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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Enjoyment | #1005 | 3.542 | 3.542 |
| Creativity | #1312 | 3.663 | 3.663 |
| Overall | #1593 | 3.458 | 3.458 |
| Style | #2705 | 3.169 | 3.169 |
Ranked from 83 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?
You build increasly large tower to defend yourself
Development Time
96 hours
(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
Background Music: Chiptune Grooving (Free licence by Pixabay)
Graphics: My Own
Game Engine: My Own
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Pretty fun and well implemented stacking mechanic, I like the numbers which help you understand what level each stack is on. I do think some strategies can make it quite easy, for example you can just sort of spam pieces all over the place and you don't lose, so maybe as a post-jam update you could mitigate these strategies. Overall though, a fun entry :)
Thank you for the feedback ! It definitly need more playtest and tweak the difficulty curve ! I will look for it and try to upgrade it after the jam !
Glad that you had fun :)
I had a lot of fun with this game ! Never though of doing a tower defense like this, it work very well nice job!
Thank you for playing my game ! Glad that you had fun with it :)
Carefully building the first minutes... then absolute chaos!! ;) Nice twist on the tower defense genre, thank you, this was great fun! :)
Thank you ! Glad you had a great fun playing the game ! :D
Really fun game! I played until 7:30, but it was really fun for those 7.5 minutes! Great work for 96 hours!
Thank you, I am happy that you still managed to have fun !
Great game. I like this type of variation of tower defence.
Thank you !
Great game concept I really enjoyed playing :D the music was catchy and dropping in the towers and defending the king was highly addictive. The game for me felt very easy, at no point did I feel like I was in danger of losing which is great for relaxation but undesirable if you were aiming to make it a challenge, either way I had fun :) Amazing work using your own engine, I can't even comprehend the complexity of that :) Great job!
Thank you ! Glad that you enjoy it ! Make the difficulty curve for a game jam seems soooo hard ... Half of the people said that it was too easy and half of the other don't get past the 7-8min power creep xD It would really help to have varying difficulties for the challenges !
At least I am glad that you had fun ! Cheers :)
First of all, insane and awesome that you made a custom engine for this. The concept of vertically scaling in a tower defense is really interesting. Enjoyed playing this!
Thank you ! Glad that you enjoyed it :)
Good game and quite addictive ! I love the idea ! It's just a little bit frustrating to barely see at what level each element is at a glance.
Thanks ! It is one of the main weakness of the game ! I will try to polish it :)
It's an amazing idea for the Tetris gameplay and also fits the theme well, love it!!!
Thank you ! Glad you loved it :)
I really like the blocky style. A song would go a long way on the difficulty ramping though (I saw on your credits that you had music, but I had just the shooting sounds when I played).
The tutorial was a bit confusing regarding the "shop auto refresh", I assumed the shop was the lower part of the screen. Alsom, "Everything cost 2G" could be on the same line, to be clearer.
The firerate and the range blocks are a bit complicated for some color blind people to differ, just a heads up.
I really wish I could rotate blocks.
There could be a very rare "1 tile" block, that could be an easy mode haha.
I didn't understand exactly what counts as a tower, each tile is considered a tower? So a 4-sized block creates 4 towers?
Overall really cool tetris/tower defense mash. I managed to last 4 minutes only.
Thank you for your deep review ! Yes there is a background music but on some browser it may not play I didn't know I only tested the webbuild on chrome ( and some already told me about some issues on Firefox ).
I think that I will overhaul the entire premise of the tutorial to better showcase the tower stacking mechanics and yes the shop is the thing in the lower part of the screen !
I plan to release a color blind mode or at least some symbols to better showcase the differents types of tower !
The non rotation of the block is what makes it more challenging ;) ( Not that I didn't have the time to implement it, no no no... XD)
Yes each tile is a tower so a 4 block tile put 4 towers at once ! The damage ramp up comes from actually stacking them not how easy there are to put !
Hope you still managed to have a great time ! Thank you for taking the time to play the game and put a long review !
The Tetris placement is satisfying. Though by the end a good strategy was just mashing them on the outside near the enemies. Had a bit of an issue with the WebGL window scaling though.
Glad that you found it satisfying ! Yes the game was not made to be rescalable as I didn't had time to polish all the camera work at the end :/ And someone told me of a similar issue on Firefox ! Will patch it in next releases !
Hope that you still had fun ! :)
Very cool idea! I haven't seen anything like it before. It was real fun and I made it up to over 9 minutes. So close... Congrats!
So close ! Thank you for taking the time to play the game :)
Glad that you had fun !
Such a cool and creative idea. Respect and bonus points for custom engine. Congrats!
Thank you !
This was amazing! It was very fun with a unique concept, and it's super impressive that you made it in your own custom engine!
Thank you for taking the time to play the game ! Glad that you find it fun :)
Hi! Awesome job! The game is really fun! :)
Thank you ! Glad that you find it fun :)
Great idea and music!
Thank you !
Well made and engaging game. It's very interesting to explore different possible strategies. And the 10-minute win threshold is well chosen, I just barely managed to win. The challenge makes it fun.
Thank you for taking the time to play the game ! I didn' t want the game to feel to stretch and made the difficulty curve enough to not be able to survive too much longer after the 12 !
Well played for the win !
Wow, someone also made a custom engine! That's so cool! Can you maybe share what you used for the engine, like the programming language or the libraries? I would love to hear that
Thank you ! Yes i working on some devlog about the engine rn, I will post it once it's done ! But for now i am using C++ with SDL2 for the inputs and Emscripten for the webbuild ! Except for that everything else is mainly homemade, ranging from the UI, the Renderer to the Physics !
Cool concept!
At first I didn't get that you could stack blocks to build the towers and try to fill the field...But then it got easier :) I didn't pay really much attention to the type of blocks and just tried to create the highest possible towers. In the end, when it got pretty intense, I just placed the blocks everywhere to slow down the enemies, though I am not sure it worked, but I still managed to win :D
I would probably prefer to have shorter rounds but faster pace — I think it is pretty chill in the beginning for a long time. But it was fun!
Thank you ! That was one of the intended way of win ! :) I may need to make the round last only 7min or change the difficulty curve with some added miniboss in between ! I will test different things and see what feel the best !
Glad that you had fun ! And wp for the win !
Great concept! had alot of fun trying different strategies. really cool that you made your own engine. could use some balancing to be a bit more challenging. i ended up just stacking all the blocks by type and not even thinking about the enemies.
Thank you for taking the time to play the game ! I was thinking to add some terrain hazard or enemies with long rang attacks to destoy some random tiles on the map so this strat was not viable :)
Still glad that you had a lot of fun !