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Bouncy Laser Tower Defense - GMTK Game Jam 2021's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Originality | #484 | 3.839 | 3.839 |
| Fun | #1319 | 3.161 | 3.161 |
| Overall | #1333 | 3.286 | 3.286 |
| Presentation | #2322 | 2.857 | 2.857 |
Ranked from 56 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?
Your can transfer energy between your towers, making them something like a connected pipe system.
Did your team create the vast majority of the art during the 48 hours?
Yes
We created the vast majority of the art during the game jam
Did your team create the vast majority of the music during the 48 hours?
No
We used pre-existing audio
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I like this. I generally dislike most tower defense games, but this provides a good puzzle. The player is a little too powerful, which ends up allowing them to ignore the main mechanic, but when the player doesn't, it is a clever game. I liked coming up with a few setups that allowed me to guard different hallways by changing the direction of one turret. Overall, I really liked this twist on a classic genre, and it could definitely be a great game with some tweaks.
Thanks for the feedback, glad you liked it! :)
I did not have time to balance it, so you kind of have to be intentionally blind to the obvious solution to play it, but it kind of works if you do that.
One of core ideas was that you can activate different hallway defenses with rotating one turret, making it a management problem, am glad that it worked out.
Great work!
I'm not much into tower defence games but I think a good tower defence game is a _puzzle_ game, rather than a grind fest. The ones I try usually are mostly automated towers and you end up having to just collect the coins as the player, and only have agency in spending them and putting a new tower somewhere clever (and if you choose wrong well sucks to be you!)
Here I really felt like I was solving a puzzle LIVE, and the idea of having a base with a "main beam" and using that to create a laser path, meaning I could power only parts of my "infrastructure" at once, is awesome! I truly had to solve issues on the fly and manage where to send power. It was genuinely fun and I think this could actually work as a game!
Congrats to you!
Thank you! :)
I wanted to try out a tower def for this jam (which is something new for me), and the theme really helped me coming up with something new. :d
It has some balance issues, but I think I could make something fun out of this given the time. :)
Really cool! I liked that you can charge the towers.
Thank you! :)
This is a really cool idea. I have never seen a tower defence game like this. Good job.
Thank you!
I might try to make a game out of this. :d
I think you already did. Just a few more level layouts and tower / enemy types and I'd say its a full game.