This is awesome, such a great interpretation of the theme. I knew I was gonna like this game as soon as I started clicking on stuff to mine resources haha. I like the tower defense portion a lot too, it's really fun to place the towers and try to defend your base. I think the idea of having the crystal be a resource that's only obtainable during the storm is great too. Unfortunately I wasn't able to really get into the game, most of my turrets wouldn't fire any arrows for some reason. I tried on the web and downloable version, but for some reason only the turrets in one part of my map actually fired arrows, around 70% of my turrets just played the firing animation but wouldn't actually fire arrows. Idk if I was just doing something wrong, but I tried to add a gif to show what I'm talking about if that's helpful. Really great job on this tho I like it a lot!

I had a lot of fun trying new patterns for my defences. I don’t know if it’s my tendency of preferring more the optimisation of the patterns and let them do their thing than just go myself and defend… but I played it that way and made my pattern-recognising braincell go brrrrrr

But yeah, I did find a couple things:

• Second cycle in and the overworld music disappeared. Don’t know why.
• At first the SFX were a bit too loud, then they were fine when the music went away.
• The AI, on several playthroughs, seem to really reaaaaaally like the top-left side of my tower. I guess they hammer one side, then go all in on any open flank left. I got better at managing it, but maybe I was missing something or it was skill issue of mine.
• I thought the tower indicator below, while on the storm cycle, was how much was left of the storm. I kept on waiting, like “hey why it isn’t going down? hey why is it going down so quick? aw I died… it was the indicator of how I had left of my tower.” Then I thought “do I get rated on time survived and I am gonna die anyways?” and now I am just confused.

Either I am not very knowledgeable of these kinds of game (which, lemme be clear, I am), or I did indeed get real confused for legit reasons.

I am new to this game genre (maybe except for Civ V, idk if it counts), and I did find confusion a bit hard to really fully enjoy the game. But it’s not a deal breaker.

More UI context, or some explanation in-game about the cycles, the collecting crystal doing the storm (which I missed until later on. my bad); and there you go, problems solved! I say this as more of a complete newbie picking up a game that caught my eye, and these first impressions are real important to pick up new players and bring them up to your genre.

brb going to go try new optimised defence patterns. Pretty good experience!

I really enjoy only being able to get crystal during the storm, makes for really good design, great work!

I think the innovation of only being able to harvest some resources, like crystal, during the storm was really cool. I have played a lot of resource games but had not seen something like that implemented. I also really liked the two phases of gather resources to build and battle tower defense. I played for a while but the storm never seemed to end so I could only play one cycle but it was fun! Maybe a timer for the storm or an indicator for remaining enemies could help. I am not sure what the end condition is but yeah, basically something to help the player get there. Again fun game and really well implemented UI!

I loved all the animation and sound design, it really gave it that oomph factor!

This is quite fun! I've played the 1.2.1 version, and collecting resources feels like the way to play this game. I feel more like I'm preparing against the storm like this. I don't know if it's intentional, but if there are multiple resource nodes in your scene, you can swipe your mouse between them to sort of take  all of them. This speeds up the collecting resources part and also makes it a bit minigame-y. If it isn't intentional, please don't remove it haha.

The gameplay is fine, maybe you could add some navigation arrow in case there are less than 10 enemies nearby? I didn't have much of an issue finding the enemies but I can see that it could be a problem.

Overall, I really like this game. Good entry. Well done!

You weren't lying, the thunder effect is sick! Only being able to harvest the crystals during the storm is also a cool concept. Personally, it took me a while to get used to the attacking only being left/right depending on what direction you're facing, rather than 360 degrees depending on where your mouse is. I also think it might be nice to have an indicator that shows how long is left for the storm (unless I just happened to have missed it). Besides that, I love how your game feels with the speed and music, and it's on par with the theme!

Interesting game, definitely liked grinding resources to build defenses. I just couldn't sleep after the first wave idk what I had to do? it kept storming.

I like the idea the art need some work to be all consistent with one another but this game has potential!

Well done and good put toghether.

Hee-ho. Good game. I like it. Main character is super nice (cool and simple). Thanks for good experience

Good tower defend game.

I can't pass the first storm it have so many enemy if I know when storm is finish it will be good. 

So I had to read comment to pass the first storm. and I can mine other material than crystal? during storm is it a bug or feature. and may be show how many crystal in this stage.

When I find the material for build base if it have no boarder I would be loss.

And collider of player is a bit weird it should have only on player foot and collider of tree, rock and crystal don't have to change size just change only image size when mine it.

when I place many of crossbow my FPS drop when it fire and kill many enemy I don't know you use obj pool or not if not i recommend you should use it.

Pretty fun game, despite it being very hard! I like the music too :)

Really good game! It did took me a long time to figure out how to activate the storm.

 The pacing is a little weird to me, the building/gathering phase lasts a lot longer than I wanted it to, and I got a little bored of it. I realize that I can skip to the start of the storm, but that wouldn't be optimal strategy, so I didn't want to do that. I ran around my house in the storm, thinking I just needed to survive until the end of the storm, was wondering why the first wave lasted so long, and eventually there were so many mobs around my base, all my structures were destroyed. It wasn't until after reading the comments here that I realized that I had to destroy crystals!

I really like the rain effect and the thunder though, and the use of the theme. The storm phase is intense! And the metal music gets a big plus from me!

Nice execution of a base defense game. I recommend that you make the conditions for 'winning' a bit more obvious. I was running around in the storm waiting for something to happen for a while.

Had a lot of fun with this one! I especially liked your music choice for the storm, felt really frantic in a good way with the players run speed and the fast pace music, dodging the monster and cracking the crystals. Great use of the theme!

Really enjoyed this game! Quick power-ups and energy management need balancing, but the base-building aspect is engaging. Minor adjustments to player sprint and viewing options could enhance the experience further.

I love these types of games and this one is no exception! If this was developed further I would've played it a lot longer. Good job!

A couple of inconveniences:  Running out of energy so you cannot destroy all the crystals to end the storm. And getting strong too quickly.

I played a little bit but then my daughter took over. She played for 45 minutes. She loved this! She said her only real note was the length of the calm before the storm and the quickness you can build up. When I came back to her, she had so many crossbows and walls that I could not see the land or anything beyond what shes built and was stuck at the house. haha. This wasnt a bug, but she said she became over-powered pretty quickly. She also was not a huge fan of the sprint system. I also had that note. I thought it was cool and unique at first but began to become something I waited on too much. It might help to balance the game a bit to also make the prep calm phase have a time-limit - or maybe also make your energy go down naturally as well as on use, instead of only on use.

This reminds me of the bases I build in Ark. Really nice work!

Cute little base defense game! Even with minimal instruction I could figure out everything I needed to do. I just wish I could see more of the map at once.