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A jam submission

Space CoreView game page

Build mega turrets around a neutron star and defend it until your teammates extract the energy from the core.
Submitted by jar3dev (@jar3dev) — 6 hours, 7 minutes before the deadline
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Judge feedback

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  • it's extremely satisfying to get everything set up right as the game progresses. It was incredibly tense throughout, with well-balanced progression! the GDD is very well-detailed and design. I like that the art has a gargantuan amount of detail, and the choice of a limited color palette really makes everything stand out. Overall, great start to a game, and a great GDD overall! Wonderful work!

Link to your Game Design Doc on Google Drive.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Py2lrRIJQ7FzYQh4KI54UZN-lOMm6IyCsOSX8rw-XkE/edit?tab=t.0

Have you checked that your GDD is publicly accessible ?
Yes

Is your game set to public on itch.io so we can see it?
Yes

Summarise your game!
Space Core is a prototype of a tower defense strategy game in which you play as a soldier with the mission to build mega turrets around a supermassive neutron star and defend it from an approaching asteroid belt attracted by gravity, hold on until your teammates extract the energy from the core. There are 3 types of turrets with different attributes, evolutions and upgrades. The asteroids are generated in random waves with rules and exponentially, no two games will be the same. It also has a small narrative story of your commander talking to you.

Please explain how your game fits the theme:
The concept of placing weapons around a core behaves as if the entire base is a single weapon in itself that you build in parts. It heavily depends on how the weapons are positioned around the core, each one has a specific role that complements the other, creating strategy along with the upgrades and evolutions of the weapons.

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Comments

Submitted

This game is really awesome. Cool TD. I really liked the different turrets. I could play without the blaster, but on another playthrough I put all the blasters along the outside perimeter and that's when they actual felt like they shined which was cool. I liked the over theme and setting. Really nice artwork, music and sfx. I'd keep expanding this :)

Great job!

Submitted

This game was fun. The design was super polished and the music gave a great ambiance. I really liked it. Had a lot of fun.

Submitted

Im not a huge TD guy but I only sniper turrets to the end and was very entertained! I think the theme is a kind of a stretch but very polished product you finished with.

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

Hi, could you tell me how to start the wave, i couldn't figure it out. The title screen and beginning of the game look pretty fancy. We get a lot of money to build a lot of stuff to start out. I'd probably suggest starting with fewer dollars so the player isn't overwhelmed. Looks like a lot of work went into it! Nice job!

Developer (2 edits)

Hi, the wave starts when you build the first turret, the order of construction for the first turret: 

Platform -> Base Turret -> Turret.V1 (rifle, blaster or sniper).

I will work on an in-game tutorial when I continue to develop the game, you are welcome to play again, thanks for feedback.

(+1)

Nice game! I like it, very fun, good progression and quite polished.

Developer

Ty! Glad you like it.

Submitted(+1)

Excellent graphics and a great, simple UI that would work well across PC, console and mobile. I do not have too much feedback other than the progress felt a little too slow. I believe shorter and faster waves and receiving a larger amount of money per asteroid type could help it out.

Fantastic work!

Developer(+1)

Glad you liked it! You're right, the early game should be a little bit faster, thanks for feedback.

Submitted(+1)

Nice game, I liked it , I went all in with the snipers as you can see. I think you could expand the game into a leaderboard/ score system


Developer

Hahaha I'll nerf the snipers a bit and keep developing it, glad you liked it!

Submitted(+1)

The neutron star looks pretty good! It’s what made me click this game. It seems pretty polished, but I do wish the UI would get some more love! Also, I’m not sure how much of “You are the weapon” this is, it does feel like just a tower defense game, without the element of the enemies following a path towards your base.

Overall, I like it! You managed to touch on many interesting elements.

Developer (2 edits)

I abstracted the idea of “You are the gun” because I didn't want to do the first thing that comes to mind of literally being a gun that shoots, so I thought of a game concept that would give the feeling of “You are the weapon”. I thought that when you build the base around the core it would give the feeling that you were building a single weapon as a whole, I tried to make each turret serve a specific function, short, medium and long range and you would have to place them in a way that left no open flanks for the whole weapon to be effective, so it's not the typical tower defense where you place the weapons in a path. The UI is a quick placeholder for the prototype, when I continue developing the game I'm going to rework it. Thanks for the feedback!

Submitted(+1)

I like it! No major notes, everything works and is fun

Developer

Thank you. Glad you like it!

(+1)

Fun game, I like the progression system and the art style. I see potential for a prestige or other system to allow for more upgrades or tech tree points for tower modifications and whatnot. Well done!

Developer

I think that a lot of content can be added to this prototype and be a complete game, thank you for your feedback, I appreciate it.

Submitted(+1)

Nice game!

Developer

Ty! I'm glad you like it.