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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Fun | #91 | 3.774 | 3.774 |
| Game Design | #106 | 3.742 | 3.742 |
| Overall | #199 | 3.495 | 3.495 |
| Graphics | #215 | 3.806 | 3.806 |
| Audio | #238 | 3.387 | 3.387 |
| Theme | #309 | 3.419 | 3.419 |
| Innovation | #580 | 2.839 | 2.839 |
Ranked from 31 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?
The lighthouse represents a calmness before chaos ensues with monsters. The wave also happens during a storm!
Did you write all the code and made all the assets from scratch?
Yes
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Nice gameplay and art is cute. That was a fun play!
It plays nicely but it also has some balancing issues, the tower shooting in both directions is a tad useless for example. I feel like some towers shouldn't be able to get targeted by every enemy, some kind of type synergy would have been better (like flying enemies ignoring rocks and similar structures).
Some kind of progressive introduction of mechanics would be better to understand the game but that's not really in the scope of a jam.
Overall, pretty solid submission.
One of the devs here. Thanks for playing, we appreciate it! I completely agree about the flying enemy, it should ignore the blockade and the two direction tower would make more sense if we would have balanced the game better. Unfortunately we were running out of time so we had very limited time for balancing, with an extra day we could have made it a better experience !
It had been a while since I last played a game of this style, this was a neat surprise! The game itself was really fun, and there was a really good amount of enemy variety! I also like how the progress of the round is determined by whether its night or day.
In the last minute of the night I decided to try the insta-kill beacon and it did the end of the night really easy, to the point in which I felt that maybe it was a bit too overpowered, but that was just a tiny issue in my opinion, nothing too big.
Great game!
I'm one of the devs and thanks for the feedback! I completely agree about the insta-kill beacon. The tower itself is kinda tricky as that was the only insta-kill one, so, in my opinion, it didn't fit in that great and was hard to debuff, as it was very easy to make it either too OP or too weak to even consider using.
I cant believe that this was made in a week nice job one of my favs in the jam so far Nice Work!
Thank you! Everyone on the team worked hard, I'm glad you enjoyed it! :)
It's another tower defense game, this time heavily inspired by PVZ, but it is one well executed with the dark stormy setting, nice variety of towers and shadowy enemies, and constant dynamics due to the variety of game elements. Many towers hold a unique purpose, and each enemy type makes sure that these perks are valuable in some way. For example, the jumping shark enemy makes both the pink beacon that deals with flying enemies and double-barreled ship that deals with enemies behind far more applicable than most PVZ iterations make these archetypes out to be. It's a game that shows understanding of its inspiration and incorporates its own ideas to elevate itself and what came before. The only issues I have are that the towers not being effective against flying enemies don't really convey that with just projectiles passing through the enemies, and some towers are still difficult to make use out of, like the insta-kill beacon, lane cleaner boat, and the light beacon to an extent.
That's a lot of stuff 😅. We're very glad to hear that you like our game. About flying enemies, we wanted to do tutorial, but we don't have time for it. Thanks for feedback
Good game. Liked the insta-kill beacon the best. Didn't realize the ships couldn't kill flying creatures at first.
Wish the UI was in the game itself instead of at the start
Also you can farm infinitely on the first flying mob if you can't kill it. Happened to me because i didn't realize it was flying
Nice submission
Loved this! Felt super polished, all the art was great and huge attention given to the UI which really made if feel finished. Really well done!
Thank you so much! So glad you enjoyed the game! :)
Was able to win but was even a little challenging, very nice! Loved the visuals, audio, and the overall strategy aspect of the game and it's really well made. To improve on it, sometimes the unit doesn't get placed when I think it should be, there may be some minor responsiveness bugs. Other than that I think you did a really great job on this game!
Thank you very much. Also thanks for describing bugs. And finally, thank you for feedback)
Good graphics and sound design!
Thank you. I'll tell our sound designer and artists about its)
Wow this is one of my favorite games I have played this jam, I really enjoyed the gameplay! I think the amount of UI you had was also insane, I totally knew how to play and what I was doing. Great job!
We wanted to make gameplay simple and understandable. We're very happy, that our game is one of your favourite games. Thanks for feedback
Very cool variation of Plant vs zombies, I liked it :) I am not sure I ever saw the beam firing but otherwise was fun, well done !
We're happy, that you like it
Super fun, really enjoyed it. Good job!
Thank you very much). Thanks for feedback
Nice work. Great art. The little touches, animations, lightning flashes etc make a big difference.
I'm glad, thank you! The programmers were hoping for a cool effect with the lightning flashes. :)
Hey, nice game! Good graphics and sound, some nice game design. Gets easy after a while, only flying enemies still provide challenge. Well done overall. Good luck!
Thanks, I'm so glad that you enjoyed the music and sound design in this game!
I love me some plants vs zombies, so this was a great jam game. I really liked the way that you incorporated the jam theme into the gameplay, and thought that you made some really interesting design decisions. I liked the darkness aspect, and I liked the tower that gave you light so that you could see, pretty interesting dynamic. As for feedback, I think that the UI could have used a bit more polish given the time, and that some of the balancing of the towers was a bit off, but other than that, great game. Good job!
I'm one of the devs for the game, and thank you for the feedback. We really could have done more with the balancing of the game, but unfortunately we got to it only on the last day and didn't have time to make it better.
its addictive i had to stop due to it
We don't actually have time to make it doesn't addictive, but thanks for feedback
nicely done, game looks super good and gameplay feels very polished ≽^•⩊•^≼
That was our goal
Fun game!
Wonderful game! I love the PvZ style gameplay and the art was definitely a highlight! Well done on the submission, best of luck
We're glad to hear that you're like it