14:29

Nice Starship Troopers themed game :smile: I liked your music

chertkov 2022-04-07 14:56

@oddballdave we were losing our minds while making the wave generator during the submission hour, so perfect balance is not guaranteed 😅. Consider this a hi-score game. Here is my PB.hiscore.png

benbennett 2022-04-09 08:09

I liked the concept and loved the art and music, great job! I had some trouble figuring out the upgrade mechanic and couldn't figure out how to get the resource needed for the mortar. I think some more information presented to the player would help, things like upgrade cost, what the upgrade actually does, upgrade level, etc

elysiagriffin 2022-04-09 10:45

Thanks for submitting your game for me to play on my stream!

If you’d like to rewatch the playthrough, you can find it here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1450162412?t=06h38m44s

Good luck on your ratings, see you next LD! :D

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ilikescifi 2022-04-13 15:02

A bit complicated in the beginning to understand everything but nice concept and VERY nice for a game jam! Thumbs up!

glaikunt 2022-04-15 11:06

Had fun playing the game. I only got 8 though. A button to start waves I think would add a lot. The game itself has a lot of room for expansion. Great job!

skruffye 2022-04-15 22:29

I don't know if I was just really bad at this or if it wasn't intended to go on for very long, given the theme...! :grin:

All the same, I'm a bit of a sucker for tower defence games--I liked the mechanic of assigning workers to beef up towers, although I wasn't all too sure how to go about getting the second resource that wasn't gold?

I get the feeling that the main thing holding this game back is probably a lack of tutorial. I'd be interested to play it again if I had a better idea of what I was supposed to be doing! :laughing:

Good work on the sprites--they were simple, but effective and entirely self-consistent. That soundtrack was really engaging, too! Gave the whole game a very epic feel to it.

Great job! :smile:

alight 2022-04-16 00:04

Bit hard but too damn good. Good music and I absolutely loved the home screen :smile:

mmason 2022-04-20 02:52

really solid game, a little bit hard to learn everything in one play, but on my third try I think I started getting the hang of it

ava-skoog 2022-04-21 15:21

Pretty cool tower defence 😗 Like others have said, the evacuation is a neat twist. It was pretty difficult for me to get very far and I never seemed to be able to get ahold of any of that "atomic" icon resource. How do I get those? Is there any way to get your population back up again, or is that where the inevitability comes in? Looks and sounds pretty nice and is mostly intuitive altho at least on my computer in the web player the click controls were a bit unresponsive and I had to click several times for it to register—did you perhaps put that code in the fixed update? Also worth noting that on initial load the game was bigger than my screen, but zooming out the browser or going fullscreen solved that so not a huge deal 😅 Overall well done!

lupercalia 2022-04-21 15:40

Very well made! I like the graphics, the music and the overall mood of running (flying) for your live. Well implemented idea, fitting to the theme, as a tower defense game. From what i played i would judge you made an ideawise very well made strategic design between deciding how to assign the workers on your defense on on the possibility to escape. I like this dilemma as a strategy idea.

blobasaur 2022-04-21 22:19

@ava-skoog thanks for playing our game! the "atomic" resource is science points, and you get them if you send enough people to space (they are supposed to be useful even if they are not on the base😅). The population does not come back, it is a very limited resource. About the controls - everything runs smoothly on pc and on other pcs in our team so I don't know what to tell you ☹️. Altough there's one interaction where you can't build anything if something's already building - maybe this was your case? Anyways, thanks for playing and leaving feedback!