Glad you liked the look/feel of the growing! The first version had a more consistent pattern, but ended up feeling a bit boring. I prefer this version, where other parts will shrink depending on where you place the pods.

Thanks! There's definitely something satisfying about filling up the map. If I come back to rework this game, I think I'll try adding pods with different growing patterns, like twisting lines, or forking branches.

Thanks! I think it definitely has room for improvement though. Once I have time again, I'm going to build this up a little more so there's more to do, maybe like an RTS / tower defense mix.

Thanks for the feedback! Yeah, I blew a lot of time tuning the growth mechanic and a lot of quality of life stuff got skipped just so I could finish and submit. I might come back and do this up properly.

Yes, unfortunately the map is not well optimized, as it uses a breadth-first search and too many loops to calculate the growth. A better algorithm would go a long way to improving it. Oh well, next iteration I guess!

Thanks! I wanted to add more defense options that manipulated the behavior of the bugs, but I didn't have enough time, sadly.

Thanks! It uses old code from a different project, unfortunately I discovered that it runs very slowly when the grid size starts getting big. Spent too much time trying to fix it, ended up skipping a lot of features I wanted to add, lol.

Thanks! I wanted to add more defensive effects, like making bugs attack each other, but didn't have enough time. There's definitely a lot that can be added to flesh out the gameplay. Maybe I'll come back to this project later.