Thank you :)

Thank you.

Thanks :)

Thank you. Glad you liked it :)

The money node is a real bottleneck because i just done it quick and dirty as rigidbody2D so it would just collide with the walls and stay in bounds. then at some point you have like 2000 rigidbodys with square collision boxes on screen in browser and the result is 0.25 fps :D

I had ideas to optimize that and also add upgrades for easier money collection but there was not enough time left.

Glad you liked it :)

Thank you for playing.
The level is mostly procedurally generated (enemy placement, enemy types, amount, health, money dropped). The level borders I made by hand, just a bunch of white Line2D nodes :D.  Then I stored the nodes in an array to iterate through.
In code, I used the coordinates from line2d.points to create a cutout PolygonShape2D (with polygon subtraction) for the collision.  So in the end, creating a new level was basically just drawing a Line2D polygon and adding it to the array.

Level 45 is completely done by hand because I wanted a performance check at the end, with lots of spawns and a 99 HP shape. It's definitely worth trying out if you skipped everything else, just make sure to get some damage upgrades. It's the best level in my opinion but also the laggiest :D

Your idea with the projectile path is actually genius. That didn't even come to mind when I was deep in chaos during the dev phase.

One aspect of the style is very easy to achieve and thats the glow effect. its just one node that you add in godot called WorldEnvironment. it has a bunch of cool effects.

Hi, thanks for the kind words :)
I have a background in UI/UX from web development, and I catch myself every time "wasting" way too much time in jams just to get the UI done :D
I had a much simpler upgrade system in GWJ 73 (if you wanna check it out:Plummet Panic ) and reused some parts of its scene composition and code to save time. Then spent 2 days this jam expanding it a bit more and making it work for this game before the game was even playable :D

I like revisiting old projects to see if some parts are somehow reusable in a new context or expandable.
That's the good thing after a while, when you've done like a bunch of half-arsed projects that you forgot about or abandoned :D

Thanks for playing. i tried to  make the player be able to chose the direction but failed hard and then just made it so it picks a random direction, so i understand the frustration. if you keep the mouse pressed you get the shape with an arrow drawn on it as preview to see in which direction it will fly off. if you dont like the direction it wants to go you can drag the mouse outside the level and the shot will reset. thats the best i could do :D

Thanks a lot. Glad you liked it :)

Glad you liked it :)

Thank you for playing :)

Thanks for playing. I wanted to make big chain reactions too but the game lagged so much and then i stuck with the skill based approach.
level 45 is the closest one to pure chaos (and also might get your cpu hotter than a triple A game because of 0 instancepooling and other missing optimizations  :D)

Thanks for playing :) I saw on discord that you stream. did you stream it by any chance? would love to watch the vod. I'm curious how people approach my game and playstyles. So maybe i can better the game at some point.

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it :)
I'm not a great artist myself and didnt create the cover per se.
The template is from a page called textstudio where you chose template designs and just fill in your text :)

If you wanna check it out thats the link Font Generator & 3D Text Style Effects | TextStudio

(Click Studio in the menu -> pick template resolution -> click templates on the left)

Thanks so much for the kind words!  The game is pretty RNG-heavy, so there’s not much room for skill :D . But its possible to 3 Star every level with full upgrades purchased and lots of resets for lucky initial positioning.

Thank you for the nice feedback

I'm happy you enjoyed it. there’s more to come, and I’ve got a bunch of ideas I’m excited to try out.

Thanks :D

I was totally in over my head this time. Even with the extra day, I couldn’t polish a lot of things because programming all the directional vector logic made my brain melt.

Everything is done with polygons, which was kind of cool because all the graphics are basically just math. But also... incredibly time-consuming and maybe a bit dumb in hindsight :D

I struggled a lot with getting the shots to rotate and snap to allowed directions while holding the mouse down, and at some point, I just gave up. Now it fires in a random direction on click, which unintentionally adds to the chaos, I guess.

That said, you can kind of control it by dragging the mouse outside the level to reset the shot or just upgrade all 4 directions :D.

Thank you for playing.

I'm glad you liked it.

This is my first time trying something with a kind of semi-procedural level generation. I ended up cutting it off at level 44 and added one big final level by hand, featuring a boss with 99 HP.

Honestly, developing the game was very much in the spirit of pure chaos :D. I completely underestimated the scope and so many aspects of the process. I rushed the pacing and difficulty balance on the last day, which is why it might feel a bit all over the place.

Thank you for playing :) 

I agree, the big chain reactions feel the most satisfying imo

In hindsight, I should’ve taken a different direction with progression. It turns out it’s way more fun to just stick with level 45 after grabbing a few damage upgrades, and then slowly work your way through it, triggering bigger and bigger chain reactions with each attempt.

It becomes more of a loop where you replay the same level, steadily improving your stats and pushing a little further each time, kind of like in Learn to Fly or Burrito Bison.
I  watched your vod where you played my game and it looks like you had fun, followed you :D