Wow, what a really incredibly game. Sometimes I look at jam entries and I feel like they more so "can be classified as games", but aren't necessarily fun or repeatable; this one is definitely not in that category. Very entertaining gameplay that can definitely get very addictive. You need some time to take everything in, and I think this game would benefit a ton from introducing the various mechanics gradually rather than all at once, should you decide to keep working on this further (which I think you should). I didn't really get a good grasp of the modes and I sure as hell wasn't good at deploying the troops well and managing the resources properly (at one point I ended up with -99 energy. No idea how that happened, but I knew I was doomed from there). My only point of criticism was that it's not easy to tell that the small yellow things are enemies that need to be destroyed unless you're told directly. Other than that, greatly presented, polished, surprisingly deep original gameplay that fits the theme well. Amazing work.
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Yeah. The tutorial came last on the docket once I had the mechanics in, so I ended up doing a no-no with tutorials, and hit the player with a bunch of info at once due to time. I'm currently working on it further, and am gonna tackle that stuff in smaller bites though!
The -99 energy was a bug caused by the KING. If you used a normal attack with it, it would take away from your energy and not the attack GRIT, which meant that attacking with it a lot meant you went into the negatives, which meant you couldn't deploy since they all needed energy to deploy. lol
I'll have the tutorial say they're the enemies. It shows them in the tut, but I don't think it directly says the dots are the monsters.
Thanks a ton for playing, and thanks for the feedback! :D