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A jam submission

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Hydraulic Engineering via Overwhelming Firepower
Submitted by Olanti — 34 minutes, 57 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Concept#14.6154.615
Enjoyment#34.3854.385
Overall#93.9423.942
Presentation#333.6923.692
Use of the Limitation#483.0773.077

Ranked from 13 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Team members
Olanti

Software used
Godot, Paint.NET, sfxr

Use of the limitation
You must protect the reactor from flooding by making incoming waves as small as possible

Cookies eaten
1 cinnamon bun

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Comments

Submitted

Really like this tower defence game. It is a genius idea to shoot the waves. Good job :D

Submitted

A fun spin on tower defence, it looks and sounds good and (once I took the time to check the hint) everything controlled smoothly and intuitively. I like that you can do a bit of real-time strategy by swapping things out mid round (no point wasting slots on pumps when there's no water in the station) which added a lot more depth. Great entry!

Submitted

I really liked it! Tower defense is one of my favourites and i liked the way it was done here. I did struggle a little at the beggining because i immedietly bought the most expensive thing avaliable [the mine generator] thinking it would be the best decision and the waves just destroyed my reactor. 

Submitted (1 edit)

This is really good, and feels like a complete game, outside of a mini jam. I really liked testing out all of the different towers, and seeing how they worked. Some did seem to be quite a bit better than others, and I think it was round 6 seems to have a massive bump in difficulty, so because of those things the only thing I would suggest is difficulty scaling, and balancing. Great job!

This game was amazing I would love to play a larger version of the game

Submitted

This really captured my attention once I got the hang of what I was doing. I managed to beat it :) Great job, very fun!

Submitted

Honestly didn't expect a "tower defense" game when seeing it in the discord, really nice concept. I found the pump to be a bit OP, but only played up to round 6. Nevertheless, the OST reminded me from Faster Than Light

Submitted(+1)

I really enjoyed this. Loved getting pummeled by the waves to a nice relaxing soundtrack lol

Submitted(+1)

I really enjoyed this. Loved getting pummeled by the waves to a nice relaxing soundtrack lol

Submitted

Loved this! All the different defence options felt really balanced (and I love the bank vault description). Thought I was doing great until round 6 destroyed me haha. Really well made!

Developer(+1)

Thanks! I didn't have enough time to balance it all, I believe (e.g. the aforementioned vaults let you snowball by round 5, and a full mortar stack just decimates everything), but I'm glad to hear it at least "feels" balanced.

Developer(+1)

So, the web build had tooltips broken in it - they would clip behind screen boundaries and turn completely useless. The issues was absent from native Windows builds, but still, for people's convenience I uploaded an update that fixes the issue. Original jam version can be found under downloads section.

Submitted

I loved this game so much, i was following along on discord but the finished game is so much better then i thought, didnt really get the limitation until i looked at the jam submition

Developer

Thank you for your kind words! Yeah, the limitation's probably not clear in this one, but I couldn't come up with anything else that would both fit the limitation and play nicely.

Игра прикольная. Простенькая, но если учитывать, что ее сделали за три дня, она очень хороша.

Developer

Спасибо!

Submitted

I really enjoyed this. It reminded me of Creeper World, which was one of my favorite games. It's so fun to watch all those different defense mechanisms in action.

Developer

Thanks for the feedback, glad you liked it!