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A jam submission

ScaleGuardView game page

Build a hero army to protect your king from endless, escalating waves.
Submitted by sanderzw — 23 hours, 6 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Enjoyment#10113.5403.540
Overall#16543.4373.437
Style#18983.4803.480
Creativity#24773.2903.290

Ranked from 100 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?
You have to scale your army to protect your king

Development Time

48 hours

(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
Krishna Palacio (Minifantasy) & Leohpaz (SFX & Music)
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Submitted

Pretty tired as I'm writing this review, so sorry if I'm not suuuper thorough with my feedback.

:sparkles~1: Game Review Time :sparkles~1:

What I liked

The game was pretty good, the overall concept of your party getting bigger as you survive more waves was nice, and the art character variety and enemy variety was great. I liked the main menu. I would recommend that you add a small sound effect when pressing the SFX slider as it would allow players to have come context on how loud the in game sounds are.

What I didn't like

Overall, the only option you really get are expand, rather than choices between party members, which would have been nice.

Overall Thoughts

A pretty nice game, with pretty good potential. <3

Submitted

This game just got more fun as it went along. Love the retro vibes, but really loved just walking around getting my party into big scuffles. Nice work! :D

Submitted

I didn't think there was much going on first, but then I figured out my character auto-attacks when I get close. Enjoyed seeing my little group getting larger and larger.

Submitted

This is such a cool game with minimal controls. I really enjoyed it! I could not finish the game, although I don't know if there is an ending or not. Well done!

A great little game that you can definitely build on. It seems to me that to make it instantly more fun, you could have the option of collecting gold and then buying new warriors rather than them appearing randomly, but granted that requires a lot more content.

Submitted

Fun game! I’m not sure if it was intentional or not but I liked being able to rearrange everyone by pushing against rocks, etc. to keep the king safe in between rounds. It felt like a weird version of chess almost. Also I’m not sure if I won or if there is a bug but the waves stopped after a while.

Submitted

nice game!
i feel like its very hard to understand the difference between characters ( i only understood that archer is long range unit unlike everyone else). also its kinda hard to control everyone, some characters always accidentally hit rocks and it just feels like "big blob that damages enemies"

Submitted

Fun little game.

Submitted(+1)

Great game ! Making this in 48 hours is surely amazing, the art and gameplay are cool and fun ! Keep up the good work :)

Submitted

it's a fun game I like the art and the gameplay how can you make a game like this in 2 days it's a easy 9.5/10 u can work on enemy like verity of enemy and same for army 

Submitted(+1)

Would love to see this explored further! Melee fighting and units walking around you sounds like a winner game idea! I would've liked some more control on the units placement especially cause enemies can push them around, and with some healing to enable more mistakes u could create a really addictive feedback loop!

Submitted(+1)

I like the concept but I wish the gameplay was a bit more interactive, like maybe I could control the king’s attacks or give orders to the other units

But for 2 days it’s a good game, good job :)

Submitted(+1)

A fun twist on the Vampire Survivors genre! I was surprised by the variety of different units I can have! 

Submitted(+1)

Style is really well-executed! There's probably a lot more potential with how additional mechanics are easily implementable with the game.

Submitted(+1)

Really fun game !!

Submitted(+1)

Cool game! I reckon there's a lot more you can do with this idea

Submitted

I had fun with it! I liked the fantasy art style and needing to think about how to position my units during the fights.  I think it would be nice to have a way to easily get my army by the king again, maybe hold a button that gravitates them back towards you? Solid game overall with good potential!

Submitted

Good game! Lots of potential here for additional mechanics easily applied on top. Maybe the king can get special abilities, maybe having multiples of the same type of unit (letting me pick what I get) can give bonuses like Autochess/Just King.

Really good for two days! Well done!

Submitted

I enjoyed the more melee-based combat of this one, it was something different than most VS-like games! The art style was also really cohesive. Like another person said, giving the player the choice of what type of unit (or strengthening a type of unit?) would give the player more agency over how the game goes. But ultimately, good job on having the game work well the way it is!

Submitted

Super simple concept, but yet super effective and addictive. It could be have been cool to have the choice of type of unit we want at the end of each wave and also I think the health bar of the king should be more visible since if he die it's game over. Good job overall !

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