Thanks. My friend and I went through so many ideas but most either sounded unfun or too easy. I think I picked a fun one but, as you correctly guessed, it was a bit too much to finish in 48 hrs. Still learned a lot though.
I'm glad you like my idea. Agreed the controls could have been done better. I was trying to fix an issue where the mouse wasn't working and I think it impacted my keybinding choices a little too much.
Was looking for something like this, very good execution and matches the theme well. The only gripe I had was that the UI in the top left was a little big, and it was hard putting monsters there. Great work.
Very well designed game. The controls felt very smooth and intuitive, I hit what I intended to hit, and I think the game was a fair challenge. Music also matched the vibe, although even at full volume I had to turn my speakers up. I think some of the enemies were a little easier than others (ie the spread enemies) as long as you dashed into their fire at the right time, you could get all of their shots in one dash. Aside from that I felt the game was balanced, with level 10+ being a good challenge.
Thanks for taking the time to give this detailed criticism. The camera did not work nearly as well as I'd hoped, although I did intend for it to be down "on the field" to match the role reversal vibe rather than overhead, which probably would have been most comfortable. And yes the controls were made early in the build and I was focused on fixing other things. I should have just had all creeps follow you, or do a point and click system. Also most of the UI elements I put in either didn't show up for everyone or didn't work during testing so I scrapped them, so I understand that frustration.
As for the difficulty, I wish I had set aside some time for a tutorial, as that would have conveyed some of the intended strategies I had in mind, but I ran out of time.
This jam helped me understand quite a bit about game design. However, I definitely over-scoped. Will keep these lessons in mind for next year.
Fun and unique concept. I think the guns should have been a little cheaper (I didn't get the first one til level 5 or so) and would have been nice to buy some upgraded barriers as well.
This fits very well with the theme. I love the art and how tired the referee looks after doing this for thousands of years... I don't have the best reactions though so I lost fairly quickly.
Yeah I messed up the aspect ratio on the UI pretty bad. Unless you were in full screen you could not see your score. I need to lookup how to do UIs that work on different sized screens.
Thanks! I wanted to use the third person camera to convey the role reversal and have your general in the trenches, since the ones controlling the towers would have the bird's eye view. But after having so much trouble with the camera, I agree it would have been the better call to have the bird's eye view.
I wanted to use mouse camera as well but I had a hard time doing both controller/keyboard so I just went with controller. Numpad would have definitely been the best way for something like this had I gotten mouse camera to work.
I think after testing it Sunday morning I came up with the same conclusion (controlling them all was best), but I already had so much tied to to the class controls that it was too hard to change. I'll make it less complicated next year for sure.
Was fun but I kept getting sticky key notifications. Would be better if shift was on another key. Reminds me of the SNES Zelda game dark world mechanic.
