Looks really good and the idea is amazing! 

I think a level system would do wonders to this, that way you would start with maybe 2-3 variables and the difficulty would be ramping up with each level. Also you could then use the first levels as a sort of tutorial because I was quite confused for a few minutes before I figured how to play.

But overall, a really solid execution, well done!

Super cool idea! It's a lot of fun to try and balance everything and it really nails the feel of trying to get everything right while the game jam submission date looms over your head. I like the art style and I think the UI looks really great! I think it's pretty confusing at first, I didn't fully understand how to play until you popped into stream and helped me out. I think it'd be nice if it told you what's unbalanced and what you should work on somewhere on the left side of the screen at all times instead of in the console too, I felt like I was wasting time going to the console and waiting for the timer to count down to tell me what's wrong with my game. Really great work on this tho, it's a super cool idea and it's well executed!

Man this is like a love letter for programmers, really great game, although it lagged a bit maybe because i'm playing on a potato laptop but other than that this is a solid game overall <3

It's a unique and innovative take on the theme. I'm way too slow switching between tabs for the keyboard entering. Guess that reflects the time pressures of a game jam. I think the visuals of the game being hidden behind the inspiration screen made it difficult to appreciate the link between the action happening and the player behaviour.

Very impressive and unique! Like it others it was hard for me to understand the controls in the begging, but once I got it enjoyed a lot! It does lagged a bit for me (Played in an average computer) so maybe there's room to optimization.

This game is hard. But you already know that. 
I really am impressed by the scope and idea of this. The fact you have to balance out the game during a game jam? That's 4th wall breaking stuff. 

There's enough comments here that I believe have covered a lot of the things that I could give feedback on so I won't reiterate. But I wanna see more of this game (post jam). 

There's a bug with resolution scaling. On Mac, when I launched the game the status bar with the help button and inspirations wasn't visible. It was only when I started watching your video tutorial that I realized it ought to be there. If I resize the window manually, I can find aspect ratios which show the status bar, or not, depending on how I scale it.

I wasn't able to understand what to do :( The rules are complicated. Nice art and audio though, it is amazing you are able to do this much as a solo developer!

Unique take on tower defense! The controls are a bit overcomplicated and trying to solve the puzzle feels like trying to put toothpaste back into the tube -- so very true to how game balancing actually is LOL

A Really fun take on the theme and a tower defense game! I laughed really hard once I realized what was going on and it was a gam jam simulator

Cool idea! Like for dark theme xD  

Coudnt understand how to play from beggining had to watch video =( Maybe separate "inspiration" selection and code insertion + some UI for it might fix it. Cause event without tutorial i got to the point where i understand that i had to choose from inspirations, but it was unclear that I had to press all the buttons

Fresh game for me, thx!

Hi there Axyre, first of all cool game! I try to leave detailed feedback on every game I play to help people, so I hope this doesn't come across as daunting - these are just my thoughts, so feel free to disregard feedback you think is irrelevant!

Thoughts in order as I played:

• I love the UI and color scheme!
• The game is a TD? Well I might be biased toward it now cuz I love TDs.
• There's a bug with the help panel text overlapping at page 2 onward. It always happens at the start of each game, possibly related to startup lag. (Screenshot below)
• HAHA LOVE THE META when submitting "Submitted after deadline, score 0.5" love the humor!
• "SHIFT+ESC to end the game" <-- I think should rephrase to "end the jam" because you have the "game" window and the "jam" submission, and the wording here is ambiguous between the two, which confused me. I thought there were multiple games.
• Took awhile to learn the game because you actually have to type the inspiration AND the field to replace. I think that part should've been bolded in the instructions maybe. But it was very cool to see the values actually affected the game. I made enemy speed 35 and that was wicked!
• That said I wasn't sure what I was supposed to do - there were multiple values for each script so I wasn't sure if I was just supposed to guess what made the game most balanced and how to gauge what values were balanced. This part was unclear to me. I just plugged values I thought made sense, but I always got the same 0.5 score each time, which made me feel like an idiot because I didn't know what I was missing. 
• I'm assuming based on all the info so far that I'm supposed to make a "balanced" game but the game doesn't define what balanced entails.
• I wish the end screen told me what I did wrong, so that I can do better in my next playthrough like player reviews "turret is too strong! enemies spawn too fast! needs more range on the turret"
• Then I would at least know what I did wrong and correct them? Right now I was just guessing and failing which wasn't very fun.

A few more games later, these thoughts crossed my mind:

• The inspirations screen get flooded with new entries very quickly and this blocks the viewport screen, making it difficult to see if the changes I am making were applying in the way I wanted, such as if I was applying fire rate correctly. Speaking of fire rate:
• I wasn't sure if Tower.Fire_Rate being a high value, or low value was better. In this case tooltips when hovering over it, even if to simply say 'higher=better' would succinctly clear up any doubt

• I wasn't sure what values I was supposed to aim for for each variable - was attack being high a good thing? Or a bad thing because it breaks balance? I like to see it kill enemies so I always assign it high and I'm guessing most players may intuitively do this?
• Also the turret by default one shots the enemy so I didn't really see a reason to change the Enemy.scrp values. The only thing that felt like it mattered was move_Speed, it makes them all slow so the turret can kill them all in time, and thus, it makes enemy.damage irrelevant since they don't hit me. Turret HP and HP regen also become irrelevant stats.
• I think I had the most fun when I made the turret super strong with 45 range, 0.28s fire rate and 19 attack. Just by changing these 3 variables, the turret basically kills anything the moment it comes on screen. I didn't even have to mess with the enemies or world script. This point in the game was where the fun peaked for me - seeing the turret super strong, but I didn't know if that's the intent. I submitted with these stats and got 0.5 score.
• Throughout my playthrough, I felt like there is some info I'm missing out to make this fun, but I couldn't quite figure it out. I did a serious playthrough with values that seemed sensible but still 0.5 rating.
• I noticed the console window, but wasn't sure what I was supposed to be doing or looking at here. It shows me all the info but I don't know what I can do with those info to make a balanced game.

Overall, I still liked the UI and the concept though, and despite its flaws it managed to engage me to an extent because I wanted to try my best to figure out what I needed to do, something that I don't do often for games that bore me, so that was nice. Maybe I'm not the best audience and perhaps this would be a game relatable to game developers which is basically everyone else here haha.

Screenshot of the bug:

Really cool game, very polished and great concept

This is just one of those ideas that's just a banger outright.

Everything was presented very nicely and once you get a hang of it; it's just a fun time. Also reminds me of an old project a professor assigned to my class "Balance this tower defense sheet....in Excel." brother made us program in Excel :')

Wow! That's really impressive! Very well made and nice polished. Didn't expect that kind of game here. Great job!

I played the game and realized I got no idea what I am doint with those codes. :D But it was fun and I am amzed to see something like this being made. 

Overall quite a fun game. The concept is really good. The visuals and audio were nicely done. However, the learning curve could be quite steep. Also, the randomized values are quite a pain sometimes when you just don't see a value near what you need. Those are kinda the only complaints I have. Well done!

So fun! ui are great sound effects are enjoyable and nice music! high ratings!

Nice game well done