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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Overall | #109 | 4.178 | 4.178 |
| Enjoyment | #134 | 4.083 | 4.083 |
| Style | #279 | 4.317 | 4.317 |
| Creativity | #304 | 4.133 | 4.133 |
Ranked from 60 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?
The map you play tower defence on gets bigger and bigger, so your defence has to be build to be scaled and ripped apart.
Development Time
96 hours
(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
Everything including code, art, music are made by me (solo) during the 96 hours.
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Yooo it's literally just angry birds:
- You are a bird
- You can fly
- There are green animals trying to steal your eggs
Overall i've had lots of fun playing, great game!
Hah, never thought about the similarities. Thanks for playing!
Great tower defence game that still has this cosy style to it and very nice animations. Great work!
Thanks!
Hi NitramiuZ. I really enjoyed your game. A great tower defense with a cozy artstyle, really good music and sound effects. And the expanding map was a smart idea too. By the way, I remember that you are the winner of the GMTK last year. I even made a video predicting you were going to win. I hope you reember it.
Yes! I do remember the video, I'm happy that you remember me. Thanks for playing, glad you liked it
Yeah, it's a great tower defense. I will include it in this year's video too. One of my favourites.
Such a great game! Adorable artstyle, really good music and sound effects. The only thing that bothered me a bit was that the lizards appeared too early in such large numbers. Other than that, it was really fun to play ♥ Good job and good luck with your future projects! ♥
Thanks! The music took longer than I anticipated but in the end it was worth it. There will soon be a post jam patch that will adress some balancing issues.
Love the game, ridiculously good for solo dev to do, especially one with apparently no pro experience, you have a bright future in games!
I do wish your defenced scaled OR there was an opportunity to invest in economy at the expense of defences to control your scaling.
Thanks for playing! I'll certainly keep working on it
It was a heap of fun! I did enjoy the SFX and the art a lot; so great job on that.
Like other people have mentioned, the three lives representing eggs was an extremely clever move. It gets you upset when you see your first egg being taken away, but it makes you push harder to see the last 2 stay put. The mom to daughter dialogue makes you feel a connection to the character that I like!
Overall great game, good job!
Thanks! Glad you liked it. I had even bigger plans for the story aspect of it, but I'm very happy with what I managed to do as a compromise.
Great game. I got to the end and thath doesn't happen in every game.
Game is well ballanced, three lives representing eggs feels right.
Good job.
Well done! Few people manage to come to the end. Thanks for playing!
oh wow this is so good!!! cure and perfect, real great twist on tower defense
Thanks for playing it on stream! I'm really happy that you wanted to give it an additional try.
this is such a great lil game! i love the art and mama bird watching over us, very cute!
Thanks!
This was a surprising little gem :3 Very cute, very fun. And I loved the way the world changed around. Very well done!
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it
very fun (and addicting) little game, especially love the artstyle. It’s very charming. Nice entry :)
Thanks! Glad you liked it
I loved the game, the expanding map was a clever idea to add to the tower defense genre.
I can see this game being a more complete game with some more work, adding more "tower" types, maybe more terrain types, etc.
Thanks! I definitely have more plans for towers and terrain. One simple thing would be "Mud", slowing enemies down. That in combination with an AoE tower could make for a simple but good synergy!
very fun game! The earthquake add a unique twist.
Thanks! Glad you liked it
Very fun and well polished game! Feels good to play. My only minor complaint would be the controls as I often found myself pressing the wrong keys or forgetting how to close the build menu. Good take on the theme and cool idea with the expanding map in a tower defense game. I like the art and music. Good work!
Thanks! The web build has the problem that ESC tabs out of the fullscreen mode, otherwise that would be the natural close button. Glad you liked the music, it took longer to make than I first planned.
This is a really fun game! Love the overall style, and I kept replaying in the hope to do better (but those pesky lizards were tough! haha)
The game is indeed very hard! Did you manage to beat it in the end? (Mom will say that the lizards are giving up)
Nope :0 but I'll try some more today! (see if I can finally beat those gray lizards)
Thats great! A tip is that shells are good at distracting the red lizards
Man I remember trying to find a fun tower defense game on my phone on a long train ride not long ago. All the TD games in the store were just glorified clicker games and not very fun to play. Even in this gamejam version your game is already more fun to play than anything I found on the google play store and I'm not even joking. The presentation is also super well done, especially considering you worked on this solo! Super well done
Your kind works mean a lot to me! And you haven't seen anything yet. I had so so many ideas left for it to deepen the strategy while keeping it approachable. I'm turning it into a steam release with early access starting early next year hopefully. Keep your eyes out for a steam page announcement and you can add it to your wishlist then :D
Wow! Reminds me a lot of my own game; yours is just a lot more polished:) Good job!
Thanks! Will give yours a go later
the constantly changing map turns the long-term planning of a tower defense game into a much more frantic experience where you constantly have to reevaluate the placement of your towers, making it a pretty fun use of the theme. unfortunately, the towers are very expensive to both place and move, making mistakes pretty punishing. the lizard vs bird concept is cute and i liked the art and overall aesthetic!
Thank you! I definetely agree with your feedback as loosing your towers is too devestating currently. Will make a rebalancing path as soon as I can upload it.
After the jam I had reflections about "what if I did a tower defense instead?"
Well you've just confirmed to me that it meshes very well with the theme 😂. A great game with an amazing presentation to back it up! Nice work!
Thank you! The tower defence part was not my main idea, it was picturing a grid splitting in this way that started it all. Then I picked the tower defence genre as I felt it would fit well with the splitting/expanding mechanic.
Wouaw Very nice tower defense <3
And good concept
Thanks for playing!