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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Fun | #38 | 3.765 | 3.765 |
| Innovation | #90 | 3.471 | 3.471 |
| Game Design | #99 | 3.588 | 3.588 |
| Graphics | #134 | 3.647 | 3.647 |
| Overall | #144 | 3.304 | 3.304 |
| Audio | #218 | 3.118 | 3.118 |
| Theme | #467 | 2.235 | 2.235 |
Ranked from 17 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
It is a procedurally generated tower defense game. Once you reach the end of the waves of enemies, you begin a new wave of enemies on a brand new procedurally generated island. The islands get harder and harder as you progress to defend.
Btw:
WASD - Move
Left Click - Attack (Click or Hold)
E - Toggle Repair Mode
Q - Cannon Toggle Cannon Placement Mode
ESC - Pause Game
Did you write all the code and made all the assets from scratch?
No, I wish though!
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Very nice and fun game! I'm impressed that it's procedurally generated, I really like when people put that in jam games, because it's more complex than just making some levels. The artstyle and music also fits really good. I think you could maybe add some in-game controls info, because I had to take a while to figure out how to use them.
Our games are kinda similar, I also have a stage where you fight off sharks with a spear and I also have a similar low poly graphics, but I think you did a better job :D
haha thats awesome ill definitely check out your game too, what a coincidence and ya I think an in game tutorial would be really nice for a game like this, it seems like a lot of people ran into the same issue as you where they didnt know how to place cannons or repair tiles so I will definitely add that in the next update, I'll be posting a devlog when it comes out so if you wanna try again that would be great!
A bit challenging, but not too bad. I found more success just running around with the spear than placing the cannons. You did somehow make my least favorite part of Raft into a fun defense game though haha. Great job overall!
lol thanks ya, Im not too good at balancing my game mechanics… didnt give myself enough time to play test. And ya I have an update that ill post as soon as uploads are unlocked that solves a lot of these issues! Thanks for playing!
I'll keep an eye out for that.
Cannons are kinda underpowered, they should at least be equal in power to one shark but they can't even defend themselves
It's a beautiful game, the graphics are great and the sound is atmospheric. Sometimes the game feels a bit too hard because you can't defend yourself when enemies are coming from everywhere. Somehow the game set me back to level 1 when I was at level 11.
But very amazing that they managed to generate procedurally, very awesome. A little tweak and it becomes a very great game :)
thanks so much for checking out the game and playing as long as you did! thats weird that happened. Not sure if you saw but you can place cannons down to defend the parts of the island that you cant get to, but ya I have done some balancing since the end of the game jam and am waiting to upload. It will also be a WebGL version so you wont have to redownload!
Nice game . audio and graphics are the highlight.
Would be nice you cud check out my game it needs reviews
thanks for checking out the game! ya I'll check it out!
Really cool game! The audio and graphics are really nice, the procedurally generated islands work really well and its fun! Good job!
The graphics are really simple but awesome. The sound design is also really nice. This is a super cool concept and is executed really well. The visuals and mechanics for the sharks eating blocks of the islands are really well done. My only problem with the game is that it's a bit too easy. I was able to survive without any cannons or anything on level 12 just by poking sharks before they could eat the last bit of land. But it's much better to be too easy than too hard :)
Overall, an excellent game!
thanks so much for your comment! Love when I get detailed critiques like this. And ya I have an update coming out as soon as uploading is unlocked again which will add the following:
Hopefully this will encourage the player to not let the sharks get too strong otherwise they will consume the island very fast!
I like islands and i like sharks :)
Fun game! 👍
thank you! i am about to release an update so the game scales better and hopefully get it working with webgl
Very nice. Impressive job in a week and a very polished game. I played until LVL 13 and realized this is propably gonna go on forever and I already have a winning strategy :D
Good job!
haha so glad you liked it and played for that long and ya for now its a high score based game so you were right in thinking that, your game looks interesting too will have to check it out
fun game, i thought that it actually got easier and easier since the islands were getting bigger. game worked well and it was enjoyable good job.
thanks for playing! ya I noticed that pretty late into development lol I need to scale it better
Super fun, The game mechanics worked really well!
im glad you played it! and glad it worked haha will def check out your games!
Oh my god you have prolly the most original game I've played. It's so challenging and stressfull. You have to win best innovation or best game design sorry
that means a lot! thank you for playing, I realized that you and few others played the game before I added the instructions to the description lol you can use your gold to repair island tiles and also place cannons/turrets to shoot the sharks
Oooooh that's why it was that hard. But yeah really good game.
It's a nice little cute game, I like the simplistic design that the sharks come from all angles but your all alone with a spear. It would be cool if you kept going, and adding upgrades! Good job
thanks for checkin it out! ya I am hoping to get the motivation to update and add more features and comments like this help with the motivation haha will check out your game too!
cool game :D I like the looks of it and the concept is really cool
thanks for playing!