Thank you so much for the in-depth feedback! I love it. Also, really fun watching you play the game on stream.
I do wish the plants had to be spaced out. Though, you and another play-testing friend both were excited about exploiting it as strategy :D
There is a little bit of vertical auto-aiming that lasers do to try and hit higher drones. Picture worth a thousand words?
It ended up working OK-ish, but you can still 'feel' like your laser should have hit. The making drones glow with a little outline would have been amazing... Where were you when I was trying to solve this problem haha.
All my friends had issues with the tutorial panels as well. This was the first game I tried to put the tutorial into the main game loop. Still have a lot to learn on how to pull that off well. Ended up sprinkling "if Global.tutorial" all over the code and it became quite goopy.
And, darn did you escape my game? I'll need to lock it down more next time :P
But really, a jam lesson for me is that both the title scene and pause menu should have a "Settings" menu. That way players can always find the full set of options.