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A jam submission

Cell DefenseView game page

Defend your Stem Cells in this incremental tower defense game.
Submitted by Lodesa — 13 hours, 30 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Fun#943.6823.682
Theme#994.0914.091
Mechanics#1003.5453.545
Overall#2113.5233.523
Aesthetics#3023.4553.455
Story#3082.3642.364
Music#6801.5911.591
Sound#6861.5451.545

Ranked from 44 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How many people worked on this game in total?
1

Did you use any existing assets? If so, list them below.
Oxanium Font (google fonts), Rubik Microbe Font (google fonts), EasySave 3

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Submitted

An engaging twist on the tower defense genre. Very well executed. I really like the concept of combining currency and health into a single mechanic. The game offers plenty of upgrade options and progression. A solid, strong title – congratulations!

Submitted

Great project! I made it to wave 11 and got eaten by the boss in the end ^^ Honestly, I liked everything about it. Fun 5/5. Awesome work!

Developer

Thanks a lot for trying it out!

Submitted

Unfortunately, my machine/browser really bogs down with this game and as a result it becomes unplayable.  However, both the graphics and concept did look really neat!  Does it have a lot of 3D objects maybe that slow down older hardware / browsers?  In any case, nice game concept and graphics, but unfortunately I can't evaluate it any further than that with my configuration.

Developer(+1)

Hi there!  Thanks a lot for letting me know about the performance issues.  The cell in the middle is a low poly sphere.  The enemies are all single quad/tri.  I do have a whole bunch of shaders running so it could be those?  I'm pretty new to game dev and shaders so I'm sure I've done many things that are not optimal.  

By any chance can you share any info about your setup?  For example which browser your using and any relevant computer specs?  If not, no worries.  Thanks again for the heads up and for attempting to play my game!

Submitted

Sure can, thanks for the follow-up comment.  I'm running Firefox browser under Linux, in a low screen resolution (1024 x 768) by modern standards.  I don't believe I have GPU/videocard hardware acceleration enabled due to driver limitations.  Using an older NVDIA GPU.  However, I can play videos without issue, and most 2D games and even some 3D games do perform adequately (inside the browser).  I have experienced some difficulty in other browser games too, particularly those using the Unity Engine (some will badly lag, and others seem to just freeze up entirely in the loading progression bar at about 80% progress).  In the past I've had a few problems also with Godot Engine games running in the browser, but again that is not all of them either (it's a bit hit and miss, some work just fine and others have seemed to be either very laggy/slow and others as I recall would not execute at all).  That's good to know that the graphics / 3D objects you've used are low poly; that would have been my first suspect if there were many 3D objects especially higher-poly ones.  I'm really not sure other than that what the causing factor might be.  Possibly it's just the Unity Engine is having issues with my configuration?  It's hard to diagnose what might be causing the issues, thanks.

Developer

Awesome, thanks a lot for the detailed info! In upcoming builds I will see if I can make any improvements to performance though I'm not sure how much difference it will make.  Thanks again.

Submitted(+1)

I seem to recall that the Defold game engine does a really job with older hardware and low spec machines.  I've never used it myself, but maybe sometime I will try it out.  Also, Godot engine seems to be a little less demanding than either Unity or Unreal, but of course the demands of any engine are affected by its feature set, and Unity has a lot of features that these other engines (not Unreal) don't have.  It might be an interesting project to try to make your game using a different engine like Defold and compare the performance results using older hardware.  Good luck, that's really neat that you are making new builds of your game and allowing it to evolve and mature!

Submitted

edit: meant "really good job" not "really job"!

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