Surge by machinescreen
Build defence pylons and keep them charged to withstand the crawler attacks.
How long can you survive?
Play in browser: https://machinescreen.itch.io/surge




| HTML5 (web) | https://machinescreen.itch.io/surge |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/39/surge |
Ratings
| Overall | 198th | 3.706⭐ | 53🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 93th | 3.824⭐ | 53🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 348th | 3.176⭐ | 53🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 184th | 3.863⭐ | 53🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 476th | 3.373⭐ | 53🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 396th | 3.02⭐ | 51🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 238th | 3.56⭐ | 52🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 20🗳️ | 17🗨️ |
I like the gameplay idea of being able to build new towers yourself. It really scales organically the way you lack materials in the early waves and later on, you really no longer care because every spacebug in the galaxy is out to steal your thunder. It's really the kind of game you get so immersed in, you stop noticing your surroundings. Definitely a cool game!
(edit: new best is 9:30)
http://c2n.me/3MB1OUh.gif
10 energy bars out of 10
The sounds were probably the weakest part, the music was a little bit repetitive, albeit fit the tense atmosphere. Once you got a bunch of pylons, the mess of sounds when they shoot at the same time really made me a little bit annoyed.
It's a very nice game, well done!
Good job!
Graphics are good and gameplay is intuitive, as a suggestion I'd say It would be nice to fill energy from top or bottom.
Simple elegant pixel art with a nice touchof 8 bit audio. It seemed like it was to easy at the start but i dit truely run out of power i was not quick enough to get the power.
Perhaps and something more to keep it intresting in the long run apart from the high score. Thats all i could think of but it sould stay simplistik since it is kinda what makes tha game so great. Keep up the good work!
Were it not for somehow glitchy graphics, it would have been solid 5/5 as they can be a little harsh on the eyes.
Gameplay felt very smooth, nothing against sound design either and the fun factor, well, I spent half an hour with this one so I think I can say this game is surely fun to play :P
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keOuAGnyh0I
Thanks for being part of the stream :)
I played this game on stream at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/163826993 - Time 1:56:00
The mechanics are simple and easy to understand. It was fun balancing between building new turrets and recharge the old ones. For me, however, the game lacked dynamics at some point. It would be great to repeat some quick small actions for investing in long-term development or something like that. Say, you can build walls with scrap or upgrade the turrets.
As for the audiovisuals, it was simple but effective enough to turn on my imagination.
Thanks for the game!
But it doesn't matter, the game was really fun, and that's the most important thing. Oh, and those sneaky bug-like creatures were really cute, too!
I also think the game could've used a bit more variety (maybe different enemies? upgrades to player?) as it goes on. I really enjoyed this game though, and managed to survive about six minutes.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH.
Just kidding. Really nice work.