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The Tiny King Who Had A HUGE Desire For Gold

By dagon

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall834.0224
Fun224.1824
Innovation4323.1923
Theme6353.1824
Graphics2833.9024
Audio923.9724
Humor1533.6321
Mood2553.7724

Comments

tubyuwu 2025-10-07 01:17

Addictive and cute!

grizwhirl 2025-10-07 14:33

That was by far my favorite so far, super fun and rewarding loop.

pro4 2025-10-07 20:12

Great tower defense implementation with pretty good balancing for the tight constraints of a jam. I was able to get pretty decently deep into the game until I got overwhelmed. I think if I invested more accurately in the gold mines I mightve been able to get farther.

Really nice work!

gyziger 2025-10-08 01:35

Really great entry!! a lot of polish and great game loop. Sounds was cohesive as well as art, no bugs! was a bit hard to figure out what to do at first but I figured it out. Great game!

gamesplusjames 2025-10-08 01:43

Very cute artstyle and a cool twist on tower defence. A really fun one. Great job!

magnapanther 2025-10-08 01:43

REALLY well put together game!! could be a fully fledged title honestly, fun concept and good execution as well!! i can see myself getting really into this lol it's probably one of my favourite entries so far

tsaot 2025-10-08 01:43

This is a good TD! It feels balanced and the buffing/collecting mechanic is a neat one.

automatonvx 2025-10-08 23:53

Very solid tower defense, played till the end. Would have like a little more info about what damage the extra upgraded units did or how much more gold I got from the upgraded mines etc. After the first few waves my army was so built up that thye never even got close, so maybe some little tweak to the difficulty curve would have been good to keep the tension going. Graphics were nice and the was nice too to keep me bopping along while mowing down the hordes. Solid work

ausstein 2025-10-09 07:12

Really cool game! I liked it a lot!

I hit an integer overflow or similar bug and suddenly had almost endless gold. (or do gold piles add ridiculus multipliers?)

The main critique would be that it was not clear which upgrades did what. Some stats on hover or short explanation of the differnt ability would have been nice

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dagon 2025-10-09 11:50

Hi @ausstein! Wow that's a lot of gold lol! Thanks for the feedbacks <3

re-markable 2025-10-09 14:12

Really lovely game! Like someone else said, my only main critique is that the game could use some more clarification on what does what. Other than that, perfect game!

derek-glennon 2025-10-10 03:18

Really solid tower defense game. Could have played it for a lot longer and honestly might come back to it. Art style is super cute too. Honestly you could ship this. Nice job!

ansible 2025-10-10 12:33

This was fun and addictive! I took the win condition at round 20 but could have kept going. The art, sound and level design is great and all works super well together. I had a bug where the gold collecting sound stopped playing. Fun, thanks!

rogaven 2025-10-10 19:36

The logo is awesome! The game’s fun, but it was really inconvenient that the controls use Z instead of Enter/Space. At the start I got confused before realizing you can place someone on the grass, but it’s understandable that there’s no time to make a tutorial during a jam.

patatje 2025-10-10 21:30

Banger game, the pixel art and color pallete is super nice to look at. This game defenitely reminds me of rock on island from ufo50 lol. but that isn't a bad thing! (cuz thats like one of my faves) i also like the win condition of the game. dunno if the games goes on forever if you dont place 50 gold stacks, but i love that the oppertunity is there. once again, great job :)

infernalwolf08 2025-10-11 01:50

love the spin on the tower defense genre!