this is a really nice spin on the tower defense genre! i like the added work you have to do just to place turrets. the graphics and sound are great and definitely have a gameboy feel. it would be nice to have some music, but it’s understandable that you didn’t get to that in a game jam. nice job with the tutorial. placing seeds and aiming to hit ants was a bit difficult because the tiles don’t quite align with the player always. i found the tool selection to be a little weird. i think it would have made more sense to me to just cycle through the tools, but your method is probably faster once you get used to it. it also seemed pretty difficult to fend off all of the beetles in the first wave. i got destroyed! i will try to play again soon. overall pretty nicely done!
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Thanks for playing! Yeah, the tool wheel is definitely clunky. I think having to select the tools at all probably isn't even needed, you could probably consolidate all the player actions into contextual actions (press and hold A to dig, tap A next to a plant to water it, etc). Then just have the menu to select seeds. I'm not sure the best way to fix the issue of placing seeds though. Maybe have it lock onto the nearest tilled tile when you have seeds out?
The difficulty is a bit all over the place too lol. It was way too easy for a while, then I fiddled with the numbers a bunch before submission. I think the spot I landed in starts off too hard and has spikes in difficulty that are a too big between waves.