Very nice game. Never seen a tower defence with movement before. Great idea. I whish i had some feedback when my weapens get demaged.
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Overall (Shortlist Vote - Community) | #22 | 3.525 | 3.682 |
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100 days ago(+1)
Glad you liked it!
Could you elaborate on what kind of feedback you mean? Currently there is a health bar shown above each building part. Do you mean like damage numbers or something?
Thank you very much for your feedback!
Now that you say it, enemy indicators on the screen border would totally help. Did not even consider that yet.
Were you able to hear spatialized sound? I think all sounds were unified or is that what you would change?
yeah, we had some troubles with colors and contrast during development as well. We did not have the time to find a balanced color palette but will rework in the future for sure!
Idk about spatial sound, currently i play with speakers due to ear cartilage piercings. What i mean is for example multiple sound sources, e.g. a speaker attached to each enemy to get an impression of depth.
For our very quick and dirty audio setup i placed alone 5 speakers on the player character, so different sounds for different purposes can get blended.
100 days ago(+1)
Ah i see. Yes, better sound placing for spatial awareness would be really cool and considered for future updates. For the jam though, we kept it rather simple.
100 days ago(+1)
Whoa! Thank you so much! Love to hear that you had so much fun! I personally am surely going to keep working on the game. Feel free to follow for updates. ;)
Im happy to hear you had a great time! You observed that correctly. Unfortunately, only the mace is working as intended; the other weapons have some self-damaging bugs. As soon as we upload a fixed version you can go infinite with all sorts of weapons. We intend to add way more enemy builds as well!
100 days ago(+1)
Absolutely! Big builds are currently most achievable with spikeballs only due to self-damaging bugs, but a fixed version will enhance the building mechanic by a LOT; feel free to look out for updates.
Multiplayer would be soooo much fun but also soooo much more work. Maybe we get around to some form of multiplayer.
I'll look forward to your updates then. :D
Multiplayer is a pain in the roomba to implement so I totally understand that it's single player only. (Honestly tho, I think your game concept would simply work great for bonking friends online and I do mean that as a compliment.) Proof: My boyfriend has been playing for a couple hours now. Yes, hours. He's started to build the ultimade war machine. So far, I can only describe it as a biblically accurate roomba.
If you don't mind me asking, how did you come up with the idea?
100 days ago(+1)
Hahaha great news! Feel free to post some screenshots in the comment section. I would love to see the effort! I would also love to break the Doombas of friends in the arena. Maybe some day, somehow.
The idea developed from a mix of
- "Skyscraper demolition game" for placing weapons (which was our second favorite idea)
- Broken robots going rogue/ breaking and building/repairing things from scrap pieces
- Faible for vampire survivor type games
-Lots of brainstorming and inspiration of other ideas.
I am honestly astonished how similar some of our ideas were to submitted games. Putt golf, angry birds katapult like, repair shop, godzilla city destroyer etc. but battle bot arena with building mechanic seemed the most fun to implement at that time.
Funny, the first thing I said when I saw the arena and the upgrading phase was that it has a Vampire Survivors vibe. Thanks for the elaborate answer btw! Really apreciate it.
And yeah, our team felt the same - our second idea was a robot that improves itself with scrap. I can't recall the name but someone made exactly that. :D
101 days ago(+1)
Thank you very much! I personally think I will keep working on it. We came quite far during the jam. I will definitely post a fixed, bug-free version and add more enemies and weapons. Building all the expandable systems took so long that we didn't get to actually expand the game. But now, all systems are in place to add lots of enemies and weapons really easily.
We like to hear that you had fun playing our game. You are correct, there are still some collision detection bugs that unintentionally damage you. I noticed as well that some weapon/enemy collisions damage you even though they shouldn't. Until we are able to upload fixes again I suggest to play only using spikeballs. They seem the most robust. Or try to go full ranged damage with guns only. Going for an endless run/ huge build is currently only possible with spikeballs.
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