Nice job! It would be nice if mech and turrets would target the closest enemy. For some reason, my mech kept shooting enemies further behind it and letting other enemies attack it.
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Overall | #36 | 3.323 | 3.323 |
| Fun Factor | #42 | 3.097 | 3.097 |
| Originality | #43 | 3.419 | 3.419 |
| Audio | #44 | 2.903 | 2.903 |
| Visuals | #67 | 2.968 | 2.968 |
Ranked from 31 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Video Game
Was your game made solo or in a team?
Team. Stated in Game Description.
Did you use any third party assets, if yes what assets did you use?
Unity Assets. Stated in Game Description.
Did you choose from one (or more) of the optional secondary themes?
Arena
Does your game contain 18+ content (Nudity, Gore, Language)?
Not 18+
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Thank you, glad you liked it. I could only make it to the 3rd wave in endless before getting overwhelmed. The numbers ramped up much more than I was expecting, hahaha. Just a note, you gotta hit "P" before the Final Wave ends, else it'll load the Game Win screen. There will be a monster noise when you hit "P" and it can be toggled off if you hit it multiple times.
I appreciate the kind words. Glad you enjoyed the game and the Mech.
What screen resolution did you use? I'll have to look into screen resizing. My canvases are supposed to fit the screen but I know I was having a tough time getting the Start and End Screens to fit properly towards the end.
I do feel the bugs are a little far but not too too far, I can bring the player base a bit closer but I do like the player watching the bugs come at them from the distance.
Haha, the walls were rushed. I was setting them up at the final days and had a tough time finding something I really liked... so they are very scaled up rocks. And I didn't limit the player camera either.
Guess I didn't explain how to get into Endless Mode properly. You have to click the button before the game ends, then instead of ending, it'll continue waves. T'was another last minute add and scales wayyyyyyyy too fast.
For screen resolution, I'm on 1920x1080. Attached below is what it looks like in full screen (scaled down to 0.25 to not be so large an image). I noticed when I start a fresh game in full screen, it looks good. But at some point after I start, it changed to this. Is this some sort of dynamic resizing code you have?
Good point on watching the bugs. If the wait time during buy phase is skippable, they probably don't have to be pushed in as much.
I'll have to look into how to test for different resolutions. The Canvas which holds all the UI is fitted to the player camera. So if the resolution changes, it changes and the pieces inside that Canvas shift as well. I was having problems the last day getting the scaling done right and it was acting weird. Even in my browser, it cuts off the top and bottom little section of the UI picture but all the gameplay elements are fine. Thanks for the attached screenshot.
Adding a skip button should be pretty easy, I'll jot that down.
51 days ago(+1)
Thank you, glad you enjoyed the game.
Damn, I didn't even think about if players would wonder where the enemies would come from. I do plan to have a forcefield/barrier that's acting up where the bugs are spawning from.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed the game. I would like to add an enemy that specifically targets walls and change up the economy. I'm not sure why but when the enemies spawn, their sound is too close to the player but when the camera moves, it goes back to normal. Sounds are mostly controlled by a spatial bar but this was the first time I used it. I'll have to look into that more.
Did you have any specific sound that was off to you?
Thank you, glad you enjoyed the game.
I have plans for tweaking numbers and polishing a number of things and adding even more.
The dinner message tries to convey a sense of normalcy for this incident to the player and that it has happened often and it's just another day for the townsfolk. While the size of the wave isn't common, the bugs have always been a nuisance.
52 days ago(+1)
Thank you, glad you enjoyed the game. PallasPalace did a great job with the music.
I wanted to add affects for when the enemies spawn so there would be a forcefield that would crack at those locations but I didn't have the time. And I do have a list that's growing from the comments of tweaks and things to do to improve the game :D
Glad you liked the game. Def needs tweaking. I thought about lanes but don't want to restrict the enemy movement too much, so it's a difficult decision. Lanes typically also mean multiple targets too. But how do you make a farm look "normal" with big ol' walls for lanes? I'd like to increase the player wall width, so they have more options to create their own. Might let players build X amount of walls from the start and not purchase additional ones. Then the player can create their own Maze/Funnel System. I wanted the player to feel more starved for resources but I originally had resource generation lower and the game was too hard. So changing enemy speeds, enemy health, bullet damage, Rate of Fire was all lot to tweak and I was trying to do a lot of that the last 2 days. I don't want this to be a Traditional TD game but need more time to fully flesh out the design :D
54 days ago(+1)
Thank you, glad you enjoyed the game.
I wanted the player to be able to see the enemies on the horizon as they approached but also not be top-down. I can improve upon the camera and add the ability to go from a over the shoulder to a top down so that players can choose what they want.
I have a lot of ideas for the game, like extra turrets, more playable classes with different weapons, skills for the player to use, upgrades, etc.
Glad you enjoyed the game and thank you for your comment.
I only had a short time to add in the story towards the end of the Jam, so I know it's not the best. I focused heavily on the gameplay and mechanics. It was my first for a lot of these mechanics (placing buildings, adding story, working with NavMesh). I learned a ton and have a list of more things I want to study so my next project is even better.
My original vision for the game was to have it be more scary for the player. So I wanted them to have low resources and not a lot of time to get ready and low visibility (but the camera fog looked terrible and I didn't have time to learn volumetric fog).
Thanks for the feedback and I'm glad you enjoyed the game. I do agree with your comments.
The walls were created really early and I didn't know how else to really change them. A lot of small changes could help and really change the experience. Like adding to the economy or getting some resources from enemies, so you could place more buildings down. A slow zone would be pretty nice, I'll keep that in mind. I do wish to improve upon this but I think I'd start a new project for that instead of modding this one. I had a vision for this project and didn't want to change it too much and get lost in a random direction and not complete the game.
Yeah, I need to study into making a better target acquisition method. Right now, there is a large collider around it and an OnCollisionStay but this is pulled for every Enemy within the collider and can mess it up. I have a button to try to null out the enemy that it's targeting but I wasn't able to get it to work right. Sometimes it would retarget and other times it would retarget the same enemy. I'm not sure what code would cost the cheapest, if creating an array of enemies within the collider and then measuring distance to each and going off that would be too costly or not.
Thank you, glad you liked the game and the music. PallasPalace did a great job with the music.
It's not you, the economy isn't perfect and could be tweaked. The player generates 2 power a turn, so you can't get a turret until round 3. I didn't want to give the players tooooo many turrets but didn't know exactly how much to change the income vs the cost of buildings. And I let it slide because I had to work on everything else.
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