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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #94 | 3.978 | 3.978 |
| WOWIE! | #124 | 3.600 | 3.600 |
| On Topic | #125 | 3.933 | 3.933 |
| Simplicity | #166 | 4.044 | 4.044 |
| Fun | #171 | 3.533 | 3.533 |
| Sound | #354 | 2.978 | 2.978 |
| Visuals | #358 | 3.267 | 3.267 |
Ranked from 45 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Music Source
The music was made by ourselves.
Credits
You should credit Arkeon, Waterfallmean and Jei!
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Comments
Always a fan of tower defense, even if the concept is flipped around a little :)
The chess theming was fun, the end of wave 9 gave me a chuckle!
Turns out that playing a tower defense from the perspective of the towers is way more fun than you would expect it to be, The little intersections of death the ai would eventually create for me felt like Christmas.
Thank’s!
Interesting take on tower defence, with the AI choosing the space and the player shooting - the opposite of most! Well done :D
what a game!
nice and fun, great concept, just the sounds were bit annoying over time
with a bit polish in sounds, controls and ui, this will make a banger game
but its already quite addictive
like i was an celeb or smth lel :3
Cool concept and all it really needs is polishing :D
Actually didn't notice I played this for so long : )
Yeah, this is a fun game, well done!
The only critic is that maybe make it so you can hold the mouse button instead of clicking.
And make the upgrade buttons in a separate place where you don't click on them by mistake.
Other than that, awesome stuff!
Just needs some polishing, more adjustments and more variety to the game. Still it's a great solid game!
Such amazing visuals and atmosphere, I love that you went for a chess board. I wish you could lock towers in place like in Bloons. Overall it was fun though!
Thanks!
Impressive! Need some QoL improvements, but for a jam game it's good. It was always quite exciting to see where my "AI" companion would place the next piece.
Thank you for your feedback Taxtengo!
Cool game but:
-The music isnt too good
-The upgrades are too expensive + most towers get placed already upgraded anyway
Incredible game! I really appreciated playing it and I really like the fit to the theme of the game jam. A solid 4.9999/5!
Nice concept, although I seem to not be able to upgrade any of the units, and removing them costs me money? Also an indication of the enemies health been a nice addition!
I'm a bit of a sucker for board-game aesthetics, so that's what drew me in. However the sound effects were rough, and the music was like alarm clock anxiety. Gameplay loop is good.
I really really love the game idea on this one. Expanded into well polished commercial game, I would absolutely buy this.
That said theres a lot to improve on the interface side of the game. Sometimes pawns being placed too close to each other and hard to read how much upgrades cost, or even accidentially selling pawns if the buttons were overlapping. And besides that, theres quite a bit of lack of polish that could make this stand out alot.
Other than that, I love the concept so much! ^^
Easy 4/5 for me
Loved the game, just wished there could be a full auto mode to spare my fingers.
Awesome game! I really like how if you clicked in between two towers then they would both shoot. It was very difficult though, as I only got to wave 3. If this game was polished up a bit more I would love to play a full release version!
Nice game, I really liked the gameplay (although yes, hold to fire would be much nicer). I think AI could be incorporated a bit more into the game instead of it being a random tower placed. My idea was that perhaps you could make a tower controlled by the ai for a short time, so it does more damage maybe and fires on its own. But overall, very simple and fun game.
I'd appreciate it if you tried my game if you have time: https://itch.io/jam/wowie-jam-4/rate/1663155
Clever. I loved how you merge chess with a tower defense, the only complain is now my finger is tired bc so much shooting.
Feel free to check out my game