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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #738 | 3.886 | 3.886 |
| Overall | #1056 | 3.648 | 3.648 |
| Style | #1274 | 3.743 | 3.743 |
| Enjoyment | #1580 | 3.314 | 3.314 |
Ranked from 35 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 control the MTSKA unit, a nanite swarm robot that can divide into smaller robots, or merge smaller units into a larger one.
Development Time
96 hours
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Excellent use of the theme with a genre I haven't seen much of in the jam! This is simple, but it's a solid submission. It could benefit from some additional audio/visual feedback and juice, but I'm sure that's just a result of our short time in the jam. Great job!
Such a cool game! I don't know if I was supposed to fail after battling the 8, 8, 8, monster, but I did and it did feel like a satisfying ending to a "battling against all odds" kind of game. The strategy behind moving, merging and dividing is super well thought through and I feel like there are lots of was to play the game. It had a bunch of "oh yeah I am so smart- wait no!"-Moments. Definetly one of my favourites so far!
This is pretty interesting. Really like the idea of dividing and merging, though I was lost at first. Cool!
Very interesting game with unique mechanics. It has a lot of potential for strategic depth and the graphics are good enough, except I would maybe change the default buttons to fit the sci-fi theme a bit better. I had to restart though, in the tutorial one of my units dissapeared and i got softlocked :/
Except for the one bug, really good work!
What an amazing design for a turn-based combat system. I love this !
Unique idea, and well implemented... well done!
Great game. I may have lost two hours trying to beat it before finally wining with a single city left lol
This was challenging. A lot of fun though. Nice job!
The color Palette 🎨 and characters you chosed for the game were mind-blowing. I have always had a great love for war and strategy games
Keep up the good work.
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You really nailed a vibe here. The sprites, palette, sound effects, and voice acting play really well together. I was a bit confused at first during the recovery turns why I couldn't click anything other than end turn, so some user feedback on click may have been helpful to make it clear it's not a bug. Otherwise, though, I thought the first few turns were really well tutorialized to explain the merge/divide mechanic, and the UI in general was easy to use and understand. Also, the ending (or at least the one I got) was so on brand for you. Commander's cameo was 10/10, XD. Nice work!
Thanks! There's a few places where I was missing some obvious feedback for actions that don't do anything, unfortunately.
Also, yeah, I was really chuffed with the little moments with the commander, haha
i think it would be good to have the end turn automatic if possible. great job on the entry!
I thought of doing that (or at least having the end turn button ping or something), but I didn't have any way of telling whether someone is done dividing and want to move on. And I thought it was important for strategy reasons that you be able to divide after moving.
Anyway, thanks for playing!
A very interesting take on the theme. Reminds me of Pacific Rim a little (Sorry that I'm not super familiar with mech movies hehe)
Yeah, there's definitely a bit of Pacific Rim in there! Thanks for giving it a try!
Really cool game with a lot of movie and game references.
Really loved this entry! Rich, engaging, and polished. Dig the retro feel of the game. The style reminded me a bit of old-school games. Mech Commander's UI came to mind. The voice acting is also a great addition that really adds a cool edge to the game.
Took me a while to spot the End Turn button. Might look at placing it somewhere else or designing it to be more visible. Also, had a bit of trouble figuring out the 'Merge' mechanic. Still couldn't manage to merge after a few tries.
All in all, a great experience and would dig to see it evolve further. Great work!
I liked the game! Though I ran into an issue where I couldn't merge and I couldn't figure out why. Good job!
Hm. One other person has also reported that bug (assuming this is after merge is unlocked, in the third wave of enemies -- i.e. the ogre class). Did ending your turn solve that? Usually when things got weird, I could solve it with a turn end, but I think the other person said that didn't work.
Anyway, thanks for playing and letting me know!
No, after I ended my turn I was still running into the same issue. Best of luck with the jam!
It felt a bit overwhelming at first, to much information and ui popping. But at the end was pretty enhoyable ;)
Very nice submission. I like the implementation of theme, and it takes some strategizing. Feels smooth too. Well done :)
It took me some time to fully understand the mechanics, but in the end I find it really clever and enjoyable.
Good job!
I like the divide mechanic it's clever
Tried about 4 times, got to wave 6 I think, good gameplay. My strategy became splitting and merging to rebalance my stats for the current wave, only defending one or two cities. I like this interpretation of the theme, and style of game. Only issue I found — one time I died I had a unit get stuck with permanently 0 AP, could not move or divide.
Whoops, sorry about that bug. Don't know what happened there.
As for your strategy, yeah, I think because I didn't have time to put in some kind of grading for how many cities you lost, a viable method is to just have one massive unit defending a single city and just leaving the rest to be destroyed, which is not ideal.
Anyway, thanks for playing, and I'm glad you liked the gameplay!