This was great. Really well put together visually. Interesting choice to make health a resource, with the platforming in level 2 being surprisingly precise considering.
Fantastic atmosphere. Looks and sounds great.
It is a little funny watching this guy have a real rough go of it, stumbling around with his arm up, with the rather subtle weather effects. Maybe he just had a bit too much to drink trying to calm his nerves xD
Love the upgrade system in this. It works into the necromancy theme really well. One recommendation I’ll make though is improving the upgrade feedback. There’s no way of knowing how stats are affected by crafting a new kind of tower. Led to me making some bad upgrades that left towers out of range from where I placed them. Maybe when dragging parts onto the diagram, and before dropping them in, the range indicator and stats could update to show what would happen to it. Really excellent tower defence though. Had a blast playing it.
Absolutely love the vibe of this. Now I want to hear all the songs performed. You’re right that it’s a shame reality manifests corpo-satire as much as it does though. Real torment-nexus behaviour from the technoligarchy.
The music, the sound, the voice acting, the visuals, all truly wonderful. Not to mention a proper complete story full of delightful characters. Incredible work.
If in the era, and if it had some sound, Slime Boy would of have certainly shipped (across the ocean with a horribly localized game manual). Love the framing you wrote for this on the itch page.
The combination of soft pads for music with the (currently) empty world really is a vibe, though that may not be intentional.
In browser peer to peer multiplayer is also so cool. Would love to do something similar.
Well done making this from scratch and with such a tight time frame. Collision’s a little clunky, but I too have been there before making collision systems from scratch.
For those still unable to run the game you can grab the missing dll from here
For those on windows, grab the 64-bit Windows binaries zip and just place the glfw3.dll file from one of the lib-* folders into the game folder next to sybionts_beta_4.exe.
On Linux you can probably install the required files on your system via your package manager.
Thought I ran into a bug where shaded dirt tiles couldn’t have fungi placed on them but could have flora. Realized that’s intentional after watching the solution. Could perhaps be more clear on that in the tile descriptions on the page.
Heads up that your asset links are all pointing to your music despite the text being correct and everything is listed with “tiles author”.
Great stuff, visuals are wonderful!
Hey, they are there in a spoiler just gotta click on “Assets”. I’ll put them straight in the page if that’s preferable was just trying to cut down the page length.
There’s definitely some trickiness to progressing not too fast or too slow so the game doesn’t freeze but managed to get through it. The silver lining of the digital age is that piracy is so accessible. If ever our things get taken from us, we can usually just steal them back.
Perfectly captures the mechanisms of capitalistic infinite growth with the upgrades. The news ticker is also a great read.
Didn’t seem to work for me on firefox, the text doesn’t appear and all the graphics come out blocky. Strange since it even works fine on my phone.
Utterly oppressive atmosphere balanced brilliantly with the diabolically comedic break area. I love that the gameplay compelled me to not even bother walking over to it later on. It’s as if it was just a spectacle to admire from a distance and that my broken non-quota meeting body wasn’t worthy of its pitiful restfulness.
Love the giant swirling supervillain landlord and the chaotic Escherian board. Also appreciate the balance in gameplay trying to race through on the early round to then try and land more tiles in the later one.
