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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Fun | #71 | 3.841 | 3.841 |
| Game Design | #86 | 3.778 | 3.778 |
| Audio | #122 | 3.611 | 3.611 |
| Overall | #148 | 3.594 | 3.594 |
| Theme | #165 | 3.698 | 3.698 |
| Graphics | #216 | 3.802 | 3.802 |
| Innovation | #582 | 2.833 | 2.833 |
Ranked from 126 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
My game is all about making quick decisions before chaos hits. The currency system in my game forces you to choose between saving and spending, which if done incorrectly or at the wrong time can pose a risk later on. All of the interaction with the game also happens before the 'storm' and during it you are left to hope you made the correct decisions. The game tries to make that 'calm' before the storm just a little less calm and the storm itself just a little more intense.
Did you write all the code and made all the assets from scratch?
Yes, the code, assets and sound effects were all made by me completely from scratch (outside of some sound effects coming from Pixabay).
The music used was taken from the YouTube Creator audio library.
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Nice game mechanics and art style, I had so much fun playing it, Keep it up!!!!
Thanks a lot!
Very nice tower defence game! Like others said, the wave reward should be higher. Otherwise, the art style and theme/gameplay is very good.
Wave rewards change dynamically based on how much money you currently have in your bank so the best strategy to manage economy would be to not spend too much money early on. I've also had people say it's way too easy because of this mechanic so I'm a little confused right now 😅
Aside from that, thank you for playing my game. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Super fun game, just loved seeing my towers obliterate the enemies. The only thing I would suggest is to maybe fix the economy, was pretty hard to buy new towers and upgrades.
Should become easier the more money you save up. Never fully empty your bank or your economy is basically ruined.
Anyway, thanks for playing my game!
Def something you can keep working on! a bit unbalanced income, i could not buy more towers in many waves. but that is the issue with short jam times. keep at it, good work :)
Yes definitely! The income is based on how much money you have left in your bank so you're encouraged to save whenever you can. It really depends on how you play early on.
Nice game! I only got to wave 3. You don’t get much money to buy towers per wave, so it felt like I couldn't do much after wave 1. But overall, the tower defense aspect is really nice.
The interest mechanic in the game makes you forced to save early on. A good strategy I found during playtesting was to put as little as possible towers down in the earlier waves but just enough to get you to survive them and build up money. After all the more money you have in your bank the more money you gain from killing enemies.
Anyways, thanks for trying out my game!
this game is pretty addictive and i love that about it, the only thing is that all tower defense games are basically made for a theme like this and if we consider that, i can say i have seen similar games to this and based on that, it isnt too unique...
but i also love its graphics and audio and my ratings for this game are positive!
I appreciate the criticism, the genre was in fact the first thing that came to mind when thinking about this jam's theme. But I tried to make up for that in gameplay and feel of the game.
Thanks for playing and rating!
Great game! It kept me hooked
Mission achieved! Thanks for playing.
Loved the Game
Thanks I'm glad to hear it!
Loved this game, probably the most I've played during this rating phase so far. Really addicting, very well paced. I loved the art as well, wonderful all round. Great Job!
Thanks a lot! Really glad to see you enjoyed it :)
Fun tower defense game!
played for about 2 hours.
I like the minimalist art style and animations the spear throw is great.
game fits the theme well!
Thanks for playing! 2 hours? damn I'm impressed haha
Nice simplistic art style and the storm ambience makes the game very cozy. I had a bit of problems with the towers, because sometimes the bomb tower wouldn't hit any target at all and the levelling costs were a bit high. Other than that a good submission!
Thank you for playing! That's the exact aesthetic I intended to go for with the music and sfx. It's great to hear it worked out.
The bomb tower not hitting it's tower is a known issue that would take a redesign of the way I pick targets to improve on so I didn't have the time anymore during the jam. I might revisit this later though.
Glad you enjoyed my work! :)
Very fun! the game feels very polished and clean- it just feels very difficult, it takes forever to get enough money to upgrade at the beginning, and when you lose health on a round but cant upgrade anything or place anything it just feels like you're forced to fail, alongside a lot of the ranged attacks moving too slow to hit the enemies at the end of its range. Other than a few difficulty and balance issues, it's very fun to play and is a nice take on the theme!
You've got to make use of the interest mechanic inside the game to it's fullest. Using it correctly will make the game very easy (too easy I've been told). A good strategy I found while testing was trying to beat the first waves with as little towers as possible and slowly building up saving towards the +10 interest cap. Then just buying towers every time your money goes over 1000.
Thank you for the kind remarks though. Glad you enjoyed it!
OMG there's even a boss!
Tadaaa
Really cute game! I LOVE the interest mechanic, that alone gives the game points in the design category for me. I do feel like the balance falls a bit short (upgrade for the basic tower only gives 150% damage which isn't enough to make a difference and the bomb guy's bombs feel too slow and weak to be effective compared to the furnace) but overall I enjoyed it a lot. Got to wave 13!
You are very right about the balancing. I had a rather hard time figuring out what would be too good and what would be too weak even with having friends playtest the game. In the end I shipped it with some changes to some values and hoped it would be at least decently balanced. I'm really happy to see you've enjoyed playing though! You guy's game is truly amazing btw, I just played it lol
Ps. there's a surprise at wave 20 and an endless mode after that for if you'd ever revisit
That's totally fair, I did have a lot of fun regardless of the slightly off-tune balancing and it's not the most important priority in a 7 day jam (; it's a really well made game overall regardless. I'm going to replay it right now, ain't no way I'm missing out on the surprise!! Also thank you so much for checking our game, shared your kind review with my two teammate (musician and dev) 😊
I got to wave 20 and got the good ending (defeated a great evil) loved the twist lol!
Very nicee! It's always the tutorial guy turning on you 🙄
Nice gameplay, it feels really polished! Congratulations on uploading!
That's exactly the feel I went for. Glad to hear it worked out. Thank you lots!
A very well made game! Amazing work making such a complex game in a jam!
Thank you! I had a blast while programming it and designing it's assets!
Astounding gameplay, i already tried, love it. Now, it's ur turn to try & vote us. Thank u
Thank you lots! Will definitely check out your game.
Nice game. I needed some feedback on the damage, maybe some red tint. But the art and animations are very beautiful.
Thank you! What damage in particular are you talking about, when you the player are taking damage or the enemies?
Enemies, I want that feeling of progress
Okay I'll take your criticism into consideration! Thanks.
really good as first Gamejam, i really liked it as a tower defence!
Thank you very much! I really enjoyed your game too.
Wow! Very good game! Really enjoyed it, but only played up to beating bert, might come back to try endless mode later. One thing i did notice is that the bomb towers seem to miss some enemies when playing at 2x speed. Would also have loved if there was some background music, but the game audio is good with the storm sounds.
First of all, thanks for playing my game! The bomb and spear towers missing is a known issue i kind of didn't have enough time to fix, since the whole game jam thing. They miss on both 1x and 2x speed equally so it'd take a rework of the whole targeting system. Nonetheless thanks for the feedback!
There should be background music in the game though? What build were you playing and was there just completely no music or did some start at the start of the game and then stop?
Tried again, and the music is working now. Don't know why it wasn't the first time. Weird. (was playing it on chrome browser both times)