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A jam submission

Tiny Planet DefenderView game page

Small planet defending game where you place/upgrade turrets to defend your planet.
Submitted by GoldenGroveDev, GoldenGroveDevTwo — 2 hours, 40 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Fun#1323.5713.571
Mechanics#2163.2383.238
Sound#2243.1433.143
Music#2303.3333.333
Theme#2353.5713.571
Overall#2423.4293.429
Aesthetics#3713.2863.286
Story#4312.0002.000

Ranked from 21 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?
2

Did you use any existing assets? If so, list them below.
https://opengameart.org/content/space-skybox-1 for skybox, music created with bandlab.com sfx created with bfxr.net

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

Fantastic tower defence game, with some very satisfying music and SFX. The laser towers are my favourite! Great job making something so polished in so little time!

Developer

Thank you for the feedback, and same for me on the laser towers.

Submitted(+1)

Wow. I'm really impressed that you guys pulled this off with the time limit. Simple yet fun mechanics, the game is not that hard and not that easy either, and everything feels responsive with nice SFX going on. It feels so polished that i actually wouldnt mind paying for 5 bucks to play the game if there were to be like a campaign mode with decent story&more mechanics to keep the gameplay fresh. Really good job, 5/5 for me!

Developer

Thank you for the feedback . We are working to expand it a bit in the future. Hopefully we get it to be a full game at some point.

Submitted(+1)

Really solid tower defence game here. I liked being able to rotate the planet and the overall art style fits well. The sound design stood out and the ambient music gave it a nice mood. Mechanics work well and I found the progression and upgrades pretty satisfying. Would be good to balance some weapons like the shotguns vs lasers. Lots of potential here, good work

Developer

Thank you for the feedback. We are working on adding some more stuff to the Itch page at some point but wanna do some more testing first.

Submitted(+1)

Wave 10/10. Well done! Cool idea and the nice start to a great game.

Developer(+1)

Thank you for the feedback and for playing.

Submitted(+1)

Great prototype of a fun game idea and great.  Plays really well and has nice graphics.

The "How to Play" and the UI could both do with a bit of polish if you make this into a full game, in particular, the "How to Play" didn't really mention the economy. I also couldn't work out how to defeat the big asteroid that suddenly appears.

This shows a lot of promise! 

Developer

Thank you for the feedback. That's one area I wish we had more time for. In the early game, the big overshields are the only way at the moment.

Submitted(+1)

This game has potential. Good job so far!

Developer

Thank you for playing it and the feedback.

Submitted(+1)

Very good!

Developer

Thank you!

Submitted(+2)

The graphics and mech are awesome! We are defending a planet instead of a tower! Cool!

Developer

Thank you!

Submitted(+2)

First round I got immediately destroyed, but I got the hang of it the second round. Very nice game!

Developer

Insert Spiderman pointing meme. Yea I def gotta do some balancing with the turrets glad you enjoyed it. Thank you for the feedback. 

Submitted(+2)

Nice tower defense game. Sound design in particular was really good. I did find the UI to be a bit small a difficult to read even in full screen mode. But aside from that nice job!

Developer

Thank you for the feedback.  I'll try to submit a fix for the UI once the rating is over. 

Submitted(+2)

Really fun! Love that I can rotate the planet

Developer

thank you. I figured it'd be lame not to enjoy the scenery. 

Submitted(+2)

Nice project, especially for a first submission! Maybe you could add the initial price for the turrets. We can see the upgrade cost, but not the build cost. Overall, it's a good game!

Developer(+1)

Thank you I'll see if we can get that fixed or even simplified to just show build cost and stats on first build. 

Submitted(+1)

That ambient music gives it the right mood, i liked the progression and upgrade balance, maybe  shotguns feel a little too weak compared to lasers.  Like every game in this genre it makes you wish for more firepower.

Only problem i found is that the starting shield in endless mode prevents selecting the northern nodes, (but could be just me being dumb).

Developer

Thank you for the feedback. I wonder if the shield is blocking raycast; I'll have to look into that.

Submitted(+2)

Fun tower Defense game. The endless mode does end though since your upgrades are limited. Overall enjoyed the game.

Developer

Good point I had a suggestion to add the ability to buy more nodes so adding that and increasing your upgrade limit in the shop may assist. Thank you for the feedback. 

Submitted(+2)

It's a nice tower defence game! The art fits together well. It would be good if there was a way to highlight when the player has enough gold to buy a certain turret or upgrade an existing one because at the moment i'm just clicking on stuff to see if i can upgrade it or randomly slapping down turrets in the hope I have enough money for it. A great submission overall.

Developer(+1)

Ooh I like that maybe add a highlight or sparkle and sfx like some games do with item pickups. Thank you for the feedback. 

Submitted(+2)

Maybe my brain is fried from the jam but I couldn't work out what I was supposed to do. Seems like a good tower defence concept though.

Developer(+1)

We should have done a tutorial or made a little cinematic to assist either way thank you for the feedback. 

Submitted(+2)

I like this game, it's easy to play, but I wish there was 10 seconds to set up the guns in the beginning.

Developer

That's a good idea I may add a visual countdown later. Thank you for the feedback. 

Submitted(+2)

I enjoy the music. The SFX are a little bit too loud compared to it, but it's ok. The core mechanics is well implemented but I think, for this kind of game, UI needs a little bit of polish to help the player better understand what's going on.

Developer(+1)

Agreed we will add some of that once the jam rating is over all this feedback is great thank you. 

Submitted(+2)

Pretty fun game! i think i would make the camera be a little bit closer or make the game a bit easier to see, other then that its a solid game! good job!

Developer

Gotcha I may have it start far for the menu then zoom in once the round starts to give it some more spice. Thank you for the feedback. 

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

Really fun game.  I only tried wave mode on easy, but I might return to this game after the jam!

Developer (1 edit)

Thank you!