I loved the core mechanic of resource allocation. Being able to scale down added loads of strategy.
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Escalation Protocol!'s itch.io pageResults
Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Style | #1053 | 3.853 | 3.853 |
Overall | #1381 | 3.529 | 3.529 |
Enjoyment | #1545 | 3.324 | 3.324 |
Creativity | #2065 | 3.412 | 3.412 |
Ranked from 34 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?
This theme is expressed through the core mechanic of scaling your buildings (which you build) in size, which also scales their damage and gun fire speed. Scale is a big part of the whole game experience, with enemy numbers scaling as well as enemy size and toughness along with the player's scaling satisfaction. :D
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Lovely game! ♥ I like this cozy and relaxing vibe, game looks very sleepy and dreamy! It's a simple mechanic, but it helps you focus on the overall effect. The artstyle, music and SFX are perfectly matched. Good job! ♥
(Whoever is responsible for the CEO's design, there was no need to make him so handsome.)
Tasteful aesthetic and music, and flexibly scaling and un-scaling the power of your towers was an interesting idea for a tower defense game! Though there were some points where I would've killed for a fast forward button!
Loved the color palette and the music, very soothing despite being a stressful game. I liked the contrast. I'd appreciate a way to know how I'm making money, a sign or maybe a sound. So I know when I could buy the weapons. Love this kind of game, great concept!
Thank you so much! We are working on a more polished build that will hopefully more heavily cement that style and palette! I am also working on some of songs that I didn't have the time to get ready for post production, so hopefully after than build gets pushed the soundscape as a whole will be polished!
I liked that you could scale up AND down very quickly! It really made it interesting.
Sadly, the AI car got stuck at some point, and I couldn't do anything.
I love tower defense games and this one is really creative, I had so much fun!
I couldn't seem to get any money to build anything more than my first tower (nor see how much money I had), but the game looks very nice and I like the scaling mechanic.
Thank you for playing! Yeah, you spend all your Scale (bar in the upper-left corner) to put down the first building, but once you start exploding cars you get more! I hope you give it another go if you have time, it gets really good when you have a lot of structures down! :D We are going to work on rebalancing the early game to get it going faster once the review session ends, as well, so keep an eye on us!
i like the art and colors alongside being able to scale my towers and such :D
So I recall my """cars""", and actual tanks are moving towards my headquarter. I wasn't exactly acting in the best interest of my community, eh?
Anyways, the game was a cool twist on the tower defense mechanics, although I did find it a bit hard at first.
Hey, every megacorporation loves a good financially-lucrative military contract! Some of those self-driving vehicles just happened to have come from a closeby military base. xD
Thanks so much for playing our game, we appreciate it! We'll look at balancing the early-game a bit more after the jam. ^_^
Had a lot of fun playing. Game seems really complete and decently well rounded. Would be nice if the UI style worked more in tandem with the awesome 3D modeled style and colour scheme. But otherwise the game also looks very pretty.
I encountered some bugs which made my towers shoot cars that already were at hp 0 and only died once they left the tower range.
I didn't understand that you can rotate towers with scroll wheel while you build them which made me missplace my first cannon tower. Add that to your itch page description, you can still do that :)
Ran very smoothly in webgl which is nice!
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